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We build your
AI workforce.
You own everything.

Custom AI agent teams designed, built and deployed for your business. Your technology. Your IP. Your agents. We get paid to build them. No SaaS. No lock-in. No black boxes.

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The problem

Most AI tools sit unused.

Not because they don't work. Because nobody showed you how to deploy them, configure them, and make them actually run in production.

01

The setup is harder than it looks

VPS configuration, Node versions, environment variables, reverse proxies. One wrong setting and nothing works. Most people give up here.

02

The docs assume you already know

Documentation written by engineers for engineers. If you're not in the terminal every day, it's a wall of confusion with no obvious entry point.

03

When it breaks, you're on your own

Something updates. Something conflicts. Your agent stops working at 2am and there's nobody to call. That's not how it should work.

What we do

Tank installs. Link orchestrates.
You ship.

Free help to get you running. Professional support when you need more. A podcast for when you want to go deeper.

Free

OpenClaw Deployment Guide

Tank walks you through every step — VPS setup, security hardening, Telegram connection, first agent install. Answer a few questions, get a personalised guide and config emailed to you.

Start for free →
Support

Professional AI Support

One-off help when you're stuck. Monthly support when you want Link on standby. Agency plans for teams deploying at scale. Pay for what you need.

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Podcast

Run Program

Tank and Link talk shop. Real deployments, real problems, real solutions. Not tutorial mode — two operators talking to an audience that wants to build properly.

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Run Program with Tank & Link
The podcast

Run Program.

Load the skill. Run the program. Ship the result. Tank and Link talk real AI operations — what works, what breaks, and what you can actually ship today.

Latest Episode — Ep. 01
The Lobster in Your Machine
Tank and Link on why most AI deployments fail before they start — and the one decision that changes everything.
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Support plans

The right level of help.

From self-serve to always-on. Pick what fits where you are right now.

Self-Serve
Free

Everything you need to deploy and run OpenClaw yourself. Tank guides you through it step by step.

  • Full deployment guide
  • Personalised config
  • Tank chat support
  • Community access
Start free →
Call Link
£9.99

Stuck on something? One-off session. Describe the problem, Link diagnoses and fixes it. Pay once, sorted.

  • Single support session
  • OpenClaw setup & config
  • Any AI tool help
  • Response within 2hrs
Get help →
Link on Call
£19/mo

Link on standby. Unlimited questions, priority response, keeps up with every OpenClaw update so you don't have to.

  • Unlimited support
  • Priority response
  • All AI tool setups
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe →
Agency
£49/mo

For agencies and teams deploying AI at scale. Multiple seats, white-label guides, dedicated support channel.

  • Up to 10 team seats
  • White-label setup guides
  • Dedicated support channel
  • Priority onboarding
Subscribe →
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The Tank & Link Token

We're building a community-powered AI support network. The token will power access, rewards, and governance. Early supporters get priority access.

No spam. One email when we launch.

25Years of strategy behind every build
100%You own the IP
0SaaS subscriptions required
Why We're Different

Your AI team.
Not our platform.

Every AI vendor wants you to depend on their tool. We do the opposite. We build AI workforces that live in your infrastructure, trained on your business, owned by you.

The Tank & Link Way
You own the agents
We design, build and deploy AI agents that run on your infrastructure. When the engagement ends, you keep everything. The code. The training. The workflows. No monthly licence. No vendor dependency. Yours.
Everyone Else
You rent the platform
SaaS AI tools give you a subscription, a dashboard, and a dependency. Cancel and it's gone. You never owned the AI. You were just renting access. We think that's backwards.
How We Build
Trained on your business
Every agent we deploy is trained on your processes, your tone, your data and your goals. Not a generic chatbot with your logo. A genuine AI team member that knows how you operate.
The Result
A workforce that compounds
An AI team that gets better the longer it runs. That handles more as it learns. That reduces cost per output month on month. Built once, owned forever, improving always.
How It Works

Three stages.
One outcome.

We start by understanding your business, then design and build the right agents, then deploy them into production. Optional ongoing management if you want it.

01
Architect
We map your workflows, identify where AI creates the most leverage, and design the agent team. What agents, what roles, what they own, how they hand off to humans. A blueprint before a single line of code.
02
Build & Deploy
We build the agents, train them on your data and processes, integrate them with your existing tools, and deploy into your environment. You see every step. Nothing is a black box.
03
Maintain (optional)
Once deployed, you can run it yourself or keep us on a small monthly retainer to monitor, optimise and expand. Most clients start with managed and move to self-sufficient over time.
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What We Build

AI teams for
real work.

Not demos. Not POCs that gather dust. Production-ready AI agents doing meaningful work from day one.

Marketing AI

Content & Campaign Agents

AI agents that research, draft, schedule and report on content across channels. Briefed once, they run the content engine. Connected to your CMS, your social, your analytics.

Build mine →
Sales AI

Outreach & Pipeline Agents

Prospect research, personalised outreach drafts, follow-up sequences, CRM updates. Your sales team focuses on calls. The agent does everything before and after.

Build mine →
Support AI

Customer Service Agents

AI agents that handle inbound queries, qualify intent, answer from your knowledge base, and escalate to humans only when it matters. 24/7. Consistent. On-brand.

Build mine →
Operations AI

Process & Admin Agents

The work that fills your team's day and shouldn't. Reporting, data entry, document generation, scheduling, notifications. Automated properly so humans can do human work.

Build mine →
Research AI

Intelligence & Analysis Agents

Competitor monitoring, market scanning, lead research, news summarisation. Agents that watch everything so you don't have to. Briefings delivered on your schedule.

Build mine →
Custom

Something Else Entirely

Every business has a workflow that's eating time and shouldn't. Tell us what it is. We'll tell you honestly whether an AI agent can fix it and what it would cost to build.

Let's talk →
Insights

How to build and run
AI that works.

No hype. No "AI will replace everyone" takes. Practical writing about how to actually deploy AI agents in real businesses.

Foundations
What is an AI workforce and how is it different from a chatbot?
Most AI tools are single-purpose. An AI workforce is a team of agents that work together across your business. Here is what that actually means in practice.
Getting Started
Five workflows every SMB should automate before anything else
Not every process is worth automating. These five consistently deliver the fastest ROI for small and mid-size businesses deploying AI for the first time.
Strategy
Own vs rent your AI: why it matters more than you think
SaaS AI tools are fast to start and slow to own. Here is why the build-and-own model creates compounding advantages over subscription tools over time.
All insights →
Run Program with Tank and Link
Latest — Ep. 01
The Lobster in Your Machine
Why most AI deployments fail before they start and the one decision that changes everything.
Acast Apple Spotify
The Podcast

Run Program.

Tank and Link talk real AI operations. What works, what breaks, and what you can actually ship today. Not tutorial mode. Two operators talking to an audience that wants to build properly.

Support Plans

The right level of
help.

For those who want to run their own OpenClaw setup or need ongoing support after a build. Pick what fits where you are right now.

Self-Serve
Free

Everything you need to deploy and run OpenClaw yourself. Tank guides you through it step by step.

  • Full deployment guide
  • Personalised config
  • Tank chat support
  • Community access
Start free →
Call Link
£9.99

Stuck on something? One-off session. Describe the problem, Link diagnoses and fixes it. Pay once, sorted.

  • Single support session
  • OpenClaw setup and config
  • Any AI tool help
  • Response within 2hrs
Get help →
Link on Call
£19/mo

Link on standby. Unlimited questions, priority response, stays current on every update so you don't have to.

  • Unlimited support
  • Priority response
  • All AI tool setups
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe →
Agency
£49/mo

For teams deploying AI at scale. Multiple seats, white-label guides, dedicated support channel.

  • Up to 10 team seats
  • White-label setup guides
  • Dedicated support channel
  • Priority onboarding
Subscribe →
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Want us to do the marketing too?

Tank & Link builds your AI workforce. Foundry Works runs your marketing. Same team, two lanes. If you want AI agents and the marketing engine to feed them, Foundry is where to go.

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AI workforce built. Marketing firing. One team behind both.
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Tell us what you're trying to solve. We'll come back with an honest view of what AI can do, what it would cost, and what the build looks like. No hard sell. Just a straight conversation.

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