AI Implementation for Professional Service Firms

Working AI in your firm, in five days.

Cambridge Agents runs a five-day sprint that automates your firm's repetitive operational work and unifies your knowledge into a single AI-accessible system — built into the tools you already use, owned entirely by you. Delivered against a signed-off scope, or you don't pay.

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Five business days  ·  Built into your existing software  ·  Delivered to scope, or you don't pay
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The Problem

Your team is too busy to modernise.

Professional firms run on client work. The time it takes to evaluate AI tools, configure them properly, integrate them with existing systems and train a team is time senior staff simply don't have.

So adoption stalls. Repetitive admin keeps consuming capacity that should be spent advising clients and closing deals — while the firm's own knowledge sits scattered across inboxes, drives and CRMs where nobody can use it.

5 days
from kickoff to a live system inside your existing tools — not a six-week discovery phase.
100%
ownership retained by you — workflows, credentials and documentation are handed over in full.
0%
vendor lock-in. No proprietary platforms, no mandatory retainers, no dependency on us.
The Sprint

Infrastructure,
not just software.

A five-day sprint that automates your repetitive operational work and unifies firm knowledge into a single AI-accessible system. Scoped in writing, built inside your existing tools, and handed over completely — credentials, documentation, training.

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Automate the operational work

Onboarding packs, reporting, compliance prep, document handling — the recurring work that eats fee-earning time, rebuilt as automations that run inside the software your team already uses.

02 / 03
Unify firm knowledge

Documents, email, CRM and files brought into one AI-accessible knowledge system. Your team asks questions in plain English and gets answers drawn from the firm's own record — with the source attached.

03 / 03
Hand over everything

Live training for your team, a written playbook, and full transfer of credentials and documentation. No proprietary platform, no dependency on us, no lock-in.

What you get
A working system. Not a slide deck.
Five business days, kickoff to handover
Scope agreed and signed off in writing on day 2 — before we build
Built into your existing software — no new platforms without your approval
Delivered against the signed-off scope, or you don't pay
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Day 4 of a live sprint — what the status check looks like
cambridge-agents · sprint day 4 · client: capital-advisory-firm 12 automations live
$ agents status --sprint day-4
▸ knowledge system → 4,812 documents indexed across email, drive, CRM
▸ automations → 12 live · 3 in final testing
agent-03 client-onboarding → pack assembled in 4m 12s (was 3h manual)
agent-07 portfolio-reporting → 34 reports drafted, awaiting review
agent-11 compliance-prep → flagged 2 missing KYC documents
▸ verifying outputs → every answer linked to its source document
▸ handover prep → credentials, playbook, team training booked for day 5
✓ on track — scope signed off day 2 · full handover tomorrow
Why a Sprint

Why a guided
sprint wins.

Lower cost, clearer scope, and a system your team actually owns. We structured the engagement around the failure modes we kept seeing when firms hired AI agencies.

A typical AI agency
Six-to-twelve-week discovery phases — momentum stalls before any value is delivered.
Vague scope that grows — retainers expand before results appear.
Proprietary platforms — your workflows end up locked to their tooling.
Payment required upfront — you carry the risk if delivery falls short.
The Cambridge sprint
Five-day fixed delivery — scope agreed and signed off on day 2.
A written scope before build begins — no surprise invoices, no creep.
Full ownership at handover — credentials, workflows and documentation are yours.
Pay on delivery — final payment due only once the scope is met.

The long-term play: start with a five-day sprint → prove value with live automations → expand into ongoing advisory and new use cases, on your terms.

Who It's For

Firms where time is the product.

We work with investment and professional service firms — where operational drag directly reduces margin, and the firm's own knowledge is its edge.

Capital Advisory
Client onboarding, portfolio reporting and compliance prep automated end-to-end. More time advising; less time assembling documents.
Buyout & Growth Equity
Thesis-driven origination and exhaustive market maps — plus the reporting and diligence automations that keep a lean deal team moving.
Platform Companies
Add-on sweeps ranked by fit and approachability, and post-acquisition workflows standardised across the platform.
Search Funds & Family Offices
Proprietary deal flow and institutional-grade operations — without hiring an analyst bench.
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The Process

Five days.
Start to finish.

A structured sprint from first call to full handover — transparent, predictable, and built around your team's calendar, not ours.

Day1
Audit
We map your current workflows, tools and where time is actually lost — with you and up to two team members. By the end of the day we know the highest-value automations to build.
Day2
Scope & Sign-Off
The exact deliverables, agreed in writing before build begins. You approve the scope — and our guarantee attaches to it. Nothing gets built on a vague brief.
Days3–4
Build
Automations and the AI knowledge system are built, integrated and tested against your real workflows. You receive progress updates as each system comes alive, and we request sign-off before handover.
Day5
Train & Handover
Live training with your team, recorded for future reference, plus a written playbook covering use, maintenance and edge cases. Full transfer of credentials and documentation — from this point, the system is yours.
What You Own at Completion
Documented, repeatable workflows
An AI knowledge system inside your existing tools
A trained internal team — no dependency on us
Full credentials — no proprietary lock-in
Works With Your Stack
Slack Salesforce Affinity DealCloud Snowflake Google Drive Jupyter Atlassian
Enterprise-Grade

Client data stays client data.

Zero data retention

Your documents and workflows are never used to train models, and never shared across clients.

SOC 2 aligned

Security controls built to SOC 2 Type II standards from day one, with audits underway.

SSO & access control

SAML SSO, role-based access and full audit logs for every agent action.

Private deployment

On-prem and VPC deployment options for firms with strict data boundaries.

The Firm

Founder-led delivery. Not outsourced execution.

Cambridge Agents was founded by two brothers — an engineer and an operator. The people you meet on the first call are the people who build, deliver and hand over your system.

Technical background: a Cambridge PhD in Engineering and a founded-and-scaled AI software company worth $6m. We've shipped applied-AI systems into production for real users — and we know where they fail and how to engineer around it.

Industry background: capital-raise transactions of $20m+ led across healthcare, dental, blue-collar and real-estate businesses. We've sat inside professional firms, and we know the difference between a clever demo and a system a compliance officer will approve.

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Get Started

Five days. Working AI in your firm.

Tell us a little about your firm and we'll open a booking page so you can pick a time. The call is 30 minutes, no obligation — bring your messiest workflow and we'll tell you exactly what a sprint would deliver.

Pick a time that suits you — 30 minutes, no obligation.