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Guides to AI agents
Written for the owner who has to decide, not the vendor selling to them. Each one answers a question people ask before buying an agent, with the arithmetic and the reasons not to.
Start here
- What is an AI agent?An AI agent reasons through a task and operates your software; automation replays a script; a chatbot only talks. How to tell them apart.
- What should an AI agent cost?The three ways AI agents are priced, defensible ranges for each, the arithmetic for deciding, and five warning signs in a quote. With our own prices.
- AI employee vs hiring someoneWhat an AI employee really costs against a hire, using BLS employer-cost data, with a calculator that may tell you not to buy one.
Running an agent safely
- Letting an agent loose,without it going wrongWhat goes wrong with AI agents, the four-level autonomy ladder that prevents most of it, and the log, reverse and stop every agent needs first.
- What the agent can reach,and how you take it backWhat every BlvkWare kit specifies about control: four autonomy levels, the approval queue, the append-only log, the stop, and where your data goes.
Jobs worth automating
- Quote follow-up automationHow automated quote follow-up works, what it costs, and whether it pays for your business: email sequences, one-click replies, and when to add SMS.
- AI automation for plumbersWhich plumbing processes are worth automating, which are not, and how to work out the return: dispatch, estimates, callbacks and reviews.
- Subscription auditHow to audit business subscriptions: find every recurring charge, the three numbers that expose waste, and when to cancel, downgrade or renegotiate.
- Vendor renewal trackerFree vendor renewal tracker: find the real cancellation deadline behind any renewal date, spot recurring charges in a bank export, decide what to cut.
See a real system
- Everyone can show you a chat box. This is the whole machine.Two pieces of a real agent system running in your browser: a reader that structures a messy list, and a dashboard of what the agent did and refused.
- A complete agent kit.Every file, free to read.A complete BlvkWare agent kit, free to read and download: a Follow-Up Agent for a sample plumbing business, built by the same code as a paid kit.
Ready to try one against your own business? Design an agent and see its whole kit and price before you pay, or read a complete sample kit first.