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AI agents for the work that slows you down

Your team should be closing deals,
not chasing paperwork.

SmartAgents builds AI agents that handle the repetitive, high-friction workflows eating your team's hours: quoting, onboarding, timesheets, pitch decks, compliance. Your experts do the judgment calls. Agents do the rest.

Founder-led operator team
Data stays in your tenant
First agent live in 60–90 days
MANUFACTURING
PROPOSAL AGENT
● LIVE
Drafting RFQ
Acme Metals: 14 line items
Pricing lookup
BOM resolved
Margin check
Terms drafted
IMPACT
$184,260
ETA 2m 14s
5·5·5
The combo
Revenue · cost · ops
90–120
Days to impact
Paid scorecard to first result
100%
Human approvals
Every outbound action
20+
Years advising
Operator-led, not engineer-led
Why SmartAgents

We're not selling a model. We're installing an operating layer.

Three things separate serious automation partners from tool vendors. We take all three seriously.

01

Operator-led, not engineer-led

SmartAgents is founded and run by a thirty-year tech operator who's built, grown, and sold venture-backed companies. Every engagement starts with someone who's been where you are. Technology is a tool; margin is the goal.

Founder on every engagement
02

Humans stay in the loop

Every agent output is a draft your team reviews. Every action is logged, reversible, and routed through your approvers. Nothing ships without a person on it.

100% auditable trail
03

Business case before the build

Every engagement opens with a paid AI Readiness Scorecard. We agree the math, baseline, and target before we write a line of code. If the business case doesn't land, we tell you.

Paid Scorecard as the gate
About the founder

We built SmartAgents for a reason.

SmartAgents was founded by Tom Poole, a thirty-year tech operator who's built, grown, and sold venture-backed companies. He built this firm as a deliberate response to an AI industry that sells technology instead of outcomes.

Read the founder story
The 5·5·5 Combo

Small moves compound into big margin.

Our framework targets three levers at once. Each modest alone. Stacked, they compound.

+5%
In sales
The right automations in your pipeline.
−5%
In COGS
The right automations in your delivery.
−5%
In OpEx
The right automations in your back office.
What we automate

Six categories. One coherent operations layer.

Agents share context across your business, so a won deal becomes an onboarding trigger becomes a delivery plan becomes a first invoice, without anyone re-keying anything.

SALES
01

Intake & Qualification

Inbound leads, RFPs, client requests: structured, scored, and routed within minutes.

SALES
02

Proposals & Quotes

Tailored SOWs, quotes, and decks drafted from your templates, case studies, and pricing logic.

OPS
03

Onboarding & KYC

Identity, document, and compliance flows end-to-end with full audit trails.

OPS
04

Project & Delivery Ops

Timesheets, status briefs, staffing grids, scope-drift alerts, quietly running in the background.

FINANCE
05

Finance & Close

Invoicing, collections, WIP reviews, monthly close packs drafted before your controller asks.

GROWTH
06

Client Comms & Retention

Personalized notes, quarterly reviews, check-in sequences, at scale, without feeling automated.

How it works

From scorecard to measurable impact in 90–120 days.

We open with a paid Scorecard. If the business case doesn't land, we tell you. If it does, first agents ship by week five.

SCORECARD

AI Readiness Scorecard

Every engagement opens with a paid diagnostic ($7,500 to $30,000). We analyze your operation, your data, and your readiness. You get a prioritized roadmap of the one to three automations that will produce the best return with the least risk. If the business case doesn't land, we tell you before you commit to a build.

WEEK 1–2

Kickoff + workflow deep-dive

With the Scorecard in hand, we sit with the teams running the target workflows. You get a map of where hours and margin are leaking, before we write a line of code.

WEEK 3–5

First agent ships

The highest-leverage agent deploys into one team. Your existing tools keep running. You see daily output within 6-10 weeks.

WEEK 6–9

Expand with trust earned

As the first agent proves out, we layer in two more. Weekly reviews tune edge cases. Every output stays under human approval.

WEEK 10–12

Operating layer locked in

Full agent suite live. Baseline, target, and weekly read instrumented. Your team stops firefighting and starts compounding.

Frequently asked

The questions every serious buyer asks us.

If yours isn't here, a 30-minute call is the fastest path to a real answer.

Chat tools give people a better blank page. Agents do the work end-to-end: reading from your systems, writing into your workflows, handling exceptions, and logging every step. The difference is shipping output, not drafting one.

Every engagement opens with a paid AI Readiness Scorecard: $7,500 to $30,000 based on your size and complexity. The Scorecard gives you a prioritized roadmap of the one to three automations that will produce the best return with the least risk. Build fees are scoped separately per automation; ongoing work runs as a retainer or time-and-materials. If the math doesn't work, we tell you before you sign.

No. We run the agents. Your team runs your business. An internal champion (usually a COO or Head of Ops) owns the relationship; we do the build, tuning, and weekly reviews.

Agents run in your cloud tenant (AWS, Azure, GCP). Data never leaves your environment. We never train on your content. Controls mapped to SOC 2 Type II from day one, with full audit trails on every action.

They're drafts, not publishes. Every outbound action routes through a human approver. Every action is reversible. We instrument accuracy weekly and tune continuously.

A 30-minute discovery call. Bring your two worst time-sinks. We'll tell you within that call whether we can help and what week-one looks like.

Let's talk specifics

Bring your two worst time-sinks.

30 minutes. No slides. We'll show you which agents would run them, what week-one looks like, and whether the math works.

● 6 SLOTS · WEEK OF APR 27