You have AI tools, or a mandate to get them. The work hasn't changed yet.
Your team has the AI tools, but the work hasn't changed. We build one shared brain your people use daily, and get your first workflow run by agents.
This is step 1, from AI-absent to AI-enabled. We set up a governed AI workspace early and build your company's shared brain, starting with what your experts know. Along the way, your people start using agents in their real work. The step ends when your first critical workflow is started and run by agents. Step 1 proves the pattern on one workflow; step 2 makes it how your company runs.
Credited in full against your engagement.
You're here if you've bought the licenses and nothing changed
- "We rolled out Copilot and ChatGPT. Nothing about how the work gets done changed."
- "We ran pilots. None reached production."
- "The CEO said we're becoming an AI company. Nobody has defined what that means, or what we're allowed to automate."
- "What our best people know lives in one or two heads, and getting it wrong has real consequences."
That's AI-absent: you may have the tools, but the work runs the way it always has.
What we build with you
AI-enabled means everything your company knows feeds one shared brain your people use every day, and your first critical workflow is started and run by agents. We're forward-deployed, so we build it with your people, inside the systems you already run.
- A governed AI workspace, early. Your people and agents work there, with spend caps, a kill switch and every action logged.
- A prompt library and a skills library, checked against your policies. Each addition gets announced, so good work spreads.
- Your company's brain, fed by your data and by what your experts know, so that knowledge reaches everyone who needs it. See how we're doing this for a manufacturer.
- Agents across your teams, custom or off-the-shelf, whichever fits. Bring your own agents or use ours.
- Short training in plain language: what a prompt is, what a skill is, and how to write both. People get fluent by using it on their own work.
We agree which of these you need, and in what order, in the working session.
Step 1 ends when your first critical workflow runs on agents
A critical workflow recurs and matters to the business, and someone still starts it by hand. A one-off prompt or a demo doesn't count. We choose it with you. Some examples:
| Function | Agents start and run | A person decides at |
|---|---|---|
| Sales | A new inbound lead comes in: agents research and enrich it, draft a reply and book the meeting | Outreach to strategic accounts |
| Support | A ticket comes in: agents triage it, resolve it from the brain if it's tier-1, or draft the reply | Refunds or credits above a set amount |
| Finance | An invoice arrives: agents match it to its purchase order and flag any exception | Payments and write-offs |
| People ops | A new hire is added to the HR system: agents set up accounts, training and a schedule | Access to sensitive systems |
| Reporting | Every Monday, agents pull the numbers, draft the report and post it | Anything going outside the company |
Before anything runs, we agree who is accountable and what each agent may approve.
Value that grows faster than your AI bill
Any vendor can raise your usage. We design for faster execution and lower operating cost on the work that matters, so the value grows faster than your AI bill.
What you keep
We build it so you can own it, and we operate it for as long as that's useful. Your team learns to run the brain and the libraries. We can keep running them for you as a managed service, or you can self-host.
Who this isn't for
- Companies that want to buy tools without changing how they work.
- Companies without an executive sponsor for the change.
Where we've done this
We run Splice this way ourselves, on Station. Our software factory, our company brain, and the agents that research and qualify our prospects are all live.
Client · A specialty chemicals manufacturer
In progress. Its product expertise lived with one or two people. We're capturing it in a brain that matches the right product to each use case and refuses claims the company can't make. Result to come: we'll add it once the company confirms it.
Questions before step 1
Why not do this in-house?
You can, and we'll leave your team able to. We make the path shorter because we've done this before and we bring the governance infrastructure. The same team stays with you from the first session to production.
Why not a consultancy?
A consultancy bills weeks of analysis and leaves you a deck. You get something usable in the first working session, and that session is credited in full against your engagement.
How fast will we see something?
You get something usable from the first session. Once we've seen your workflow there, we tell you how long it will take to reach production.
What does it cost?
Talk to us. We scope the work with you during the working session, which is credited in full against your engagement. Prices are set in the working session.
Pick your first workflow with us
In one focused day we look at how your work runs and choose one real workflow together. You leave with a working prototype, your place on the path, and who is accountable for each decision.
Credited in full against your engagement.
Already AI-enabled? See AI-enabled → AI-native.