Vol. II · No. 5 · May 2026
Aivant
Calgary · Austin · LagosIntake Open
01Workshops02Builds03Insights04About
— Latest teardown →Book a Call
— Field Notes from the Busywork Frontier

Stop the busywork.Keep the judgment.

By the Aivant studioFiled from Calgary · Austin · LagosIssue 004

We find the one workflow leaking your team's time and ship the fix in 4–8 weeks—not quarters.

No SaaS sprawl. No 18-month rollouts. No black box. We look at your actual processes the way a senior engineer reads a codebase—line by line—then we ship a fix that holds without us.

Built for ops-heavy teams in finance, energy, professional services, and other regulated industries who'd rather have a working pipeline than a deck about pipelines.

Avg. fix6 wk
CycleHours → Minutes
OperatorsFrom
ShopifyMobilHalliburtonDangotePwCU of CalgaryU of Austin
Intake Open
Studio Status · May 2026
Now booking
AI Workshops · Workflow Builds
First conversation
30-minute discovery call
What we cover
Whether the workflow's worth fixing
Book a discovery callNo obligation·Clarity either way
Pick Your Starting Point

Three doors. Pick one that fits.

Two services on offer, one standing line for teams we've already shipped with. No menus, no upsell ladders, no sales engineering.

— Door 01 / Workshop

AI Workshop

For teams that have tried ChatGPT but no habits stuck — or want clarity before committing to a build.

We come in for a single working session and leave your team with shared vocabulary, working prompts for your real workflows, and a short list of what's worth automating next.

Formats
60-minute lunch-and-learn · half-day deep-dive · full-day workshop · custom paid public session
What you get
A pre-call to scope your team's actual workflows · the live session · a follow-up notes pack with prompts your team can use the next day
PricingStarts in the low four figures (USD). Regional pricing available — ask about your market.
Discuss a workshop
— Door 02 / Build

Workflow Build

For teams with a known leak ready to ship a fix in your stack — without an 18-month rollout.

We pick one workflow leaking your team's time, audit it end-to-end, build the automation in your existing tools, and stabilize it until it holds without us. 4–8 weeks. Runbook is yours at hand-off.

Phase 01Week 1

Find the leak.

We audit one workflow end-to-end: where hours go, where errors repeat, what AI can handle without breaking trust.

Artifacts · time-loss inventory · workflow map · prioritized fix list
Phase 02Wk 2–5

Ship the fix.

We build and deploy the automation in your existing stack — with approval gates, logging, and a runbook your team can operate.

Artifacts · working pipeline · runbook + eval · handoff doc
Phase 03Wk 6–8

Make it stick.

We follow up with office hours and iteration until the workflow holds without us. Then we hand you the keys.

Artifacts · weekly office hours · iteration log
Built onOpenAIAnthropicGoogle Gemini+ open-source via your cloud
PricingProject-scoped. Regional pricing available — ask about your market.
Discuss a build

+ Office HoursAfter a Workflow Build, Office Hours available: monthly check-ins, async iteration, runbook follow-up.

Our Commitments

What we won't do.
What you keep.

— 01

Your stack, no migration.

— 02

NDA-friendly by default.

— 03

You own the runbook.

— 04

Approval gates on every action.

— 05

Founder-led, no junior pyramid.

— 06

Engagement ends when it holds.

“You don't need a moonshot. You need one workflow that stops leaking time. Then the next.”

Your Stack — Not OursIntegrates where your team already works.
SlackNotionDriveSalesforceGitHubLinearZapierHubSpot
+ anything with a ChatGPT connector or Anthropic MCP server
Department Index

Where the busywork piles up.

Wherever knowledge work compounds. We pick one workflow inside any of these and ship it to production in 4–8 weeks.

— 01

Finance Operations

Where reporting cycles, reconciliation work, and recurring decks consume hours that should compound. We pick the workflow that's leaking the most time and ship the fix in your stack.

LP / quarterly reportingReconciliation + varianceKPI rollup
— 02

Reporting & Compliance

Where document review, regulatory deadlines, and approval routing pile up. We build extract → review → sign-off pipelines with audit logs and human gates on every step.

Compliance docsRegulatory filingsAudit prep
— 03

Knowledge & Project Operations

Where matter pages, status reports, and client comms are written from scratch every week. We ship workflows that draft from your real data, route for review, and keep humans in the loop on judgment calls.

Status reportsMatter / project pagesClient communications
— 04

Decision & Approval Pipelines

Where memos get drafted, IC packets get compiled, and approvals route through layers of review. We ship pipelines that extract, draft, and route decisions through your existing process — humans on every judgment call.

IC memosDeal approvalsSign-off routing

+custom workflows for ops-heavy teams in regulated industries

Field Notes

Working notes from the bench.

Frameworks, lessons, and methods we publish from real work.

Builders Log

I Turned 21,000 Lines of Code Into 43 Files.

I spent a month building a full-stack application: server, API, 11 pipeline phases, 21,000 lines of code. The thing that shipped was 43 files in a folder smaller than a hero image.

By Adura Fayode· Mar 2, 2026· 10 min read
Read the article →
Builders LogFeb 24 · 14 min

Code or SDK: When You Actually Need the Agent SDK

Builders LogJan 27 · 12 min

Why I Don’t Let My AI Agents Plan

AutomationJan 27 · 8 min

The Run-Based Collection Loop: Stop chasing responses by hand.

Browse all field notes →
The Desk

What buyers usually want to know.

Six questions we get on every discovery call. Answered honestly here, before you book.

Q · 01What does a typical engagement look like?+
It depends on which door you start at. AI Workshops are single working sessions (60 min to a full day). Workflow Builds are 4–8 week sprints — we audit one workflow, build a fix in your stack, and stabilize it until your team can run it without us. Office Hours are post-Build standing support. Each starts with a discovery call to confirm scope and what ‘better’ looks like for your team.
Q · 02How long until something goes live?+
Production deployment typically lands in week 4–6 with audit logs, approval gates, and a runbook. Weeks 6–8 cover stabilization and iteration before we hand back the keys. Faster is sometimes possible; slower means we’re spending more time understanding the workflow first.
Q · 03How do you handle data security and NDAs?+
NDA-friendly by default. We work inside your existing systems with the permissions you already grant, so data stays in your perimeter. All agent actions are logged so you can audit them. Specific compliance posture depends on your regulatory environment — we discuss it on the discovery call.
Q · 04Can you work with our existing tools?+
Yes. We integrate with anything that exposes a ChatGPT connector, an Anthropic MCP server, or a public API. We will not force you to migrate off your stack. Models swap easily — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, or open-source via your cloud — depending on what fits your security posture and budget.
Q · 05What does pricing look like?+
Three tiers, three shapes. AI Workshops start in the low four figures (USD). Workflow Builds are project-scoped — typically a multi-week sprint, billed against deliverables. Office Hours are a light retainer after a Build. We adjust pricing by region — buyers in different markets pay different rates. Specifics depend on scope; we cover them on the discovery call.
Q · 06What if it doesn’t hold without you?+
It should — that’s the point of the runbook + iteration phase. If a workflow regresses after handoff, we come back to fix it under the original scope. If something fundamental changes (new vendor, new regulation, new headcount model), that’s a separate engagement.
The Discovery Call
The Discovery Call

Want a clear, practical starting point?

A short conversation about the work that matters most this quarter — and the fastest honest path to the fix.

Book a discovery callNo obligation·You leave with clarity either way
— 01We confirm the work and what ‘better’ looks like.
— 02We sketch the path we'd try first.
— 03If it's a fit, we outline a realistic next step.