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the consultant that disappeared.
They sold the engagement, ran a discovery sprint, gave you a slide deck full of "opportunities," and then quietly moved on. Nothing was built. You paid for thinking, not shipping.
agency · austin / kansas city
we build the systems your team would build if they had three months and a senior engineer.
For ops, growth, and customer teams at companies that have the workflow in their head but no one to ship it. ai-powered outbound, voice agents, internal tools. all of it custom, all of it built to run in production.
first system live in
30 – 45
days
from kickoff to your first working system.
§ 01·why embarqi
three ways custom ai usually goes wrong.
Most companies that try to build this in-house, or hire it out, end up in one of these three places. We have been called in to clean up after all three.
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the agency that built a prototype.
Looked great in the demo. Worked once. Then somebody hit an edge case, the api changed, the prompt drifted, and three months later it is sitting in a folder nobody opens.
03
the ai tool that almost did it.
You signed up for the saas. It did 70% of what you needed. The other 30% turned out to be the actual work and now you have a tool, a workaround, and a problem.
there is a way to build ai that actually runs. here is what that looks like.
Show me how§ 02·how it goes
from kickoff to your first working system in 30 – 45 days.
1
week 1
learn your workflow.
We get on calls with the people who actually do the work. Not the org chart. The real workflow. The screenshots, the spreadsheets, the swear words. Where it breaks, where it sits waiting, what you would build if you had the time.
2
week 2
scope the smallest system that ships.
We scope the version that gets to production first. Not the perfect version, not the long-term roadmap. The version that runs end to end and replaces something you do today.
3
weeks 2 – 5
build it.
Next.js, supabase, claude api, n8n, vapi, apps script. Whatever the workflow actually needs. No fixed stack, no proprietary platform you have to keep paying for after we are done.
4
week 6
hand it over.
Documentation, walkthrough, training, and the keys. You own the code. We built it, you run it. If you want us on retainer to extend it, that is a separate conversation.
Book a 30-minute call. We will tell you if we can help.
Book a call§ 03·what we build
four things we actually build.
I
pillar / 01
custom outbound systems.
apify + llm classification + instantly + crm sync. The SpartanFlow stack. Built to put real qualified meetings on the calendar, not blast volume.
apifyclaudeinstantlyhubspot
II
pillar / 02
voice agents.
vapi + make.com + crm + calendar booking. The Barky AI stack. The phone rings at 9pm. The agent picks up, qualifies, books. The owner sees it in the morning.
vapimaketwiliogoogle cal
III
pillar / 03
internal tools and dashboards.
next.js + supabase + claude. Approval queues, content review tools, anything your ops team is currently doing in a google sheet at 11pm.
next.jssupabaseclaudetailwind
IV
pillar / 04
ai workflow plumbing.
n8n, apps script, claude code. The boring connective tissue that makes the rest stop breaking. Less glamorous, more important.
n8napps scriptzapierwebhooks
§ 04·in production
real systems. pulled straight from prod.
287
workflows shipped at accenture across 52 countries.
$587K
pipeline generated for one client in 90 days.
14
enterprise demos booked from a cold start.
23
demo requests from a voice agent on 100+ cold calls.
§ 05·the work
three engagements. shipped, signed off, running.
§ 06·the guarantee
if we do not ship in sixty days,
you do not pay for the next sixty.
We started this guarantee because every other agency we replaced had taken money and not shipped. The bar is low. We are happy to meet it.
§ 07·receipts
what they said, edited only for length.
They are the only outbound team I have worked with that did not try to sell me a dashboard. They sold me meetings. I got meetings.
Jason Gazaway
CEO, Channel Fusion
The voice agent has been live for six weeks. It books better than the part-timer we had answering after hours, and it does not call in sick.
Marco D.
Owner, HVAC operator (pilot, KC)
They scoped the smallest thing that could possibly ship in three weeks, shipped it, and let me decide if I wanted the rest. Refreshing.
Priya N.
Head of Ops, B2B manufacturer
§ 08·who is behind it
two people. one phone number. no account managers.
chris runs the rooms. hari builds the system.
founder
Chris Barkhurst
Started embarqi after years inside industrial sales orgs watching custom build projects fail the same way every time. Runs the client side, scopes the work, owns the relationship.
based · kansas city, ks
tech lead
Hari Rajashekar
2 years at accenture as an automation solutions engineer, then went solo building outbound and voice systems for b2b services and manufacturing. Builds what embarqi ships.
based · austin, tx
works with
plug into what you already pay for.
hubspotsalesforcegoogle calendaroutlookslackzapiervapin8nsupabaseclaudeopenaitwilio
§ 09·faq
questions we get on every first call.
Did not see yours? Ask it on the call. We will not blink.
Agencies sell hours and slide decks. We sell a working system. You will know on day 30 whether the thing runs, because we will have shown it to you running. No quarterly check-ins, no account managers, no monthly retainer in perpetuity.
A contractor builds what you ask for. We scope what is worth building. Most engagements start with us cutting your original wishlist in half so something actually ships. You can hire the half we cut later.
Whichever the workflow needs. Outbound systems and most ops automations live in n8n, make.com, and apps script. Internal tools and dashboards we build in next.js + supabase + claude. Voice agents in vapi. We do not religiously favor either side. We favor the version that runs and that you can maintain.
You do. All of it. The repo, the env vars, the api keys, the cloud accounts. We hand over the keys on the last day of the engagement. If you want us to keep running it, that is a retainer conversation. Default is you own and run it.
Most first engagements run 30 to 45 days from kickoff to the first system in production. After that, some clients keep us on retainer for extensions; most do not need to.
Optional retainer at $4k to $8k per month for monitoring, fixes, and extensions. About half of clients take it for the first 90 days post hand-off, then move on.
Most first systems run $18k to $40k fixed-price, depending on scope. Outbound builds tend to land at the lower end. Voice agents and internal tools at the higher end. You will know the exact number after the scoping call, before you commit.
// final call
thirty minutes.
one honest answer.
We will tell you whether the thing you want to build is actually buildable, whether we are the right people for it, and what we would charge if we are. No deck. No proposal cycle.