Reliable AI agents that automate
the work your team shouldn't be doing.
ThunderStaff designs and operates AI agent harnesses that take over your most repetitive processes — across email, PDFs, ERP systems, vendor portals, and shared drives. Transparent pricing. We co-manage it for you.
From process capture to live deployment — in days, not months.
Three steps. We do most of the work. You stay in control.
Capture & map your process
Record a short screen-share of the work, or schedule a 30-minute mapping session. We document every system, decision point, and edge case — and turn it into a runbook your team can review.
Skill engineering & harness design
Our engineers build custom tools and configure an AI agent harness (Openclaw / Hermes) that orchestrates the work reliably. The harness manages tool calls, memory, control flow, and safety guardrails — translating probabilistic AI into deterministic action.
Deploy & monitor with Mission Control
We deploy on your hardware or in the cloud, then co-manage it 24/7. The Mission Control Backplane gives your team real-time dashboards, approval gates, and direct access to our engineers.
Features & Capabilities
Everything you need to put AI to work — reliably.
Five pillars under the hood. Every ThunderStaff deployment ships with all of them.
Multi-system integration
Email inboxes, PDFs (with OCR), Google Drive and SharePoint, ERP and line-of-business apps (Sage 50, custom systems), vendor web portals, fat and thin clients. If your team uses it, we can read it, parse it, and act on it.
No migration required. The harness reads your existing systems through the same interfaces your team already uses — whether that's an API, a desktop app, or a web portal.
Sample output: an invoice processing pipeline broken down by our process builder. Every task classified, every decision point mapped, every edge case documented before a single line of agent code is written.
Agent harness technology — where models meet reality
An agent harness is the operational layer between an AI model and the real world. It manages context, tool calls, memory, and safety so an AI can run reliably without supervision. We use industry-leading harnesses (Openclaw, Hermes) and tune them per workflow — translating probabilistic model outputs into deterministic actions your business can depend on.
Context & memory
Stateful execution across long-running tasks.
Tool orchestration
Deterministic tool calls, retries, fallbacks.
Safety guardrails
Approval gates, cost caps, action limits.
Observability
Every step logged, every decision auditable.
Compliance-ready, wherever it needs to live.
Run the harness on your hardware, in your cloud, or in ours. Whichever model you pick, we harden it the same way — and we're explicit about which data goes where.
Co-managed deployments — built for IT teams and MSPs
The harness runs alongside your team — not instead of them. Internal IT keeps governance. MSP partners co-deliver. We handle the AI engineering, monitoring, and updates so the people you already trust stay in control of the systems they already own.
Industry benchmark for organizations adopting co-managed automation alongside existing IT.
Co-managed services consistently report this lift on repetitive-process throughput.
Mission Control Backplane — full visibility, when you want it
Real-time dashboards, job queues, structured logs, approval workflows. Your team supervises automations, signs off on edge cases, and collaborates with our engineers directly inside the tool. No black boxes.
Live dashboards
Throughput, success rate, time saved — per process.
Approval gates
Sign off on edge cases without leaving Slack or email.
Structured logs
Every step, every tool call, every decision — auditable.
Illustrative — a representative slice of the live backplane.
Transparent pricing. One process at a time.
Two simple components: a one-time build fee and a monthly maintenance fee. No per-seat licenses. No surprise consulting charges.
Final price depends on process complexity and number of integrations. Multi-process discounts and on-premise hardware bundles available — talk to us.
How we compare to enterprise RPA platforms
| UiPath unattended | Microsoft RPA | ThunderStaff | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | ~$8,000/yr | ~$6,000/yr | From $6,000/yr + from $3k one-time |
| Process design fee | Separate | Separate | Included |
| Custom integrations | Per-project | Per-project | Included |
| Managed monitoring | Add-on | Add-on | Included |
| Bot-failure remediation | Your problem | Your problem | Our problem |
UiPath and Microsoft RPA pricing reflects published list prices for unattended bots / enterprise tier as of 2025. Real-world costs typically run higher once integration and consulting fees are added.
Built for businesses that need real reliability, not AI hype.
Four reasons SMBs, internal IT teams, and MSP partners pick us over off-the-shelf RPA and DIY AI experiments.
Harness expertise, not AI hype
Industry research is converging on this: harnesses, not models, are the primary determinant of reliability and ROI in production AI. We've built our practice around it.
Proven methodology
Most RPA projects fail on design, not technology. Our structured pipeline — capture, skill engineering, harness deployment — reduces project risk before a single line of code ships.
Co-managed and secure
Designed for businesses with existing IT teams or MSP partners. Compliance-ready: RBAC, audit logs, encrypted secrets, on-premise option.
Flexible deployment
Cloud-hosted for fast starts. On-premise harnesses for sensitive data. Frontier labour on your hardware, behind your firewall. You pick the model.
Stop paying people
to do what an agent can do.
Book a 30-minute Process Mapping Session. We'll walk through one of your processes, sketch the automation, and give you a real estimate. Free. No commitment.
Free analysis. No credit card. Your data never leaves your office.