--- title: "AI Agent Development Company for Growing Businesses" description: "Custom AI agent development for growing businesses: agents that read your inbox, documents and CRM, do the busywork and ask a person before anything matters. Built on your stack, owned by you." url: https://tribehq.ai/services/ai-agent-development/ section: "Services" updated: 2026-10-26 questions: - "What is an AI agent?" - "What does AI agent development cost?" - "Which AI model do you use?" - "How do you keep agents safe?" - "Do we own the agent?" --- # AI Agent Development Company for Growing Businesses > Custom AI agent development for growing businesses: agents that read your inbox, documents and CRM, do the busywork and ask a person before anything matters. Built on your stack, owned by you. Source: https://tribehq.ai/services/ai-agent-development/ --- AI agent development # Custom AI agents that do the busywork. An AI agent development company for growing businesses — we design, build and run custom agents that work inside your inbox, documents, CRM and accounting tools, and hand anything important to a person. **Your code, your accounts, your agents.** - Claude - Agent SDK - MCP - Microsoft 365 - HubSpot - QuickBooks [Book a workflow audit](https://calendly.com/hello-tribehq/30min) [What’s included](#included) ## In short TribeHQ is an AI automation agency for growing businesses. Custom AI agent development for growing businesses: agents that read your inbox, documents and CRM, do the busywork and ask a person before anything matters. Built on your stack, owned by you. - **Who it’s for:** growing businesses and lean teams, including CPA firms, HVAC companies, logistics & supply chain teams and 3PL providers - **Built on:** Claude, Agent SDK, MCP, Microsoft 365, HubSpot and QuickBooks - **Timeline:** One-week workflow audit, then a 2–4 week build sprint - **Cost:** Fixed-fee audit, then a quoted build sprint — [see pricing](https://tribehq.ai/pricing/) - **Your team’s time:** Under 10 hours of your team’s time from audit to go-live - **Ownership:** You own the code and accounts. No licence fees to us, no lock-in. The problem ## Sound familiar? ### Demos that never ship You’ve seen impressive AI demos, but nothing is running inside your actual business yet. ### Generic bots, generic answers Off-the-shelf chatbots don’t know your clients, your rules or where your data lives. ### Fear of agents going rogue You want the time savings, but not an AI that emails a client or changes the books unchecked. What’s included ## AI agent development, built for your business. Custom to your process, built on the tools you already use — and a person approves anything that matters. ### Design - Workflow audit to pick the agent worth building first - Clear job description: inputs, steps, rules and outputs - Approval points wherever a client, money or data is involved - Success measures agreed before we build ### Build - Agents built on Claude with the Agent SDK - Connected to your tools through APIs and MCP servers - Tests on real examples before go-live - Logs of every action the agent takes ### Run & hand over - Monitoring and alerts when something looks off - Monthly tuning as your process changes - Code in your GitHub with a CLAUDE.md - Docs so your team, or any AI tool, can change it How it works ## Map. Build. Run. 1. **Workflow audit** 1 week, fixed fee. We map how it works today and agree what to fix first. Your team: about 3 hours. 2. **Build sprint** 2–4 weeks. We build, test and document it on your stack. Your team: about 1 hour a week. 3. **Run & improve** Monthly, optional. We monitor and tune it. Cancel anytime — it stays yours. Your team: about 30 minutes a month. [See pricing →](https://tribehq.ai/pricing/) ## Questions about AI agent development ### What is an AI agent? Software that uses an AI model like Claude to work through a task step by step — reading information, deciding what to do next and using your tools — rather than just answering a single question. Ours stop and ask a person before anything important. ### What does AI agent development cost? It depends on how many tools the agent touches and how much it needs to decide on its own. We start with a fixed-fee workflow audit, then a 2–4 week build sprint. See the pricing page for how it works. ### Which AI model do you use? Mostly Claude, because it’s strong at careful, multi-step work and following rules. We’ll use another model where it’s clearly the better fit, and you’re never locked in. ### How do you keep agents safe? Least-privilege access, approval steps before anything reaches a client or changes money or records, logs of every action, and tests on real examples before go-live. ### Do we own the agent? Yes. The code lives in your GitHub and runs in your accounts. No licence fees to us — cancel and it keeps running. ## See what this would look like for you. A 30-minute call. We’ll look at how you work today and tell you what’s worth building — and what isn’t. 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