About / Independent by design
Small systems. Clear boundaries.
Spontalo is an independent AI workflow and agent lab, exploring useful systems for the everyday operations of New Zealand businesses.
Useful autonomy has a shape.
A clear task. A limited set of information. Permission to take certain steps. A point where the work returns to a person.
Those boundaries make a system easier to test, understand and improve. They also make it easier to see when the system should stop.
Operating principles
Keep the person in the process.
These principles guide what we explore and how we would build a workflow.
Human approval
Make important actions reviewable. Put a person at the decision point.
Controlled scope
Start with one workflow. Define what the system may do and where it must stop.
Less data
Use only the information needed for the job. Keep unnecessary detail out.
Visible work
Make actions, sources and exceptions understandable to the people responsible.
A lab, in practice
Build it. Try it.
Pay attention to the edges.
The work starts with a small question and a testable system. Routine cases show whether it is useful. Difficult cases show where its limits belong.
Some experiments will become tools worth sharing. Others will change the next attempt. Play will be the public bench for the work that is ready to try.
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