From co-pilot to AI that does the work to AI that learns the work.
Founding Five · five chairs open, none filledHire it like a junior.
Fire it like a junior.
Six candidates for the work that wears your team down — deadlines and unpaid invoices, every first enquiry, the website, features built from a written spec. Each comes with an offer letter, a junior’s salary and a 30-day probation that your own partners mark: the share of its drafts they approve untouched. Fail probation, and the recruitment fee comes back in full. Working on your files within seven days of your signature — and nothing reaches a client until someone you name taps Approve.
// or start smaller — the US$2,300 sprint maps your three busiest workflows first
Illustration: an agent's draft arrives on WhatsApp, a partner approves it with a correction, and the correction is learned.
Every team gets to AI the same way. Most stop on the first rung.
The rungs don’t change. What changes is which one you’re standing on — and whether the foundation under you carries to the next without starting over.
An assistant that drafts, answers, and writes the first version.
Your people move faster. The work still belongs to them — every draft needs a human to finish it, and nothing happens while nobody is typing.
for a business
Copilot licences, ChatGPT in the browser, a chatbot bolted to the website.
for an engineering team
Autocomplete in the editor. Engineers typing faster, the team shipping at the same rate.
AI that does the work — with someone you name holding approval.
Not a draft you finish. The job itself: the reminder chased, the invoice followed up, the enquiry answered at nine at night, the page updated, the feature built to a signed spec. Nothing reaches a client until a person you named taps Approve.
for a business
Hire an agent for the one workflow that wears your team down. See the roster →
for an engineering team
We spec, agents build, your engineers review and merge. CV 05 →
It gets better at your work, every week.
The rung most teams haven’t seen. When your partner corrects a draft and says why, the correction sticks — weighted by who gave it. You never write instructions for a computer, never maintain a prompt library, and never repeat on Monday what you explained on Friday.
how it’s measured
The share of its drafts your reviewers approve untouched — counted weekly, on your own work.
where it comes from
B-Spec, our research programme. How it learns →
Six CVs are on your desk.
Tell us the work that wears your team down and we’ll tell you which one to call in. Same hiring process, same probation, same refund — salaries follow the role, exactly as they do in your firm.
Five chairs. None filled yet.
No candidate on this roster is in service at a paying firm today. We say so because the offer letter says we never invent a performance claim, and the home page can’t be the exception. The first five firms to sign get the salary locked for twelve months, a probation their own partners mark, and the recruitment fee back in full if it fails.
- Three chairs for accounting and corporate-services firms — CV 01, Ops & Finance: deadlines, documents and unpaid invoices.
- Two chairs for engineering teams — CV 05, the Delivery Engineer: built to a signed spec, your engineers review and merge.
- In return: once your probation number is real, we publish it in the journal with your approval over every word, and you take one call from a firm deciding whether to sign.
You already train staff this way.
Every good firm trains juniors the same way. The junior drafts, a senior marks it up, the junior learns why — and a few years later the senior stops checking. The whole profession runs on it.
This is that apprenticeship, applied to an agent. And unlike the junior, it doesn’t handle one client at a time: the same care Ahmed taught it for Mr. Khalid is applied across the whole client book, at nine in the morning and nine at night.
It drafts, and shows its work
Every step visible — what it read, what it assumed, what it proposes to send.
A person you named approves — or corrects, with a reason
About ten seconds, on WhatsApp or wherever your team already works.
The correction sticks — weighted by who gave it
A partner’s correction outranks an assistant’s. You never write a prompt or maintain a manual.
Friday, you see the number
The share of its drafts approved untouched. Made of your own partners’ decisions — which is why we can’t polish it.
// B-Spec is the research behind the roster — and the product it runs on. Open problems published, unresolved.
Or bring the builder in‑house.
Some firms don’t want one agent — they want the capability. An AI automations engineer or an automation lead, embedded in your team, running your automation programme end to end. They report to you, work your hours, and leave your people able to do it without them.
Enough to ship two or three workflows and prove the shape.
Long enough to hand the programme to your own people.
For firms making automation a standing function, not a project.
Two posts, one rate. An AI Automations Engineer builds and ships the workflows. An Automation Lead does that and owns the roadmap, the standards and your team’s training. Both are billed at the same rate — which one you need is a question we’ll answer honestly on the first call.
Full detail on embedded engineers → · Hire AI engineers in Sri Lanka →
Or learn to do it yourselves.
Two programmes, two audiences — both taught by the Principal AI and Product Management Consultant who built the methodology, with the team that runs every engagement. No account managers, no junior consultants.
Spec-first software development
AI-native engineering, taught by the team that built the methodology. Nine years and 120+ products of spec-first delivery, compressed into a cohort. Two tracks — senior engineers, and graduates.
Run your business on autopilot
For owners and operators, not engineers. Map the work that wears your team down, learn which parts hand over safely, and leave with one workflow specified and ready to staff. No code, no jargon.
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Thirty minutes. We’ll tell you whether this is worth your time.
Tell us the work that wears your team down. We’ll tell you which rung you’re on, which candidate fits — and if none of them do, we’ll say so and tell you what does. Message us on WhatsApp, use the contact page, or hire an AI consultant in Colombo for the thirty minutes on their own.
specshop.dev — an AI consultancy and AI agency in Colombo, Sri Lanka · Muscat · Dubai — a team of seven, every engagement, end to end. Led by Janaka Ediriweera. The working notes are in the journal.