Hand the repeating work to something that actually does it
An agent does not answer questions about your invoicing. It chases the unpaid ones, sends the reminders in your wording, and comes back to you only when something needs a decision. We build that into the systems you already run.
A chatbot waits to be asked. An agent goes and does it.
Most of what gets sold as business AI is a better search box. You type a question, it types back an answer, and the work still lands on somebody's desk afterwards.
An agent is different in one specific way. It takes actions in your systems. It opens the record, changes the field, sends the message, books the slot, and stops to ask when it reaches something it is not allowed to decide by itself.
The test is simple. If nobody had to do anything after it ran, it was an agent.
That is also why an agent carries more risk than a chat window, and why we will not ship one without governance underneath it. An agent quietly doing the wrong thing for a month is worse than no agent at all. So every agent we build runs on Aegis from its first action, and you can see what it did and put it back.
The same week, run two ways
| How it runs now | How it runs with an agent |
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| Someone opens the aging report on Friday, works out who to chase, and writes the emails by hand until the day runs out. | The reminder goes out on the day it is due, in your wording, and you hear about it only when a customer replies with a problem. |
| A call comes in, gets written on a pad, and gets typed into the system later if the afternoon allows. | The job is captured while the caller is still talking, the slot is booked, and the confirmation goes out the day before without anyone touching it. |
| Follow-up depends on whether anybody remembered. Most weeks nobody did, and the quote goes cold. | Every job gets its follow-up on schedule, and the ones that go quiet get put in front of a person while they are still worth saving. |
| The same detail gets keyed into two systems, and by Thursday the two systems disagree. | The record updates once and stays consistent, and you can see what changed and when it changed. |
The first agent should be boring
The best first build is the job everybody in the business would be glad to stop doing. It repeats, it follows rules people can state out loud, and when it goes wrong somebody notices the same day. That is a good place to prove the thing works.
We do not start with the hardest workflow in your operation. We start with the one that pays for itself soonest and teaches us how your business actually runs. The difficult work comes after, with a team that has stopped wondering whether any of this is real.
The work we start with
- Invoicing and paymentsChase what is unpaid, send the reminder, reconcile what lands.
- Intake and schedulingCapture the job, book the slot, confirm the day before.
- Customer follow-upThe check-in, the quote nudge, the review request nobody gets to.
- Records and adminUpdate job status, keep the ledger clean, stop the re-keying.
From agreed scope to running on its own
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Scope
We write down what the agent may do alone, what it must ask about, and what it must never touch. You approve that before anything gets built.
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Build
We build it into the tools you already run. There is no new application for your team to log into and no data to migrate first.
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Shadow
It runs alongside the person who does the job today, and they check its work before anything leaves the building. That is how trust gets earned.
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Hand over
You keep the approval rules, the record of what it has done, and the ability to stop it. We stay involved only if you want us to.
You can undo anything it did
Handing work to something that acts on your behalf only works if you can see what happened and put it back. That is not a later upgrade we sell you. Agents we build run on Aegis, our governance platform, from their first action. Aegis is pre-general-availability and we are onboarding partners in small cohorts, so you would be coming in early, and we say that plainly rather than after you sign.
See how Aegis works →- An audit-ready record of every action an agent takes
- Risky work waits for a person before it runs
- Roll an agent back when its behavior changes
- No platform team or QA department required
The questions we get asked first
Do we have to replace the software we already use?
No, and that is the point. Agents work inside the tools your team already knows, so nobody has to learn a new system to get the benefit. If your team has to log into something new every morning, we have built the wrong thing.
What happens when an agent gets something wrong?
You find out, and you can undo it. Work we judge risky waits for a person before it runs, and everything an agent does is recorded, so a mistake is something you can point at and reverse rather than something you discover months later.
How do we know which workflow to automate first?
Start with a workflow audit. It maps where your week actually goes and ranks what automating each workflow is worth against what it would take, so the first build is a decision rather than a guess.
Will our team resist this?
Less than you expect, if you pick the right first job. People push back on tools that add work to their day. They rarely push back on losing the task they have been complaining about for a year.
Tell us what your team does every week that nobody enjoys
Thirty minutes is usually enough to tell whether there is a build worth doing here. If there is not, we will say so on the call.