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AI Agents & Digital Labor

AI Agents That
Do Real Jobs.

Not a chatbot. Not a dashboard. Agents embedded in your CRM and data systems that research, score, route, respond, and act around the clock without a human in the loop. This is digital labor: AI workers built into your platform, executing tasks your team currently does by hand.

24/7
Operation
No human
Bottleneck
Embedded
In your systems
Custom
Trained logic
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What This Actually Means

Digital Labor Is Not What Most Vendors Are Selling

The market uses the word AI loosely. Most products called AI agents are not. Here is the practical distinction that matters for your business.

Not this

A Chatbot

Answers questions based on a knowledge base. Responds to inputs from a human. Does nothing autonomously. Does not update records, trigger workflows, generate deliverables, or take any action unless a human types something. Useful as a support widget. Not digital labor.

Closer, but

An AI Feature

Surfaces AI-generated insights inside a dashboard or tool. Summarizes data, highlights anomalies, suggests next steps. Still requires a human to read the output and decide what to do with it. The human is still the executor. This is a productivity tool, not digital labor.

This is it

An AI Agent / Digital Laborer

Acts autonomously without waiting for human input. Executes tasks: updates database records, sends messages, generates structured outputs, calls APIs, applies scoring logic, flags anomalies for review, and routes work to the right place. The human defines the rules and reviews exceptions. The agent does the repetitive work.

Agent Types

Types of Agents IPS Builds

Every category below has been built and deployed in a live product. These are not theoretical architectures.

Live: Lead Detective

Research Agents

Pull data from 19 sources simultaneously, synthesize results into a structured dossier, and deliver a finished output in minutes. Lead Detective pulls from LinkedIn, SEC EDGAR, Crunchbase, news, and Glassdoor in parallel. The agent synthesizes everything into an executive dossier and account plan. Eight minutes versus three days of human research.

Live: GovGreed

Scoring Agents

Score every record in your database on a schedule using defined logic. GovGreed runs 13,052 active politician-times-bill predictions through a scoring model inside PostgreSQL in approximately 30 seconds, with no external API calls. The scoring logic lives in the database and runs on a cron schedule. Every record is always current.

Live: StickySignal

Outreach Agents

Generate and send personalized messages based on customer data without human drafting. StickySignal uses purchase history, segment membership, and visit recency to generate AI-written SMS messages for each dispensary customer. The agent handles copy variation, send timing, and compliance checks automatically.

Trigger-Based

Monitoring Agents

Watch for specific trigger events and take action when they occur. Price changes, SEC filings, news mentions, contract awards, earnings releases. The agent monitors continuously and fires a defined workflow when the trigger condition is met, whether that means logging a record, sending an alert, or kicking off a downstream process.

Unstructured Input

Classification Agents

Read unstructured text, PDFs, emails, or form submissions and tag, categorize, or route them according to defined taxonomy. Useful for support ticket triage, contract clause extraction, lead qualification from form responses, and document categorization pipelines where the input is messy and the output needs to be structured.

Live: mmamodel.ai

Prediction Agents

Score leads, flag churn risk, predict outcomes, and surface the records most likely to convert or require intervention. mmamodel.ai runs a 5-model ML ensemble retrained weekly against 8,533 UFC fights. The same pattern applies to lead scoring, churn prediction, and deal probability models built on your proprietary data.

Live Proof

Lead Detective: Research Agent in Production

Lead Detective is a live product that demonstrates research agent architecture at commercial scale. Here is exactly how it works.

1
Parallel source pull

The agent fires simultaneous requests to LinkedIn, SEC EDGAR, Crunchbase, Google News, and Glassdoor. No waiting for one to finish before starting the next. All five sources run in parallel, returning data in under 90 seconds combined.

2
AI synthesis pass

Premier AI models receive all source data simultaneously and generate three structured outputs: an executive dossier with company background and leadership profiles, a strategic account plan with opportunity framing, and a conversation guide with specific talking points derived from actual company data.

3
Structured delivery

Results are returned as a structured document a sales rep can read in five minutes and use in a meeting that same day. No researcher. No delay. No source missed because someone ran out of time.

THE RESULT
8 min
Time to full executive dossier, account plan, and conversation guide
3 days
Time a human researcher takes to produce the same output (if they get to it)
19
Sources pulled simultaneously per job
The agent does not get tired, distracted, or behind on a backlog
Live Proof

GovGreed: Scoring Agent Inside PostgreSQL

The GovGreed corruption prediction engine scores every politician-bill combination in the database on demand. This is scoring agent architecture at scale, embedded directly in the database layer without external API calls.

13,052
Active Predictions Scored
Politicians scored against pending bills in the database
~30s
Full Run Time
Full prediction matrix scored in seconds, no external API calls
0
External Calls
Scoring logic embedded directly inside PostgreSQL

The scoring model considers committee membership, stock trade timing relative to legislation, campaign contribution amounts and sources, lobbying relationship mapping, and historical vote patterns. All of this logic runs as a single SQL-level operation inside Supabase. The scoring agent is triggered on a schedule and whenever the underlying data is updated. The dashboard always reflects current scores without any manual analyst work.

How It Works

How We Embed Agents in Your System

Every agent we build follows a structured deployment process. We do not sell you a black box. We build something you understand and can manage.

01
Map the Manual Process

We document exactly what a human does today: what triggers the work, what data they look at, what decision they make, and what output they produce.

02
Define Triggers and Sources

We identify what event starts the agent, what data sources it reads from, and what the output looks like in structured terms before writing a line of code.

03
Build the Agent Pipeline

We build the pipeline: data ingestion, transformation logic, AI model calls where needed, output formatting, and error handling with fallback states.

04
Embed in Your Systems

The agent is deployed inside your existing CRM, database, or application. It reads from and writes to your data. No separate vendor portal to manage.

05
Monitor and Iterate

We deploy with logging, success and failure tracking, and alerting. You can see exactly what the agent is doing, when it ran, and what it produced at any time.

Honest Framing

What Agents Are Not

Not magic

Agents execute defined logic reliably and at scale. They do not invent solutions to problems that are not well-specified. The quality of agent output depends directly on the quality of the underlying data and the clarity of the process you want automated. Garbage in, garbage out still applies, and we will tell you this upfront if your data is not ready.

Not fully autonomous forever

Agents need supervision. The world changes, data sources change, edge cases appear that were not anticipated. We build agents with monitoring, logging, and exception handling. A human should review exceptions and audit outputs periodically. The goal is to eliminate repetitive volume, not to make humans irrelevant to the process entirely.

Not a replacement for good data

The best agent architecture fails if the underlying data is inconsistent, incomplete, or poorly structured. Before building an agent, we assess whether the data infrastructure can support it. Sometimes the right first project is cleaning and structuring data before any agent gets built. We will tell you this honestly rather than selling you an agent that will fail.

FAQ

Common Questions

What is the difference between an AI agent and a chatbot?
A chatbot waits for a human to type something and then responds. It does not take action in any system, does not update records, does not generate deliverables, and does not run on a schedule. An AI agent is triggered by an event or a schedule, reads data from your systems, executes a defined task, and writes an output back into your systems, all without waiting for human input. The practical difference is that a chatbot is a reactive interface and an agent is an autonomous worker. Most products marketed as AI agents today are closer to chatbots than agents.
What systems can you embed agents into?
We primarily build agents that embed into Supabase PostgreSQL, Airtable, HubSpot, custom REST APIs, and any system with a programmatic interface. The agent logic typically runs as a Supabase Edge Function, a Python service on Railway or Render, or a cron-triggered script, depending on the trigger pattern and frequency. If you have a system with an API or direct database access, we can embed an agent into it. We will be honest about systems that are too locked down to work with.
Do AI agents make mistakes?
Yes, and any vendor who says otherwise is selling you something. AI agents can hallucinate when using large language models, misclassify edge cases, fail when a data source returns unexpected formats, or produce incorrect scores when the underlying data is dirty. We build agents with error handling, output validation, human review queues for low-confidence outputs, and monitoring that alerts you when something is off. The goal is not zero mistakes but rather a mistake rate that is lower than the human alternative, with full visibility into when errors occur.
How do I know when an agent is working versus failing?
Every agent we build includes a run log that records each execution: timestamp, inputs, outputs, success or failure status, and any errors encountered. We deploy monitoring that alerts on failure, on outputs that fall outside expected ranges, and on sources that stop returning data. The operator can see the full execution history in a dashboard. You do not need to trust that the agent is working. You can verify it directly.
Can agents replace employees?
They can replace specific tasks that employees currently perform, particularly high-volume, repetitive, data-heavy work. A research agent can replace the research portion of a sales analyst role. A scoring agent can replace the manual scoring work a data analyst does weekly. A classification agent can replace the first-pass triage a support manager does on incoming tickets. What agents cannot replace is judgment, relationship management, creative problem-solving, and anything that requires human context or accountability. We are honest about this distinction in every project scoping conversation.
How much does AI agent development cost?
Agent development typically ranges from fifteen thousand to one hundred twenty thousand dollars depending on complexity, the number of data sources involved, whether AI model inference is part of the pipeline, and the level of monitoring and exception-handling infrastructure required. A simple scoring agent that runs SQL logic inside your existing database is at the low end. A research agent that pulls from nineteen sources, runs multi-step AI synthesis, and delivers structured documents is at the high end. We will scope your specific use case and give you a number in the first conversation.
How long does it take to build a custom AI agent?
Simple scoring or classification agents embedded in an existing database can be deployed in two to four weeks. Research agents with multi-source pipelines and AI synthesis typically take six to ten weeks. Complex monitoring agents with trigger logic, multi-step workflows, and full operator dashboards run ten to sixteen weeks. Timeline depends heavily on how clean and accessible your existing data is. If we need to clean or restructure data before building the agent, add four to eight weeks depending on the state of your data.
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