Zero to Agent

Certified Claude partner, in Anthropic's partner network

Less busywork for your team.

Your AI implementation partner. We build AI teams and custom software for growing and enterprise companies.

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$2B+
combined revenue of the businesses we work with
20+
industries we've built for
3
countries with our offices: the U.S., Canada and Dubai
4
companies our leaders have built and sold

Clients include

Results

Real work, in our clients' own words.

“Every member on our team has an assistant now that catches everything.”

Ignacio RodriguezCEO and Principal Architect, IR Architecture & Interiors

A Los Angeles architecture and interiors studio, founded in 2012. A client since June 2026.

“You guys really listen to what it is that the client actually needs.”

SuzanFounder of an online health and nutrition coaching brand · 1 min

“You guys really care about your clients and the output.”

LaurenCo-founder of an architecture and interiors studio · 1 min

What we built, and what changed

Garage door distributor · 23 locations across the U.S.

$2.6Ma year in pay for the staff who answer phones and place orders

AI phone agents at all 23 locations answer the phones 24/7 and handle the whole order.

Their staff answer the phones from 7:30 to 4:30, so orders that came in after hours used to wait until morning. Now an AI agent picks up at any hour, in English or Spanish, and handles the whole order from start to finish. A staff member only steps in when a call needs one. That means more orders and more revenue, and each agent costs about 65% less than the salary of a person doing the same job.

Their CEO's numbers

IR Architecture & Interiors · Los Angeles

1.5 hoursto compare nine contractor bids

Comparing contractor bids went from a week to an hour and a half.

We also set up a daily system for the whole firm: a short email each morning with what is due that day, a list of follow-ups, and a report on projects running over budget.

In the firm's own words

HVAC and refrigeration parts sales firm · Northeast U.S.

0wrong parts in 139 quote lines

Price quotes written from their own price sheets, with no wrong parts.

Their team wrote every quote by hand, 5 to 10 minutes each. An AI chatbot they tried before had made up part numbers. We built a system that writes the quote from their real price sheets and asks a person whenever it isn't sure. We tested it on 139 lines from quotes they had already sent. It got none wrong.

Our test, checked against their real quotes

Real estate investment firm · New York and Miami

46 of 47real deals found in about 200 emails

AI reads every email from brokers and finds the deals worth looking at.

Brokers email this firm property deals all day. The partners used to open every one to find the few in their markets. We built a tool that reads each email and marks the ones that fit. In a test on about 200 of their real emails, it found 46 of the 47 real deals.

Our test on two partners' real inboxes

Online health and nutrition coaching brand

281messages answered by the end of August

New leads on Instagram get an answer in the founder's own voice.

People message this brand on Instagram to ask about its programs. Three staff were spending more than 20 hours a week replying. Now AI writes the reply the way the founder would and sends it. If a message is tricky, it waits for a person to approve it.

Counted from their account

Group travel company · college and corporate trips

35 to 40new sales contacts in two hours

A list of the right people to call, built for each sales rep.

Their reps sell ski trips to colleges and had to find the student leaders at each school by hand. One rep said a single school would have taken a week. Now AI builds the list for them, and a person checks it.

In their sales team's own words

Real estate investment firm · New York and Miami

$5,000what a lawyer charged them for one zoning report

They paid a lawyer $5,000 to find out what they could build on a property. Now AI tells them.

Before this firm buys a property, it has to know what the city allows there: how tall, how many units, what it can be used for. A lawyer used to write that up. We built a tool that does it. They type in the address and get the rules for that property, and where each rule comes from. It works for Miami and New York.

“Had I had the zoning tool, I wouldn't have hired the attorney.”

The firm's principal, in his own words

Who you'd work with

Our team has built and run businesses, and our leaders have sold four companies between them.

  • Matt Bender

    Chief of Ventures and Founding Member

    Leads our partnerships and new ventures. Sold his first seven-figure company at 25.

  • Kensho Ando Heng

    Co‑CEO

    Leads our delivery team, from your kickoff call to the finished work.

    Runs your project

  • Mo Moahid

    Co‑Founder and Co‑CEO

    Leads our strategy and partnerships. Built and sold a campus events and marketing company.

  • AR Sajid

    Co‑Founder and Chief AI Officer

    Leads the technical side of every build. His first AI company was acquired.

  • Nafis Azad

    Advisor to Zero to Agent

    Co-founded Lucky, a retail-data platform acquired by SPINS in 2025.

    Forbes 30 Under 30

Six of our team in a working session around a boardroom table, laptops open, mid-discussion.
Our team in a working session at the office, September 2026

The rest of the team

  • Syed AhmedFounding Engineer
  • RaheelProduct Lead and AI Engineer
  • Venus BhatiaEngineer
  • Zabil TahirEngineer
  • Kyle KnoxHead of UK and Europe Operations
  • Oana BadiceanuHead of Client Partnerships, Canada
  • Lena PerezHead of Growth
  • Karol KolodziejekHead of ConstructionAlso runs a masonry company
  • Brando DomenicHead of Roofing Division
  • Kamila OrdonezMarketing and Content Lead
  • Abdul-RaafeMedia Lead

Out in the world

  • A full room at The Agentic Boardroom, with a Zero to Agent speaker standing by the screens under chandeliers.
    We hosted The Agentic Boardroom, with a Google AI leadToronto Tech Week, May 2026
  • Three people on a panel in front of a bright mural, two of them from Zero to Agent.
    On a panel at Waterloo Tech WeekSeptember 2026
  • A Zero to Agent talk on a purple-lit stage, seen from the back of a full room.
    Speaking to a full roomOctober 2026
  • Two of the team at their laptops in an in-person client session.
    Four days on site with a client's teamMiami, June 2026
  • A Zero to Agent speaker with a microphone beside a seated panelist, slides on the screens behind.
    A founder workshop on AIHarbour Sixty, downtown Toronto
  • Six people from the event standing together in front of Zero to Agent screens.
    After The Agentic BoardroomToronto, May 2026

What we build

We're your AI implementation partner. We build your company its own AI team, and custom software when you need it. Our team does the work for you.

  1. We map your business
  2. We build it for you
  3. We train your people
  4. We keep improving it

Your AI team

Your Chief

Like a chief of staff for each person on your team.

  • Owner
  • Office manager
  • Sales lead
  • Project manager

How it runs once it's live

Text or call your Chief

Chief Agent Officer Each person has their own.

Your Chief hands it to a helper

Your helpers One job each. Which ones depends on your company.

Done, in your Work Hub

Work Hub Ties in your software, with a login for each person.

Helpers in each department

Which ones you get depends on your company. These are examples.

  • Sales

    • Quote follow‑ups
    • Re‑engaging old leads
    • Outreach
  • Finance

    • Payroll
    • Invoices
    • Late payments
  • Front office

    • Answering the phone
    • Orders and bookings
    • Sorting email
  • Estimating

    • Drafting quotes
    • Comparing bids
    • Purchase orders
  • Operations

    • Morning briefs
    • Tracking follow‑ups
    • Task lists
  • Training

    • Personal assistants
    • Handbook answers
    • AI training

Company Brain

Your company's knowledge and rules in one place.

What goes in

  • Price sheets
  • Handbook
  • How you write
  • Who approves what

Who reads it

A rule in useQuotes over $10,000 need your OK.

$12,400 quoteHeld for your OK

AI roadmap

What gets built first, and what comes after. You decide how far to take it.

  1. FirstThe job that costs you the most time
  2. NextOnce the first is working
  3. After thatOne department at a time

Custom software

Made for how you work. Connected to the software you already use. You own it.

  • Internal tools
  • Customer portals
  • Connections between your systems

Quoting and purchase order checks

Built for a manufacturer's sales rep firm.

What you'd get

Your first two months with us, step by step.

Zero to Agent

Your first two months

  1. KickoffA few days after you sign

    A 60-minute video call with our Co‑CEO Kensho, your delivery lead and one of our engineers. Your private Slack channel with our team opens, and we set up access to your tools with you, securely.

    You get
    • Your project team
    • Your private channel
    • A shared plan
  2. RoadmapWeeks 1 to 2

    We sit with the people who do the work, see where the time goes and rank what's worth building.

    You get
    • Your RoadmapWhat we build first, and what comes after.
  3. Your Chief goes liveEarly on

    Your Chief Agent Officer is an AI right hand you can text. It messages you first, flags problems and learns your company.

    You get
    • A working Chief
    • Your Work HubThe one system your whole company runs on, with everything connected.
  4. Build and testThrough month two

    We build your first helper inside your tools and test it on your own past work. We check in every week, and post an update in your channel every Friday.

    You get
    • Your first helperWorking inside your tools.
    • A first Company BrainYour company's know-how in one place.
  5. Train and hand overBy month two

    Hands-on training for each person, on their real work. Your Chief runs the helpers, and checks with a person before anything that commits the business.

    You get
    • Your team using itWith short guides.
  6. What's nextAfter month two

    We look at the results with you and scope what comes next.

    You get
    • A roadmap for what's nextScoped with you, and the choice to keep going.

The agreement doesn't add to this scope. Anything extra is agreed in writing first. We go through it together on our call.

Questions

What owners ask us most.

Have you done this for a business like ours?

Probably something close. We've built for 20+ industries, including HVAC parts, architecture, real estate, distribution and dental. On our call, we'll show you the closest example.

Do we have to switch software?

No. We build inside the tools you already use, like your email, your CRM and your accounting system. And if you're not attached to your software, we can replace it too.

Couldn't we just build this ourselves?

You could build some of it. The hard part is finding the hours to finish it, connect it to your tools and keep it running. That's the work we do, and we train your team along the way.

Is our data safe?

The AI reaches only the tools you connect, and it can't give itself access to anything else. Each person sees only what their job needs, and your IT person or a security tester can check the setup before anything sensitive is connected.

What if it gets something wrong?

It drafts, and a person on your team approves it first. When it isn't sure, it asks instead of guessing.

We've been burned by tech before. How do we know this will work?

We start small: the one job that costs you the most time, proven on your own examples. You see it working before you decide on the next one.

Will my team have to learn a lot of new stuff?

Not much. It works inside the tools they already use, and we train each person on their own work.

What will the agreement look like?

It covers what you see under “What you'd get” on this page, in more detail, along with the investment. We go through it together on the call, so bring anyone who needs to sign off.

Want to see this for your business?

Book a short call and we'll show you what we'd build first for your business. No hard feelings either way.

Anyone else from your team is welcome on the call.

Talk soon, Matt BenderChief of Ventures and Founding Member

Book a call Email Matt