A small crew of AI specialists for the messages, the follow-ups, the bookings and the paperwork, so you can get back to the real work.
Start with one AI worker. Give it memory, a few rules it can't break, and real tools. Then grow it into a whole crew that runs your front desk, while you stay in control.
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Set it up once, the way you'd hire and train a team. Then step back, and it runs. You stay the boss; the crew does the doing.
Spin up a specialist for each job you keep meaning to get to, a front desk, a follow-up, a bookkeeper. Give it a name. It's yours.
Tell them how you work, in plain words. They never cross the line you draw, so the work stays predictable, on brand, and within your limits.
A front desk, a sales team, a back office. They work together and hand off to each other like real coworkers, not a pile of disconnected bots.
Lay out how the work should flow: a new inquiry checks the calendar, drafts a reply, waits for your OK, then sends. Set it once; it happens the same way every time.
Hand it over. The crew runs around the clock and reports back. The routine that used to eat your evenings just gets done.
applied to every agent, on every action
Anyone can bolt on a chatbot. The hard part is making it safe to hand real work to. Here is what holds it together, in plain terms.
It knows your procedures, your prices and your regulars. It remembers what happened yesterday and what you told it last month. You never start from zero, and you never repeat yourself.
Everything lives on a machine you own. Your customers, your conversations and your records stay there, not in someone else's account. When the crew calls a model, you choose what goes to the cloud and what stays on your own hardware. There is no subscription to your own relationships; turn it off and it's gone.
And it keeps itself in shape. A built-in architect agent adapts the system to how you work and repairs it in place, so you own it without having to maintain it.
One panel shows every action the crew takes, as it happens. No black box. Watch the whole shift, or just check in once a day, nothing happens in the dark.
Quotes, proposals, bookings and follow-ups wait for your yes before they reach a customer. Routine replies, like answering a question or sharing your hours, go out on their own, and you see every one. The approval gate is the default for anything that commits you, not a setting you have to find.
Email, texts, your website chat, your calendar, your CRM, your files. And for the old programs with no "connect" button, it works them right on the screen, the way a person would. No IT project required.
your crew works inside the tools you already use
Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a local model on your own hardware. One gateway routes them all, so you switch anytime and never get locked to a single provider.
The work that used to pile up after hours is handled. You get your time back for the business itself, and your people get theirs back too, freed from the busywork to take on the things there was never time for.
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It answers, follows up and files through the evening and the weekend. You glance at the panel over coffee, say yes to whatever needs you, and close the laptop. The shift goes on without you.
Same crew, tuned to the work your trade actually loses money on. Craft distilleries are live today; the rest are close behind. Pick yours.
The distillery crew is running right now. Each agent is tuned to the work that actually costs you, the missed calls, the slow follow-ups, the paperwork, not a generic assistant with your logo on it.
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KOVAL · Chicago
Running every day at KOVAL Distillery, Chicago since 2025. A real business that depends on it, not a demo account.
A real call to KOVAL's front desk. Alex picks up, the crew quietly handles the rest, and the owner's board updates as it happens. The distillery runs on this, not a demo account.
A real call to KOVAL Distillery · the office reacts live · sound on
KOVAL is a real business running on Smart Node. Calls and scenarios are dramatized for demonstration.
Smart Node installs into your business. The copy is yours, the data is yours, the source is yours. Nobody can switch it off, raise a price, or take it away.
You pay us, we hold the model accounts and keep it running. One bill, nothing to set up.
Pay once for setup, then plug in your own keys (Claude, OpenRouter, anything you connect) and pay providers direct. Fully independent of us.
We sort the right fit during your pilot.
Smart Node is a small crew of AI specialists that runs your business's front office. It answers messages, follows up on leads, books appointments and handles the paperwork around the clock. You set it up once, the way you'd hire and train a team, then it runs and reports back to you.
Yes. Smart Node installs onto hardware you own. The copy is yours, the data is yours, the source is yours. Nobody can switch it off, raise a price, or take it away. There is no subscription for the software.
Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a local model on your own hardware. One gateway routes them all, so you switch anytime and are never locked to a single provider.
There is no subscription for the software. AI costs run one of two ways: managed, where you pay us one bill and we hold the model accounts, or bring-your-own, where you plug in your own keys and pay the providers direct. Setup happens in a paid pilot, then the system is yours.
No. A built-in architect agent adapts the system to how you work and repairs it in place, so you own it without having to maintain it. You stay the boss, not the sysadmin.
Yes. It connects to email, texts, your website chat, your calendar, your CRM and your files, directly or through Zapier. For older programs with no connect button, it works them right on the screen, the way a person would.
Your customers, conversations and records stay on hardware you own, not in someone else's account. When the crew calls an AI model, you choose what goes to the cloud and what stays on your own hardware.
Owner-led businesses. Craft distilleries are live today, with bars and restaurants, wine and liquor shops, farms and cleaning services close behind. It adapts to any trade, so tell us about yours in a demo.
No. Quotes, proposals, bookings and follow-ups wait for your yes before they reach a customer. Routine replies, like answering a question or sharing your hours, go out on their own, and you see every one.
Tell us about the leads you miss and the work that piles up. We run a live demo on your actual workflow, then you decide if the crew earns a place.