← The Agent Workshop Edition 01 · an illustrated field guide
Station 03 · The Map Room

Where agents help in your business.

A walk through five rooms of a small business. Every room has one or two agents quietly making it easier. By the end of this station you'll have at least one in mind for your own week.

Pip at a reception desk with chat bubbles floating above the monitor.

Front office · Customer-facing

Where the inbox meets the brand voice. Agents that read, sort, and draft, never closing a ticket on their own.

→ Support ticket triage · Returns classifier · Review responder

Back office · Administration

The quiet engine room. Invoices, calendars, file naming, gentle reminders. The five-minute chores done fifty times a week.

→ Invoice filing · Meeting scheduler · Document chaser

Pip at a wooden desk organising papers next to a small filing cabinet.
Pip with a clipboard in front of a small warehouse shelf with boxes.

Stockroom · Procurement & Operations

The things that move. Stock about to run out, supplier prices that changed, shipments that didn't arrive on time.

→ Inventory watchdog · Supplier price alert · Shipment exceptions

Studio · Marketing

The thoughtful drafting partner. Agents are bad at taste, great at watching, summarising, and writing first drafts.

→ Weekly recap · Competitor watcher · Subject line A/B notes

Pip at a drafting desk with a paintbrush and a small canvas.
Pip at a small executive desk with a coffee mug and a briefing card.

Corner office · Owner / Founder

One short note before the day starts. The agent reads the whole company and hands you a single page each morning.

→ Daily briefing · Anomaly digest · Weekly cash & AR snapshot

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Pip thinks…

Every one of these uses the same five parts. Once you can see the anatomy, you stop seeing magic and start seeing patterns.

The same anatomy, in every room

Look closely. The shape repeats.

Trigger, read, guard, compute, post. The names are the same, only the data changes.

Try this, before you scroll on

Which room is your task in?

Pick the repetitive task you've been carrying since Station 01. Which room does it live in? Front office, back office, stockroom, studio, or corner office? Holding the room in mind helps you sense-check whether your first agent makes sense for the bigger picture.

You finished Station 03
Business Scout sticker — Pip in a periwinkle ring holding a small map.

Business Scout

Third sticker. Six more to collect.