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What is an Agent?

An Agent is software that does not just answer questions — you give it a goal, and it works toward it step after step, on its own.

For your business, it is a tireless digital employee for the repetitive work that eats your team’s week — it checks, decides, does, and flags you when a human should make the call.

The picture to hold in your head

Less calculator. More employee.

A calculator answers exactly what you ask, then sits there. Most AI today is a very good calculator: brilliant answers, zero follow-through. You are still the one doing every next step.

An employee is different. You say “keep the inbox handled,” and they figure out the steps: read each message, draft the routine replies, file what belongs elsewhere, and walk over to your desk for the two that actually need you.

An Agent is that employee — for one well-defined job, tireless, and with its boundaries written down. The important decisions stay human. That is by design, not a limitation.

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What you actually get

No hype. Here is the deliverable.

An agent built around one real workflow

Not “AI for your whole company.” One well-chosen job — the inbox, the intake queue, the weekly report — done end to end. Narrow on purpose: narrow is what works.

Guardrails you sign off on

A written list of what it may do alone and what it must ask a human first. Sending money, deleting things, making promises to customers — those stay behind a human yes.

A way to watch it

A log of every action it took and why, plus monitoring that tells you if it stalls. You are never wondering what the robot did last night.

Handoff, not hostage

You keep the code, the docs, and the controls. It runs on your accounts, not ours.

Want to see the shape of it? Watch a real agent quote a job, check availability, and stage a booking against a server we built — the Front Door demo. Note what happens at the end: the booking waits for a human to confirm it.

Why you would want this

The problem it removes.

The chore stops eating your week

The 40 emails triaged before breakfast, the leads copied between systems, the status report nobody enjoys writing — the agent does the loop, your people do the judgment calls.

Nothing falls through the cracks

An agent does not get bored on step 30 of 40, does not skip the follow-up, and does not forget the Friday one. Every item gets the same care as the first.

It works while you sleep

The overnight inquiry gets a draft reply, the failed payment gets flagged, the report is ready before the meeting. Mornings start at “review and approve,” not “dig out.”

Built on the tools you already trust

The same stack that runs this site, right now — not a slide, the actual production stack.

  • Next.js
  • Vercel
  • Supabase
  • Stripe
  • Claude by Anthropic
  • Gemini by Google
  • Sentry
products running in production on this site
4
steps in our flagship AI pipeline
17
AI models orchestrated in a single paid run
4

What it costs

A real build, priced for your scope.

Agent — what it costs

$15,000$50,000

The range is wide because the price depends on how many of your systems it connects to and how much it has to do. Your exact quote is fixed after one scoping call.

Book me now to unlock your quote →

A 20-minute call, a real engineer, and a fixed number — whether or not we end up working together.

An agent is custom work: it has to learn your workflow, connect to your systems, and earn your trust with guardrails — which is why there is a range instead of a sticker.

One workflow with a couple of connections and simple rules sits near the bottom. Multiple systems, approval chains, and around-the-clock monitoring sit near the top.

The scoping call turns the range into one fixed number, in writing, before any build starts.

Not ready for a custom build? The ladder has lower rungs

Try the format first

from $29

Ready-made skills — the cheapest way to feel what AI can do before committing to a build.

Browse skills

Build it yourself

$399

The DIY pack: our full module playbook — copy-paste prompts, plain-English guides, completion checks. You and your own Claude do the work.

See the pack

Build it with a guide

$899

Our AI agent walks you through the same build live — 3 hours of active time, all DIY content included, the clock only runs while you work.

How it works

Package deals

Buy the pieces together, pay less than the sum.

Starter

Teach your AI three tricks.

  • Three custom skills, built on your real work

$180

$225 separatelysave $45

Book a call about Starter

Connected

Give it hands, plus three tricks.

  • One MCP server (connects AI to your real tools)
  • Three custom skills

from $14,500

from $15,225 separatelysave $725

Book a call about Connected

Autopilot

Hands and a goal. The full loop.

  • One MCP server
  • One Agent built around a real workflow

from $27,000

from $30,000 separatelysave $3,000

Book a call about Autopilot

Bundle savings are computed against buying each piece separately at the same scope — big builds compared at the bottom of their range. Your exact number is fixed after one scoping call.

How the three fit together

Talk it through

Wondering if your chore qualifies?

Describe the job in one sentence — “every Monday someone spends four hours doing X” — and a 20-minute call will tell you whether an agent fits, what it would connect to, and what it would cost. Plain answers, no obligation.

  • No jargon on the call, either.
  • No obligation.
  • A real engineer, not a closer.
What do you need built?
Rough budget
Timeline

A few quick questions so the call is useful from minute one. No slide deck, no obligation, a real engineer — not a closer. Prefer email? contact@synthiq.app.