For employees
You already know AI can research. Almost nobody has had it do the work.
Everyone in the building has asked an assistant to summarise a document or draft a reply. Hardly anyone has had it build the thing that does that every morning without being asked — not for want of ideas, but because acting on one means getting IT to approve a tool and finance to approve a budget. Most ideas do not survive that.
SproutOS is small enough to skip both conversations.
The three usual blockers
Too cheap to need approval. Too simple to need a developer.
- You do not need to be technical
- You describe what should happen and when, in your own words. There is no node palette to learn and no script to write — the same conversation you would have with a colleague who was going to do it for you.
- You do not need a developer
- No engineer to borrow, no ticket, no waiting for a sprint. This is the category of work that is too small to ever get prioritised and too annoying to keep doing by hand.
- You do not need a budget
- Your own automations come to cents a month. There is no seat to buy, no plan, and no minimum — which means there is nothing for anyone to approve.
What a budget of cents buys
The work that is too small to ask anyone for.
Automation platforms bill by the seat, the task, or the month — and every one of them charges you while your automation sits there doing nothing. Ours sleeps when there is no work, so a job that runs for two seconds a day costs what two seconds a day is worth.
The follow-up that cancels itself
A client has not replied in three days, so a reminder goes out — unless they replied in the meantime, in which case nothing happens. CSMs ask for this constantly and it never reaches a roadmap.
The report you rebuild every Monday
Pull the same three sources, join them the same way, send the same email. It takes you forty minutes a week and it takes a workflow two seconds.
The inbox triage
Read overnight mail, group it, and surface the three things that actually need an answer before you open your laptop.
The thing you check by hand
A page, a feed, a spreadsheet, a queue — anything you open every morning to see whether it changed. That is a schedule, and a schedule is cheaper than your attention.
A retrieval pipeline for your team
Connect a data source, describe the questions people actually ask and what a good answer looks like, and Sprout's community skills build the pipeline — knowledge graph, tuned embeddings, deliberate ingestion — for that one use case.
Private by construction
It is your code, in your project, talking to your account and your database. The cheap version of this elsewhere is someone else's cloud reading your company's mail.
If someone is going to ask you what IT thinks, the answer is on the page written for them.