A Proposal for Drew Helm · Haven Design + Build

Turn your SOPs and 58 Looms into an autonomous bookkeeper.

Drew spent 80-hour weeks for two months building something most companies never build: a single document that fully describes how the books get done at Haven. That document is the knowledge base a new bookkeeper would need. It is also the knowledge base an AI agent would need. Here is the plan.

Prepared forDrew Helm, Co-Founder & CFO ScopeBookkeeping automation end-to-end Engagement$6k/mo retainer · Discovery free
The Opportunity

Most companies don't have what you have.

Your bookkeeping SOP document is unusually agent-friendly. Macro overview to weekly cadence to monthly close to quarterly catch-up. Each leaf node is a single specific task paired with a single specific training video. There is no guessing about what the workflow is — it is already written down.

This is the rare case where the hardest part of AI automation, capturing institutional knowledge, is already done. The remaining work is translating that knowledge into agents that operate the same systems your bookkeeper does.

The Approach

Build a harness, not a script.

Most consultants will read the SOP cover-to-cover and then code each task by hand. That's a year of work and it's brittle the moment Buildertrend ships a UI change. The better approach is multi-agent: one reads, one plans, three debate the plan, one builds, and a supervisor watches the whole thing run.

1

Ingest

A planning agent reads the SOP doc, every Loom transcript, and the Drive Homebase. It produces a structured system map — every task, input, output, and decision point.

2

Plan & Critique

A second agent proposes an architecture. Three independent critic agents debate it — one optimizing for accuracy, one for cost, one for resilience to platform changes.

3

Build Narrowly

Pick one workflow (Cost Inbox is the right one). Build it end-to-end with full observability, exception handling, and a daily QC report. Once it runs clean for two weeks, add the next.

The Plan

Three steps. First one is free.

This follows the wyth.ai engagement model: one session to find the opportunity, then we build it, then we keep building. The Discovery Session is on the house for Haven.

Step 01

Discovery Session
90 minutes · 48-hour turnaround

A focused working session with Drew. We ingest the SOP + 58 videos, map every workflow, rank the automation candidates, and come back in 48 hours with a written action plan and a prioritized build sequence.

Free for Haven (normally $1,500–$2,500)

Step 02

The Fix
Weeks 1–4 after Discovery

We take the top priority from Discovery — Cost Inbox — and build it end-to-end. Agent harness, MCP connections, Buildertrend browser rig, QBO sync, daily run with human approval gate. Shipped, working, on real data.

Included in the retainer

Step 03

Fractional AI Partner
Ongoing

Each month we identify Haven's next highest-value automation and build it: credit cards, vendor credits, accounting inbox, monthly invoice drafting, budget variance reports. A continuous improvement engine at a predictable monthly cost.

$6,000 / month retainer
Where to Start

Cost Inbox first. By a mile.

Cost Inbox processing is mentioned across at least four Loom videos and is the most-clicked manual workflow in the entire SOP doc. It is daily, high-volume, and not judgment-heavy. If we nail this one first, it likely pays for the retainer by itself.

We pick it, build it well, prove it for two weeks, then expand. The rest of the workflows follow the same harness pattern once it's in place.

Cost Inbox Agent Loop

Running hourly, autonomously.

  1. Open Buildertrend Cost Inbox via authenticated browser session.
  2. Extract vendor, project, cost code, amount, PO # using vision + the cost-code rules.
  3. If confidence is high: create Bill in BT, push to QBO, attempt match, mark complete.
  4. If confidence is low or exception hits: drop into a review queue.
  5. Daily 8am digest to Drew: "I processed N items, M need your review."
Automation Candidates

Ten flows, ranked.

Pulled directly from the SOP doc and ordered for sequencing. Time-saved figures are order-of-magnitude, to be refined in the Discovery Session.

#WorkflowFrequencyTime saved / moDifficulty
1Cost Inbox processing
BT cost inbox → bill → QBO match
Daily20–40 hrsMedium · UI-heavy
2Credit card categorization
QBO transaction matching + coding
Daily / Weekly15–25 hrsLow · API
3Accounting Email Inbox triage
Sub invoices, vendor statements
Daily10–20 hrsLow · API
4Monthly Build invoice drafting
Deposits, % progress, COs, pay apps
Monthly15–25 hrsHigh · judgment
5Monthly Design invoice drafting
Hourly + lump sum contracts
Monthly8–12 hrsMedium
6Bank statement reconciliation
Monthly close activity
Monthly5–10 hrsMedium
7BT vs QBO quality control
Bills and expenses comparison
Monthly4–8 hrsLow · both APIs
8Scoreboard updates
Zoyler + financial performance sheet
Weekly / Monthly6–10 hrsMedium
9Utility bill splitting
Duke, Water, Meridian → per project
Monthly2–4 hrsLow
10Unknown / Uncategorized reports
Staff follow-up pings
Weekly3–5 hrsLow
System Integration Map

Three paths. The agent picks the fastest one for each task.

Data-to-data is always preferred. Computer-use is the fallback when no API exists. This is how each system gets touched:

Risks & Mitigation

Where this could go wrong — and the guardrails.

Next Step

Put 90 minutes on the calendar.

The NDA is signed and the SOP is in hand. The Discovery Session is the last thing between a plan on paper and a working Cost Inbox demo on your real data. It's free, and the written action plan comes back within 48 hours.

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