Vendor Onboarding
A project manager says a new sub starts Monday. This agent sends the packet that hour — tax form, your insurance requirements, the banking form, the agreement — then tracks what comes back, reads each document against your checklist, and chases whatever is missing. It never activates the vendor. It hands you a finished file, or an honest list of what is still open.
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Every agent is built for your business — your systems, your approval chain, your way of working. We scope it on the call.
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- Private VPS deployment. This agent runs on a server that belongs to you, not a shared cloud tenant. Tax IDs, signed agreements, and banking forms sit in your own folder on your own box — not inside somebody's vendor portal.
- A technician agent alongside it. Every hire ships as a pair: the Vendor Onboarding Agent collecting and checking documents, and a VPS-technician agent that lives on the same box and keeps it healthy — patched, backed up, monitored. You're not hiring one thing, you're hiring a small team of two.
- Communication channel connection. Wired into wherever the packet goes out and the documents come back — your inbox, a shared mailbox, whatever your team already uses — so nothing has to be forwarded to it by hand.
- Your compliance checklist, configured. Your required liability limits, your legal entity as it must appear on the certificate, which licenses matter for which trades, and how far ahead of an expiration date you want to hear about it. Configured to your rules on setup, not a generic template.
- Security hardening. Private VPN, firewall, and encryption configured on your server before a single tax ID or bank number touches it.
- A live walkthrough of both agents, plus 14 days of priority support after launch — enough to tune the follow-up cadence and the checklist against the vendors you actually work with.
- You own everything — the server, the agent, the code it runs on, and the documents it collected.
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Who this is for
- You're a 20 to 40 person specialty contractor where the person who answers the phone is also the person emailing subs for their insurance certificate, and the compliance spreadsheet hasn't been opened since March.
- You get told a sub starts Monday and you genuinely can't say whether their insurance is current without opening a folder, finding the newest PDF, and reading the expiration date off the bottom of it.
- You bring on thirty or forty contractors and freelancers a year, and onboarding one means a mail thread, a signed agreement in one place, a tax form in another, and direct-deposit details retyped into a third.
- You've been burned once: a vendor emailed updated banking details, someone changed them without calling, and the money went somewhere else. Now every banking change routes through you personally and you are the bottleneck.
How it earns trust
The failure mode of AI in vendor onboarding isn't that it misreads a certificate. It's that a file gets marked complete and you can't tell it was wrong until a sub is standing on site or a tax notice arrives. This agent bets the other way: every field points back at the page it came from.
Every field points back at a page
The legal name, the tax ID, the carrier, the limits, the certificate holder text, the expiration date — click the value and the source document opens to the page it came from. Nothing is asserted without a source you can open, which is how a low-confidence read gets caught before it becomes a green checkmark.
The chase log is checkable
Every outbound follow-up is recorded: what was sent, to which address, on what date, and how many times. "I never got the packet" stops being an argument and becomes a claim you can check in ten seconds.
Test it with a report you already run
In January, run your 1099 report against the agent's vendor files. A vendor marked complete with no tax form sitting in the folder means it got something wrong, and you find that out in your own review rather than from a tax notice. Same test mid-project: pull the compliance list, pick three subs currently on site, open their actual certificates.
The raw documents live in your own folder on your own server, so your bookkeeper, your CPA, or your insurance broker can audit the trail without asking bebuilt for access — and after the 14-day support window, bebuilt removes its own access entirely.
Pairs well with
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I'm still waiting on their COI. Does this actually get it faster?
It sends the packet the same day the vendor is named, tracks what has and hasn't come back, and follows up on a schedule you set until the file is complete. It can't make anyone respond. What it changes is that silence becomes visible on day three instead of the Monday they show up on site. One warning: the chasing is polite and relentless and socially blind. It doesn't know a sub is the owner's brother-in-law, so set the cadence a notch gentler than you think you need.
Their insurance expired in March and nobody caught it. Would this?
Yes. It reads the expiration date off the certificate, stores it against the vendor, and warns you ahead of the date rather than after. The honest limit is that it reads what a certificate says, not what the policy does. A certificate can name you as additional insured on its face and still lack the endorsement that makes that true. It checks limits, holder text, and dates against your requirements and reports pass, fail, or missing — whether the coverage survives a real claim is a question for your broker or your attorney, and it hands that question there.
Every January I'm chasing fifteen vendors for tax forms.
It collects the tax form at the start, when the vendor still wants to get paid, instead of nine months later when they've stopped answering. It pulls the legal name off line 1 — not the trade name printed on the invoice — along with the tax ID and the 1099 flag. Matching that against a vendor you already have on file is judgment, and it will sometimes propose the wrong match, so a human confirms before any record is created.
What won't it do?
Four hard stops. It never activates a vendor: it tells you the file is complete and a human flips the switch. It never accepts a change to banking details on its own authority. It never judges whether a vendor's insurance is adequate — waiving a shortfall or granting an exception is your call and stays yours. And it never signs, countersigns, or issues an agreement on your behalf. Your approval chain stays exactly as it is. The agent adds a step before it; it never removes one.
A vendor emailed us new bank details. Can it just update them?
No. Any new or changed banking information is flagged and held for a human callback to a number already on your file. An emailed request is treated as a request, never as evidence. Be clear about why: it cannot tell a real vendor from someone who got into that vendor's mailbox, and a convincing email from a compromised account is exactly the input it's built to receive. That check is the reason the agent is safe to point at your mail. If you configure it away, it will file whatever it's sent.
What's covered under the $1,997 setup, and what isn't?
One company, one system of record, one approval chain — flat, one time. Setup is scoped on a free 15-minute call where we walk through what your packet contains today, who chases it, and what your compliance requirements actually say. Typically live in about seven days from kickoff. Multiple entities with genuinely different insurance requirements is a scoped conversation, not a price adjustment.
Hiring more than one? A department on tap — the subscription puts a build team behind every request, agent after agent.