A team of AI agents under human supervision, pointed at one specific piece of work that eats somebody's week. Below is a real one, start to finish.
The problem, in someone else's words
An IT manager wrote this in a public thread about licence renewals: a calendar isn't enough, twenty to thirty emails for one complicated renewal, some prorated, some staggered, some split across agreements. Forty-seven people answered. The best answers were sympathy and jokes. The only technical suggestion scored three votes.
6 vendor emails, as they arrived. No portal. No integration.
01-microsoft-ea.txt 11 amounts, 6 dates, true-up + price protection
02-crowdstrike.txt 3rd follow-up, discount schedule expiring
03-atlassian.txt two products, two renewal dates
04-fortinet.txt 4 sites, one of them already lapsed
05-adobe.txt seats nobody signed into in 90 days
06-datadog.txt usage above commit, billed at list
What the agents do with it
Dates, amounts and terms come out of the text. Then each contract is scored by what happens if nobody touches it — not by the size of the invoice.
> review ./renewals
6 contracts · 3 auto-renewing · 2 due within 30 days
[critical] Fortinet — lapsed 22 Aug
back-charges accrue daily; firmware rights drop at 30 days
[high] Microsoft — $142,680.00, decision due in 18 days
auto-renews · discount does not carry · true-up pending
deadline is the confirmation date, not the anniversary
[high] Adobe — hard cut-off in 31 days
13 seats unused for 90+ days · $5,194.44/yr recoverable
after the anniversary they lock for a full year
[high] CrowdStrike — 22% discount ends with the term
[high] Datadog — $2,104 over commit since February, billed at list
[medium] Atlassian — two products, two cycles, aligning costs extra
✓ written to renewal-review.html
Where this stops
It reads terms, it does not negotiate them. Whether co-terming pays off, or whether dropping to 24 seats keeps your discount tier, is a judgement the summary sets up and a person makes.
Where a number would be a guess, there is no number. One of the six emails carries four sites on separate dates, and some of those prices are alternatives rather than items to add up. That email is marked and read by hand instead of totalled.
Nothing is installed and no access is granted. You send files, you get a page back. That is the whole arrangement for a first piece of work.
Why we do this
Run by Ivan Nedomolkov from Almaty, Kazakhstan, working in English with clients anywhere. Renewals are the first piece of work we took apart; the method is the same for any job where a person is still moving numbers between windows by hand.