Custom software. A working operation.

Your business has work to do.
Build the system that does it.

We combine custom software, automation and AI agents with human direction. From the requests in your inbox to the systems behind your business, we build and run the process that connects them.

brief · steer · interruptevidence · checkpoints · approveOPERATORhuman · driverAGENTexpert · worker↳ handoff
fig. — the operator-led loop

The operator is the missing layer in agentic work.

Not autonomous agents. Not manual outsourcing. Not a passive human approval gate. Operator-led work is a repeatable operating model for the messy middle where humans and expert agents succeed together.

Autonomous agent

Optimized for delegation, but brittle when scope, evidence, or judgment changes mid-flight.

Operator-led workflow

A trained human operator drives agent workers through defined checkpoints, audits, and handoff paths.

Human-in-the-loop

Often treats the human as an approver after the fact, not the active driver of the workflow.

OperatorSpec v0.1

A vendor-neutral standard for defining operator-led AI workflows in YAML, backed by a JSON Schema and an RFC process.

Open the spec
01

Operator Contract

What the human drives, decides, verifies, and escalates.

02

Agent Worker Contract

Runtimes, tools, skills, permissions, failures, and validation.

03

Workflow Contract

Goal, inputs, outputs, start conditions, checkpoints, and done states.

04

State and Memory

Durable files that preserve context outside transient chat.

05

Evidence and Audit

Logs, approvals, tests, source links, and residual risk records.

06

Handoff Contract

Managed operation, internal training, repository transfer, or archive.

Starter workflows for SMB operators.

The first public examples are practical business workflows that show the category without exposing private customer work.

Browse workflows
01

Small business website buildout

From business intake to researched copy, implementation, QA, deployment approval, and handoff.

02

Content research production

Source capture, claim mapping, editorial drafting, review boundaries, and publishing checklist.

03

Customer support back office

Case summary, policy matching, response drafting, approval, escalation, and final disposition.

Managed operator-led workflows for businesses.

We design the workflow, source or train the operator, configure the agent workers, run the operation, and hand it over when the customer is ready.

Workflow Discovery Sprint

Research the business need, tooling, access, risks, evidence, and escalation boundaries.

Workflow Buildout

Create the OperatorSpec definition, runbooks, agent setup, templates, and validation path.

Managed Operation

Run the workflow with trained human operators and expert agent workers for as long as needed.

Operator Training

Train an internal operator to take over with the same state, evidence, and decision model.

Handoff Package

Transfer the workflow repository, docs, state, audit trail, and open risks.

A workflow is private by default, portable by design.

Customer workflows stay private. Public examples are sanitized starters that help the community learn the pattern, train operators, and adapt the standard.

specVersion: operatorspec.io/v0.1
kind: OperatorWorkflow
metadata:
  name: small-business-website-buildout
operator:
  role: business-operator
agentWorkers:
  - name: website-builder
workflow:
  checkpoints:
    - Intake facts confirmed
    - Mobile and desktop QA recorded
evidence:
  required:
    - Screenshots
    - Link checks
handoff:
  modes:
    - managed-operation
    - repository-transfer

Launch playbook

The first month turns the thesis into a public standard, a useful workflow library, and a commercial offer.

Week 1

Category and spec seed

Landing page, OperatorSpec repo, SPEC.md v0.1, manifesto, and RFC process.

Week 2

First starter workflow

Publish the website buildout workflow with state files, checkpoints, evidence, and handoff.

Week 3

Commercial offer

Services page, discovery sprint, sample SOW, intake path, and pricing hypothesis.

Week 4

Community and credibility

Discussions, roadmap, submit-a-workflow template, and first good workflow issues.

Build the standard in public. Run customer work privately.

OperatorSpec should be open enough for anyone to use and strict enough to make real work auditable. operators.sh exists to operate that model for businesses that want the outcome without building the whole practice themselves.

The storefront is the visible part.

A local retailer’s emails, product photos and WhatsApp feedback become catalog operations, custom commerce and ongoing software care. See how the operator harness connects the work.

Read the case study →

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Less busywork.
More possibility.

Tell us what your business needs to get done. A rough idea, a recurring frustration, or a process that takes too many hands is enough to start.

  1. Share the work. What arrives, who’s involved, and what needs to happen?
  2. We read it personally. Your message goes directly to Kobi.
  3. Find the next step. We’ll explore where software and agents can help.
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