Structured enough to trust. Light enough to survive.
A $15,000 project shouldn't feel like a leap of faith. Here is the entire path, every commitment on both sides, and the exact points where you can stop.
Four stages. Each one earns the next.
You can stop after any stage and keep everything you've paid for. Most people won't want to stop — but knowing you can is the point.
Score
The AI Readiness Scorecard. Nine questions, two minutes, instant score. See where the hours are leaking before anyone gets paid.
Roadmap
Two weeks inside your operation. A prioritized plan with cost and payback estimates for every opportunity, ranked by return.
Build
Custom agents and workflow automation, built alongside your current process. Weekly check-ins. Switched on when the numbers check out.
Care
Monitoring, fixes, iteration, and support — plus Team Training so your staff actually use what's built. We don't disappear after launch.
What you do. What we do.
The whole engagement costs your team about an hour a week. We designed it that way because our buyer has eleven minutes between a supplier call and a payroll problem.
Find out where you stand.
You
- →Answer nine questions about how the work actually gets done.
- →That's it. No call, no email required to see your score.
Us
- →Score your readiness 0–100 and name your stage.
- →Show your top three automation opportunities, phrased as outcomes.
- →Estimate the hours you could reclaim each week.
Get the plan, with the math.
You
- →Give us a point person and about an hour a week.
- →Let us shadow the work and talk to the team.
- →Join one working session at the end of week two.
Us
- →Document your processes from the people who do them.
- →Inventory every tool and every manual hand-off between tools.
- →Rank every opportunity by hours saved, cost, and payback time.
- →Deliver the plan — including the honest 'don't build this' calls.
Working software, switched on carefully.
You
- →30 minutes a week: one check-in with your point person.
- →Answer the occasional 'is this how you'd handle it?' question.
- →Keep running the business exactly as you do today.
Us
- →Build alongside your current process — nothing is ripped out.
- →Run old way and new way in parallel until the numbers check out.
- →Cut over only when you've seen it work on your real jobs.
- →Document everything in plain language, in your name.
Watched software stays useful.
You
- →Tell us when something feels off, or when the business changes.
- →That's genuinely all.
Us
- →Monitor the workflows continuously and fix what breaks.
- →Adjust as your tools, team, and volume change.
- →Ship monthly improvements you'd otherwise have to scope as projects.
Old way and new way run side by side.
The scariest sentence in software is "we switched everything over last night." We never say it.
Both systems run
The automation does the work and your team does it the old way too. Every quote, sync, and reminder gets produced twice — and compared.
The numbers check out
We review the comparison together at the weekly check-in. Discrepancies get fixed and re-run. Nothing advances on vibes.
Cutover, then 30 days of support
Only when you've watched it succeed on your real jobs does the old way retire. Every build includes 30 days of support after that.
About one hour a week.One point person, one 30-minute weekly check-in, and the occasional "is this how you'd handle it?" question.
Nobody stops quoting jobs because we're in the building. If an engagement ever needs more of your time than that, it's because we scoped it wrong — and that's ours to fix, not yours to absorb.
See where you'd start.
The Scorecard takes two minutes and shows where the hours are leaking. The Roadmap turns that into a costed plan.
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