Remodeling contractor
Estimate engine
- Input: recorded site walkthrough
- Classification over years of past jobs
- Deterministic pricing in his own rules
- Owner confirms every line before pricing
A contractor records the site walkthrough. The engine turns it into a complete estimate in his own line items and pricing rules, asks only what the data can't settle, and prices nothing until he confirms each line.
Mechanical contractor · Microsoft 365
Company AI Layer
- Claude and Copilot side by side
- SharePoint as the system of record
- Live connections: accounting, time, vendors
- Approval gate on anything that touches money
One structure under a company's existing tools. Each team gets its own space, instructions and skills; data from several vendors is read where it lives, never copied; a person approves anything that pays, sends or deletes.
Athletic department
Schedule system
- Email and database kept in step
- Integrated across several outside systems
- Changes reach facilities, officials, transport, families
- Downstream tasks reopen when inputs change
One master schedule. Move a game and the system knows what else has to change, drafts the notices, and holds the sends until a person approves them.
Installed, multi-user
Plugin workflow system
- Packaged for Claude Cowork
- Agents, skills and operations run by name
- Connectors into the team's systems
- Shared record store
A team installs one plugin and gets a set of jobs it can run by name. Each job is an agent with its own skills and rules, working from the team's own material and writing back to a shared record.
My own practice
Marketing research engine
- Multi-agent pipeline on MCP servers
- Market scan and competitor deep-dives
- Positioning and a promotion plan
- Every claim cited to its source
Point it at a market and it comes back with the landscape, the competitors, what to say and where to say it, with sources. Reruns weekly.
My own practice
Elysian command center
- A director agent per engagement and function
- Message bus between agents
- Ticketed work with acceptance criteria
- Independent review; approval before any external action
The system I run this practice on. Every agent has a defined job and defined permissions; nothing leaves the system without my approval. The same patterns go into every client build.
Any company with documents
RAG knowledge base
- Retrieval over the company's own files
- Chunk-level citations
- Access scoped by role
- Answers name the document and section
Ask a question in plain language and get the answer and where it came from: your safety manual, your job history, your contracts. Not the internet's version.
The connection layer
MCP servers
- Custom Model Context Protocol servers
- Expose job costing, CRM, scheduling as tools
- Read-only first; write access is earned
- Typed inputs and an audit log on every call
How Claude or Copilot reaches your actual systems safely: it can only do what the server allows, every call is logged, and nothing writes until it has proven itself.