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Services · Q3 2026

A one-week audit.
A four-week build.
Or a monthly cadence.

Fixed prices. Written scope. Full code ownership. Choose the format based on what is blocking you: unclear priorities, one defined build, or a backlog nobody has time to absorb.

Audit 01

Workflow Map

$1,500 one week · productised · fixed fee

A productised one-week diagnostic with a fixed framework and a templated brief. The fastest way to know what is worth automating in your firm.

A working week spent inside the workflow: interviews with the operations lead, observation of intake, document handling, scheduling, reporting, and client communications, plus a close read of the systems already in place.

A written brief naming the three highest-ROI automations, the integration work each one requires, and the order we would tackle them in. The brief is yours whether you build with us or not.

What you receive
  • A workflow map of the current state, annotated with hours consumed and breakpoints
  • Three ranked automation candidates, each with build cost, implementation notes, and savings projection
  • A recommended sequence, including what to do in-house vs. with a partner
  • A 30-minute walkthrough call with you and your operations lead
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Build 02

Automation Sprint

Most common
$8,000–12,000 four weeks · fixed fee

One defined automation, built end to end and shipped to your team.

A single defined automation built in four weeks: intake processor, document classifier, scheduling assistant, internal dashboard, reporting layer, or a domain-specific workflow sitting between the systems you already use. Fixed price, written scope.

We work in two-week iterations with a working version visible by week two. By week four the system is live, documented, and handed over with a runbook and training session.

What you receive
  • A written scope document, signed before any work begins
  • A production-ready automation deployed in your infrastructure or ours, depending on the fit
  • Source code and configuration delivered with full IP transfer
  • A runbook and 90-minute handover session with your team
  • 30 days of post-launch support included
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Embed 03

Embedded Partner

$3,000–5,000 monthly · fixed fee

An ongoing audit-and-build cadence for firms with a real backlog and nobody free to absorb it.

For firms with several automations on the horizon and an operations lead who needs a delivery partner, not another strategy deck. We meet at the start of each month, agree what to build, and ship it before the next review.

No annual contracts. Cancel any time after the first three months. We will tell you when there is no more useful work to do.

What you receive
  • One new automation or workflow improvement shipped each month
  • Monthly review with your leadership team
  • Slack or email access to the studio for in-flight questions
  • Quarterly written summary of work shipped and metrics moved
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§ · The audit week What actually happens, day by day

The audit is a working week, not a slide deck. Here is the daily shape — published so you can decide whether it is worth $1,500 before you write the first email.

  1. Monday

    Interviews with the operations lead, the partner sponsoring the work, and at least two staff inside the workflows under review. We are listening for the parts no one writes down.

  2. Tuesday

    Workflow observation. We sit with intake, document handling, scheduling, and reporting as they happen. Time-on-task is logged against the steps your team performs by hand.

  3. Wednesday

    Systems audit. A close read of Karbon, TaxDome, Clio, MyCase, the ledger, the portal, the document store — what is configured, what is unused, what is duplicated, what is missing.

  4. Thursday

    Prioritisation. Three candidates are ranked by hours-recovered-per-build-week and by likelihood of partner adoption. We discount the candidates that look good on paper but stall on rollout.

  5. Friday

    Written brief delivered. Workflow map, three ranked candidates with build cost and savings, recommended sequence, and a 30-minute walkthrough call. Yours whether you build with us or not.

§ · What changes after an audit Concretely
One

A written brief, in your firm's language, that survives a partner meeting without rewriting.

Two

Three ranked options with build cost, projected hours recovered, and a recommended sequence.

Three

A clear next-90-day plan — including what we recommend you do in-house, and what is not worth automating yet.

§ · The stack Tools we reach for

We do not replace the systems your firm already bought. We make them work together and remove the manual work still happening between them. Below are the systems we routinely work alongside.

Accounting practice management
Karbon, Canopy, TaxDome, Jetpack Workflow
Tax preparation
Drake, Lacerte, UltraTax CS, ProSeries, CCH Axcess
Bookkeeping ledgers
QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Xero, Sage Intacct
Law firm practice management
Clio, MyCase, Smokeball, PracticePanther
Legal document management
NetDocuments, iManage, SharePoint, Worldox
Communications & files
Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack
Language models
Claude, GPT-4 class, with evaluation harnesses
Document and OCR
Textract, Document AI, Unstructured, custom parsers
Engineering substrate
PostgreSQL, Supabase, Next.js, Astro, your stack or ours
§ · Signals When to write

The strongest fit is not a firm looking for another platform. It is a firm that already bought the right tools, then discovered the implementation work still has to be done.

Accounting partnerships

Practice management is installed. The work still leaks out.

  • Karbon, Canopy, or TaxDome is live, but leads, onboarding, portal chases, and partner reporting still happen in email or spreadsheets.
  • Tax-season intake is being re-keyed between the client portal, QuickBooks or Xero, and the practice-management system.
  • Monthly or quarterly reporting pulls from practice management and accounting software, then gets rebuilt by hand for partners.
Boutique law firms

The matter record exists. The operating layer around it does not.

  • Clio or MyCase holds the matter record, but intake, conflicts, Teams or SharePoint, and document folders still need human routing.
  • A partner is reviewing every enquiry because fit, urgency, and conflicts still live in one person's head.
  • High-volume matters need client communication, document review, time capture, or billing reconciliation that built-in automation cannot handle.
§ · Common questions Answered honestly
You have no case studies. Why trust you?

The studio is new. The people building it are not. The team behind Agni has spent a decade building production systems where latency, correctness, and maintainability mattered. Our early pricing reflects that we are earning references rather than trading on a public portfolio.

Can we do the audit ourselves?

Yes — and here is the framework: a working week of structured interviews with the operations lead, observation of intake and document handling, a close read of every system already in place, and a written ranking of the three highest-ROI automations. Most firms find that an outside week of focused observation surfaces things internal staff have stopped seeing — but if you have an operations lead with a clear week, the framework is yours to use.

Do you work outside the core verticals listed?

Occasionally. Accounting and legal are where our pattern-matching is sharpest, but we do take adjacent professional-services work when the workflow looks familiar and the fit is real. Send a note and we will tell you plainly.

What if the audit finds we should not build anything?

Then we say so. The audit is priced as its own deliverable for exactly this reason; we are not subsidising it from a build that might not happen. Some audits end with a recommendation to fix process first and automate later.

Do you sign NDAs?

Yes. Standard mutual NDAs, signed before any sensitive material is shared. We do not use client work in marketing materials without written permission.

Where are you located?

The studio is anchored in Hong Kong, with engineering coverage across Hong Kong, the UK, and the US. We overlap with client hours as part of the engagement.

Will you work with our existing IT vendor?

Often, yes. We are happy to work alongside in-house IT teams and external vendors. The written scope makes the boundary explicit so nobody duplicates effort or drops responsibility.

Is this another platform for our team to adopt?

No. The usual problem is not that the firm needs another platform; it is that Karbon, Canopy, TaxDome, Clio, MyCase, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, ledgers, portals, and document stores have not been joined up around the way the firm actually works. We build that integration layer and hand it over.

Need a brief, a build,
or a delivery partner?

Email the studio. We respond within one business day with a clear read on fit.

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