Forward-deployed AI · Chicago & the North Shore
Ready-made AI agents, deployed into your firm.
We design, build, and deploy full-stack AI agents into your stack, then train your team to run them. For commercial insurance, law, wealth, private equity, and family offices. You own what we build.
Clients we have worked with
What we build
Systems that ship into your stack.
We build the agents and automation, deploy them into your accounts, and hand them to your team. You own what we build.
AI agents
Named agents for the document work that eats your week: intake, review, drafting, and reporting. Built into the tools your people already use, with a human check at every step.
- Submission and matter intake
- Document review and drafting
- Reporting desks
- Read expiring policy0.4s
- Pull exposure changes0.6s
- Draft renewal packetnow
- Queue for your reviewnext
Illustrative. We build this into your stack.
Workflow automation
Finance and back-office processing, document handling, and reporting wired end to end, so the same team does more without more headcount.
- Finance and back-office
- Document pipelines
- Scheduled reporting
Data and systems migrations
Moving data and workflows between systems cleanly, with the plumbing that makes AI usable across your whole stack.
- System to system moves
- Clean data plumbing
- AI-ready foundations
Legacy CRM
12,480 records
New stack
12,480 clean
Illustrative. We build this into your stack.
Self-hosted, private models
For confidential work, private models on infrastructure you control. Nothing leaves your systems, with a human review step and a full audit trail.
- On your infrastructure
- Human review + audit trail
- Nothing leaves your systems
The playbooks
Agent playbooks, ready to deploy.
Named systems we build into your stack, mapped to how your firm actually works. We deploy and run them; you own them.
Commercial insurance
Book an audit- 01 Submission & ACORD Intake
- 02 Quote & Carrier Comparison
- 03 Renewal Chaser
- 04 COI & Policy Check
- 05 Loss-Run Packager
Law firms
Book an audit- 01 Matter Intake & Conflict Check
- 02 Document Review Analyst
- 03 Discovery Organizer
- 04 First-Draft Drafter
- 05 Docket & Deadline Watch
Wealth advisors
Book an audit- 01 Onboarding & KYC Prep
- 02 Meeting Prep & Recap
- 03 Reporting Desk
- 04 Compliance Archivist
- 05 Prospect Research
Private equity
Book an audit- 01 Deal Screener
- 02 Diligence Data-Room Analyst
- 03 Portfolio Reporting Desk
- 04 Back-Office Automator
- 05 IC Prep
Family offices
Book an audit- 01 Principal Reporting Desk
- 02 Bill-Pay & Invoice Coder
- 03 Capital-Call & K-1 Tracker
- 04 Meeting Briefer
- 05 Entity Doc Organizer
We build and deploy these in your stack. Not a product you sign up for.
Free AI visibility check
Can AI search find your firm?
Answer seven quick questions and see where your firm stands. Then get a report reviewed by hand, with your top fixes. No cost.
Get your score and your top fixes
We run your real site through the same GEO analysis ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI use. A person reviews it by hand and emails your score plus your top priorities. No cost.
Your report is on the way
Thanks. A person reviews your site by hand and emails your AI visibility score plus your top three priorities within one business day.
What we have shipped
Real work, real numbers.
Commercial insurance
22 hrs/wk to near zero
Data entry cut to almost nothing, errors from about 6% to under 0.5%. 37% more productive.
Family office
8 processes automated
About 32 hours a week freed, with full team adoption. North Shore family office.
Professional services
24 hrs to 4 min
Quote response time cut from a day to minutes; quote-to-project rate roughly doubled.
Translation services
~$7,000 / week avoided
A hybrid AI stack plus training for 10 staff and internal playbooks. (Speakr)
Across the book
~100 projects
Most engagements free up 20 to 30 hours a week. 95% retention over three-plus years.
Client identities protected under NDA unless named. See the full case studies.
Case studies
What we have done for them.
Translation and interpretation services · Chicago, Illinois · 1 to 10 employees
Bace designed and deployed a hybrid AI stack for an interpretation and translation services company, trained the staff, and left the playbooks behind.
- Designed and deployed a hybrid AI stack
- AI training for 10 staff
- Internal playbooks and prompt libraries
~$7,000 / week
avoided in incremental staffing cost
~7 hrs / employee / week
saved across 10 staff
"We were impressed by the speed and responsiveness of Bace Agency's team."
AI publishing software
An agentic build-out spanning the full spec, from employee training through software and AI agent development.
ABA fieldwork software
Consulting and advisory on increasing revenue by implementing AI across the workflows, plus employee training.
Specialty insurance underwriting
Employee training and hands-on implementation of the workflows.
Real estate law
Advisory and agentic software development for the firm.
ABA trade media
Advisory on implementing AI across the operation, plus hands-on training for the team.
Client Reviews
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Audit. Build. Scale. You own it.
Audit
Day 0A short, hands-on read of your operations. We map where agents and automation return the most, ranked by value and tied to what matters to your firm.
Build
Weeks 1-3We embed and ship a working agent into your stack, plugged into the tools your people already use, with a human check at every step. Fixed scope, no eighteen-month roadmap.
Scale
HandoffIt runs in production. We train your team, hand over the keys, and document a playbook you can reuse across the firm.
Two ways to work
Build one, or embed a team.
Ship one playbook
We scope a single agent, build it into your stack, and hand it over with a trained team and a documented playbook. A defined engagement with a clear finish line.
- One agent, shipped to production
- Your stack, your accounts, your data
- You own it, we stay available
Run the portfolio of agents
We embed as your forward-deployed AI team, standing up playbook after playbook across the firm, and operating them with you until your team takes the wheel.
- A rolling program of playbooks
- We build, deploy, and operate
- Reuse the win across the firm
Engagements are scoped to your firm. Book a call and we will price the first build.
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Real conversations.
Rooms I've been in and spoken at.
Where I've been.
Northwestern University
Speaking at The Garage
Techstars LA
Los Angeles
LA Tech Week
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Ecosystem Building
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Founder, Bace Agency · Lake Forest, Illinois Founder
Michael Pavlovskyi
I have led AI teams inside a family office, automated a commercial insurance agency, and built AI applications for private-equity shops. Across 97+ projects at Bace Agency, most engagements free up 20 to 30 hours a week, with 95% client retention over three-plus years.
I am based in Lake Forest and work across Chicago and the North Shore. I have spoken on AI for professional services at Northwestern University and Lake Forest College.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a product I sign up for?
No. Bace Agency is a forward-deployed implementation team. We build the agents, deploy them into your own stack, and hand them to your team. You own what we build. There is no login, no subscription, no self-serve app.
What exactly is an agent playbook?
A named, repeatable system for a specific job in your firm, like Renewal Chaser or Matter Intake & Conflict Check. We build it into the tools you already use, with a human review step, and document it so your team can run it.
How fast do you ship?
We work in weeks, not eighteen-month programs. The audit is a short hands-on read; the build is a focused sprint that puts a working agent into production. We fix scope rather than let a timeline drift.
How do you handle confidential client data?
Security is the starting point. For confidential work we can run everything on a private, self-hosted setup on infrastructure you control, so nothing leaves your systems, with a human review step and an audit trail.
Who do you work with?
Commercial insurance agencies, law firms, and wealth advisors, plus private equity and family offices, across Chicago and the North Shore.
How do we start?
Book a call. We will walk your operations, show you the first agent worth building, and give you a plan you can act on, whether you work with us or not.
Find where AI returns the most.
Book a call. We'll walk your operations, show you the first agent worth building, and give you a plan you can act on, whether you work with us or not.
30 minutes. In-person or video.