# Signa > An agent works 100x faster than a person. We build yours and train your team to run it. Signa is a forward-deployed AI engineering team at https://heysigna.com. We increase revenue and help businesses move faster by putting AI agents to work beside their people. We build the agents and train the team to run them. We work inside the business, not beside it. ## Services - [AI agent development](https://heysigna.com/#agents): Autonomous, proactive AI agents. They watch your inboxes and systems, spot the work and start it themselves, then read, decide and act inside your tools. Anything unclear goes to a person. Examples: Lead intake and triage, Documents, invoices and orders, Sales follow-up and quotes, Support replies. - [Workflow automation](https://heysigna.com/#automation): Business process automation that connects your systems so work moves on its own. Same input, same result, every time. Examples: Orders to invoices, CRM and accounting in sync, Approvals and reminders, Reports that build themselves. - [AI training for your team](https://heysigna.com/#training): Hands-on training inside your team’s real work. Every person learns to run, check and improve their own agents. Examples: Working sessions on real tasks, When to trust it and when to check, Writing instructions agents follow, Owning it after we leave. - [Forward-deployed engineering](https://heysigna.com/#forward-deployed): Most AI consulting ends with a slide deck. Our engineers sit in your tools, build on your real data, and stay until it runs in production. ## Contact - MCP server: https://heysigna.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP). Tools: about_signa, contact_signa. contact_signa emails the team a request; a person replies. - Email: work@heysigna.com - Engagements start at $10,000 per month. For owners and operators of businesses past $10 million a year. ## Questions ### What does an AI automation agency do? It finds the work in your business that slows growth, then builds AI agents and automations that take it on inside your real systems. Signa also trains your team to run and improve what we build, so the result keeps working after we leave. ### What is an autonomous, proactive AI agent? An autonomous agent works without anyone prompting it. It watches for new work, such as an email, an order or a form, decides what to do within rules you set, and acts in your tools. A proactive agent goes a step further and starts work nobody has asked for yet, like following up a quote that went quiet. Signa builds both, with a person approving anything costly. ### What is a forward-deployed engineer? An engineer who works inside a customer’s operation instead of handing over a plan from outside. Enterprise software companies made the role common by placing engineers directly with their customers. For you, it means the person building your agents has watched your process run and answers for the result. ### When do you use an AI agent instead of workflow automation? When the work needs reading or judgment: messy documents, free-text requests, first drafts. When the steps are fixed, a plain automation is cheaper and easier to trust. Most projects use both. ### Will AI agents replace our staff? No. The point is that each person gets far more done. Your people keep the judgment calls and the customer relationships, and the agents take the volume. ### What does AI training for our team look like? Working sessions inside your team’s real tasks, not slides. People learn to give an agent clear instructions, check its work, and change it when the process changes. By the end, your team runs it without us. ### How is this different from AI consulting? AI consulting usually ends with a strategy document. We ship working agents and automations into production, measure them, and train your team to run them. ### Who owns what you build? You do. It runs in your accounts, with documentation your team can follow and change. ### Who is Signa for? Owners and operators of businesses past $10 million a year, where growth has meant more hires, more handoffs and more of your own time holding it together. ### Can an AI agent contact Signa for me? Yes. Point any MCP-capable agent at heysigna.com/mcp. Its contact_signa tool sends your request to our team by email, and a person replies. A plain-text summary for agents is at heysigna.com/llms.txt. ## Blog - [AI readiness assessment: six checks before you approve one workflow](https://heysigna.com/blog/ai-readiness-assessment/): Six checks to run on one workflow before you approve an AI pilot: what to collect, red flags, a hypothetical example, decision rules and a copyable worksheet. - [7 AI workflow automation examples, from input to measure](https://heysigna.com/blog/ai-workflow-automation-examples/): Seven AI workflow automation examples across sales, operations, finance and support, each with its input, systems, human decision, failure path and measure. - [How to automate data entry without losing accuracy](https://heysigna.com/blog/automate-data-entry/): How to automate data entry from emails, PDFs, forms and spreadsheets into a CRM, ERP or accounting system, with validation and a person handling exceptions. - [How to hire an AI automation agency: a buyer's guide](https://heysigna.com/blog/ai-automation-agency/): A buyer's guide to hiring an AI automation agency: what good ones do, questions to ask, red flags to watch for, and how engagements are usually structured. - [What a forward-deployed engineer does and when you need one](https://heysigna.com/blog/forward-deployed-engineer/): A forward-deployed engineer builds inside your operation, against your real systems and data, and stays until it runs. How the role differs and when it fits. - [Legacy system integration: connecting AI to older systems](https://heysigna.com/blog/legacy-system-integration/): How to connect AI agents to old ERPs, on-premise databases and systems with no API. Integration paths, read-only first, permissions, audit logs, failure modes. - [Sales process automation: what to automate after the lead](https://heysigna.com/blog/sales-process-automation/): Which parts of a sales process to automate once a lead exists: routing, account research, follow-up drafts, CRM updates, quotes and handoff, and what to keep. - [Where to start with AI automation](https://heysigna.com/blog/where-to-start/): Pick a first automation by following the work, valuing it honestly, and shipping one complete improvement you can measure. - [AI agent or workflow automation: which do you need?](https://heysigna.com/blog/agent-or-automation/): How to choose between fixed rules and an AI agent, and how the useful systems combine both. - [What an AI agent really costs](https://heysigna.com/blog/cost-of-ai-agents/): Model usage is one line. The real cost of an AI agent is integration, review, testing, operation, and care after release. - [Your first 90 days with Signa](https://heysigna.com/blog/first-90-days/): How a Signa engagement moves from understanding the business to a first release and a clear next priority. - [How to test an AI agent before your team depends on it](https://heysigna.com/blog/test-ai-agents/): A practical test plan for AI agents: representative cases, boundaries, failure states, limited release, and checks after every change. - [From paid click to customer: fix the whole handoff](https://heysigna.com/blog/click-to-customer/): Connect ads, landing pages, customer records, and follow-up before spending more to grow.