Automations and prototypes

1. Automation

   Prospecting precision-farming centres

   An agent that finds Europe’s leading precision-farming centres, plots them on a map and tracks down the work email of the people in charge.

   First working version

   2 h

2. Automation

   Turning company registries into contacts

   An agent that filters SABI by province, sector and size, drops the ones already on the list, fills in the website, the email and the decision-maker of every new company and loads it into the master spreadsheet.

   First working version

   ~4 h

3. Automation

   Communicating with the farms

   An agent that understands the user’s objective, writes the emails to match, keeps the communication going, updates the calendar as meetings get agreed and creates a document with what to prepare for each one.

   First working version

   2 h

4. Automation

   Finding farmland in judicial auctions

   An agent that works through the Spanish state auction portal auction by auction and lot by lot, reads the description of every asset to keep only the rural plots and leaves in a spreadsheet where each one is, what is being asked, what it was valued at and the link to its notice.

   First working version

   1.5 h

5. Prototype

   A temperature map of Europe

   A map that paints the temperature across Europe at its real resolution and shows at a glance which areas stay below the maximum or minimum you pick.

   First working version

   2 h

6. Automation

   Asking the database in plain language

   An agent that understands in plain language what you need to know from the sales database, picks the function that fits, does the arithmetic in code and returns the figure along with the query that produced it.

   First working version

   5 h

7. Automation

   Editing a document so the formatting stays exactly the same

   A skill that takes one sentence about what has to change inside a quote or a contract, finds the value by meaning rather than by literal match, replaces it in a new copy, recalculates the amounts that depend on that line and hands back the document with logos and images exactly where they were.

   First working version

   < 1 h

8. Automation

   Translating a document so the formatting stays exactly the same

   A skill that translates the document by meaning while leaving names, figures, bank details and URLs alone, lifts out the logos, images and stamps to put them back at the same point on the page, watches that the translation does not overflow a single cell or text box and checks that what it hands over is still the same document with another language inside it.

   First working version

   < 1 h

9. Automation

   Watching the property market for you

   An agent that turns what the user is after into weighted criteria, goes into the portals as often as it is told to, reads each listing in full, scores it from 0 to 100 and leaves everything still on the market in a board, starting with what is new and what has dropped in price.

   First working version

   1 h

10. Automation

    Writing a project report block by block

    An agent that agrees the blocks of the report with the user, interviews them block by block, verifies every source before calling a block closed and saves the state so the work can be picked up days later.

11. Automation

    Rehearsing a hard conversation before you have it

    An agent that plays the other side in the conversation the user wants to rehearse, holds its character and its own goal all the way through, gives ground or pushes back depending on what it hears and at the end says what worked and what would be worth putting differently.

12. Automation

    Sixty business models played against yours

    An agent that plays the sixty patterns of the St. Gallen Business Model Navigator against the user’s business, one per turn, translates each into the specifics of what that company actually does and ends with the two or three directions worth validating.

13. Automation

    Arguing an idea out before you have to defend it

    An agent that argues back at the user’s proposal with the best objections, one per turn, presses on every answer and ends by saying which holes are still open and how to close them.

14. Automation

    Producing a quote with the company’s own prices and format

    A skill that takes one sentence about what has to be quoted and for whom, looks the client up in the company’s file and every item in the price list, builds the quote on the usual template with the number that comes next in the series and hands it over with the arithmetic checked and the row added to the register.

    First working version

    < 2 h