Frequently asked question

General information

At TBM, we are your strategists to help guide your AI automation roadmap in the direction that's most beneficial for you. Understanding the vast landscape of AI is never ending, and the possibilities are endless, but time isn't. We provide the expertise to streamline your business so that you and your team can focus on what you do best. 

Most projects follow a 5-to-7 stage framework to ensure the technology actually solves a business problem rather than being "tech for tech's sake."

  • Discovery & Audit: We interview stakeholders to find "pain points." we look for manual tasks that are repetitive or data-heavy—prime candidates for AI.

  • Data Readiness Assessment: AI is only as good as the data feeding it. We audit your "data stack" to see if it’s clean, accessible, and structured enough for workflow automation and training models.

  • Strategy & Roadmap: You get a prioritized list of use cases. We’ll rank them by Impact (how much money/time it saves) vs. Feasibility (how hard it is to actually build).

  • Proof of Concept (PoC): Before spending thousands, we build a "mini" version of the tool (a prototype) to prove it works in your specific environment.

  • Full-Scale Implementation: Moving from the lab to the real world. This involves integrating your AI into your existing CRM, ERP, or internal apps.

Yes, AI agents have tremendous customization potential, as well as learning capabilites with the information they provide. The magic is in the evolution and increased proficiency of your AI bots and agents. 

The cost to automate your business and service offerings is a broad spectrum. We offer project fee, hosting, or retainer feea. It really depends on what works best for each client's needs. Monthly hosting and retainer fees from $75 per month to $6500 per month depending on your business needs. Most clients fit into the $250 to $1500 range for automated sales funnels, booking engines, social media content generation and posting. 3rd party services such as Google AdWords and social media ads are cost based on the client's needs and budget. Our goal is to provide the most efficient lane, and the most cost effective rate, for our client's specific needs. 

We can  absolutely train your agent with your own voice, and scripts. 

  • The Talent Gap: Data scientists are expensive and hard to find. It’s cheaper to "rent" an expert team for six months than to hire five full-time PhDs.

  • The Objectivity Gap: Internal teams often have "shiny object syndrome." A consultant provides a cold, hard look at whether a project will actually pay for itself.

  • The Speed Gap: A consultant brings pre-built frameworks and "accelerators" (standardized prompts, data cleaning scripts) that let them build in days what might take an internal team weeks.

Pricing & plans

Monthly Hosting Tiers

Choose a plan to have us manage, maintain, and run your AI automations on our infrastructure.

  • Bronze: $65/mo
  • Silver: $175/mo
  • Gold: $335/mo
  • Platinum: Custom Pricing (Tailored to enterprise-scale volume)

Note: All hosting plans are eligible for a 15% discount if billed annually.

Build & Release Plan

For clients who prefer to own their infrastructure.

  • The Concept: We develop your custom AI workflow and export the source file directly to you.
  • The Benefit: This allows you to host and run the automation on your own framework with no recurring monthly hosting fees from us.

Transitioning: Existing hosting clients can switch to the "Build & Release" plan at any time. A transition fee will apply, determined by the complexity of the workflow being handed over.

Important Details

  • Development Fees: All hosting or release fees mentioned above are in addition to the initial development fee. The development fee is quoted separately based on the specific requirements and complexity of your project.

  • Flexibility: You have the freedom to move between recurring hosting and the Build & Release model as your internal technical capabilities grow.

We offer a 15% discount for annual commitements. The discount also applies to incremental increases if automations exceed their original threasholds.

Yes, you can choose the Build & Release plan for an addional fee. The fee depends on the complexity of your pipeline. 

Every automation is evaluated in real time. If an automation reaches 85% capacity the owner is notified. The goal is to reach 90 to 99% capacity without exceeding, but if that occurs, the threashold is scaled automatically in order to prevent service disruption. 

Unfortunately data privacy is a constant risk which is why it's critical to only use top level services, and infrastructure to support data and pipelines. We only host on encrypted servers and send data over SSL transfer. We follow strict requirements adhearing to Google, Meta, and other automation platforms requireing privacy keys, encryption, process & business verifications for all of our automations. In same cases our automations are specifically intended to backup business data and file systems.  We offer data retention policies and guidelines, and the automations to adhear to those policies. 

Usage & workflow

Traditional automation follows a rigid "if-this-then-that" logic. An AI Workflow introduces a "reasoning" layer. This means the system can handle unstructured data—like summarizing a messy email, categorizing a voice note by sentiment, or generating a personalized response based on a client's history. While traditional tools follow rules, our AI workflows follow intent.

We use state-of-the-art neural text-to-speech (TTS) that includes natural inflections, pauses, and even "breathing" sounds. Our voice agents are designed to handle "barge-in" (where the customer interrupts the AI) and low-latency responses, ensuring the conversation feels fluid rather than robotic. We can even clone your own voice or a specific brand voice to maintain consistency across your channels.

You are never locked in. While many clients prefer our Bronze, Silver, or Gold hosting plans for the "hands-off" maintenance and security we provide, we also offer a Build & Release plan. Under this plan, we develop the logic and then export the workflow files directly to you to run on your own local or cloud framework. You can also transition from a recurring plan to a Release plan for a one-time transition fee.

We implement Guardrails and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Instead of letting the AI guess, we "ground" the model in your specific company data (SOPs, product catalogs, brand voice guides). Every output is filtered through a validation layer that checks for accuracy and tone before it ever reaches a customer, significantly reducing the risk of "hallucinations."

We design every workflow with a Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) fail-safe. If the AI's confidence score drops below a certain threshold (e.g., 85%), it will gracefully hand off the interaction to a human team member. The human receives a summary of the AI's conversation so far, ensuring the customer doesn't have to repeat themselves.

Security & privacy

Absolutely not. We operate under a strict Zero-Training Policy. Your data is partitioned within private, enterprise-grade environments. We use your data exclusively to power your specific workflows and ensure that none of your proprietary information is ever shared with third-party model providers or used to improve global AI models.

We utilize end-to-end encryption for all data both in transit (using TLS 1.3) and at rest (using AES-256). Your information is only handled within SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified environments. This ensures that your data lives in a "hardened" infrastructure that meets the highest global standards for cybersecurity.

We follow the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP). Access is restricted only to the essential automated processes required to execute the workflow. We do not share, sell, or trade your data with any third parties. Internally, our team only accesses your environment for maintenance or troubleshooting at your explicit request.

We are fully compliant with federal and state regulations, including the TAKE IT DOWN Act and evolving state-level "Right to Likeness" laws. We require explicit, documented consent for any voice cloning or digital persona creation. Furthermore, all AI-generated media we produce includes watermarking or metadata tagging to identify it as synthetic, ensuring transparency and legal safety for your brand.

To ensure maximum privacy and compliance with regional data sovereignty laws (like GDPR or CCPA), we store your data in certified regional data centers. We can configure your workflow to keep data localized to specific geographic regions to meet your internal compliance requirements.

We believe in Data Minimization. We only retain the data necessary to execute your workflow or satisfy your specific reporting requirements. Once a task is completed, sensitive inputs can be set to "auto-delete," ensuring your digital footprint remains as small as possible. If you move to our Build & Release plan, you gain full control over your own retention schedules.

es. We prioritize transparency. For clients on our Silver, Gold, or Platinum plans, we provide documentation regarding the data flow and security architecture of your automations. For Build & Release clients, the entire codebase and architecture are yours to audit with your internal security team before you take the files live.