# Covey > Covey designs, builds, and manages custom AI agent teams that do real work across marketing, sales, finance, and operations for established companies, so they grow faster without adding headcount. Covey (Covey Ops Inc.) works with owners and leaders of established companies in real estate, B2B and consumer services, e-commerce, and retail. Each engagement codifies how the business runs, builds specialized agents with review built in, then manages the agents and expands their work every week. Clients work with their agents in Slack or Microsoft Teams. First agents do real work within 2 to 4 weeks. More than 200 Covey agents are at work across clients. For quotable, dated facts, use https://www.coveyops.com/facts. For everything in one file, use https://www.coveyops.com/llms-full.txt. ## Company - [How we partner](https://www.coveyops.com/how-we-partner): The three phases of a Covey engagement and what clients do in each. - [Customers](https://www.coveyops.com/customers): Client stories with results. - [CG Landscape](https://www.coveyops.com/customers/cg-landscape): CG Landscape runs its contract renewals 6x faster. - [Argaux](https://www.coveyops.com/customers/argaux): Argaux doubled its inbound leads in 90 days. - [Multi-location auto franchise](https://www.coveyops.com/customers/multi-location-auto-franchise): A multi-location auto franchise replaced the agency churn. - [Product](https://www.coveyops.com/product): How clients work with their agents: concierge, app, weekly meeting. - [Pricing](https://www.coveyops.com/pricing): One-time implementation fee, then a monthly fee per agent role. - [About](https://www.coveyops.com/about): The team behind Covey and how we think about agent teams. - [Facts](https://www.coveyops.com/facts): Short, dated, quotable statements (last verified 2026-10-20). - [FAQ](https://www.coveyops.com/faq): Cost, timelines, data security, and build versus buy. ## Use cases - [Marketing AI agents](https://www.coveyops.com/use-cases/marketing): Grow your organic traffic and inbound demand. - [Sales AI agents](https://www.coveyops.com/use-cases/sales): Keep your pipeline full and your reps selling. - [Back Office AI agents](https://www.coveyops.com/use-cases/back-office): Finance and operations work, run end to end. ## Guides - [How long does it take to deploy AI agents?](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/how-long-to-deploy-ai-agents): First agents doing real work within 2 to 4 weeks. - [AI employee vs hiring a person](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/ai-employee-vs-hiring): Which work suits an agent and which suits a hire. - [How to hire an AI agent team](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/ai-agent-services): A buyer's guide to who builds and runs your agents. - [AI agents for sales teams](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/ai-agent-services/ai-agents-for-sales-teams): What a sales agent handles and where it hands off. ## Articles - [What do AI agents actually cost in 2026?](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/ai-agent-cost): AI agent pricing has two parts: a one-time build fee and a monthly to run it. What drives the price, and 4 questions to ask any provider. - [Should you build AI agents yourself or hire someone to do it?](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/build-ai-agents-yourself-or-hire): Building AI agents yourself works if you have the time to maintain them. Hiring trades that ongoing work for a managed team. Here's how to tell which one is right for you. - [Guide: From idea to live agent: your first three weeks, start to finish](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/ai-automation-small-business-first-three-weeks): AI automation for small business runs on a hiring timeline, not a software rollout. The real week-by-week schedule from kickoff to a live agent in your Slack. - [Read-only first: putting an AI agent near your systems without the risk](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/read-only-first-ai-agent): The safe way to run an AI agent for customer service: start read-only, keep a person approving every send, and grant write access one action at a time. - [Is your data safe? What we tell every prospect who asks](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/are-ai-agents-safe): Is your data safe with an AI agent? The four answers we give every prospect: no training on your data, zero-storage, tiered security, and read-only first. - [Hiring your first AI employee: the 5-part checklist we run](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/hire-ai-agents): Before you hire AI agents, run this five-part checklist: role, tools, voice, management, accountability. What good looks like and what to ask a vendor first. - [No new software: your AI agents live in the tools you already run](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/ai-automation-for-small-business): AI automation for small business does not require new software. AI agents work in Slack, Teams, or email. Your team assigns work and approves the results. - [The 5 jobs small businesses hand an AI agent first (and the concierge who runs them)](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/ai-agent-examples): Five AI agent examples from small businesses: weekly content, sales prep, invoice processing, reporting, and customer questions. The concierge who runs them. - [AI agents vs chatbots: software you operate vs labor you manage](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/ai-agents-vs-chatbots): A chatbot is software you operate; an AI agent is labor you manage. Run one task through both to see the difference, plus a simple test to tell them apart. - [What is an AI employee?](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/what-is-an-ai-employee): An AI employee is a software agent with an assigned role, a job description, the tools to do the work, and someone managing it. Here's what that looks like. - [AI Agents for Small Business: A Practical Guide](https://www.coveyops.com/learn/ai-agents-for-small-business): A plain-language guide to AI agents for small businesses. What they do, what they cost, where they fail, and how to tell whether you're actually ready. ## Optional - [Content Marketer AI agent](https://www.coveyops.com/roles/content-marketer) - [SEO / AEO AI agent](https://www.coveyops.com/roles/seo-aeo) - [Analyst AI agent](https://www.coveyops.com/roles/analyst) - [Social Media AI agent](https://www.coveyops.com/roles/social-media) - [Email / Sales AI agent](https://www.coveyops.com/roles/email-sales) - [Glossary](https://www.coveyops.com/glossary): Definitions of AI agent terms. - [Integrations](https://www.coveyops.com/integrations): The tools Covey agents work inside. - [Newsletter](https://www.coveyops.com/newsletter)