Agent Development

Your Next Hire Isn't a Person. It's an Agent Team

We design and build AI agent systems for funeral homes: a coordinated team of digital staff that runs case administration, family communication, and follow-up around the clock, supervised by your people. Every system is proven inside a working multi-location funeral operation before we ever sell it.

$58K+the loaded cost of the admin
hire you keep trying to make
24/7your agent team never sleeps,
never quits, never calls in
Every casethe same follow-through,
whether it's 2 PM or 2 AM
Case Coordinator AgentRuns the team. Reports to your staff.
CHIEF OF STAFF
First-Call Follow-Throughcase open in minutes
Family Communicationevery text, on time
Obituary & Tributedrafts ready for polish
Document Preppermits & paperwork
Aftercarecheck-ins that happen
Pre-Need Growthno lead goes cold
One system. Six specialists. Your staff in charge.
The Difference

A Chatbot Answers Questions.
An Agent Does the Job.

A chatbot waits for someone to type at it. An agent watches your operation and acts: it opens the case when the answering service sends the first call, briefs your director, sends the family their next steps, chases the death certificate data, and reports what it did every morning. String six of them together under one coordinator and you have something no chatbot will ever be: a workforce.

A Chatbot

Sits on your website. Answers questions when asked. Forgets everything the moment the visitor leaves. One tool, one trick.

An Agent System

Watches every case from first call to aftercare. Takes action on its own, on schedule, with your approval gates. Remembers everything. Improves every month.

The Agent Team

Six Digital Staff Members,
Built for Funeral Service

Each agent is trained on how funeral homes actually work: first calls, removals, arrangement conferences, filings, and aftercare. Your team supervises. The agents execute.

Case Coordinator

The chief of staff. Watches every active case, assigns work to the other agents, flags anything stalled, and sends your team a morning status report that used to take a staff meeting.

First-Call Follow-Through

Takes the handoff from your answering service, opens the case, briefs the on-call director by text with full context, and sends the family written confirmation with their director's name.

Family Communication

ETA updates during the removal, next-steps texts with the what-to-bring list, conference reminders, portal nudges, and aftercare check-ins at 30, 60, and 90 days. Every message reviewed or templated by your staff.

Obituary & Tribute

Drafts the obituary from intake notes and the family's own words in the arrangement portal. Your director polishes and approves. An hour of writing becomes ten minutes of editing.

Document Prep

Assembles death certificate data, permit applications, VA forms, and insurance claim packets from information already in the case. Fewer errors, faster filings, no retyping.

Pre-Need Growth

Follows up on every pre-need lead with personalized outreach, nurtures the slow ones, and books appointments onto your calendar. Outbound only. It never answers a family's first call.

The Math

You're Not Buying Software.
You're Buying Hours Back.

Every funeral home owner knows the hire they can't find, can't afford, or can't keep. Put the agent team next to that line item and the decision makes itself.

The Admin Hire
The Agent Team
Annual cost
$58,000+ loaded (salary, benefits, taxes)
A fraction of one salary
Availability
40 hours, one shift, PTO, sick days
24/7, every case, every location
Consistency
Varies by person, walks out the door with turnover
Same follow-through on case 1 and case 1,000
Ramp time
Months to recruit, months to train
Weeks to build, improves every month

Agents don't replace your people. They replace the parts of the job your people were never hired to do.

Our agents never answer a family's first call. They never sit in the arrangement conference. They never speak for you in a moment that matters. They do the work between the moments, so your people can be fully present in them.

How We Build

From Blueprint to a Working
Agent Team in About Six Weeks

1
Week 1-2

Agent Blueprint

We map your workflows, spec the agent team, define approval gates, and model the ROI. You get a fixed build quote before spending another dollar.

2
Week 2-5

Build & Integrate

We build the agents and connect them to what you already use: your answering service dispatch, case management, email, and text messaging.

3
Week 5-6

Supervised Launch

Agents run with your staff approving every action for 30 days. Trust is earned case by case, then approval gates loosen where you decide.

4
Ongoing

Operate & Expand

We monitor performance, tune the agents monthly, and add new specialists as your team finds the next thing worth automating.

Investment

Priced Against the Hire,
Not the Software

Introductory pricing while we onboard our founding agent clients. Every engagement starts with a free strategy call.

Agent Blueprint

Know exactly what to build and what it's worth before you commit

$3,500
One-time, credited toward your build
  • Full workflow and systems mapping
  • Agent team specification
  • Approval-gate and safety design
  • ROI model in a spreadsheet you can share
  • Fixed-price build quote
Start With a Blueprint

Agent Operations

We run, tune, and grow your agent team month over month

$1,950/mo
Per location, cancel anytime
  • Monitoring and error handling
  • Monthly tuning and improvements
  • New agents added as you grow
  • Monthly performance report
  • Priority support
Contact Us
Already a consulting client? Your LaunchPad or Accelerator engagement credits toward your Agent Blueprint.
Questions

Agent Development, Answered

Will families ever talk to an agent?+
Not in the moments that matter. Agents never answer the first call (your staff or answering service does that), never join the arrangement conference, and never make condolence calls. They handle the written follow-through: confirmations, reminders, checklists, and drafts your staff approves.
What does the agent team connect to?+
Whatever you already run. Answering service dispatches (email or text), case management platforms, spreadsheets, email, and business texting. We build around your stack instead of asking you to replace it.
What happens when an agent makes a mistake?+
Every agent launches with approval gates: it drafts, a human approves. Nothing family-facing goes out unsupervised until your team decides it's earned that trust, and everything the agents do is logged so you can audit any action.
How is this different from your consulting packages?+
Consulting teaches your team to use AI tools. Agent development builds you digital staff. Most clients start with consulting to find the opportunities, then build agents for the workflows with the biggest payoff. Existing clients get their consulting fees credited toward a Blueprint.
Do you actually run these yourselves?+
Yes. Every agent we sell is proven inside a working multi-location funeral operation first. If it doesn't survive real cases, real families, and real staff, it doesn't make it into a client build.
Let's Talk

Find Out What an Agent Team
Would Do in Your Home

Book a free strategy call. We'll walk your workflows and identify the three agents that would pay for themselves first. No obligation.

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