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AI agents for business: AI that takes action
An AI agent is AI that works towards a goal and takes action to get there: following up, booking, updating records and drafting replies. Spark is an AI agent that works as an employee in your front office for $99 a month. For anything else, Elysia Partners builds custom AI agents, quoted per project after we map the job.
What is an AI agent, and how is it different from a chatbot?
A chatbot waits for a question and gives an answer. An AI agent has a job. It looks at what's happening, decides on a next step, uses your tools to do it, and checks the result. Then it does the next thing.
| Chatbot | Rule-based automation | AI agent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starts when | Someone asks it something | A fixed trigger fires | It notices something that needs doing |
| Handles messy input | Partly | No | Yes: emails, calls, documents |
| Takes action in your systems | Rarely | Yes, fixed steps only | Yes, choosing the right step |
| Works towards a goal | No | No | Yes |
| Needs limits and approval points | Low risk | Low risk | Essential |
That last row matters most. An agent that can act needs clear limits on what it may do alone. That's where most AI agent projects succeed or fail.
How does Spark work as an AI agent employee?
Spark is an AI agent built to work as an employee in a small business's front office. You write one sentence about what a good week looks like, like "Keep my Tuesdays and Wednesdays full". Spark reads your customer list, calendar and inbox, works out what will move that number, starts on it, and explains what it picked and why.
Its work covers follow-up by personal email from your own address, bookings into your real calendar, keeping your customer list current, email and SMS campaigns, social posts, raising invoices and chasing unpaid ones through your accounting software, and answering the phone day and night. Everything lands on one screen in six buckets: Urgent, Win more work, Look after customers, Bookings, Get noticed and Worth knowing.
Spark costs $99 a month per AI employee, with 7 days free, no setup fee and no lock-in. Setup takes about 10 minutes.
What custom AI agents can Elysia Partners build?
When a job isn't covered by Spark or AI Legal Toolbox, we build a custom agent. Examples of what we build:
- AI voice agents on your existing phone system, so calls are answered by AI through the phone system you already have.
- Document agents that read documents, drawings and forms and pull out what matters.
- CRM agents that connect your inbox, CRM and accounting and keep them in step.
- Private AI agents for businesses that can't use public tools.
Every build is quoted per project after we map the job. See how that works on our custom AI development page.
What should an AI agent never do on its own?
Most AI agent pages skip this. We think it's the most important question. Our rules:
- Spend money. In Spark, buying a phone number or sending an invoice always waits for a person, and that can't be switched off.
- Guess. Our agents never invent a price or make a promise. When they don't know, they say so and hand over.
- Send legal work. In AI Legal Toolbox, Nova prepares correspondence but never sends it. A practitioner always decides.
- Go beyond what you've allowed. Every part of the job has a setting, and the agent earns more freedom one job at a time.
How do you start with an AI agent?
- Pick one job. The one that eats the most hours or loses the most work.
- Check if a product does it. If it's front office work, try Spark free for 7 days. If you're a law firm, try AI Legal Toolbox.
- If not, map it. We map the job with you, confirm your systems can connect, and quote the build.
- Start supervised. Run the agent with approval points, then give it more freedom as it proves itself.
Not sure where to start? Our AI consulting is built for exactly that, and ends in something built and running.
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI agent?
An AI agent is AI that works towards a goal and takes actions to get there, rather than just answering a question. It reads what's happening, decides on a next step, uses your tools to do it, and checks the result.
What's the difference between an AI agent and a chatbot?
A chatbot answers when you ask it something. An AI agent does work: it follows up a lead, books a job, updates a record or drafts a reply, often without being prompted, within the limits you set.
Is Spark an AI agent?
Yes. Spark is an AI agent built to work as an employee. You tell it what a good week looks like and it works out what to do: follow-up, bookings, marketing, invoices and the phone. It explains what it picked and why, and every part of the job is set to Off, Ask me, or On its own.
Can you build a custom AI agent for my business?
Yes. We build custom AI agents for jobs our products don't cover, such as AI voice agents on your existing phone system, or agents that connect your inbox, CRM and accounting. Every build is quoted per project after we map the job.
How do you stop an AI agent doing something it shouldn't?
By designing the limits first. Our agents act only where you've allowed them to, hand over to a person when they're unsure, and in Spark anything that spends money always waits for a human.
How much does an AI agent cost?
Spark, our ready-made AI agent for small business front offices, is $99 a month with 7 days free. AI Legal Toolbox for law firms is $149 per practitioner per month including GST. Custom agents are quoted per project after we map the job.
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