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NOW DEPLOYING · NEW SMBs IN COLUMBUS · JUN 2026

We map how your business actually runs.Then we deploy agents to help you run it.

Reflexiv builds AI agents for the businesses that run the real economy: manufacturers, field services, specialty contractors, professional practices, wholesale distributors. We come on-site, learn how your business actually runs, and build agents tested against your own real cases before they ever touch production.
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Discovery sessions
We have two systems for this, but they don’t talk to each other.
Integration gap
reflexiv · live discoveryListening
Our SMB Partners
5–500
Employee headcount
$2M–$200M
Revenue scale
30+
Workflows & systems mapped per visit
100+
Sim scenarios per agent
The problem

Your business runs on judgment nobody ever wrote down.

The people who run it operate on lessons learned and hard-won reflexes. Most of that knowledge has never left their heads, and an AI chat box won’t change how they run the business.
It’s held in people
Instincts and reflexes built over years, living in a few key heads and a spreadsheet or two. When someone is out or moves on, part of how the business runs goes with them.
Off-the-shelf AI can’t reach it
Generic models are trained on the internet. Your operation was never on the internet, so a chat box has nothing real to work from.
It has to be earned on-site
Someone shows up, learns how the work actually happens, and writes it down. Only then can you build agents that work the way your team already does.
HOW IT WORKS · DISCOVER → EVALUATE → SIMULATE → DEPLOY

An agent earns its way into production.

No agent ships on a promise. It is built from how your business already works, scored against your real cases, and stress-tested in simulation before it ever touches the floor. Here is the path from a conversation to a working agent.
01Discover
1–2 days, on-site
We sit with your team and have a normal conversation. As they talk, we map how the business actually runs: the workflows, the systems, the people, and where it’s fragile.
02Evaluate
1–2 weeks
Each workflow worth automating becomes a clear target. We build several candidate agents for the job and score them against the real cases your business actually sees.
03Simulate
3–5 days
The strongest candidate runs the situations you face under pressure, so we can see where it holds and where it breaks while the stakes are still zero.
04Deploy
Ongoing
What passes ships as an agent you own, running where you do, with a person in the loop. It keeps a clear record of every decision, and grows as the business changes.
The bar · set per workflow

Different work needs different proof.

Some workflows are graded on accuracy, some on throughput, some on how far they drive an error rate down. We set that bar in discovery, against where you are today, and the agent has to beat it to ship.
Optimization
must clear
89%
today 74%
% line utilization
Pack more good parts into the same shift.
Production scheduling
Accuracy
must clear
99.5%
today 96.0%
% correct
Every line the customer reads is right.
Customer fill-rate report
Error floor
must stay under
2.0%
today 4.1%
% shortage rate
Drive the shortage rate down, and hold it.
Pick & inventory checks
the agent’s scorethe bartodayeval rounds, left to right →
We don’t ship to one fixed number. We set the right bar for each workflow in discovery, against where you are today.
The agent doesn’t ship until it beats that bar on your own cases. If it can’t beat today, it doesn’t run.
Illustrative bars. Your workflows and baselines are mapped in discovery; the numbers show the kinds of targets we calibrate to, not a quoted result.
IN PRACTICE · A DISCRETE MANUFACTURER

A schedule that ran on one spreadsheet. Now it runs itself.

A manufacturer’s production schedule lived in one person’s Excel file, rebuilt by hand every morning from the overnight orders. She kept the floor running. The business just had no backup if she was out, and no record of how it worked. One discovery session changed that.
Before
Overnight orders arrive
One person’s spreadsheet
Whiteboard, photographed
Floor runs the day
It worked because she knew it cold. The business had no backup if she was out, and no record of how it was done.
With Reflexiv
After
Overnight orders, pulled from the ERP
Agent builds the run schedule
Schedule published to the floor
Manager reviews and signs off
The same judgment, now written down and running every morning. She moved on to the work only she can do.
1 day
on-site to map the operation
Hours → minutes
the morning schedule, now automatic
Every action
logged, with an audit trail they trust
Zeronew software platforms
Zerodata migrations
Zerochange to the team’s process
BUILDING RESULTS FOR SMBs

The operations we build for.

CASE · 240-employee precision-parts shop · Great Lakes
Production scheduling used to take our planner six hours every morning. The reflex sequences the floor in nine minutes and we ship 14% more on-time.
Plant Manager, light industrial manufacturer
+14%
on-time delivery
−2.1h
planner desk-time / day
Case study
Coming soon
AGENT REFLEXES
production.schedule
Job sequencing by changeover + due-date
qc.inspection.flag
In-line tolerance checks + NCR routing
workorder.parts.predict
BOM · lead-time aware parts staging
downtime.triage
Machine downtime classification + dispatch
THE BIGGER STORY

Small businesses run because the people in them keep adapting.

When a process breaks, someone finds a way. When the software was built for a bigger company, someone makes it work anyway. That daily adapting is what keeps an SMB standing, and most of it has lived with a handful of people who learned the business the hard way. We work alongside them to write it down for the first time, in a form their team and an AI agent can both use.
01
A real record of the work
For most of these businesses, it is the first time how they actually operate has been documented. Their team can see it, use it, and rely on it.
02
Teammates who know the business
We build agents that hold that knowledge and take on real work beside the people who have always carried it.
03
Stronger as the business changes
Each workflow we map makes the next one faster, and the record stays current as the operation evolves.
An SMB gets something better than a blinking cursor or another system that almost fits: a clear picture of how the work gets done, and capable help that already understands it.
HOW WE START

Start where the
work happens.

A few hours in your conference room, on the floor, or wherever the work actually gets done. We work on your terms, with your tools and your language, and we learn how the business really runs before we build anything.
Every engagement begins with a discovery session. We come to you, map how the work really happens, and show you where agents can help, tested against your own scenarios before anything goes near production.
No onboarding. No setup. No commitment beyond the conversation.
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FOUNDERS & OPERATORS
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