Who Fixes Your AI Agent When It Stops Working?
When software automates customer conversations, invoice processing, or intake qualification, it feels like permanent leverage. A repetitive administrative task that used to consume twenty hours a...
Kurt is the CEO of Machine-like, the Managed Agent Operations company.
Kurt Fischman
Founder, Machine-like
Articles by Kurt Fischman
How Agencies Can Automate Customer Reporting
Ask any agency founder what happens during the first five business days of a new month, and they will describe the same scene. Account managers stop optimizing campaigns, strategists cancel planning...
How to Automate Overdue Invoice Reminders
Most small-business owners discover automated collections after a painful cash crunch. You look at an accounts receivable aging report, realize that 30% of your billings are sitting past due, and...
Document Collection for Accountants: Go Beyond the Portal
Every managing partner at a growing accounting firm recognizes the January ritual. The practice configures client portals, creates folders, and sends welcome emails with login credentials for the...
How Law Firms Can Automate Document Collection
Every managing partner recognizes the familiar friction of opening a new legal matter. An initial consultation concludes successfully, the retainer agreement is signed, and the legal team requests...
Automate Customer Onboarding: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices
When a customer signs a contract with a growing business, the commercial momentum is at its peak. Sales celebrates the close, the customer feels eager to solve their problem, and leadership expects...
Lindy vs. Managed AI Agents: Compare the Full Cost
When evaluating AI tools to streamline business operations, software subscription pricing creates a powerful illusion. Lindy advertises self-service agent software starting at thirty dollars per user...
AI Agent vs. Hiring: How to Compare the Costs
Founders often begin an automation search with a tidy calculation on a whiteboard. An operations coordinator earns $60,000 a year. An AI agent platform costs $1,500 a month, or $18,000 a year. By...
AI Agent Approvals: Stay in Control Without Reviewing Everything
When a founder-operator introduces AI agents into business operations, the initial instinct is almost always protective: require an owner or senior manager to sign off on every individual action. It...
How to Automate Marketing Reports You Can Trust
Every founder running a business between one million and ten million dollars reaches a point where manual reporting becomes unsustainable. As marketing programs expand across Google Ads, Meta...
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