Metabay Studio

Automate the most painful workflows

AI agents inside your daily operations, winning back hours every single day and still running long after the demo.

Manual
With agents

Same team, same inbox. One of them is still waiting on a person.

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How we work

Anyone can show a demo. We build the version that still runs next month.

01

We look first

We watch how your team works before we automate anything, so we start with what eats the time.

02

It keeps working

It handles the odd cases and tells someone when it cannot. No surprise on a Monday morning.

03

You stay in control

You can see what it did, switch it off, and change it without calling us.

What we automate

Four workflows already running in production, and what we do differently with each.

Invoice intake

31 HRS / WEEK

Reads the document, matches the purchase order, posts it to accounting.

A person approves anything the agent flags as uncertain, and the threshold loosens as trust grows.

Inbound quote requests

SAME DAY REPLIES

Qualifies the request, prices it from your rules, drafts the reply.

Nothing reaches a customer unread. Sales keeps the judgement and hits send.

Customer onboarding

3 DAYS TO 2 HOURS

Accounts, permissions and the welcome pack assembled from the signed contract.

The checklist in someone's head becomes a runbook your team can edit.

Weekly reporting

MONDAY 7AM

Numbers pulled and reconciled overnight, anomalies flagged first.

Nobody spends Sunday evening rebuilding it, and no one argues about which number is right.

31 hrs
Manual work removed, per week
avg. 4 weeks
From workshop to production

A process we automated end to end

One engagement, and the numbers their finance team recognises.

Project 1 of 3: Cash flow piloting for an agency

Cash flow piloting for an agency
AUTOMATE

Cash flow piloting for an agency

Agency cash flow that forecasts itself: retainers, payroll and freelancer costs projected from the contracts, not typed in.

KEY POINTS

693
bank transactions reconciled automatically
10
currencies in one cash flow view
26
schema migrations in production

NEXT STEP

Tell us what to automate

We reply within a working day.

45+
In-house projects
30+
AI agents live in production
8+ yrs
Founder-led expertise
5 stars on Google
step 1 of 5

Which work is eating the hours?

Pick the heaviest one.

What our clients say

Real reviews from clients we have worked with. Left on Google, or filmed by them, and unedited.

5 stars on Google
Sam TrickettFounder, Kinda
I found the whole process very efficient, informative and simple. Most days i chatted with the team which was really helpful to feel aligned. Very direct and efficient and give good ideas snd feedback.
Simon LallozGoogle review
I've worked with this team on several personal projects, and the main reason I keep coming back is simple: they deliver. Everything is built in-house, which makes collaboration straightforward and execution fast. What I appreciated most is that projects weren't handed over as rough concepts, but as market-ready products I could actually use and build on. The four-week delivery timeline sounds ambitious, but in my experience it held up. Communication was clear, decisions were practical, and there was no unnecessary back-and-forth. If you want people who can turn ideas into real digital ventures without overcomplicating things, this team does exactly that.
LUNAGoogle review
I've been working with them from past 1 year and it's really good to have mentor like Maxime - owner of metabay
Sam TrickettFounder, Kinda
I found the whole process very efficient, informative and simple. Most days i chatted with the team which was really helpful to feel aligned. Very direct and efficient and give good ideas snd feedback.
Simon LallozGoogle review
I've worked with this team on several personal projects, and the main reason I keep coming back is simple: they deliver. Everything is built in-house, which makes collaboration straightforward and execution fast. What I appreciated most is that projects weren't handed over as rough concepts, but as market-ready products I could actually use and build on. The four-week delivery timeline sounds ambitious, but in my experience it held up. Communication was clear, decisions were practical, and there was no unnecessary back-and-forth. If you want people who can turn ideas into real digital ventures without overcomplicating things, this team does exactly that.
LUNAGoogle review
I've been working with them from past 1 year and it's really good to have mentor like Maxime - owner of metabay

Frequently asked questions

How does AI automation and AI agent development actually start?

Two weeks inside your operations, watching the work happen. You get the processes worth automating, the ones to leave alone, and what each is worth per week. You can stop there and keep the map.

We already tried an AI pilot and it never reached production. Why is this different?

Most pilots stall on the boring half: permissions, error handling, the person who fixes it on a Tuesday. We scope those on day one and it is not done until it has run unattended for a month.

What is an AI agent, in practice?

Software that reads a real input, decides what to do, and takes the action, rather than waiting for someone to click. In production it also needs to know when to stop and ask a person.

Will this replace our staff?

In every engagement so far it has removed the repetitive half of a role, not the role. The people who did that work usually end up owning the system.

What happens when it gets something wrong?

It routes to a human queue and logs why. You see the error rate rather than discovering it from a customer.