AI and operating systems build

From one prioritized use case to a system that runs

You receive a working system in production: the agents, the workflow, the integrations, the controls and the dashboard that shows whether it moved the number it was built to move. Tested before release, documented at handover.

  • From $1,500
  • 5 to 40 weeks
  • Three delivery tiers
  • Tested before release

The work that nobody owns and everybody redoes

A build earns its cost by removing a specific piece of recurring work. These are the six we are asked to remove most often.

The same work is redone every week

Someone copies figures between two systems, checks them, and formats the result. It takes hours and it happens on a schedule.

Time spent, and errors that surface downstream.

Handoffs drop things

Work moves between people by email or message, and what each person needs to receive was never defined.

Rework, and a client who noticed before you did.

Follow-up depends on someone remembering

The lead, the renewal or the quote gets chased when a person has time, in the order they happen to open their inbox.

Revenue that was already won gets lost.

Knowledge sits in one person

The answer exists, in a document nobody can find or a head that is on holiday.

Wrong answers given confidently, and duplicated effort.

The tools do not talk

Each system holds part of the picture and none of them holds the whole one.

No single view, so reporting is assembled by hand.

The pilot works and never ships

A prototype proves the idea, then stalls on access, data quality, or the question of who supports it in production.

Investment spent proving something you already believed.

A running system, and everything needed to keep running it

Scope varies with the tier, and the shape does not. You get the specification the system was built from, evidence it was tested, and enough documentation to hand the work to somebody who is not us.

Use case and success metric
The one process being built, and the number that has to move for the build to count. Agreed before anything is configured.
AI Agent Specification
What each agent does, what it may see, what it may decide, and where it stops and asks a person.
Workflow Automation Map
Triggers, steps, branches and owners for the process as it will run once the system is live.
Knowledge Base Setup
Your documents, records and SOPs organized so the system retrieves the right one, with permissions that hold.
System configuration
Zoho CRM, your operating software or the new application itself, configured against the map rather than against a default template.
Tool Integration Plan
How the systems already in the business connect, what data moves between them, and what happens when one is unavailable.
AI Risk and Guardrails
The risk tier for this build and the controls that match it, including the human review points.
Testing and Verification Report
The evaluation set the system was measured against, and how it performed. You see this before release, not after.
Deployment and Rollback Plan
How it goes live and how it comes back out if it has to, written before it goes live.
Handover Package and ROI dashboard
Documentation, trained users, the metric wired to a dashboard, and the improvement backlog we did not get to.

Three tiers, set by the work rather than the budget

What decides the tier is the sensitivity of the data and how much the system decides on its own. A build that touches payments or acts without a person in the loop carries more testing, more controls and more evidence, and that is what the band pays for.

Tier 1

$1,500 to $4,000

5 to 8 weeks

A standard build on low-sensitivity data. Workflow automation, reporting, a configured system, an integration between tools you already run.

  • Trigger: standard application, low sensitivity
  • Managed operations from $750 per month

Tier 2

$4,000 to $12,000

10 to 19 weeks

An AI-enabled build touching personal or business data. Retrieval over your own knowledge, AI-assisted workflows, systems that make recommendations a person acts on.

  • Trigger: AI-enabled, personal or business data
  • Managed operations from $2,000 per month

Tier 3

$12,000 to $40,000+

20 to 40 weeks

Agentic, regulated or payment-handling work. Multiple agents coordinating, systems acting on their own conclusions, anything where a wrong output has a regulator or a bank behind it.

  • Trigger: agentic, regulated, or payments
  • Managed operations from $6,000 per month

Governance controls appropriate to the tier are inside the build price. Running the system after it goes live is priced separately, and you are not obliged to buy it. Setting up Zoho CRM for a small team is a defined engagement with its own page and its own price: see CRM setup for small business.

What a build needs from you before it starts

Four things have to be true on day one. Where one is missing, the assessment supplies it faster and cheaper than the build discovers it.

Ready to build if

  • One process is prioritized and a named person owns it
  • The source systems and where the data lives are identified
  • The governance path for this workflow is defined, or FusionGuard is in scope
  • The success metric is agreed before build starts, and you can measure it today
  • An executive sponsor will clear access and make decisions inside a week

Start somewhere else if

Where a finished build usually leads

A system in production changes what the next constraint is. The handover package includes the backlog we did not get to, which is where most of these start.

Your users need the judgment to run it

AI Systems Mastery

The whole function needs an operating layer

AI Operating System

Rules have to exist before the next build

FusionGuard

A second process is a candidate and nobody has ranked it

FusionMap

Build the one that pays for itself first

Bring the process you would remove tomorrow if you could. We will tell you which tier it falls in and what it takes to get it running.