From co-pilot to AI that does the work to AI that learns the work.

Stop buying AI that drafts.
Start hiring AI that does the job.

Six candidates for the work that wears your team down — chasing deadlines and unpaid invoices, answering every first enquiry, keeping your website current, shipping features from a written spec. Nothing reaches a client until someone you name taps Approve. Live in 72 hours, on a junior’s salary — and every correction your partners make, it keeps.

// or start smaller — the US$2,300 sprint maps your three busiest workflows first

Illustration: an agent's draft arrives on WhatsApp, a partner approves it with a correction, and the correction is learned.

72 hoursfrom yes to working on your files
30 daysprobation, measured on your own work
US$1,225a month — a junior’s salary
0invented performance claims on this site
01 WHERE YOU ARE

Every team gets to AI the same way. Most stop on the first rung.

The rungs don’t change. What changes is which one you’re standing on — and whether the foundation under you carries to the next without starting over.

01 TOOLS almost everyone

An assistant that drafts, answers, and writes the first version.

Your people move faster. The work still belongs to them — every draft needs a human to finish it, and nothing happens while nobody is typing.

for a business

Copilot licences, ChatGPT in the browser, a chatbot bolted to the website.

for an engineering team

Autocomplete in the editor. Engineers typing faster, the team shipping at the same rate.

02 HANDOVER we start here

AI that does the work — with someone you name holding approval.

Not a draft you finish. The job itself: the reminder chased, the invoice followed up, the enquiry answered at nine at night, the page updated, the feature built to a signed spec. Nothing reaches a client until a person you named taps Approve.

for a business

Hire an agent for the one workflow that wears your team down. See the roster →

for an engineering team

We spec, agents build, your engineers review and merge. CV 05 →

03 LEARNING where we’re headed

It gets better at your work, every week.

The rung most teams haven’t seen. When your partner corrects a draft and says why, the correction sticks — weighted by who gave it. You never write instructions for a computer, never maintain a prompt library, and never repeat on Monday what you explained on Friday.

how it’s measured

The share of its drafts your reviewers approve untouched — counted weekly, on your own work.

where it comes from

B-Spec, our research programme. How it learns →

02 HIRE AN AGENT

Six CVs are on your desk.

Tell us the work that wears your team down and we’ll tell you which one to call in. Same hiring process, same probation, same guarantee — salaries follow the role, exactly as they do in your firm.

03 WHY IT DOESN’T PLATEAU

You already train staff this way.

Every good firm trains juniors the same way. The junior drafts, a senior marks it up, the junior learns why — and a few years later the senior stops checking. The whole profession runs on it.

This is that apprenticeship, applied to an agent. And unlike the junior, it doesn’t handle one client at a time: the same care Ahmed taught it for Mr. Khalid is applied across the whole client book, at nine in the morning and nine at night.

$ watch one week teach it forever

01

It drafts, and shows its work

Every step visible — what it read, what it assumed, what it proposes to send.

02

A person you named approves — or corrects, with a reason

About ten seconds, on WhatsApp or wherever your team already works.

03

The correction sticks — weighted by who gave it

A partner’s correction outranks an assistant’s. You never write a prompt or maintain a manual.

04

Friday, you see the number

The share of its drafts approved untouched. Made of your own partners’ decisions — which is why we can’t polish it.

// B-Spec is the research behind the roster — and the product it runs on. Open problems published, unresolved.

04 HIRE A BUILDER

Or bring the builder in‑house.

Some firms don’t want one agent — they want the capability. An AI automations engineer or an automation lead, embedded in your team, running your automation programme end to end. They report to you, work your hours, and leave your people able to do it without them.

03 — three months
US$15,000
for the engagement · one builder

Enough to ship two or three workflows and prove the shape.

most take this
06 — six months
US$24,000
for the engagement · one builder

Long enough to hand the programme to your own people.

12 — annual
US$36,000
for the engagement · one builder

For firms making automation a standing function, not a project.

Two posts, one rate. An AI Automations Engineer builds and ships the workflows. An Automation Lead does that and owns the roadmap, the standards and your team’s training. Both are billed at the same rate — which one you need is a question we’ll answer honestly on the first call.

Full detail on hiring a builder → · Hire AI engineers in Sri Lanka →

05 TRAINING

Or learn to do it yourselves.

Two programmes, two audiences — both taught by the Principal AI and Product Management Consultant who built the methodology, with the team that runs every engagement. No account managers, no junior consultants.

// 01 — the specshop method

Spec-first software development

AI-native engineering, taught by the team that built the methodology. Nine years and 120+ products of spec-first delivery, compressed into a cohort. Two tracks — senior engineers, and graduates.

cohort-based · per seat $500 – $2,000
// 02 — AI for business

Run your business on autopilot

For owners and operators, not engineers. Map the work that wears your team down, learn which parts hand over safely, and leave with one workflow specified and ready to staff. No code, no jargon.

one day, Dubai · per seat register interest
06 NEXT STEP

Thirty minutes. We’ll tell you whether this is worth your time.

Tell us the work that wears your team down. We’ll tell you which rung you’re on, which candidate fits — and if none of them do, we’ll say so and tell you what does.

specshop.dev — an AI consultancy and AI agency in Colombo, Sri Lanka · Muscat · Dubai — a team of seven, every engagement, end to end. Led by Janaka Ediriweera.

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