Built for owners and operators of small and mid-sized businesses

An AI team that runs your business in the background.

Cobenian Steward watches your inbox, calendar, and books — drafts the replies, recovers the revenue, tells you the one thing that actually needs you today, and once a week floats a bigger idea for the business. You approve. It acts. Nothing happens you didn't want.

No credit card to start Connect Gmail or Outlook in one click You approve before anything sends
Today · Tuesday morning
Calm state
The one thing Opportunity High conviction
Northwind's renewal is 6 weeks out — and they've gone quiet
41% of your revenue. No reply in 18 days. Worth a check-in now, not later.
Needs your ok · 1
Message Acme — confirm Friday's site visit
"Hi Sam — confirming we're on for Friday at 10. I'll bring the revised scope…"
A bigger idea Provocation · grounded in your data
What if your top 3 clients moved to flat-fee retainers?
They're 60% of your hours and the most predictable. Worth a look this quarter.
Saved this week
12 hrs
Recovered
$8,400
Things done
47

Works with the tools you already use — no new dashboard to learn

Gmail Outlook Google Calendar Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams SharePoint Slack QuickBooks Harvest RingCentral SMS Voice

What it does for you

The work that keeps slipping — quietly handled before lunch.

Cobenian Steward watches the same business you do, decides what matters, and either handles it or shows it to you with one tap.

Catches what's slipping through

Promised a quote on Tuesday and forgot? Client emailed three days ago with no reply? It surfaces every dropped commitment before your client notices.

Drafts the reply, in your voice

Reads the thread, knows the client, and writes the response the way you would. You skim, hit send. For trusted situations, it sends on its own.

Recovers revenue you'd miss

Reconciles meetings against time logs and invoices. Spots unbilled hours, overdue invoices, and projects that quietly went over scope.

Schedules without the back-and-forth

Sends clients a smart booking link that respects your real availability and travel time. Confirms, reschedules, and holds buffers for you.

Keeps every promise on record

Every "I'll get back to you Thursday" becomes a tracked commitment. Nothing falls between the cracks of email, Slack, and your memory.

Gives you mornings back

Open the laptop to one screen: what needs you and what was already handled overnight. No inbox triage. No status spelunking.

The advisor difference

Most tools watch. This one has an opinion.

Steward doesn't hand you another feed of alerts to wade through. It reads everything, then leads with the one thing that actually matters today — and about once a week it steps back and offers a bigger, strategic idea worth a look. It's the difference between a monitor and an advisor.

The one thing

It tells you what matters most

Out of the fifty things it could mention, it leads with the single move that matters most today — with the reasoning behind it, so you can trust the call or push back.

A bigger idea

It thinks about growth, not just tasks

About once a week it offers one contrarian, high-leverage direction — "what if your top clients moved to flat-fee retainers?" — grounded only in your real numbers and where you said you're headed.

It develops you

You get sharper, not just busier

It automates the rote work — but on the big calls it makes the tradeoff legible and lets you decide. A good advisor builds the owner, not a dependency.

How it works

You're up and running this morning. Saving time tomorrow.

Want the deeper view? Read "How Steward thinks" → for the full Know → Judge → Act → Learn walkthrough.

1

Connect what you already use

One-click sign-in with Google or Microsoft. Add QuickBooks, Harvest, Slack, Teams — only what you want it to see.

5 minutes Read-only at first
2

It learns how you actually run things

For the first week, it just watches and shows you what it would have done. You correct the small stuff. It locks in your style.

Observation phase Zero risk
3

It starts doing the work

Approve drafts, then graduate the easy stuff to "send on its own." Nothing reaches a client without your say-so. You can dial autonomy up or down any time.

Earned autonomy You approve sends

You stay in control

An AI assistant should feel like a great employee — not a black box.

You set the guardrails. It explains every decision, asks before anything risky, and shows you exactly what it did and why.

Choose your autonomy

From "show me everything first" up to "just handle anything routine." Set it per kind of action, for the spots you care about.

Hard limits, your call

"Never email a new client without me." "Never refund over $500." Set the lines it will never cross.

Nothing sends without you

Anything headed to a client waits for your nod — and a client-facing send never graduates to "on its own" until you say so. The audit trail keeps the receipts.

Every decision, explained

Click any action to see the email it read, the rule it followed, and the alternatives it considered. No mystery.

Privacy by design

It reads the shape of your business — not your private messages.

Steward reasons about who talked to whom, when, how much, and what's overdue — the metadata. It deliberately doesn't read the contents of your private correspondence. That's a core product commitment, not a setting you have to go find and switch on.

Your email bodies stay yours

It uses the metadata of an email — who sent it, the subject, the timestamp — to spot what needs attention. It never reads or stores the body. There's nowhere in the system to even put it.

Slack & Teams chatter stays private

Steward only reads messages you address directly to it — a DM or an @mention. Everyday channel conversation is reduced to metadata; it never reads what your team says to each other.

Calls & texts: metadata only

From RingCentral, SMS, and voice it keeps who called, when, and how long — never the recording, the transcript, or the message contents.

In short: Steward reads who, when, and how often — not what you wrote. The only things it reads as content are the ones you hand it directly.

What you measure

Tell it where you're headed. It watches the numbers that get you there.

Name what matters — "keep cash flow positive," "lower client concentration," "bill every hour." Steward pairs each goal with a real number it can track: your runway, AR days, unbilled hours, client mix.

No sliders to balance, no percentages to budget. It reads the actual numbers, tracks the trend toward your target, and tells you which actions are moving them — and which goal each recovered dollar belongs to.

Your goals, tracked
Current → Target
  • Lower client concentration
    Top client share · 41% → under 30%
    Trending down ✓
  • Get paid faster
    AR days · 52 → under 45
    Improving
  • Bill every billable hour
    Unbilled this month · 6 hrs → 0
    Needs attention
  • Extend runway
    Cash runway · 4.2 mo → 6 mo
    Holding
Progress is computed from your real numbers — never a figure you have to keep updating.

Revisit your goals any time. The dashboard shows the dollars each one brought back — so you can see which goal every recovered dollar attaches to.

Proven value

Owners who tried it for a month don't go back.

Average results across small businesses in their first 30 days. We show you the same numbers in your own dashboard, traced back to specific actions.

12 hrs
saved per week

Time you'd have spent on inbox triage, status updates, and rescheduling.

$8.4k
recovered per month

Unbilled hours, overdue invoices, and forgotten follow-ups it surfaced.

94%
drafts sent as-is

Operators approve almost every reply on the first read after week two.

"Three months in, my mornings start with coffee instead of triage. It found $11k of unbilled work in week one. I've stopped dreading my inbox."

DR
Diana Reyes
Owner, 8-person consulting firm

Built for small business

We built this for the people doing five jobs at once.

Big-company AI tools assume you have a team to configure them. You don't have time for that. Cobenian Steward is for the owner who is also the salesperson, the project manager, and the bookkeeper — and is tired of being the bottleneck.

Consulting & services

Captures every billable minute. Chases overdue invoices on a polite cadence. Keeps every client follow-up on time.

Trades & home services

Confirms tomorrow's jobs, reschedules around weather, sends quotes within an hour, and reminds clients to pay.

Agencies & creative shops

Tracks scope creep before it eats the margin. Drafts status updates clients actually open. Logs time from your calendar.

Professional services

Routes inbound leads to the right person fast. Books intros without the email tennis. Surfaces who's gone quiet.

Pricing

Simple pricing. Start free.

14 days free, no credit card. Keep going from $49/month. Cancel any time.

Solo

For the owner who does it all.

$49 /month
  • 1 user
  • All detections, findings & daily counsel
  • Email & calendar monitoring
  • QuickBooks & Harvest
  • Daily briefings & AI-drafted emails
Start free
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Team

For the whole shop.

$200 /month
  • Everything in Solo, plus:
  • Unlimited team members
  • AI assistant chat
  • REST API & MCP server
Start free

Background work — watching, drafting, daily briefings — runs on your monthly plan. Hands-on AI conversations draw from credits included each month, so a busy week never lands you a surprise bill.

Ten minutes to set up. The rest of the day back.

Open tomorrow morning to a quieter inbox.

Connect your accounts, watch it work for a week, and decide what you trust it to handle next. Free to try. You approve every step.