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Grow the pipeline without growing overhead.

Agencies and consultancies sell their people’s time, so every hour on prospecting, internal lookups or content is an hour not billed. We automate the work that doesn’t need a human: the research and first-touch outbound, the same internal questions answered over and over, and the content that always loses to client work. The outcome is a pipeline that keeps filling during delivery and seniors who spend their day on billable work instead of busywork.

Marketing · Consulting · Creative agencies

The challenge

Your best people are doing work that doesn’t bill.

New business is feast or famine

Outbound only happens when someone has spare time, so the pipeline dries up the moment delivery gets busy. By the time a project wraps and people look up, there is nothing in the funnel, and the team lurches between overloaded and idle instead of growing steadily.

Knowledge lives in people’s heads

Past proposals, case studies and process sit in scattered drives, so the same questions interrupt your seniors all day. New hires take months to get productive, and when a key person is out, the answers walk out the door with them.

Content is always behind

Thought leadership and client content compete with billable work, and billable work wins every time. The blog goes quiet, the newsletter slips, and the expertise that should be winning you trust stays locked in people’s heads instead of on your channels.

How we work

Live in weeks, not quarters.

  1. 01

    DiscoveryWeek 1

    We map your workflow on your real data and pick the highest-ROI use case to ship first.

  2. 02

    DesignWeek 1–2

    We design the agent around your tools and guardrails, and prove it on a working prototype.

  3. 03

    BuildWeek 2–4

    We build it as real engineering: integrated, tested, with logging and human escalation.

  4. 04

    Launch & ownOngoing

    We deploy into your stack, hand over the code and docs, and tune it live with your team.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Will AI-written outbound and content sound generic or off-brand?

It is grounded in your real positioning, case studies and writing samples, not generic templates, and it researches each prospect so the opener references something specific. You review and tune the voice up front, and outbound runs in approval mode until you trust it. The goal is copy that reads like your best person on a good day, not mass spam.

How is this different from hiring an SDR or a junior?

An agent handles the repetitive research, list-building and first-touch sequencing at a fraction of the cost, and it works the full list continuously instead of in bursts. It does not replace your senior judgement on positioning and closing; it removes the busywork so your billable people stay billable. Many firms use it to make their existing team far more productive rather than to avoid hiring entirely.

How long until something is live?

A first use case, often outbound or the internal knowledge base, is typically live in 2 to 4 weeks. We scope one workflow, connect it to your real data and tools, and prove it on live work before expanding. You get usable output early rather than a long build with nothing to show.

Where does the knowledge agent get its answers, and can we trust them?

It answers only from your own documents, proposals, decks and process files, and it cites the source so anyone can verify. It does not invent policy or make things up from general knowledge; if the answer is not in your material, it says so. You control which folders and systems it can see.

What does a typical project cost?

Most firms start with one use case in the low thousands of euros to build, plus a monthly fee for hosting, usage and tuning. Measured against even a few extra billable hours a week or one recovered deal, it pays back quickly. We size the first project so the return is obvious before you commit further.

Do we own what you build, and how is our client data handled?

You own the prompts, workflows and configuration, and we document them so you are never locked in. Data is processed on EU infrastructure under a data-processing agreement, and we only connect the systems a use case needs. Confidential client material is used to do the work in front of it, never to train shared public models.

Axel Dekker, founder of What's Next

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