Take a breath. You can become agentic-first without the stress.

We are opening a studio in Truckee, California, focused on one question: what does it look like when a small business is designed from the ground up for people and agents to work together?

There is a lot of noise around AI right now. Most of it is either "the machines are going to replace everyone" or "AI is a slot-machine toy." Neither of those is the practical reality for anyone actually running a small operation.

The practical reality is that a lot of work is small, repetitive, error-prone, and slow. Inbox triage. Following up. Drafting the tenth version of the same message. Reconciling a spreadsheet with a CRM with a project tool. That work does not need a genius. It needs a diligent teammate who is available all the time and never gets bored.

That teammate can now be an agent. But only if you build the operating layer for it properly. That means role-based inboxes so different kinds of work land in different places. It means workflows that route work to the right person or agent. It means approvals that keep humans in charge of the things that matter. It means an operating policy the agent has to follow — not a suggestion in a prompt.

We are calling this "agent-first foundations on open systems." Foundations because these are the pieces underneath the business, not on top of it. Agent-first because we design the workflow assuming an agent is a collaborator, not an afterthought. Open systems because we do not want anyone locked into a single vendor's cloud when the vendor's priorities inevitably change.