The days of clicking, dragging, copying, pasting, deleting, downloading, and CTRL-F'ing are over. Assign your agent a job and it hands back completed work.
Founder-led Teams Use Machine-like Agents
THE AGENT DILEMMA
You name the job. We build the agent around the tools you already use, put it to work, and keep it running.
Operations overview
Four agents under management. One run in flight, two decisions waiting on you.
Wednesday29 Jul 2026 · 09:44:00
Work completed · today
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vs 34 daily average
Awaiting your decision
2of 41 today
95% cleared without you
Median first response
3m 12s
Inside 5-minute target
Hours returned · 7d
26.5▲ 4.1
≈ $1,340 of staff time
Qualifying inbound lead: J. Moreno, Beacon Logistics
Qualification & Routing · step 3 of 8 · evaluating buying-readiness
Next: apply routing logic → identify owner
Step 6 will be skipped: no CRM connected
MEET YOUR MACHINE-LIKE AGENT
Send your manual, tedious, mechanical tasks to an agent that keeps it moving. Machine-like agents are custom-built AI workers that autonomously handle entire workstreams, from the first step to the finished result.
Owners, operators, or senior leaders at companies with 1–100 employees.
Humans stuck doing manual, recurring, tedious, mechanical, machine-like tasks.
Curious about AI but not sure where to start, or already experimenting and ready to go further.
Agents deliver fully completed work, well beyond answering questions in a chat.
Setup, monitoring, daily ops, maintenance, and upgrades are our job.
You set the rules, approve key actions, and see everything that got done.
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It's a simple exchange: human time for machine labor. Agents handle the taskers, to-dos, and the core operating work. You make the decisions and set the strategy.
Managed Agent Operations
Agents that are designed, deployed, and run for you. They integrate into your tech stack and are governed by your rules. No building or babysitting required.
| Dimension | / Build it yourselfAgents that you buildA tool you construct | / Buy it and babysitAgents that you operateA tool you manage | Machine-likeManaged Agent OperationsA partner that's accountable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who builds the agents? | You do | Vendor | We do, fully customized around your requirements |
| Who manages agents day-to-day? | Your team | Your team | We do, under your guidelines and policies |
| Who owns agent quality? | You do | Vendor | Us |
| How do agents receive tasks? | You've built in custom triggers or cron jobs | Defined by vendor configuration | Customized around your processes and workflows |
| Who fixes the agent when APIs break? | You do | You do | We do |
| What do I pay before it works | Build cost + value of your time | Subscription fee. Pay first, prove second. | $0. Value gets proven first. |
| Where do I need to allocate resources? | Agent design foundations, orchestration, guardrails | Running agents in production and monitoring their performance | You save resources. Our agents deliver completed work as a service. |
| How do I keep control? | You've built in governance and permission gates | Your team is responsible for monitoring | Agents are configured according to your guidelines and procedures. And then they get monitored by us. |
What if your team could focus entirely on the human elements of business — relationships, judgment, ideas, creativity? Our agents take the mechanical, repetitive work slowing your team down and completes it at AI speed.
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Agents that can go where they're needed
Sales. Support. Operations. Marketing. Finance. Point your agent at any bottleneck where work tends to pile up.
Tour the Agent FactoryAGENTS THAT INTEGRATE WITH EVERYTHING
No rip and replace. Nothing migrates. Nothing gets rebuilt. Agents connect to the apps and software your business uses.
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MACHINE-LIKE
Designed for trust & safety
Agents reach only the systems you open. They stay in the lane you draw. When a decision requires judgment, they stop and wait for you.
refund_request · order 88412 · $1,240.00Policy: refunds over $500 wait for a humanNothing happens off-camera. Every action is logged. Every completed task comes with a receipt.
Agent boundaries are written in code, not made in promises. Permissions, policies, and off-limit actions are enforced at the root.
Your data stays yours. Encrypted in transit and at rest, logged on every run, and never used to train a model.
We build custom worker agents, not chat interfaces or personal assistants. Every agent runs on a harness: code that lets it act, see the result, and keep going. Inside are five things, a model, instructions, policies, tools, and memory, all configured around your specific job.
Layer 1 is the identity file: who the agent is, its operating rules, the boundaries it never crosses. It rides along on every single turn. Model choice, runtime, and budgets are pinned in config. Nothing about the agent's behavior is improvised.
Each task our agent can do is a self-contained skill: a documented procedure, deterministic scripts, and reference docs that load when needed. Tools are typed functions with schema-validated inputs. Specialist subagents take the deep work.
What the agent may do is written down, auditable, and enforced: which actions require a human and who that human is, when to stop and hand off, where the data and spend limits sit.
No black box. State lives in durable, human-readable files: long-lived facts about the environment, the precedent behind every decision it has made, and the domain knowledge it consults but doesn't control.
Runbooks, drift checks, a dated changelog, and post-mortems keep everything verified in production. This is the layer almost nobody ships. We run on it.
Sales, support, finance, HR. Our agents deploy anywhere across the org. Pick the task. Get back perfectly completed work.
Agents take the first pass on every ticket. Your team handles the ones that actually require a human.
Reconciliation, receivables, depreciation schedules, close support. The work that has to be right with too few people to do it.
We turn your quarterly plan into published work and keeps everything on schedule.
Agents answer every new lead inside four minutes, qualifies it, books it, and hands your rep a warm opportunity.
REAL WORK. REAL RECEIPTS. THEN DECIDE.
Start a 14-day free trial when your agent goes live. We configure the agent around your specific workflows, your preferred tools, and your exact procedures. Watch the agent deliver verified work. Then decide.
Create a free account and describe the work you'd like to automate. We'll custom build an agent that's designed specifically for your business.
Deployment takes days, not quarters. Your agent runs your A repeatable process inside a workload: a defined trigger, a sequence of tasks, and a finished output. Learn more →, follows your policies, and reports what it completed. You review and evaluate the results over 14 days.
Judge your agent by the work it delivers. To keep it on the job, choose a service plan. If it’s not a fit, walk away. All completed work is yours to keep.
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Machine-like is the Managed Agent Operations company. We design, deploy, and run custom AI agents for small businesses, as a service. Machine-like agents work inside the software you already use and hand back finished work: sales follow-up, support triage, reporting, reconciliation, and more. You tell us the job. We build the agent, run it in production, and stay accountable for the results.
Managed Agent Operations is a service model where AI agents are designed, deployed, and run for you. Today most agents come one of two ways: you build them yourself, or you buy them and babysit them. Both leave your team operating software. Managed Agent Operations is the third option. We build the agent around your process, connect it to your tools, monitor it, fix it, and upgrade it. You keep the approvals and the judgment calls.
Machine-like agents handle defined, repeatable work across sales, support, operations, marketing, and finance. Common jobs include answering and qualifying new leads in minutes, booking and follow-up, prospect research, support ticket triage, customer intake and onboarding, CRM hygiene, recurring reporting, and deposit reconciliation. Each agent owns a specific job with a clear trigger and a finished output, which is what keeps it reliable. If a task repeats every week and runs through software, it is a strong candidate. Open-ended chat assistance is not what we build.
Machine-like agents are built for owners, operators, and senior leaders at companies with roughly 1 to 100 employees. The best fit is a business with real, recurring workflows (customers, vendors, pipelines, reports) and a small team carrying too much of it by hand. You do not need an AI strategy first. Whether you are curious about AI and unsure where to start, or already experimenting and ready to go further, we help you pick the right first job.
Most AI agents arrive as software you have to operate. Build one on a platform and your team designs, tests, and maintains it. Buy one off the shelf and your team monitors and babysits it. Tools that generate agents for you still leave you running them: self-creating is not self-managing. Machine-like agents are built, run, and maintained by us, customized around your process and governed by your rules. You get completed work, not a second job.
Create a free account and join a short scoping call so we learn your tools, your rules, and what done looks like. Your 14-day free trial starts when the agent goes live on real work, not when you sign up. No credit card, no setup fees, no obligation. If the agent proves itself, roll into a service tier. If it doesn't, you walk away and owe nothing.
Very little, and no. We do the heavy lifting: scoping, building, integrating, testing, and running the agent. Your part is short and front-loaded: access to the right tools, the rules your team follows, examples of work done well, and one person who can make approval decisions. After launch, you review what the agent hands back. You will not troubleshoot APIs or babysit live runs.
Only where you allow it. Every Machine-like agent starts in draft-and-approval mode, so nothing goes out without your sign-off. You set the rules: what the agent may do on its own, which actions wait for a human, and what is off-limits entirely. When a decision calls for judgment, the agent stops and waits for you. Every completed task comes with a receipt, so you verify the work instead of trusting claims.
We fix it. When an integration changes, a connection expires, or an agent drifts in month six, catching and repairing it is our job, not yours. We monitor every agent in production, keep it current as your process evolves, and handle model upgrades. That is the difference between a managed service and a tool you have to operate.
Yes. Your data stays where it lives. Nothing migrates out of your CRM, inbox, or other tools. Agents reach only the systems you authorize, through connections you control and can revoke at any time, and they take only the actions their workflow calls for. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, every run is logged, and your data is never used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. You own your data.
Pricing is per workload, billed monthly. A workload is the complete job an agent owns, sized to replace roughly 5 to 10 hours of manual work each week. Operator covers 1 to 2 workloads at $249 per workload per month. Growth covers 3 to 5 workloads at $199 per workload per month. Command covers 6 or more workloads with a custom quote. Every tier includes unlimited seats and connectors, with no setup, integration, or platform fees. Cancel anytime.
Your work should be about creativity, solving problems, and building relationships.
Leave the machine-like tasks to us.
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