Agentic AI & Automation

Put AI Agents
to Work

I help businesses automate the operational busywork that drains their team's time - using AI agents built to run in the real world, backed by two decades of cloud, DevOps, and reliability engineering.

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About

Hi, I'm Bo Smith,
Founder of NexThing

I'm an enterprise AI and automation architect with two decades of experience designing and running large-scale systems for major technology organizations. NexThing is where I bring that depth directly to businesses ready to put AI to work.

My focus is agentic AI and automation - systems that reason, act, and quietly remove the operational busywork that holds teams back. That work rests on a foundation most AI projects skip: cloud architecture, DevOps, and site reliability engineering. It's the difference between an AI demo and AI that actually runs in production.

"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."

- Alan Turing
Bo Smith, founder of NexThing, LLC.

Our Promise

What You Can
Always Count On

Our commitment goes beyond deliverables. We operate with integrity and accountability on every engagement.

Clarity

No jargon, no ambiguity. We communicate honestly and directly so you always know where things stand.

Accountability

We own our work and our outcomes. If something needs to be fixed, we fix it - without excuses.

Results

We measure success by your outcomes, not our hours. Real progress is the only metric that matters.

Partnership

We work alongside your team as a trusted partner, building capability and alignment at every step.

Expertise

The Specialty:
AI That Does the Work

NexThing focuses on two things, deeply: building AI agents that act on your behalf, and automating the repetitive work that quietly costs your team hours every week.

Agentic AI

Autonomous AI agents that reason, plan, and act - integrated into your real workflows, not bolted on as a demo. From customer operations to internal processes, I build agents that take work off your team's plate and run reliably.

Automation

Intelligent automation that eliminates operational toil: document processing, data flows, and the repetitive tasks that drain hours from every week. I find the highest-value work to automate first, then build it to last.

The engineering foundation underneath

AI that works in the real world rests on solid engineering. Two decades across these disciplines is what makes the automation dependable, secure, and production-ready - not just a proof of concept.

Cloud

Architecture and cost optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Site Reliability Engineering

Observability, SLOs, and incident response that keep systems dependable.

DevOps

CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and delivery pipelines that ship reliably.

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The AI
Opportunity Assessment

Not sure where AI fits in your business? Start with a focused, fixed-scope engagement that turns the question into a concrete plan.

AI Opportunity Assessment

A clear plan for where AI will pay off first.

$2,500 2-week engagement

A fixed-scope assessment that pinpoints where AI agents and automation will remove the most operational toil from your business - and what to build first.

  • A prioritized roadmap, ranked by effort and impact
  • A clear recommendation for your highest-value first build
  • Practical cost and effort estimates so you can budget with confidence
  • A working session to walk through the findings with your team
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Get Started

Let's Build
Something Together

Have a challenge that needs solving, or just want to know whether AI is worth it for your business? Book a free 30-minute call. Tell me what you are working on and we will figure out how NexThing can help.

bo@nexthing.tech

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No pressure and no sales script - just a straight conversation about your goals and whether NexThing is the right fit.

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Prefer email? Reach me at bo@nexthing.tech