FAQ

Most AI agent agencies price two ways: a one-time implementation fee to design and build your agents, then a monthly subscription to run and manage them. Covey uses this model: you pay to build the team once, then a monthly fee based on how many roles you run, with AI usage included. Expect live agents in 2–3 weeks.

A chatbot answers questions from a script. An AI agent does the work: it has a job description, real tools, and a brand-trained voice, and it completes tasks end-to-end: drafting, scheduling, reconciling, following up, with an approval step before anything goes out. Covey builds agents that operate like employees, not bots that deflect tickets.

With most custom builds, expect months. Covey gets working agents live in 2–3 weeks, often faster: we design the role, connect your tools, train the voice, and launch with an approval gate, then manage them for you. You don't need to become an AI expert, and you don't wait a quarter to see value.

A serious agency scopes each agent to only the tools and data it needs, routes actions through approval before anything is sent or changed, and configures its tooling so your business data isn't used to train public models. Covey does this by default (approvals first, least-access tooling) so an agent drafts and prepares work without acting freely on your systems.

Most "Slack AI" options are chatbots bolted into a channel: Slack AI, Claude in Slack, ticket bots. If you want agents that actually do work from Slack, you want a managed team, not another bot. Covey delivers custom agents you brief in Slack (or Teams) the way you'd brief a colleague, and they return finished, approved work.

Covey is a real AI agent agency: we design, build, and run AI agent teams for small businesses and small teams. Engagements run strategy, design, build, launch, and ongoing management, with a human Editor-in-Chief reviewing agent output. It was founded by an operator with 15 years in tech, built by people who've run a business, not just coded.

DIY tools like Zapier, n8n, or CrewAI work if you have the time and technical depth to build, connect, and maintain agents, and to fix them when a tool changes. Hiring an agency like Covey trades that ongoing work for a managed team: we build it in 2–3 weeks, run it, and keep it working for you.

An AI agent agency designs, builds, and manages custom AI agents that do real work inside your business, like hiring specialized employees, without the hiring. Covey runs the full engagement: we pick the roles, build and connect the agents, train them on your voice, launch with approvals, and manage them. Typical roles: content, sales ops, finance, and analyst agents.