Agentic operating systems for services firms

# Your Firm Sells Expertise. Turn It Into IP You Own.

Your clients pay for what your people know and how they read a room. Today that lives in a hundred heads and a thousand forgotten folders.

FM builds *your* operating system: agents that put everything your firm knows to work on every pitch, account and project.

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Your Firm OS

How does Northwind like to hear bad news?

Early, by phone, and from Dana, not by email. Their CMO pushed back hard when a timeline slip arrived in a status report last spring. Lead with the fix, then the cause.

Kickoff notes · Mar 12#northwind SlackQ3 review deck

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Built for firms whose clients pay for their people’s judgment

-   Creative and marketing agencies
-   PR and communications firms
-   Media companies
-   Research and insights firms
-   Strategy and management consultancies
-   Specialist advisory firms

The Problem

## Your Most Valuable Asset Is Trapped

Your people are smart. That’s why clients hire you. Their insight, their taste, their sense of what a client needs before the client says it: that’s the product.

But almost none of it is captured in a way the firm can use. And it walks out the door every time someone leaves.

### Relationships live in one head

When a senior lead leaves or gets stretched thin, the account history goes with them. Quality slips, and clients notice.

### Every proposal starts from scratch

The right case study, bio and angle all exist somewhere. Finding them eats days your team doesn’t have.

### New hires take months to be useful

They learn how the firm thinks, and how each client likes to hear bad news, by osmosis. That’s slow, and it doesn’t scale.

### Clients start comparing on price

When your work looks interchangeable, it gets priced that way. The firm that can’t show what it uniquely knows loses the argument.

The Trap

## AI Adoption Became a Shopping Trip

Your board, your holding company, or your own instinct told you to adopt AI. So the firm bought seats, turned on Copilot, and ran a few lunch-and-learns.

The result is familiar: uneven usage, a growing bill, and output that sounds like everyone else’s. Every competitor can buy the same tools, so the tools were never going to be the advantage.

The real leverage was already in the building: what your firm knows, and the instinct your people bring to it.

| Layer | AI seat licenses | Your operating system |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Memory | MemoryForgets after every chat | MemoryKeeps client, project and firm context over time |
| Data | DataWhatever gets pasted in | DataConnected to email, chat, CRM, projects, finance and files |
| Workflow | WorkflowA side window | WorkflowBuilt into pitching, delivery, billing and growth |
| Learning | LearningSame output every time | LearningImproves from your team’s edits and outcomes |
| Security | SecurityDepends on what each person pastes, and where | SecurityDesigned to keep client data in, on models that don’t train on it |
| Ownership | OwnershipA rented seat | OwnershipA system and IP your firm owns |

What We Build

## Your Operating System, Built Around How Your Firm Works

We come in, learn how your business actually works, model it in software and data, and build agents on top of it.

The result holds what your firm knows, the facts and the judgment, and runs inside the tools your people already use. It isn’t a product you subscribe to. It’s built for your firm, and your firm owns it.

Your IQ

The facts

Everything your firm has learned and made, scattered across drives, inboxes and tools.

-   Past proposals and pitches
-   Client histories
-   Case studies and results
-   Research and data

Your EQ

The judgment

How your best people think and judge, which almost never gets written down.

-   House voice
-   How each client likes to work
-   Senior instincts
-   What “good” looks like here

Becomes

Your firm’s IP

Bespoke, owned, and running inside the tools you already use

-   One shared memory
    
    Every client, project and decision, connected and searchable
    
-   Agents that act on it
    
    Drafting, flagging and researching in your firm’s voice
    
-   Owned by your firm
    
    Your system, your data, and an asset that grows in value
    

Remarkable work from the team you have

Everyone works with the whole firm’s knowledge behind them, so quality rises without adding headcount

Smarter about every client, every year

The longer a client stays, the more your firm knows about them. No competitor can pitch against that.

In Practice

## What It Does, Day to Day

Every capability runs on one foundation of your firm’s data. Build it once, and each new one is faster to add than the last.

-   ### Client memory
    
    One living record per client, built from meetings, email, chat, briefs and past work. Anyone on the team, or any agent, can ask it what the client cares about.
    
-   ### Pitch and proposal engine
    
    Scores the fit on new opportunities, pulls the right credentials and case studies, researches the prospect, and drafts in your firm’s voice. First drafts in minutes, not weeks.
    
-   ### Scope and margin guardian
    
    Compares what was sold to what’s being asked for and worked on. Flags drift early and drafts the change order before the engagement goes underwater.
    
-   ### Account health early warning
    
    Reads tone, missed deadlines, rework and stakeholder changes to flag at-risk clients while there’s still time to act.
    
-   ### Growth finder
    
    Connects client news, hires and priorities to what your firm can do, and hands the account lead a specific idea for the next piece of work.
    
-   ### Know-how capture
    
    Captures how your senior people make decisions, so their judgment survives departures and new hires are useful in weeks instead of months.
    

Why FM

## Five Reasons Firms Pick FM

1.  01
    
    ### We know your business
    
    Twenty-five years inside services firms like Razorfish, OgilvyOne and Huge. We’ve run the pitches and owned the client relationships.
    
2.  02
    
    ### Yours to own
    
    A system built for your firm, on your data. No platform to rent and no per-seat lock-in.
    
3.  03
    
    ### Built for growth
    
    More work and stickier clients come first. Efficiency comes along for the ride.
    
4.  04
    
    ### Founders in the room
    
    The people who sell it are the people who build it. No hand-off to a junior delivery team.
    
5.  05
    
    ### We run on it
    
    FM OS runs our own business, from new business to client context. We’ll show you.
    

Security

## Built to Keep Your Clients’ Secrets

Firms like yours hold confidential information that isn’t yours to lose. An operating system that touches all of it has to be built for that responsibility, not retrofitted for it.

-   ### Secure from the ground up
    
    Security isn’t a layer added at the end. Your system is designed from day one so client and firm data doesn’t leak.
    
-   ### Models that don’t train on your data
    
    We only use AI models that don’t train on what you send them. What your firm knows never ends up in someone else’s model.
    
-   ### Zero data retention
    
    We use model providers with zero data retention policies. Your prompts and responses aren’t stored once the work is done.
    
-   ### Your data, your system
    
    The system, the data and the IP belong to your firm, not to a platform you rent.
    

How It Works

## Start With What Your Firm Knows

Every system is built for your firm, so every quote is too. But you shouldn’t have to get on a call to find out what this costs. Here’s what it typically looks like.

1.  1Build
    
    ### Discovery and Foundation
    
    $60K–$90Kone time
    
    About 8–10 weeks
    
    We start with discovery, then connect your email, chat, CRM, project and finance systems into one shared memory and ship your first use case into production.
    
    -   Map of where your firm’s knowledge lives
    -   Use cases scored for your business
    -   The foundation every future agent runs on
    -   Your first use case, live on your data
2.  2Run
    
    ### Monitoring and Maintenance
    
    $2K–$4Kper month
    
    Ongoing
    
    We keep your system healthy, watch how it performs, and tune it as it learns from your team’s edits and outcomes.
    
    -   Health and performance monitoring
    -   Fixes, updates and ongoing tuning
    -   AI model usage costs included
3.  3Expand
    
    ### Work Through Your Backlog
    
    ~$25Kper month
    
    While we’re building
    
    Discovery leaves you with a backlog of use cases. We build and shape them with you, on the same foundation, so each one ships faster than the last.
    
    -   A dedicated team working your backlog
    -   Often several use cases a month
    -   You set the priorities as you go

Typical ranges for firms of 50 to 500 people. You own everything we build. After a first conversation, we’ll give you a specific number for your firm.

## Let's Talk

Book a 30-minute call with a founder. We'll talk about where your firm's knowledge lives today, where AI has and hasn't paid off, and whether an operating system makes sense for you. No pitch deck.