An agency team shipping AI for their clients with a vetted operator
For studios, consultants and agencies

Your agency has the clients. Add the AI capability, without the hire.

We place vetted AI operators into agencies, so you can build and ship real AI for your clients without hiring a full-time specialist. Or refer the clients who want their own hire and earn a referral fee. Either way, you engage the operator directly.

See how it works

Vetted on shipped work, not a CV · You engage the operator directly · No hiring risk

Sound familiar

The work you keep having to turn away

Clients want AI you can't build

The requests are coming: an internal tool, a portal, an AI assistant, automation. You either turn the work away or hand it to a freelancer you have to manage.

Hiring a builder is a six-figure gamble

A senior AI engineer costs upward of $200k a year, and you cannot justify the overhead unless every client needs build work every month.

You look behind on AI

Every agency now claims AI. Almost none can actually deliver a real system. Clients can tell the difference, and it is starting to cost accounts.

The shift

Hiring a builder is expensive and risky. Placing a vetted one is not.

You do not need to hire a full-time AI engineer to offer AI. You need the right operator, on the right terms, only when the work is there. We keep a network of AI operators vetted on what they have actually shipped in production, and match one to your agency. You get real capability on demand; we carry the sourcing and the vetting, you carry nothing you were not already carrying.

Build what, exactly

What an operator ships for your clients

Not another tool to sell them. Most clients have already bought the software. The work is making it deliver, and building the parts no vendor sells.

Internal tools and dashboards

Replace the spreadsheets and manual process a client's team runs on with a system that does the work for them.

Client and customer portals

A branded place for their customers to order, book, upload or track, wired to the systems behind it.

AI assistants on their own material

A support or sales assistant that actually knows the client's products, policies and history, not a generic bot.

Automation across the tools they own

Their CRM, accounting, inventory and email finally talk to each other, so no one re-keys the same data four times.

Reporting and data pipelines

Numbers pulled from every system into one live view, so decisions stop waiting on a manual export.

Custom web and mobile apps

When the off-the-shelf option does not fit, a real app built to the client's process and owned by them.

Two ways to work with us

Bring it in-house, or refer it out.

In both, the operator contracts directly with you or your client. Fountainhead finds and vets, and stays out of the delivery.

Embed

An operator on your team

A vetted AI operator embeds in your agency, contracted directly with you, on a fixed term or permanently. Real AI capability on your team, so you can build and ship for your clients under your own name. You own the client relationship and the margin.

Refer

Your clients, their own hire

Some clients want their own AI person. Refer them. We find and vet the right operator, they engage directly, and you earn a referral fee. Your client gets capability, you get paid for the introduction, and it never touches your delivery or your risk.

Why us

Your name goes on their work. So the bar is high on purpose.

We judge operators on what they have put into production, not a CV or a certificate. Fountainhead has built and launched 12 platforms across multiple industries, so we know what good looks like. Every placement is backed by a re-placement guarantee. You put a vetted, proven operator in front of your client, not a gamble.

The standard we vet against
  • An operating system for a coffee roaster: production, inventory, wholesale ordering and invoicing in one place.
  • A wholesale ordering platform: cafes order online, on standing orders, card on file.
  • A dropshipping and fulfilment platform other people build their own brand on.
  • A Shopify app, live in the app ecosystem.
  • A loyalty product with tap-to-earn.

Built and put live by Fountainhead. The bar every operator is measured against.

A network of vetted AI operators

Add AI to your agency this quarter.

A fifteen minute call to see whether an embedded operator or a referral arrangement fits your agency. No pitch, just the shape of it.