Make AI safe enough to sit next to.
Every civilization organized itself around the same object: a contained fire. Hearth exists to build the stone that holds this one.
“AI is the new fire. Enormous energy — genuinely dangerous when loose, transformative when held in the right structure.”
Dear operator,
Your team isn’t behind because they’re lazy. They’re behind because credit reviews, field tickets, invoices, and customer follow-ups were never designed to work together — and now an AI wave is arriving on top of all of it.
We don’t sell fire. We map your workflows, separate judgment from repeatable work, and build the smallest AI layer that creates real leverage — with your people signing off at every step.
— Ibrahim & Hearth
Warmth is engineered. The ember, not the blaze. Structure protects.
Three ideas govern everything we design, build, and hand over.
Warmth is engineered
A hearth is masonry before it is comfort. We start with the workflow — the load-bearing structure — and let precision produce the warmth. Never the other way around.
The ember, not the blaze
A tended ember is fire at its most efficient: quiet, dense, ready. Our work is always one small, intense point of capability inside a calm structure — never glow everywhere.
Structure protects
The arch is humanity’s oldest trust technology: it holds weight by geometry alone. Human-in-the-loop isn’t a policy page for us. It’s drawn into the shape of the company.
Parts of the hearth.
One carefully designed ecosystem. Each tool earns its place — plain, physical, and built to be handed over.
Mantle.
The operating console. Every workflow agent, artifact, and approval in one calm surface — the shelf above the fire where the day’s work sits.
See it thinkKindling.
The audit toolkit. We map handoffs, separate judgment from repeatable work, and find the first workflow worth automating — before anything is built.
Start with an auditAndiron.
The irons under the logs. Integrations with your ERP, CRM, email, and ledger — the quiet structure that keeps everything safely off the floor.
For technical teamsDispatch.
Field notes from the work: what actually happened when AI met a credit committee, a field-service backlog, a month-end close. No hype. Evidence only.
Read the latestExact workflows, not vague transformation.
Each lane names a business artifact — something your team already touches every week.
Watch one workflow warm up.
A quarterly AR rescreen, the way it runs inside Mantle — conversation on the left, orchestration on the right.
Audit first. Build small. Hand over.
Every engagement follows the same four moves — no platform lock-in, no black box.
Map the work
We trace tickets, invoices, credit checks, and follow-ups to where they actually break — not where the org chart says they should.
Separate judgment from repetition
Your analysts’ judgment is the asset. We find the repeatable work wrapped around it and automate only that.
Build the smallest useful layer
One workflow, one agent, one artifact. Proven in weeks, not quarters. If it doesn’t earn its place, it doesn’t ship.
Hand over with your people in the loop
Every output routes to a human before it becomes real. You own the system, the prompts, and the off switch.
| ACCT-1147 | exposure 118% of limit | FLAG |
| ACCT-0892 | days-late trending +9 | FLAG |
| ACCT-1204 | financials 14mo stale | FLAG |
| ACCT-0776 | within all thresholds | ok |
Boring where it should be. Careful where it counts.
The stack is chosen for longevity and auditability — the same way you’d choose materials for a building.
Frontier models, held loosely
We route tasks to the model that fits — and keep every prompt, retrieval source, and output logged so no vendor becomes a load-bearing wall.
Your data stays yours
Private indexes on your infrastructure or ours under agreement. No training on client data. Retention you can audit. Plain-language answers on request.
An off switch that works
Every agent has a human gate, a rollback, and a kill path. If the system can’t explain a decision, it doesn’t make one — it asks.
The shape of the work.
Three representative engagements. Specifics shared under NDA; patterns told plainly.
From field ticket to invoice in one day
A 40-truck service company ran tickets on paper and closed invoices weekly. We mapped the handoff, put one agent on ticket-to-draft-invoice, and kept the controller as the final gate.
Analyst leverage on the quarterly rescreen
A specialty lender’s analysts spent the last week of each quarter assembling review packets. One workflow agent now drafts every packet; analysts review, adjust, and sign.
A website buyers’ AI can read
A regional distributor was invisible to the AI tools its buyers had started using. We rebuilt their service pages and entity profile so both humans and machines understand the business.
Built in the open, handed over whole.
Technical teams get the same thing our clients do: systems they can read, run, and own.
The Hearth agent SDK
from hearth import agent, gate
credit = agent(
task="ar_rescreen",
sources=["erp", "crm", "email"],
review=gate("analyst"), # always
)Agents are declared with their data sources and their human gate in one place. No gate, no run. That’s not a guideline — it’s enforced.
Request the technical overviewSelf-hosted by default
$ hearth audit ./workflows/ar.yaml
mapped: 14 steps · 3 handoffs
judgment: 2 steps (analyst-owned)
automatable: 6 steps
est. leverage: 11.5 hrs / weekKindling runs against your own exports — no credentials leave your network during an audit. You get the map before we talk about building anything.
Book a working sessionNotes from the work.
Essays and field research on AI modernization in the industries that actually move things. No hype verbs allowed.
Sit closer to the fire.
We hire people who have done the work by hand and respect it — operators, analysts, and engineers who want their craft to outlast the demo. If that’s you, the door is open.
Start with one workflow that’s leaking time.
The AI Modernization Audit takes two weeks and ends with a map, a shortlist, and a build plan you can execute with us or without us. No obligation past the map.