Contact us

AI solutions for differentiated practices

The 20% no vendor will build.Designed around how your firm actually works.

We design, implement, and support AI agents, tools, and automated workflows that unlock capacity and capabilities for the mission-critical people and systems that power your practice.

THE PROBLEM

Six places judgment gets blocked.

Here is the problem as we see it: necessary work fills the days of the people whose judgment is needed elsewhere. It shows up in six recognizable places. The details are unique to every firm; the places rarely are.

What follows is a simulation: the first of the six, illustrated. An agent takes on intake triage, sorts the morning's inbox, and holds the one item that needs judgment for a named human.

Simulation · for illustration only · yours is designed around how your firm actually works

HUMANAGENTIC · ENGAGEMENT CONSOLECONDITION 01
aai new agent intake-triage
reading practice profile … ok
agent "intake-triage" {
watch: shared_inbox, portal, voicemail
classify: routine | production | needs_judgment
route: routine -> knowledge_desk
production -> intake_workflow
hold: needs_judgment -> partner_queue # named human
record: full_decision_log
}
aai deploy intake-triage --human-in-the-loop
deployed. every consequential decision stops at a named human.
INTAKE TRIAGE · SHARED INBOX● LIVE

New estate planning inquiry

web form · 9:41 am

routine → knowledge desk

Custodian statement, account 2214

portal sync · 9:44 am

production → intake workflow

Fee dispute on an open matter

client email · 9:52 am

needs judgment → named human
decision log: 3 items classified · 1 held for partner review (named human) · full record kept

Inquiries land on your highest-value desks.1

Most inbound doesn't need senior judgment, but it takes judgment to know which items do. So the people whose judgment is in demand elsewhere, principals and senior staff alike, end up reading everything.

Your people are the integration layer.2

Practice management, document systems, custodians, portals: they don't talk to each other, so your staff re-key, re-format, and reconcile between them by hand.

The necessary work nobody bills for.3

Intake packets, account setup, document assembly, filing prep. Mission-critical, genuinely valuable, and none of it uses the judgment of the person doing it.

The process lives in one person's head.4

The method that makes your practice yours is undocumented: fragile to departures, vendor changes, and growth.

Routine questions consume expert hours.5

Clients ask reasonable questions with knowable answers, but because the answers must be right, they default to your most senior people.

You're turning away work you could win.6

The demand for your people's judgment exists; that is the assumption we operate on. What's missing is the capacity to meet it without simply hiring ahead of revenue.

1 We build: triage agents that sort, route, and flag only what genuinely needs that judgment, with a named human on every consequential decision. 2 We build: agents and integrations designed around the systems you already run. 3 Automated workflows that absorb the production while your team keeps ownership of the outcome. 4 Workflows that encode the method, documented and repeatable, owned by the practice rather than remembered by a person. 5 Grounded assistants that answer only from your approved materials, cite their sources, and escalate the moment judgment is required. 6 The capacity, so the judgment your market is asking for actually gets deployed.

HOW WE ENGAGE

A relationship, not a menu.

No two practices are the same. Every engagement is shaped to how your practice operates and to how the problem shows up in it. Engagements can enter at any stage.

Simulated discovery conversation

0:00 / 1:10
CLIENT

Honestly, most of my day goes to reading everything that comes in. If I don't, things end up on the wrong desk.

Condition 01 surfaces
J. BLOUNT

That is judgment working as a filter. The reading is necessary work, but it does not need yours. Where does it pile up first?

CLIENT

The shared inbox, then the portal. And my paralegal re-keys half of it into the practice system by hand.

Condition 02 surfaces
J. BLOUNT

So your people are the integration layer between systems that don't talk. Both are conditions we build for: triage that routes what needs you to you, and integrations around the systems you already run. Anything consequential stops at a named human.

Human-in-the-Loop, stated
CLIENT

And what would you need from us to get started?

J. BLOUNT

Tell us about your practice and how it runs. We map where judgment is blocked, and come back with what we would build first.

Entry: Discovery

01

Discovery

Where is high-value judgment pinned under necessary work in your practice, and what would it take to unblock it. We map the workflows, the systems, and the people they occupy.

02

Strategy

What to build, in what order, and why. The thesis applied to the unique way your practice operates: a sequenced plan your team can absorb, with the consequential decisions and their owners identified up front.

03

Implementation

We design, build, and deploy the AI agents, automated workflows, and agentic tools the strategy calls for, working with the systems and people already in place.

04

Support

We keep the systems current, monitored, and improving as your practice changes. New needs feed back into strategy; the relationship continues.

WHAT WE BUILD

AI development, applied to your practice.

We say it plainly: we build AI. Agents, automated workflows, and agentic tools, designed around the systems and the people already in place.

Workflow

Your process, turned into software that runs it the same way every time.

No one decides mid-run; every step was decided when it was designed, with your team. Models read and sort inside the path; they never change the route. Where your process needs a person to confirm, it stops and waits.

Agent

Software given a job, and room to work it, inside limits you set.

The agent decides the next step, within written limits: what it may do alone, what needs approval, what it must never touch. The consequential calls pause for a named human, and everything is logged.

Tool

An instrument your people operate. It acts only when asked.

It answers only from your approved materials and shows its sources. It never sends, files, or commits anything on its own. Your person decides. Always.

The kinds of agents and agentic tools we build.

Agents are not one thing. These are the kinds of work they do, described in plain language, with the industry's term underneath each one.

  • The operatorWorks the websites and platforms your firm already uses, on the same screens your people click through today.web / browser / computer-use agentsSee: a new client's first day · the morning the platform changed
  • The night shiftRuns unattended for hours or days and picks up where it left off: the work sorted before anyone arrives.autonomous / background / long-running agentsSee: the height of filing season
  • The teamSpecialized agents working together: a lead and its delegates, a panel of checkers, each with one job.multi-agent systemsSee: the height of filing season
  • The librarianFinds, filters, and answers from your approved materials, always showing its sources.RAG / retrieval agentsSee: the grounded assistant, in every scenario
  • The voiceHolds a real conversation, by phone or chat: intake, scheduling, first triage, within the same limits as everything else.voice / realtime / conversational agentsA natural first-triage extension
  • The specialistAny of the above, tuned to your field: its documents, its rules, its vocabulary, your firm's own positions.vertical / domain-specific agentsAll of them; it is the point of bespoke work
  • The apprenticeImproves from its own record over time: every correction your people make teaches it, under supervision, never silently.self-evolving / learning agentsThe Support stage of every engagement
  • The shopThe coding agents we use ourselves to build and maintain yours. They are why a boutique practice can deliver this at all.coding / software-engineering agentsBehind every scenario, never on stage

Every kind runs inside the same discipline: written limits, a hold at a named human on anything consequential, and a record that is the firm's own.

SCENARIOS

Seen in practice.

Five representative scenarios, details are illustrative, not a client record.

9:10AM
Workflow

The signed engagement letter starts the intake workflow: welcome packet assembled, client record created, first drafts of the plan documents generated from the firm's own templates. The same steps in the same order, every time, every step recorded.

10:30AM
Agent

The intake agent works through the returned questionnaire and uploaded statements: reads them, pulls out what the plan needs, checks the checklist, drafts the request for what is missing. Agents in a pipeline: each stage hands its work to the next.

10:34AM
Held for a named human

One upload looks like a prior will with a handwritten note in the margin. The agent does not interpret it. Held for the supervising attorney, with the page and the reason attached.

1:15PM
Workflow

The custodian account paperwork runs its fixed path and stops where the firm's process says a person confirms. Nothing touching funds proceeds until the paralegal reviews and approves.

3:40PM
Tool

The associate drafting the trust asks the firm's grounded assistant how the firm handles a specific provision. The answer comes only from the firm's approved language, source shown. The associate decides what to use.

5:20PM
Workflow

The client's status updates across every system. The day's record shows what ran, what was held, and who decided.

Takeaway

Bringing on a new client runs itself, and every consequential decision still lands on my people's desks.

What we'd build: the intake and custodian workflows, a pipeline agent with an operator for the custodian's screens, and a grounded assistant on the firm's approved language.

ABOUT

Who we are, and who we serve.

PORTRAIT · PLACEHOLDER JERRY BLOUNT · 4x5
Jerry Blount
Principal · humanagentic
Read the full biography →

Fifteen years building and growing digital products for consumer media and software businesses: Yahoo-AOL, Vox Media, Politico, Bethesda Softworks, RBmedia, AddThis, and Gannett-USA Today. Teams of five to fourteen; the whole product, strategy through shipped software.

$15.6MARR · Vox Media NYmag.com subscriptions
$936Kad revenue YTD · Yahoo-AOL community products
$3Mad revenue lift · Politico first-party data
140%activations · AddThis, 15M websites
Figures from product roles Jerry has led at these companies; the principal's credentials, not client work of this practice.
Who we serve

Small and mid-sized professional services firms: practices where the work product is judgment, and where the people who hold it are few.

Law
Law firms

Across the landscape of practices: estate planning, immigration, family, business, real estate, litigation. The details differ by practice area; the shape of the day rarely does. Intake, deadlines, document preparation, and client questions fill the hours the legal thinking should get.

Accounting
Accounting and CPA practices

Solo practitioners through multi-partner firms. The work arrives in seasons. Client documents, preparation, and review stack against fixed deadlines, and the advisory work that deepens a client relationship waits for a quieter week that rarely comes.

Advisory
Financial advisory and wealth management

Independent advisory and wealth management practices. Client reviews, account paperwork, and the platforms behind every account fill the calendar, and the conversations that actually move a client's plan compete for what is left.

CONTACT

Tell us how your practice runs. We'll write it down.

We ask a few questions, and the note to Jerry writes itself beside you as you answer. You fix any word of it you want. Nothing reaches him until you press send, and when it does, he reads it himself and replies personally.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR PRACTICENEEDS JAVASCRIPT
JAVASCRIPT IS TURNED OFF

This part of the page needs JavaScript to run. Turn it on and reload, and the questions will be here.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR PRACTICETHE FRONT DOOR · STEP 1 OF 2

Your email first.
It is where Jerry's reply goes, and a six-digit code confirms it is you. No password, and nothing else to set up. This keeps the line for practices and out of reach of bots.

One address, one conversation. We use it to send the code and to reply, and for nothing else.

no account · no password
WHAT WE'LL ASK7 QUESTIONS · ALL OF THEM
1Who are we talking with, and what kind of practice do you run?
2Where does the day actually go, for you and for your people?
3What would you most want off your plate, or off your people's plates?
4And why does that matter to the practice?
5And what's in the way today?
6Have you taken a run at this problem before?TOOLS, A HIRE, A VENDOR
7What made today the day you got in touch?ANYTHING PUTTING A CLOCK ON IT?
And this is the note it builds

As your role at your practice, here is what you want off your plate: the work that doesn't need your judgment. Why it matters: what that time would go to. What is in the way: the thing stopping you.