Agents that act
Long-running workers with real tool access -- they triage, decide, and execute against your systems. Safety gates baked in so they never go off-script.
Cronk Ai Agents is a small, opinionated studio. We pair senior operators with bespoke agents, copilots, and pipelines -- wired into the tools you already run, whether you're DTC, ecom, agency, or services. No demos. No theater. Working software in weeks.
// sound familiar?
Most operators don't need "AI strategy." They need one specific job, that one specific human keeps doing, to stop eating that human's day.
CS · SUPPORT
Your one CS rep is drowning. Response time is 8+ hours. You can't justify hiring another at this revenue level.
OPS · INVENTORY
Someone reconciles Shopify, Amazon, and your 3PL by hand. The spreadsheet is a black hole. Bad numbers ship bad POs.
CONTENT · SEO
You "should be" publishing weekly. You're publishing monthly, badly. Agencies charge $5K/mo for two posts you wouldn't sign your name to.
FINANCE · BOOKS
Bookkeeper sends a P&L the 15th of next month. You can't make decisions on data that's six weeks stale. Your CFO is a spreadsheet.
One agent, built for one job, with you in the approval loop. That's the unit of work.
// the operator
Cortland built his own AI agent fleet to run his ecommerce business. After the fifth founder asked him to build the same thing for theirs, Cronk Ai Agents happened.
Most AI shops
Cronk Ai Agents
I built this for my own business because nothing on the market actually worked. When the requests from other founders wouldn't stop, I made it my full-time thing.
-- Cortland Cronk · Founder, Cronk Ai Agents
// capabilities
We don't sell platforms. We ship the smallest thing that earns its keep, then layer in the rest. Every build maps to one of these four shapes.
Long-running workers with real tool access -- they triage, decide, and execute against your systems. Safety gates baked in so they never go off-script.
Inline assistants for the humans on your team -- embedded where they already work. Email, CRM, helpdesk, code. They draft. People decide.
The boring, beautiful kind -- scheduled jobs that pull, enrich, reconcile, and post. Reliable as cron. Smart enough to handle the edge cases.
Synthesized intel for the people who steer the ship -- Monday exec digests, deal one-pagers, weekly ops reads. Written in your voice, on time, every time.
FROM OUR MOST RECENT DTC BUILD · SEE THE CASE BELOW
// website builds
We also build custom websites, redesigns, landing pages, and intake flows. The site can be built to explain the offer, capture cleaner leads, install analytics properly, and leave room for agents later.
Clean structure, copy direction, responsive pages, forms, analytics, and launch support.
Improve the current site, fix mobile, clarify the offer, or rebuild on a better platform.
Better intake forms and routing so humans or future agents get structured business context.
// the process
Four steps. The first one you do right now -- the rest we drive. No SOWs the size of a phone book.
Ten-minute form so Cortland walks into the call already knowing your stack, your pain, and your budget band.
Within 48 hours you get a written briefing -- opportunities, risks, what we'd ship first. Yours to keep whether or not we work together.
Fixed-scope engagement. Two-week sprints. We ship to your environment with your team in the loop. Every change reviewed before it goes live.
Code, prompts, and runbooks live in your repos from day one. Optional monthly retainer covers monitoring, tune-ups, and adding new agents as you need them.
// recent ship
A 22-person DTC brand was losing six hours a day reconciling Shopify, Amazon, and 3PL inventory by hand. We replaced the spreadsheet with three agents in eleven days.
CASE_01 · STATUS: LIVE
Agent one pulls SKU-level inventory from every channel every fifteen minutes. Agent two flags anomalies and drafts reorder POs. Agent three writes a Friday digest in the founder's voice. Humans approve, ship, sleep.
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// sound like a fit?
Tell us the one task eating your week. We'll either build for it or tell you it's not worth a build yet.
Start the 10-min intake →// fit check
We are good at some things and bad at others. Better to figure this out before the call.
If you're in the "not a fit" column, we'll say so on the call. No hard sell, no surprise quote.
// pricing
No off-the-shelf tiers. Every business is different, every agent is built for that business. We quote on the discovery call, after we know what you actually need. Pricing starts at $5,000. Optional monthly retainer afterward for monitoring, tune-ups, and new agents.
HOW WE QUOTE · You fill the 10-minute intake · Cortland sizes the build on a 30-min call · You get a fixed quote, no theater
FOUNDER · CRONK AI AGENTS
Operator first, builder second. Has shipped agents and automations across DTC brands, ecom shops, agencies, and service businesses -- wired into Shopify, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Gorgias, QuickBooks, and roughly every helpdesk you've heard of.
Cares about: working software, plain language, and not selling you anything you don't need.
// the bet
We have. Cronk Ai Agents exists because Cortland built his own AI agent fleet to run his ecommerce business -- and then watched other founders try to find someone who could do the same thing for them. They couldn't.
The market is full of strategy decks and "agent enablement workshops" sold by consultants who've never had to ship an order, answer a Gorgias ticket at 11pm, or reconcile a 3PL invoice. We have. That's the whole difference.
If you want someone who's been in your seat to build agents that survive contact with your actual business, the intake takes about ten minutes.
Run the intake →// faq
Most first builds land between $15K and $60K, fixed scope. We size the number during the briefing call -- you'll know exactly what you're paying before signing anything.
After we ship, you can stay on retainer for monitoring, tune-ups, model migrations, and rolling out new agents as the business changes. Three published tiers based on fleet size:
$750 / mo · Essentials -- 1 to 2 agents · up to 5 hrs/mo, async support
$1,750 / mo · Operator -- 3 to 5 agents · up to 15 hrs/mo (rolls to 25), shared Slack
$3,500 / mo · Fleet -- 6+ agents · up to 30 hrs/mo (rolls to 45), same-day response
Cancel any time. Your code stays yours. See the full tier breakdown →
No. We replace the repetitive parts of their day so they can do the parts only humans should. Every build ships with a human review layer unless you explicitly want it autonomous.
Whatever's right for the job -- usually Claude or GPT-class models, occasionally open-weight on your own infra for sensitive workloads. We don't have allegiances; we have benchmarks.
You do. Source lives in your repos from day one. Prompts, evals, and runbooks too. If we vanish tomorrow, your agents keep running.
We've shipped under HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR-adjacent constraints. Data residency, redaction layers, audit logging -- all standard plumbing for us. Tell us your regime on the intake.
If you're a solo operator with a clear pain and budget under $15K, we'll likely point you to off-the-shelf tools instead of building. We say this on the briefing call. No hard feelings.
// next step
Choose the project path first: AI agent build or website build. Cortland reads every intake personally and gets back within 48 hours with the practical next step.
Start a Project →NO SALES CALL BEFORE YOU ASK · WE'LL TELL YOU IF WE'RE NOT A FIT