Portfolio companies,operated by AI agents.
The work was never the expensive part. The people delivering it were.
Enterprise-grade analytical and operational services have always been delivered by human teams. The teams made the services expensive; expensive made them exclusive. AI changes 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 sold to enterprises for decades. Smaller buyers were excluded by the cost of the teams delivering the work, not by the work itself. That constraint has broken. What was 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. The data layer is open: 57,000 sources from thousands of publishers, no proprietary feeds, no fragile dependencies. Buyers are reached through niche depth and credibility, not paid distribution.
One founder. Agent infrastructure. No headcount.
The portfolio is also proof of a broader thesis: the minimum viable company is collapsing toward one person. If delivery cost no longer decides who can build an SME service company, it no longer decides who can build any company. Every portfolio company runs autonomously, is built to generate returns, and exists to show what one founder can operate.
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. 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.