Done-for-you AI agents for local businesses
Mark Thompson · Founder, Codas Labs & Codas MediaSkip the next hire. Give your team their hours back.
We watch how your team works, find the jobs that eat their week, and build AI agents to do them. Before we start, we write down how many hours a week you’ll get back. If we miss that number 90 days after your agents go live, we keep building for free until we hit it.
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Founding clients · First 5 only
Builds start at
$5,000$2,500
Hours back, or we keep working
Applying costs nothing. I read every application and reply myself.
Read this if…
You need another person.
You’d rather not hire one.
Your business grew and your team’s week filled up. So now:
- The phone rings while everyone’s busy, and the caller tries the next name on Google.
- Quotes go out days late because the person who writes them is also doing three other jobs.
- Someone spends Friday afternoon retyping invoices from one system into another.
- Follow-ups live in one person’s head, and they’re on vacation.
- You’ve priced a new hire twice, and you still don’t know where they’d sit.
Most of that work follows the same steps every time. That’s the kind of work agents do well, and it’s the work your best people should stop doing.
Mark ThompsonWhy meI learned this the expensive way.
I built a billing platform for ten years and sold it in 2023. I did it the traditional way. I hired ahead of revenue more than once, and I paid for it more than once.
Today I don’t write code and I don’t hire engineers. AI agents build the product, run the operations and grow the business, across every company I run. They sort my inbox before I see it. Last month they shipped more than 3,000 updates.
My companies are software companies. Yours is different, and that’s why every build starts with us watching your team work. Agents still get things wrong in my companies. We fix them the same week and write the fix down, and we’ll do the same for you.
Everything above is from my own companies. We’re opening this to clients now, so there are no client results on this page yet.
What you get
Agents built around the jobs your team hates most.
We pick the jobs after we’ve watched your team work. These are the kinds of jobs we expect to find.
Front desk
Answers new calls, emails and web forms. Handles the common questions and books the appointment.
Paperwork
Moves information between your job system, your invoices and your books, so nobody retypes it.
Follow-up
Chases unsigned quotes and unpaid invoices, and asks happy customers for a review.
Owner’s report
Puts what happened last week on one page, ready for Monday morning.
Every build also comes with
- A written plan. Your hours target, the jobs, the price, and our estimate of your monthly tool and AI costs.
- Training for your team, on your real work.
- A one-page weekly report showing hours back against your target.
- Your sign-off on what the agents may do alone. Anything that goes to a customer or moves money waits for one of your people until you say otherwise.
- Front desk5 hrs
- Paperwork4 hrs
- Follow-up2 hrs
Shows what the one-page report looks like. The numbers are made up for this example.
How it works
You see the target and the price before you pay.
Apply.
Tell us about your business and the job that eats the most hours. I read every application and reply myself.
We watch your team work.
Your people share their screens and show us the real jobs. Then you get the plan, with your hours target and your price. If the numbers don’t work for your business, we’ll say so and we won’t build it.
We build.
Agents for the jobs in your plan, working in the tools your team already uses.
30 days with your team.
Your agents go live. We stay for 30 days, train your people, and fix whatever’s off.
Upkeep, if you want it.
After that, ongoing upkeep is optional. We quote it in your plan, so you know the number from the start.
Should it pay for itself?
It should pay for itself. Check it with your own numbers.
Take the hours your team would get back and multiply by what those hours cost you.
Those are round example numbers, and they aren’t client results. Your tools and AI usage are a monthly cost you pay on top, so they go in the math too. We run the same math with your numbers before you pay anything.
Who it’s for
Local businesses with a team and a full week.
A good fit
- You run a local business with people on payroll.
- You’ve thought about hiring because the work won’t fit in the week.
- A lot of that work repeats: quotes, scheduling, invoices, follow-ups, data entry.
- You’ll let us watch how the work really gets done.
Probably not a fit
- You want a chat box on your website and nothing else.
- Every job your team does is one of a kind.
- Nobody on your team can spare a few hours to show us the work.
Client results
The first clients’ results go here.
We won’t fill this section with made-up numbers. When our founding clients have real results, you’ll read them here.
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Hours back, or we keep working
If we miss your number, we keep building for free.
Before we build anything, we agree on one number and write it down: how many hours a week your team gets back.
You see that number against the real count every week. If we haven’t hit it 90 days after your agents go live, we keep working for free until we do. You pay nothing more for our work. Your tool and AI usage bills keep running and stay yours.
We need two things from you: access to the tools the agents work in, and a team that actually uses them.
Founding clients
The first 5 clients pay half.
Builds start at $5,000. Founding clients pay half, so a $5,000 build costs $2,500 and a bigger build gets the same half off.
We have no client results to show you yet, and that’s why the first five pay half. You get the same build and the same guarantee. In return, we publish your results on this page, with your numbers and your name.
5 founding spots
Builds start at
$5,000$2,500
Applying costs nothing · I reply myself
Once five spots are gone, the price goes back to full. At any price, you pay for your own tools and AI usage.
Questions
Before you apply.
What is an AI agent?
Software that does a job from start to finish the way a trained person would. It reads the email, looks up the customer, drafts the reply and files it.
Do I or my team need to be technical?
You don’t. I’m not. Your team keeps using the tools they use now, and we train them on what changes.
How do you set the hours target?
We watch the work, count how long each job takes today, and agree what’s realistic to hand over. That number goes in your plan before you pay.
How exactly does the guarantee work?
The target goes in your plan. The weekly report shows hours back against it. If we haven’t hit it 90 days after your agents go live, we keep building at no charge until we do. We need access to your tools and a team that uses the agents.
What will it cost me?
Builds start at $5,000, and the first five clients pay half. Your price depends on how many jobs the agents take on. You see it in your plan before you pay. Your tools and AI usage are separate, and you pay for those.
Is there a monthly cost?
Yes. You pay for the tools your agents run on and for their AI usage, which goes up and down with how much work they do. Those bills are yours, on top of the build price. Your plan gives you our estimate before you pay. Upkeep from us is optional.
What if an agent gets something wrong?
It will, sooner or later. It still happens in my companies. Anything that goes to a customer or moves money waits for one of your people until you say otherwise, and during your 30 days we fix mistakes as they come up.
Is my customer information safe?
Each agent gets only the access its job needs, and your plan lists it. Anything an agent can’t do without a person’s OK stays that way until you change it.
Will my team lose their jobs over this?
This is built to give the people you have their hours back and to save you from the next hire. That’s the number we measure.
Why only five founding clients?
We work closely with each one, and five is how many we want to learn from before the price goes to full.
Tell us which job eats the most hours.
We’ll read it, and I’ll reply myself. If we can give your team hours back, we’ll tell you how many and what it costs.
Hours back, or we keep working · First 5 clients pay half