We build AIthat does real work.

An applied AI studio. We find the jobs in your business that AI can take on, build them into the tools your team already uses, and design everything around them.

200+ projects since 2019 · official Extended Monaco partner · Trace in production

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    handled by the agent · minutes a person would have spentjudgement calls go to a person
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    trusted by established companies since 2019 · 200+ projects delivered
    0projects delivered since 2019, from stores and apps to AI systems
    0articles in the journal, cited by AI search engines
    official partner of the national digital programme
    0product of our own in production: Trace, client verification for Monaco’s regulated professions
    BSS successfully brought our Shopify e-commerce vision to life, guiding the project with expertise and delivering it efficiently.
    Dominique Gco-owner, Gastaldi Fleurs Monaco
    It was a real pleasure to work with BSS on our new website. They were attentive, quick, and worked extremely efficiently.
    Richard Pdirector, Monaco Prestige Limousines
    BSS helped us create our online store. They have been an excellent collaborator and Shopify Partner. Highly recommended!
    Federico Pmanager, Coqui Coqui Perfumeria
    Official Extended Monaco partnerthe Principality’s national digital programme
    Shopify Partneraccredited partner for online shops
    Framer Expertlisted expert for websites built on Framer

    Twenty-four selected projects, six reviews and three accreditations: the track record since 2019

    Concrete jobs, with the number that matters.

    Every build starts from a job someone does by hand today. These are the ones we have done, or do every week.

    Small steps, each one paid back before the next.

    You never buy a transformation. You buy one working thing, see what it saves, then decide.

    quick-check

    A 30-minute call.

    You tell us where the hours go; we name the two or three places AI pays back first and send you a short written note.

    30 minutes
    sprint

    One job, built for real.

    Two weeks. A working prototype on your real data, so you decide on evidence, not a deck.

    two weeks
    build

    Into your tools, tested, handed over.

    The prototype becomes a system, documented, with the team trained to run it.

    three to eight weeks
    run

    Kept working, measured, extended.

    We keep it running, count the hours it saves, and add the next job when your team finds it.

    ongoing

    12 hours a week

    2a whole person60
    0hours back a year, if AI takes 70% of that work
    0working days, roughly
    0full working weeks of one person, back every year
    Rules of thumb from our builds, not a quote. The quick-check replaces them with your numbers.
    case study · Trace, client-verification software for Monaco's regulated professions. Built and run by us.

    Client checks in three minutes, not forty-five.

    Estate agents, notaries, yacht brokers, jewellers and family offices in Monaco must verify every new client by law. Most did it by hand, across a dozen tabs. Trace does it in one: 18+ official sources, politically exposed persons, offshore registers and the press, gathered into one dated PDF report ready for the regulator.

    • 42 min back on every new client: under three minutes instead of forty-five by hand
    • audit-ready every report is dated, fingerprinted (SHA-256) and verifiable by QR code
    • kept current lists refresh daily; the dashboard tells you when each client is due for a re-check
    • people decide Trace gathers the evidence and explains each match; a person makes the call
    read the case study
    portal.tracemonaco.com · new check
    person · company · vesselillustrative demo
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      One studio, one person accountable.

      I'm Ben. I have built software and search for established companies since 2019. bss works is the studio I run: a small team, every project with me in the room, and nothing shipped that I would not run in my own company.

      Ben Strautmann, founder of bss works
      ben · new york · 2026

      Working software, not a deck.

      Every engagement ends with something running in your business: a system your team uses on Monday, a number you can check, and a person you can call.

      Ben Strautmann · founder · New York, 2026 · founded in Monaco, working worldwide
      Perla J.
      Perla J. · marketing
      Matteo D.
      Matteo D. · design
      Kent G.
      Kent G. · marketing

      A small team, so every client deals with the people actually building the project.

      Questions people ask before a quick-check.

      Does our data leave the company?

      No. Agents run inside your existing tools and your own accounts. Where a model is needed we use EU-hosted options by default, and nothing is used to train anyone's model.

      Which tools do you work with?

      Whatever you already use: Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, your phone system, your CRM, your accounting software, your document templates. We do not ask you to switch.

      How long until something actually works?

      A quick-check is a 30-minute call. The first working prototype on your real data takes two weeks. Most teams have something running in their week within two months.

      What if it gets something wrong?

      Every agent starts read-only, drafts before it sends, and hands anything it is unsure about to a person with the facts gathered. You decide, step by step, what it may do on its own.

      Who builds it, and who do we call?

      A small team, with Ben in every project. You have one person accountable from the first conversation to the system running.

      Do you work in French?

      Yes. We work in French and English, on site in Monaco and the Riviera or remotely anywhere, and the agents answer your clients in their language.

      Start with a call. Keep what it finds.

      A quick-check is a 30-minute introductory call and a short written note afterwards: where the hours go, which two or three jobs AI should take first, and what it would take to build them. Free, and yours either way.

      ben@bss.mca reply within one working dayin English or French, on site or on a call
      Book a quick-check30 min · free
      no commitment · we reply within one working day

      Booked. Thank you.

      You will get a confirmation and a short list of questions so the call is useful from the first minute.