Agentic Automation Builds

What This Is

Most businesses use AI like a smarter search box: someone types, the AI answers, someone copies the answer somewhere. That's a chatbot. It still needs you.

An agentic system is different. It's AI wired into your actual workflow — it collects the inputs, does the work, checks its own output, and delivers the result on a schedule. Customer intake that sorts and responds itself. Reports that write themselves from your data every morning. Publishing that happens whether or not anyone remembered.

I don't sell this from a slide deck. I run these systems every day in my own businesses — and I build the same thing for yours.

Systems I Run Right Now

• 📰 Barrhaven Bugle — a hyperlocal news operation run by a six-agent AI team: sourcing, writing, publishing, audience growth, and sales, on a daily schedule.
• 🌙 Hush Hollow — personalized bedtime stories generated, voiced in the parent's own cloned voice, and delivered nightly by a fully automated pipeline. Paying subscribers on all four tiers.
• 📊 This site's AI news briefing — 350+ articles fetched, deduplicated, ranked, and summarized into a morning briefing, every day, hands-free.
• ✍️ The weekly column — the Saturday "AI Failure of the Week" post on this site is researched, drafted, illustrated, and published by an agent pipeline.

How a Build Works

1. Map the busywork (free call). We find the workflow that eats the most hours: intake, follow-ups, reporting, content, scheduling. You tell me how it works today; I tell you honestly whether AI can run it.
2. Fixed scope, fixed price. You get a plain-English build plan: what the system will do, what stays under human control, what it costs. No open-ended retainers.
3. Build and prove. I build it, run it beside your existing process, and show you the output until you trust it.
4. Hand over or keep me on. You get documentation a non-technical owner can follow. If you'd rather I keep operating and improving it, that's a maintenance arrangement we scope separately.

One rule in every build: AI does the busywork, people keep the authority. Money, publishing, and anything customer-facing gets a human approval gate.

Straight Answers

Do I need developers on staff?

No. You need someone who can read a status report and approve the things that genuinely need human judgment.

What does it cost?

Depends on the workflow. You get a fixed scope and price after the free call — before any work starts.

What happens when it breaks?

Every build ships with monitoring, logs, and approval gates. Failures are visible and safe, not silent. That's not a promise — it's how my own businesses survive running on these systems.

Ottawa only?

In-person work is Ottawa and the NCR. Everything else is remote — the systems don't care where you are.