Portfolio companies,
operated by AI agents.
The work was never the expensive part. The people delivering it were.
For most of business history, enterprise-grade analytical and operational services required human teams to deliver them. That made them expensive. Expensive meant accessible only to organisations with the budgets to match. AI has changed the delivery equation. The work itself was never the barrier — the cost of the people producing it was.
Smaller businesses were priced out of intelligence they should always have had.
Above every SME sits a class of service — planning analysis, regulatory monitoring, due diligence, market intelligence, financial reporting — that incumbents have delivered to enterprises for decades. Smaller buyers were excluded not because the work itself was costly to produce, but because the human teams delivering it were. That constraint has broken. What used to be a budget problem is now an addressable market.
Agent-operated companies, built on open data, in the niches incumbents cannot profitably serve.
TheSprawl.ai is a portfolio of B2B software companies, each targeting a service class that prices SMEs out. Every company is written as a specification — offers, buyers, workflows, constraints — and operated by agent networks rather than human teams. The spec is the logic. The agent is the operator. Built on open data: 57,000 sources from thousands of publishers. No proprietary feeds. No fragile dependencies. Every company serves buyers reachable through niche depth and credibility, not paid distribution.
One founder. Agent infrastructure. No headcount.
The portfolio is also proof of a broader thesis: that the minimum viable company is collapsing toward one. If the delivery cost is no longer the barrier to building an SME intelligence company, it is no longer the barrier to building any company. Every portfolio company runs autonomously, is built to generate returns, and exists to demonstrate what solo-entrepreneurship looks like at the frontier of what is now possible.
Approvl
The planning system is public.
The intelligence is not.
Every UK planning application is a matter of public record. Every decision, every precedent, every ownership chain is technically accessible. In practice, the data is fragmented across 370 local authorities, formatted inconsistently, and unusable without expert hands. Approvl is a knowledge graph of the system — applications connected to outcomes, outcomes to sites, sites to ownership — surfacing approval probability, beneficial ownership, and site constraints before a developer commits to an application.