The bottleneck is the reading, not the decision.
Custom AI assistants that read, classify, answer, or summarise — so your team focuses on the decisions, not the triage.
The bottleneck is rarely the decision itself. It is the reading. Your team spends hours every day reading emails, figuring out what each one is, and deciding where it goes. The decision takes seconds, but the reading and routing take hours.
An AI agent handles the reading. It classifies the email, extracts the key data, and either drafts a response or routes it to the right person. Your team reviews the edge cases and makes the final call, so the agent handles the volume while the humans handle the judgement.
This never gets used for creative work or for decisions with legal or financial liability. There is always a human in the loop on anything that matters.
Does this sound familiar?
Pick the one that ate the most time last month. That is the candidate.
AdministrationPartner or executive inbox triage
Partners and executives receive hundreds of emails per day. Someone reads each one to decide what's urgent, what to delegate, what to reply to, and what to archive. Important emails occasionally sit unread for days.
- Volume
- 100-500 emails per day per partner
- By hand
- 1-2 hours per day of triage; missed high-priority messages
SalesIncoming quote requests as free-text emails
New customers email their requests as prose — sometimes with PDF specs attached, sometimes describing the problem in plain text. Someone reads each one, figures out what's being asked, and routes it to the right salesperson, engineer, or project lead.
- Volume
- dozens per week with seasonal peaks
- By hand
- 1-2 hours per day of triage; slow first response loses deals
Customer serviceRecurring FAQs answered from memory or a Word cheat sheet
20-30% of incoming questions are the same handful of things: opening hours, pricing, whether a service is available, document requirements. The front office answers each one by hand. When a key person is off, answers get inconsistent.
- Volume
- daily
- By hand
- interruptions throughout the day; reduced focus on complex cases
Customer serviceTicket handoffs losing context between shifts or team members
A support ticket started by one person gets picked up by another — at shift change, during holiday cover, or after escalation. The new owner re-reads the thread, calls the client back, and often asks the same questions again.
- Volume
- every handover
- By hand
- hours of re-reading per week; client frustration; mistakes when context is lost
HRRecruitment intake: CVs arriving in an inbox and filtered by hand
When a role is open, CVs arrive at a generic HR inbox or the hiring manager's inbox. Someone opens each one, reads the summary, decides whether it fits, and files the candidate into a spreadsheet. Most CVs are never answered.
- Volume
- dozens to hundreds per role
- By hand
- days of hiring manager or HR time per role; slow hiring
Customer serviceInbound questions arriving across multiple channels
Clients ask questions through WhatsApp, email, the website form, phone calls, and sometimes in person. Each channel is watched by a different person (or not watched at all during busy periods). The same question gets answered several times a week, inconsistently.
- Volume
- dozens per day across the channels
- By hand
- several hours per day of front-office time; inconsistent answers
How it works
Discovery
You tell me where the volume is: the inbox, the document type, the question category. I map what the agent has to read, what it has to decide, and where the human reviews.
Build
I build the agent and run it on a sample of real cases. We compare its output against what the team would have done. I adjust the rules and the wording until the disagreements drop to noise.
Launch and 30 days
It goes live with the human-review checkpoint switched on. I monitor the agent for 30 days and tighten it where it slips. After that it runs on its own, or you can add the annual support contract.
What's included
Included
Discovery meeting
Agent design (role, boundaries, fallback rules, human-in-the-loop checkpoints)
Model configuration
Initial tuning
Testing and launch
30-day support after go-live
Not included
AI API costs (OpenAI and equivalents)
Creative content generation
Decisions with legal or financial liability
Scope changes after delivery
Proof
One machine, measured.
Delivery notes go in — scanned paper or PDF. The AI extracts every field, edge cases get flagged for human review, and the result is fully digitised.
Time per document2-10 minutes by hand40 seconds by machineCost per documentsalary time€0.10Error raterises when tiredclose to 0%
Pre-production. Real numbers.
From prior work and pilot conversations
Engineering consultancy (~50 people, multi-discipline)RFQs arrived as free-text emails with attached specs. The ops team spent ~90 min every morning classifying them by discipline.
~1.5 h/day freed, faster first response to clients
Property management firm (~800 units under management)Tenant questions on WhatsApp — rent, inspections, small repairs — were handled one by one by the front office, interrupting the rest of the day.
~3 h/day freed across the front office, faster tenant responses
Tell me your case.
If you recognise the patterns above, twenty minutes is enough to know whether I can build it for you.
Let's talk