Do we start with the whole company?

No. One department, with the vault and the gate in place, then the next. The first department shows whether this way of working fits your company.

How do agents hand work to each other?

In writing, through a shared task system, with the vault as the common memory. Each hand-off records who asked, what for, and what came back. You can read the log like a chat history.

Which model runs the agents?

The model is a choice per department, and it can change. Sensitive departments can run on a private model on your own hardware; others can use a cloud model. The harness around the model stays the same.

One fixed price per department, quoted after the call. The first department includes the vault and the gate, so it carries most of the foundation cost.

A company of agents · eight departments, one human at the centre

Your company, staffed with agents.

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01Thirty minutes with the founder. We map your company as departments and hand-offs: who asks whom for what, every week.
02A straight answer. Which departments a team of agents can run today, which still need a person in every loop, and what to build first. If it is too early for you, we say so.
03A written next step. One fixed price for the first department. Every agent works from one shared vault, every hand-off is logged, you keep the final say.

What it looks like

Departments, not prompts.
Hand-offs, not meetings.

In plain terms

A company of agents, explained for an owner

On a Tuesday morning the sales pipeline needs updating, three supplier invoices are waiting, a candidate's CV came in overnight, a client wants to know why the delivery slipped, and the ad copy for next week needs a legal check. In a company of ten people, those five tasks land on five desks. In a company of agents, they land in five departments staffed with agents that hand work to each other in writing, and one human at the centre decides what needs a human.

The terms used in the field are multi-agent system and agentic AI. Each agent has one job and one manager: a recruiter that screens applications, an invoice clerk that reads and matches, a tester that checks what engineering produced. They share one knowledge vault, so every agent works from the same facts, and every hand-off is logged.

Departments matter because they keep each agent narrow. A narrow agent with a clear brief and a good vault does reliable work. The org chart you already understand turns out to be the right architecture for agents too.

You sit at the centre. Anything that touches money or a customer comes to you first: the invoice over the threshold, the offer letter, the reply to the unhappy client. Every hand-off between departments is written down, so you can read why a task travelled the way it did. As departments prove themselves, you loosen the gate.

We build this for owners who want the next stage of growth to come from systems, and for founders who want a new company built this way from day one. We run Joinery itself like this: one vault, a team of agents on top of it.

Limits we name up front. This is the most ambitious thing we build, and it starts with one department, usually finance or support, where the work has a clear pattern. Some departments still need a person in every loop today, and we say which. A company of agents needs a vault first; if you do not have one, that is the first milestone.

Questions we get asked

Do we start with the whole company?
No. One department, with the vault and the gate in place, then the next. The first department shows whether this way of working fits your company.
How do agents hand work to each other?
In writing, through a shared task system, with the vault as the common memory. Each hand-off records who asked, what for, and what came back. You can read the log like a chat history.
Which model runs the agents?
The model is a choice per department, and it can change. Sensitive departments can run on a private model on your own hardware; others can use a cloud model. The harness around the model stays the same.
What does it cost?
One fixed price per department, quoted after the call. The first department includes the vault and the gate, so it carries most of the foundation cost.

Who you talk to

Frederik Theissen

A former academic researcher who has spent a decade building data and AI systems that run in production: analysis systems in neuroscience research, quantitative risk at a crypto hedge fund, and AI workflow automation for the analyst team of a Swiss market-intelligence firm. Building with large language models daily since December 2022.

Joinery builds the vault, the harness around it and the first agents that work from it, then hands it over as yours. I run my own company this way: one vault, a team of agents on top of it.

Founding-client terms available for the first cohort. Mention it on the call.

Start with the call.

Thirty minutes on what your company looks like with a team of agents inside it, department by department. A clear answer, a concrete next step, and a working system within weeks if it fits.

Pick a time or write to hello@joinery-ai.com