Agents in production, not in slide decks.

Their pricing team refreshed competitor prices manually three times a day across 9,400 SKUs. Overnight moves were invisible until 9am, and their in-house scraper broke on an average of 40 pages a week.

Replaced the scraper with FreshGeo's Pricing and Competitor Monitoring APIs behind a Claude agent that proposes price changes hourly. Every proposal carries cache_ids the trading team can replay before approving.

Caught an overnight competitor cut on 1,800 SKUs within 12 minutes, preserving £310k of weekend margin. Pricing team moved from data-gathering to strategy.

Their SDRs worked 2,400 accounts per month with intent data that was 2-3 weeks stale and had no source trail. Win rates on cold outbound had plateaued at 3.1% despite three vendor changes.

Rebuilt account scoring on FreshGeo's Intent, Jobs and Social APIs. Every score ships with the underlying signals and sources so AEs can reference real evidence on the call.

Cold outbound reply rates lifted to 7.4%. SDR team reallocated 38% of capacity to the top-scoring decile. Payback on FreshGeo spend inside week six.

A two-person team was hand-building shortlists of 15-20 properties per client brief, averaging 6 hours of research per brief. They were turning away clients because they couldn't scale analyst time.

An agent built on the Real Estate API now produces first-pass shortlists in under 30 seconds, including commute times, catchment scores, and negotiation signals from days-on-market and price-drop history.

Took on 3x more clients without hiring. Average time from brief to shortlist dropped from 6 hours to 8 minutes. Fee revenue up 142% year on year.

Quarterly supplier KYC reviews were missing ownership changes and adverse media events between cycles. Compliance were uncomfortable with the blind spot but couldn't justify another four headcount.

Weekly automated KYC sweep of 1,100 active suppliers using News/Risk and Competitor Monitoring. Every flag includes the source article, fetch timestamp and severity rationale — auditable at the field level.

Caught a sanctioned beneficial owner 11 weeks before the next scheduled review. Compliance accepted the controls; no additional headcount needed.

Two-partner fund sifting 3,000 inbound decks a year plus outbound sourcing. Sourcing was essentially one analyst's Google Sheet of 'interesting categories' that decayed within weeks.

Built a daily trend detector on Social, Jobs and Competitor Monitoring that surfaces fast-growing subsegments in their focus categories. Every signal links to the underlying evidence with cache_ids.

Shortlisted three companies in the prosumer grinder category six months before the space broke into mainstream press. Led one round; the other two are in their pipeline.