“Follow up with Chen about the renewal.”
Building your AI workforce
You assemble it first.
- 01Pick a template
- 02Connect the tools
- 03Define the triggers
- 04Test it end to end
- 05Maintain it when it breaks
Before it sends a single follow-up, someone has to build the agent that does it, and keep it running.
The same outcome with Jordyn
Nothing to build first.
- Knew
- Chen is a client with a renewal due, from your own mail
- Drafted
- The follow-up, in the tone you use with her
- Held
- For your OK, then sent from your real mailbox
- Then
- Drafts a nudge if Chen goes quiet
An example. Chen and her renewal are made up for this page.
Side by side
A kit, or a colleague.
| Agent builders & multi-bot suites | Jordyn | |
|---|---|---|
| Examples | Sintra (twelve named AI helpers), Lindy and Relevance AI (agent builders) | One employee for a business that runs on calls, email and clients |
| What you get | A platform to build agents, or a bundle of specialists to switch between | An employee who is already built and set up with you |
| Setup | Design it, connect the tools, define triggers, test, maintain. Or hire someone to | Set up with you by a real team. Then you talk to her |
| Knows your business? | What you configured or pasted into each agent | One memory of your clients, your business and your rules, used on every task |
| The phone | Some offer phone agents you configure. Others have none | A local number she answers in your business's name, set up with you |
| Sending email | Connect a mailbox and decide when each agent may send | Sends from your real mailbox once you've OK'd it. Nothing goes out without your OK unless you say it can |
| Your rules | Encode them per agent, then again when you change agents | Set once, honored everywhere. The important ones are enforced by the software |
| Automations | Wire the workflow step by step | One plain-English sentence becomes a rule you read, test on your recent mail and approve |
| Usage | Credits or seats, metered. Heavier use means a higher plan | One monthly price with an allowance of AI work built in. Phone calls are billed by the minute |
| When it breaks | You own it, or the consultant does | She checks what's wrong and fixes the common problems she's allowed to. A real team handles the rest |
| Making things up | Depends on the guardrails you built | She's built not to invent facts about your clients. When she doesn't know, she looks it up or asks |
| Best for | Teams that want bespoke automation and have someone to build and keep it | A business that wants the work done |
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The interview
The questions you'd ask her.
“Aren't builders more flexible?”
Yes, in the ways a power user notices, and that's real. I trade that for showing up already trained and set up with you. If you run a builder for a bespoke pipeline, keep it.
“Who keeps you running?”
I check myself and fix the common problems I'm allowed to fix. Anything else goes to a real team, not to you or a consultant.
“Will you send something I didn't approve?”
No. Nothing goes out without your OK unless you tell me it can, and that rule is enforced by the software, not by my memory.
Her terms
Before you hire her
Day one
Start date
What stays yours
Your rules
What it costs
Her salary
