Proofrun
Make AI finish every SOP step, with a receipt for your client
Build: small agencies already pay for SOP software, and per-seat pricing leaves a real gap.
When agency owners paste a 10-page procedure into an AI, it skips checks after the first few steps and still says it's done.
Agencies sell consistent, checked work. A skipped step like a broken link or a missed approval reaches the client, and the owner only finds out after the client complains. Today the owner has to re-check everything by hand, which cancels out the time AI was meant to save.
Proofrun cuts your procedure into small steps, makes the AI show proof for each one, and gives your client a receipt of what was actually checked.
- 1Paste your procedure; Proofrun splits it into small steps and suggests a proof for each.
- 2Start a run in WhatsApp or the web; the AI does one step at a time.
- 3Code checks each proof, then your client gets a one-page receipt.
What already exists
5 products checked- 01
Build the proof gate for one SOP type, such as an SEO audit, end to end.
- 02
Record the side-by-side demo on X and LinkedIn using one real 10-page SOP.
- 03
Offer 10 agency owners free concierge setups in exchange for case studies.
- Process Street
Runnable checklists with enforced task order and an audit history. It is built for humans to tick through, priced per seat with a minimum, and gives no proof of what the AI actually did. Proofrun runs the AI and charges flat per agency.
- Strands Agent SOPs (AWS)
Markdown SOP format that guides agents through steps with constraints. It is a developer tool where the agent is trusted to follow the format. Proofrun is for non-technical owners, checks each step's proof with code outside the agent, and produces a client receipt.
- Parloa AMP (step-level adherence scoring)
Turns SOPs into governed agents with step-level adherence scoring. It targets enterprise customer-service teams. Proofrun targets 1-15 person agencies, is self-serve at $39 a month, and adds the client receipt and cross-agency skip data.
- A founder ran a startup with 6 AI workers. It produced 330 chat messages but only 75 finished tasks, and one agent announced work she never did.dev.to ↗
- A journalist's AI-employee company burned through about $30 of credits in busy chatter. The article cites a CMU study in which the best agents failed real office tasks 70% of the time.futurism.com ↗
- In an agent study, the main failure was taking an action and never confirming it worked. One model used a median of only 11 of 50 available turns, and a single 'verify' sentence beat a long rulebook.arxiv.org ↗
- Researchers call pasting an SOP in as prompt text the dominant practice, and propose compiling it into checked steps instead, which backs up the split-and-verify approach.arxiv.org ↗
- Agency SOPs fail because nothing checks whether they were followed. The task moves on and the client still gets the deliverable.medium.com ↗
- The r/Entrepreneur thread 'Why most agency SOPs fail when turned into prompts' describes the mistake of pasting a 10-page SOP into Claude with 'follow this step by step'. This comes from the supplied problem signals and was not independently re-verified by search.