The Model Employee

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The Model Employee

The shift that starts when yours ends.

AI for small businesses · Local or frontier · You decide where your information goes

Dusk

Everyone has gone home.

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Tell us the task in your own words. If the intake is complete, it gets scored and quoted. If it isn’t, we tell you exactly what is missing instead of guessing.

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What it does while you are out

The work that happens at three in the morning

We are a small business too, and we did this to ourselves first — which is the only reason we are willing to sell it. Pick the ones that match your pain.

A monitor glowing in a dark office, its screen a grid of lit tiles

One board instead of a thousand clicks

An n8n instance built around your day: it pulls the things you keep opening tabs for into one place and keeps them current. You stop being the integration layer.

Shelves of files at night with one shaft of moonlight across the paper

Your documents, answerable

A RAG model over your manuals, contracts, SOPs and the folder nobody has opened since 2019. Ask it in a sentence. It answers from your paperwork, not the internet’s.

A small black box on an empty desk at night, one amber indicator lit

Runs in your building

A Hermes agent on a VPS, or a Mac mini on your own shelf. Same assistant, different address. Nothing has to leave the premises if you don’t want it to.

Five instruments in a row under a single desk lamp in a dark office

Which model for which job

They are not interchangeable and the marketing will not tell you that. We test them on work shaped like yours and show you the results, including where the cheap one wins.

A cinema camera standing alone in a dark office, facing a lit window

Pictures and film, in-house

Product shots, listing walks, short video with sound — generated on our own hardware. The film you just scrolled through was made this way, start to finish.

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It talks to what you already use

Custom integrations against the till, the booking sheet, the accounts package, the supplier portal. We meet your tools where they are. No rip-and-replace.

Where your information lives

You pick the address, not us

This is the first question we ask and the one most vendors answer for you. Every option below is real, and the choice changes the build — so it is on the intake form.

Fully local

Nothing leaves the building

Inference on hardware you own and can unplug. Slower to stand up, costs more up front, and answers the compliance question permanently.

Hybrid

Sensitive work stays home

Your records stay on your box; the heavy general reasoning goes out to a frontier model with the identifying parts stripped. Most businesses land here.

Frontier

Best available, hosted

Straight to the strongest models going. Cheapest to start, fastest to useful, and your data is subject to somebody else’s policy. We will say so plainly.

Field notes

What we are tracking for you

The price of good inference moves every few weeks, and the ranking of what is worth paying for moves with it. We follow it because we buy it. Two standing questions we keep answering: which model is actually best for this kind of work, and what is the cheapest way to get top-quality inference this month. Ask and we will show you the current answer, whether or not it involves us.

There is also the free version of the whole thing: an evaluation. We look at how the week actually runs, and tell you which parts are worth automating and which are not. Some businesses get told to change nothing. That is a legitimate outcome.

The intake

One intake. One epic. One transaction.

This is deliberately strict, and it is strict in your favour. Nobody gets a promise built on a half-described problem.

  1. An intake is either approved for a quote, or it is not. If anything needed is missing, you get told which field and why — not a phone call that wastes an afternoon.
  2. Approved intakes get RICE-scored. Reach, impact, confidence and effort, computed from your own answers, shown to you in full. You see the same number we see.
  3. Closing the epic closes the deal. The scope in the intake is the whole scope. No retainer, no creep, no subscription you forget to cancel.
  4. Anything further is a new intake. Which keeps both of us honest about what was actually agreed.