SMB Acquire

SMB Acquire is a Codex-native acquisition operating system for AZ Labs and the small and medium businesses it serves.

It covers the complete client-acquisition lifecycle:

• Discover prospects from Google Places, inbound AZ Labs forms, imports, or saved lists.
• Verify and segment an audience with campaign criteria such as location, category, website status, rating, review count, decision-maker readiness, and preview readiness.
• Enrich websites and contact data using Firecrawl and AI-backed research.
• Extract decision makers through site discovery, category-aware search, structured extraction, evidence-preserving AI synthesis, and safe contact fallbacks.
• Generate, review, and approve tailored proof websites.
• Draft, edit, schedule, and send personalized outreach with suppression, deliverability, pacing, and approval controls.
• Automate follow-up and track replies, clicks, preview views, CTA interest, tasks, and honest engagement signals.
• Advance qualified prospects through opportunities, proposals, close-won handoff, payment milestones, onboarding, delivery, and AZ Labs expansion services.

The proof-site stage is demonstrated by two working examples: Sisusa Law and Smart Start Kids Academy – Blouberg.

The key architectural idea is that the website is not a UI-only automation tool. SMB Acquire exposes a stable Agent API with a registry of 133 audited actions. The dashboard UI, Aura, and the smbacq Codex CLI use the same action contract and underlying services. Anything an operator can do in the UI can be represented through the Agent API and operated from the CLI, with the same dry-run, approval, scope, idempotency, suppression, pacing, lifecycle, and audit rules.

Aura is the in-product agent that chats with the operator and orchestrates the whole system. In its production worker mode, Aura runs in an isolated Pi session and receives only two narrow tools: smb_manifest to discover the live capability contract and smb_action to execute registered SMB Acquire actions. It cannot access the production host, filesystem, browser, or vendor credentials directly. The Agent API remains the policy and audit authority.

Codex was central to both the product and the build. SMB Acquire was meaningfully extended during OpenAI Build Week using GPT-5.6 Luna and Sol through Codex. Codex was used to understand and modify the monorepo, implement cross-package lifecycle features, build the Agent API/CLI parity, reason through approval boundaries, and validate the dashboard, API, database, CLI, and Aura worker. When the OpenAI/Codex provider is configured in SMB Acquire, the platform can route AI email drafting and decision-maker synthesis through the Codex Responses API; provider fallbacks remain available for resilience.

The result is one inspectable workflow:

Discover → Verify → Research → Proof → Outreach → Follow-up → Opportunity → Client.

A small team gets the leverage of a researcher, web producer, copywriter, sales operator, and lifecycle coordinator without giving an autonomous agent unrestricted production access.

Built With

• codex
• firecrawl
• gpt-5.6
• next.js
• postgresql
• prisma
• resend
• typescript