Startedby

    Harness

    Take your company understanding into the AI you already use.

    Startedby builds an understanding of how your company works. Through supported context access, that understanding can travel into the AI environments your team already uses—without making those tools the place where your company knowledge has to live.

    Where Startedby fits.

    Think about that talented new employee again.

    You can give them a laptop, access to your CRM, and every other system your company uses. That doesn't mean they understand your customers, your processes, or how work actually gets done.

    AI works the same way.

    The tools give it access. Startedby gives it an understanding of your company.

    You keep the AI you want to use. Startedby gives it the context to work like it knows your company.

    Startedby supplying company context, automations, tools, and permissions to ChatGPT.

    AI, in plain English

    This can sound complicated. It doesn't have to be.

    AI has accumulated a lot of new terminology very quickly. The underlying ideas are simpler than the vocabulary makes them sound.

    Here are the few terms you need to know.

    Harness

    The environment where AI is equipped to work.

    A harness brings together the AI, tools, instructions, data, permissions, context and controls needed to perform useful work. ChatGPT or Claude can serve as a harness. Or a company can have a Custom Harness built around particular work.

    Factory analogy

    The factory

    Harness paths

    Choose the environment that fits the work.

    Startedby makes your company understanding available to AI. Start in the environment your people already use, or build a dedicated one around the workflow.

    Path 01

    Existing Harness

    Keep using the AI environment your team already prefers. Startedby can make supported company context available to tools like ChatGPT and Claude, so they have more background about your people, work, systems, and processes. The Harness remains the environment where the AI works; Startedby provides the company understanding.

    1. 01

      Your AI environment

      ChatGPT, Claude, or another compatible tool your team already knows.

    2. 02

      Company understanding

      Startedby supplies the context behind how your company works.

    3. 03

      Your controls

      Configure the tools, permissions, and context needed for the work.

    Bring context with MCP access, reports, or Markdown exports. Access stays subject to permissions and sharing rules.

    Works with

    ChatGPT
    Claude
    Gemini
    Grok
    Grok Bot
    Copilot
    Any AI tool

    Path 02

    Custom Harness

    Build a more specific experience when the work needs a dedicated environment and a clearer way to move through it.

    1. 01

      A focused experience

      A client portal, structured records, review queue, or clear sequence of decisions.

    2. 02

      A purpose-built harness

      Bring together AI, company context, tools, data, instructions, and controls.

    3. 03

      A workflow that fits

      Give people a clear way to work when a dedicated environment is justified.

    An expert can help scope and implement the harness, including how it fits with the software you already have.

    Explore Custom Harness

    Take what Startedby learns into the AI environment that fits the work.

    Startedby builds the company understanding. Your team chooses where and how to use it.

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