About
The founder ships the work, on three named verticals, with a quarterly audit.
Cogsmith is a one-operator AI consultancy. Same person on the discovery call as on the build, same timezone as your team, no offshore reselling. The page below names the verticals we go deep on, the governance pack we hand every client, and the buyer we built this for.
$500–$5,000 / month retainer · $3K–$15K setup · no offshore reselling
Why founder-ships-the-work
Small roster, by design — so the person you met is the one who delivers.
Past a small number of accounts, delivery quietly slides toward the reseller model — drafting in one timezone and shipping in another. The cap exists so the work stays honest.
~50
Clients, as the cap
Past the cap, the founder stops being on the work. The cap keeps delivery honest.
2–4
Active engagements at a time
Enough to move a real number on the P&L. Never a slide deck masquerading as delivery.
~90
Days for the typical first engagement
From the discovery call to the first quarterly audit. Long enough to ship, short enough to stay accountable.
The founder
The operator who takes your call, and ships the work.
The first voice you hear on the discovery call is the only voice that touches your work afterwards. Discovery is shadowing and interviews, not a junior-producer handoff in week three. The automations are scoped against the real stack — Zapier, Make, or n8n — and the chatbot is trained on the SOPs we wrote together in the discovery sprint.
The work is documented so your team can own it after handover, and the quarterly audit memo is delivered in plain English so a compliance officer, a board, or an insurer can read it without translation. We sit inside your timezone because half the value of an AI engagement is the conversation between the deliverables.
Three named verticals
Where we go deep, by design.
Three verticals, on purpose. The shape of the buyer matters as much as the shape of the work — these are the rooms where the hours we save become billable chair time, listings closed, and matters handled.
Workflows we ship
- No-show recovery against the PMS
- Six-month recall reminders, sequenced per chair
- Insurance-claim follow-up with owner escalation lane
- Intake triage that flags PHI-handling exceptions
Workflows we ship
- Portal lead routing, scored in under two minutes
- Listing distribution across the channels you already advertise on
- Vendor follow-up sequence with reply logging
- Open-house capture booked into the agent’s calendar
Workflows we ship
- Conflict-check workflow with escalation on hits
- Intake triage routed to the right partner
- Engagement-letter workflow from intake to signature
- Matter summaries drafted from approved document sets
Quarterly AI audit & model-change notes
Governance for the buyer who has a compliance officer asking questions.
Regulated buyers — the ones a compliance officer, an insurer, or a regulator is going to ask about — get a written governance memo every quarter. It is the deliverable we expect you to be asked for, and the one we are happy to put our name on.
Audit deliverables
- Quarterly AI audit memo (drift, model changes, escalations, reply-log review)
- OpenAI model-change notes forwarded same day
- Regulated data stays inside the platforms you already vet
- Human escalation queue with reply log, every quarter
The deliverable you can hand to a board, an insurer, or a regulator without translation.
Talk to the founder
If your backlog has more than four hours a week, it’s worth a call.
One call, thirty minutes. If we’re not the right fit we’ll say so and point you at someone who is — same conversation the rest of the site promises.