Custom AI systems for established businesses

Put AI agents to workacross your business.

Vulc designs and builds custom AI agents, and the workflows and operating systems around them, connected to the tools and data your business already runs on. Our deepest ground is e-commerce, and the same architecture runs for agencies, software, subscription and service businesses. Built around how you actually work, inside accounts you own.

Custom-built for your stack. Owned by you.

AI agent roles

What could an AI agenttake off your team?

Roles we configure around real responsibilities, drawn from the work that repeats in a business. These are examples and starting points, not a shelf of finished products: each one is built around your own workflow and tools.

Explore the agent library

Sales

Marketing and creative

Operations

  • Daily operations
  • Task coordination
  • SOP execution
  • Vendor follow-up
  • Inventory watch

Finance

  • Financial analyst
  • Profitability
  • Cash flow
  • Invoice follow-up
  • Reconciliation

Research

Management

Linked roles have a page in the library. The rest are shapes we build on request.

What makes a real agent

An AI agent is nota prompt with a name.

Most of the work in an agent is engineering, not prompting. Before one runs in your business, each of these has an answer written down.

Role

What is the agent responsible for, and what is it not?

Knowledge

What must it understand about the company before it acts?

Tools

Which systems can it read from, and which can it act inside?

Skills

How should it perform each specific job, step by step?

Routines

What runs on a schedule, and what runs on a trigger?

Workflows

Which other agents and systems does it hand work to?

Guardrails

When can it act alone, and when does a person approve?

Definition of done

What does a finished, high-quality output look like?

Product proof

An AI workforce,seen and directed.

Before Vulc built for anyone else, Maarten built a full AI operating platform for his own stores: an orchestrator directing six specialist agents, approval gates on every write, an operating dashboard on top. It runs as an open demo on sample data. Click through it to see how agents, tasks and approvals show up on one screen, and how a control layer wraps an AI team.

The platform's AI Team screen: Ford, the orchestrator, above six specialist agents named Iris, Mila, Noor, Theo, Cleo and Vera.
The AI Team screen of the demo: the orchestrator and the six specialists it directs. Maarten's own platform, running on sample data. Not a client system.

6

specialist agents in the platform

14+

live integrations wired

4

years operating online businesses

AI Operating System

One agent automates a job.An AI Operating System connects the business.

When several agents share one body of company knowledge, one set of live data and one approval layer, they stop being tools and become a layer of the operation. That layer is what we call an AI Operating System. You get the layers your business needs and no more, and every one of them is work we build, not a product you license.

  1. AI Team

    Specialist agents with defined roles, coordinated by an orchestrator where the work needs one.

  2. Skills and workflows

    How each job gets done, and how work moves between agents and people.

  3. Company knowledge

    Policies, tone, product facts and the rules that live in people's heads, written down where an agent can use them.

  4. Live business data

    Orders, tickets, leads, spend and margins, read from the source rather than a stale export.

  5. Tools and integrations

    The systems agents read from and act inside, with credentials scoped per integration.

  6. Human approvals

    Gates where a person sees the draft and its context before anything moves.

  7. Control layer

    The screen where you see status, outputs, approvals and system health. Yours, or one we build.

Modular by design

Already have a dashboard?Keep it.

Vulc does not force you into a fixed product. If you already run a strong interface or data layer, we build the agents, workflows and integrations around it. If you need a new control layer, we build that too. You do not need every layer.

Your dashboard, plus an AI workforce

Agents, workflows and integrations built around the interface you already run.

Three specialist agents

A small AI team on the roles that eat the most hours, sharing one approval layer.

One high-value workflow

A single process, end to end, from the moment work arrives to the moment it is done.

A full AI Operating System

Every layer, from the AI team to the control layer, in infrastructure you own.

Integrations

Your AI, where yourbusiness already works.

The stack below is where we have built directly, most of it e-commerce. Another 101 have documented public APIs: the helpdesks, CRMs, billing systems and project tools the rest of the work runs on.

If the required access and endpoints are available, we can integrate the system into the build. We verify that before scope is locked.

See the full surface
  • Shopify
  • Klaviyo
  • Meta
  • Google Ads
  • TikTok
  • Pinterest
  • Stripe
  • Google Analytics
  • Search Console
  • Recharge
  • Loop
  • Yotpo
  • Loox
  • Chargeflow

Support agent · illustrative

  1. Shopify order
  2. Support agent
  3. Policy check
  4. Draft reply
  5. Your approval
  • 14:31 · order #2201 read from Shopify · refund above your threshold
  • 14:31 · return policy checked · reply drafted in your tone
  • 14:32 · routed to you · waiting on approval

approval-first. nothing ships without you.

Research agent · illustrative

  1. CRM prospect
  2. Research agent
  3. Qualification
  4. Personalised draft
  5. CRM update
  • 09:04 · new prospect read from the CRM · six sources gathered
  • 09:06 · qualified against your criteria · outreach drafted
  • 09:06 · CRM record updated · draft held for your review

reads, checks, drafts, updates. you send.

Two flows, illustrative. The real ones are built from your own workflow, which is why no two ship the same.

How Vulc builds

Six stages.Each ends in something you can check.

We automate only after the workflow is understood. Every stage produces something you can open, question and sign off before the next one starts.

01

Understand

Map how the business operates and find where AI creates the most leverage.

02

Design

Define the agents, workflows, tools, data, approvals and interface the job needs.

03

Build

Configure and engineer the system around your actual processes.

04

Connect

Connect agents to company knowledge, live data and the systems you already run.

05

Test

Run the workflows against realistic scenarios before any real autonomy is switched on.

06

Launch and hand over

Run it in infrastructure you control, train the team, and hand over ownership.

Ownership

Built in your accounts.Owned by you.

Every system we ship runs on your accounts, inside your infrastructure. Agent credentials are scoped per integration, and every write stops for your sign-off. When you want to know why something happened, the audit trail already holds the answer: which agent acted, on what, and who approved it.

After handover, the system keeps running if Vulc's access is removed. That is the test we build to, and the reason there is no Vulc cloud to depend on.

  • Your code
  • Your database
  • Your AI accounts
  • Your integrations
  • Your credentials
  • Your data
  • Your infrastructure where practical

Audit trail · illustrative

  • 07:41 · support agent · read order #4482 · scope: orders.read
  • 07:42 · reply drafted · held at the approval gate
  • 07:44 · approved by you · sent · logged
  • 07:52 · write attempt outside scope · blocked · flagged

every action on record. every approval yours.

Who it is for

Built for businesses withreal operations to improve.

E-commerce stores are where we go deepest, and agencies, software companies, subscription and service businesses qualify on the same test. The category on your invoice is not the test. These are.

  • An established company, not an idea
  • Work that repeats every week
  • Real volume in sales, support, marketing or operations
  • Several digital systems in daily use
  • Knowledge work that is worth someone's time
  • Business data an agent can read
  • A willingness to change a process, not just add a tool
  • Enough at stake that the build pays for itself

When we say no

You are pre-revenue or very early

There is no operation to systemise yet, so a build would be guesswork dressed up as software. Come back when the work repeats.

The work does not repeat

A build pays back on rhythm and volume. If the painful thing happens twice a year, a system is the wrong answer and we will say so.

You want the cheapest option

This is a build, not a subscription. Cheap builds get rebuilt, and the second one costs more than doing it properly first.

You want AI with nobody in the loop

Everything we make stops for a human before it acts. If you want a system that runs unattended on your customers and your money, we are not it.

Founder

Built from operating experience,not AI theory.

Vulc is founder-led by Maarten, and every build is led directly by him. Around four years operating online businesses, e-commerce above all, then an AI operating platform built and run in production for his own stores before Vulc fitted it to anyone else's. You work with the founder from the first call to the handover.

Vulc approaches AI from the workflow side first. Client ownership and approval-first delivery are deliberate principles, not defaults we fell into. The hard questions are not about models.

The questions we ask first

  • What should the agent own?
  • What information does it need?
  • Which systems should it use?
  • How should it work, step by step?
  • What should require approval?
  • What does good output look like?
Maarten, founder of Vulc

FAQ

Straight answers.

What exactly is an AI agent?

Software with a defined role, the knowledge it needs, the tools it may use, and rules for when it acts alone and when a person approves. It reads what arrives, does the job, and prepares or takes the action. A chatbot answers questions. An agent gets work done.

What kinds of AI agents can Vulc build?

Roles across sales, support, marketing, operations, finance, research and management: triage, drafting, research, monitoring, reporting, and the workflows that join them. If the job has clear inputs, repeatable decisions, accessible tools or data and a defined outcome, we build an agent around it. The agent library shows the shapes we start from.

Can multiple AI agents work together?

Yes. That is what the AI Operating System is: specialist agents sharing one body of company knowledge, one set of live data and one approval layer, with an orchestrator directing the work where the operation needs it. The demo runs exactly that.

Do we need a new dashboard?

No. A dashboard is the control layer, one part of the system, and only worth building when nothing you have does the job. Many builds are agents and workflows around what you already run.

Can Vulc use our current dashboard?

Yes. If you have a strong interface or data layer, we build the agents, workflows and integrations to feed it and to take direction from it. If it needs an approvals view it does not have, we add that.

Can agents connect to our existing software?

If the required access and endpoints are available, yes, with credentials scoped to what the agent needs. We verify that before scope is locked. The stack we have built against directly is on this page, and another 101 tools have documented public APIs. Where the access is not there, we tell you on the first call.

How autonomous are the agents?

As autonomous as you decide, per action. Routine, low-risk work can run on standing approval. Anything that touches customers or money stops at a gate with your name on it: you see the draft and its context before it moves.

Do we own the system?

You own the delivered system outright: code, credentials, documentation, runbooks. It runs in your environment, on accounts that were yours from day one. We keep rights only to generic, reusable building blocks and the know-how, never to your data, your configuration or the system itself. If you want ongoing optimisation there is a monthly retainer; if not, it keeps running.

How much does it cost?

Every build is scoped and priced after the first call, because the agents, workflows and integrations involved differ from business to business. The number is anchored to what this work is already costing you: a hire you were about to make, a team's week going on repeating work, a stack of tools renewing for another year, or an agency retainer that never compounds. What moves it: how much of the operation is involved, how many systems, how strange the edge cases, and how much is genuinely new. The first call is free, and you get the verdict whether or not you build with us.

What happens on the first call?

Thirty minutes on your real operation with the person who would build the system. We map where the work piles up, work out what shape fits, from one agent to a full operating system, and tell you straight if nothing does. No technical preparation needed. You leave with a verdict: build, wait, or not a fit.

Can I see one working before I book?

Yes, and you do not have to ask. The demo is the platform Maarten built for his own stores, open to anyone at demo.vulc.ai on sample data: an orchestrator, six specialist agents, six integrations live, approval gates on every write, and an operating dashboard on top. Click any screen, run the profit audit, break whatever you like. It resets itself.

How long does a build take?

That is set on the first call along with the scope. You get a fixed timeline before the build starts, and you see progress in working software rather than status updates.

Who builds it?

Vulc is founder-led by Maarten, and every build is led directly by him: around four years operating online businesses and a full AI operating platform built and run in production. You work with the founder from the first call to the handover.

What does the retainer cover?

Monitoring, tuning and extending your system: new edge cases, new integrations, model updates. Light by design, and optional. It exists to improve the system, not to rent it back to you.

See where AI could createleverage in your business.

Tell us how the company operates, what is eating too much time, or where you need more capacity. We will tell you whether one agent is enough or the job needs a full operating system.