I got tired of stitching together Zapier, VAs, prompts, and custom scripts for clients — so I built this

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Summary

The author built Maven, an open-source agent harness, to automate business operations more efficiently than stitching together Zapier, prompts, and scripts.

Over the last year I’ve been helping businesses automate parts of their operations with AI. The pattern was always the same: \- A few Zapier workflows \- Some ChatGPT prompts \- A bunch of manual steps \- Random scripts glued together over time It worked, but maintaining it across multiple clients became painful. So I started building an open-source agent harness called Maven. The goal wasn’t to build another AI demo. It was to create something I could actually deploy for client work and internal operations. Some of the use cases we’ve been testing: \- Lead qualification and follow-up \- Inbox and communication workflows \- Internal operations automation \- Research and reporting tasks \- Developer and technical workflows \- Voice-based business assistants
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