AI agents and workflow automation for New York finance, legal, media and professional-services teams. Remote-first from the Netherlands, priced per project.
New York runs on documents. The banks and funds in Midtown and the Financial District produce memos, models and diligence packs; the law firms produce contracts and reviews; the agencies and publishers produce briefs, decks and rights paperwork; the property world produces leases and offering plans. Add the fashion houses, the newsrooms and the professional-services firms that serve all of them, and you have a metro where the raw material of the working day is text. Read, summarised, checked, reformatted and passed on by people whose time is billed by the hour.
That makes the economics of automation unusually direct here. When an analyst spends a morning turning twenty filings into a one-page summary, or a paralegal spends an afternoon extracting terms from a stack of agreements, the cost of the manual path is not theoretical. It appears on a rate card. But so does the cost of a mistake, which is why the New York buyer is right to be sceptical of a demo that drafts confidently and cites nothing. Retrieval that shows its sources, a human who signs off before anything leaves the building, and an audit trail that survives a client question six months later are not nice-to-haves in this market; they are the product.
EIGHTY8 is a Netherlands-based, remote-first AI automation and consultancy studio, and this is the kind of work we build for. Retrieval over your own document estate, drafting assistants that keep a citation for every claim, review queues where the human decision is the release step, and integration into the tools your teams already live in. We work inside your infrastructure with enterprise model endpoints configured so your content is not used for training, we hold no regulatory sign-off and never suggest we do, and we deliver from the Netherlands with our afternoon covering the Eastern-time morning. Engagements are quoted per project, never from a rate card.
We build inside your infrastructure wherever possible, so the material never leaves your control. We use enterprise model endpoints configured so your content is not retained for training, keep access least-privilege and logged, and sign the NDA and data-processing agreements your firm requires. If your policy says a class of document may never reach a third-party model, we design the workflow so it cannot.
Only with a human as the release step, and that is how we build. Retrieval-based drafting that cites its source for every assertion, confidence thresholds that route anything uncertain to a person, and an audit trail showing what was retrieved, what was generated and who approved it. We are engineers: we do not hold regulatory sign-off and we do not tell you a workflow is compliant. Your compliance team does that, and we build to their requirements.
In the repeatable preparation that precedes expert judgment. Summarising and comparing documents, extracting terms and dates into a structured record, assembling first drafts of recurring client reporting, and triaging inbound requests to the right team. The expert still decides. The hours saved are the ones spent getting to the point where deciding is possible.
Because of what we bring rather than where we sit: senior European engineering, privacy-by-design habits from a GDPR home market, and delivery capacity without a New York overhead built into the invoice. We are honest about the trade-off (no US office, no walk-in meetings) and we manage it with a daily live window over your morning plus written handovers. Pricing is per project, based on scope and complexity.
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