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An agent that knows when to stop

Summit Bookkeeping is a bookkeeping practice we invented. Four client onboarding jobs are running, and one has stopped to wait for you.

  • A record of what the agent did and why, written the way a colleague would explain it.

  • The approval boundary in the open: it will not send anything to a client without a person.

  • Declining is a real option. The job ends differently and the agent stops chasing it.

Summit Bookkeeping

Simulation

Chen's Bakery

Waiting for you

Chasing documents · Follow-up agent, started yesterday

Three documents are still missing after five days.

The agent wrote this. It will not send it.

Hi Mei, hope the week is going well. We are still waiting on three things to finish your setup: your last three bank statements, the supplier invoices for March, and a copy of your liability insurance. You can drop them into the same link as before. If any of them are awkward to find, tell me which and I will work around it. — Summit Bookkeeping

1 job waiting

Sample data. Nothing is sent or stored. Summit Bookkeeping is invented. The people, numbers and documents in it are made up.

What this would look like for you

An agent is worth having when a job takes many small steps over several days and somebody keeps forgetting one of them.

  • Write down what it may not do

    That list is the build. Send a message to a customer, spend money, sign something, change a price. Everything on it comes back to a person, and everything off it can run.

  • Insist on the reasons

    An agent that only logs what it did is hard to trust and harder to fix. The line under each action saying why is what lets you spot a bad rule before it costs you a client.

  • Start with one job, not a department

    One onboarding, one renewal, one chase. Run it alongside how you do it now for a month, and compare. That is a small enough bet to be worth losing.

Start with what you need.

What would make your work easier?

Tell us what you want to change: a website that answers the question people keep asking, less follow-up to chase, or more use out of a tool you already pay for. We will work out a first step.

Tell us what you need