Building On-Demand Services with an AI Digital Worker

In today's fast-paced digital economy, the ability to rapidly launch new, valuable services is a significant competitive advantage. But building these services—especially those requiring complex research, data analysis, or content generation—is traditionally slow and resource-intensive. It requires specialized teams, complex back-end logic, and months of development.

But what if you could bypass that complexity? What if you could build sophisticated, data-driven services not by coding every single step, but by delegating the entire workflow to an intelligent agent?

This is the paradigm shift offered by autonomous AI digital workers like Lexi.do. Instead of just being a tool for internal automation, Lexi can become the engine for brand-new API services you offer to your customers, unlocking a model we call "Business-as-Code."

From Automation Tool to Service Engine

Most people think of automation as a way to streamline internal tasks. You might have a script that sorts emails or a tool that moves data between spreadsheets. These are useful, but limited. They follow rigid, predefined rules.

An Autonomous Digital Worker like Lexi is fundamentally different. It's an agentic system.

• It understands objectives: You don't give it a script; you give it a goal.
• It reasons and plans: Lexi breaks down the goal into logical steps.
• It uses tools: It can browse the web, access files, read data, and use applications to achieve its objective.
• It adapts: If it hits a roadblock, it can rethink its approach, just like a human collaborator.

While you can certainly delegate internal tasks to Lexi (like "Analyze our Q4 sales data"), the real transformative power comes from wrapping its capabilities into a product you can offer to others.

How to Build a Service with Lexi: A Practical Example

Let's imagine you're a SaaS company that provides marketing analytics. You want to launch a new, premium feature: "On-Demand Competitor Analysis Reports." Your customers can simply provide a competitor's website, and your platform will deliver a comprehensive report.

Building this from scratch would take a massive effort. But with Lexi, you're just building a thin wrapper around a powerful engine.

Step 1: Design Your API Endpoint

First, you create a new endpoint in your own application. This is what your customers will interact with.

POST /api/v1/generate-competitor-report

{
  "companyName": "Example Corp",
  "companyUrl": "https://example.com",
  "focusAreas": ["pricing_strategy", "social_media_presence"]
}

Step 2: Translate the Request into a Lexi Objective

In your backend, you take the customer's request and construct a clear, detailed objective for Lexi.

Step 3: Delegate the Task to Your Digital Worker

Now, you use the Lexi SDK to delegate the actual work. Your code takes the customer's input and passes it along as a structured, detailed task.

import { Lexi } from '@do/sdk';

// Initialize Lexi with your API key
const lexi = new Lexi({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' });

// Customer request from your API
const customerRequest = {
  companyUrl: "https://example.com",
  focusAreas: "pricing strategy and social media presence"
};

// Delegate the complex task to your autonomous worker
const task = await lexi.delegateTask({
  objective: `Generate a competitor analysis report for ${customerRequest.companyUrl}. Focus specifically on their ${customerRequest.focusAreas}. The output should be a professional PDF document.`,
  context: "Use only publicly available information from the web. The final report should be suitable for a marketing director.",
  deadline: "2024-12-20T17:00:00Z" // Set an internal deadline
});

console.log(`Task delegated. Track status at: ${task.statusUrl}`);

Step 4: Monitor and Deliver the Result

Lexi is now autonomously working on the report—researching, analyzing, and compiling the PDF. Your application can periodically check the task.statusUrl to get updates. When the task is complete, the status URL will provide a link to the final artifact (the PDF report).

Your service then retrieves this file and delivers it to your customer through their dashboard, a webhook, or an email notification.

The Game-Changing Benefits

This "Business-as-Code" approach has profound implications:

1. Speed to Market: You can prototype and launch a highly complex and valuable service in a matter of days, not months or years. Your development work is focused on the user-facing API, not the complex underlying logic.
2. Infinite Scalability: As your new service grows, you simply make more API calls to Lexi. You don't need to worry about scaling a team of researchers or a complex microservice architecture. Lexi's platform handles the load.
3. Focus on Value, Not Mechanics: Your team is freed from building the "how" (the data analysis engine) and can concentrate on the "what"—the customer experience, the API design, and the business value of your offering.

What Else Can You Build?

The possibilities are limited only by the tasks a knowledge worker can perform on a computer.

• Lead Enrichment as a Service: Create an API that takes an email or company domain and returns a full dossier on the lead, including recent news, funding rounds, and key personnel.
• Automated Content Creation: Offer a service that generates blog posts, social media updates, or product descriptions based on a simple prompt or a set of keywords.
• Financial Summary API: Build an endpoint that ingests a public company's quarterly earnings report and returns a bullet-point summary for investors.
• Internal "Report-as-a-Service": Empower your internal teams by creating a simple platform where any employee can request a data report without needing to know SQL or Python.

Your Next Step: From Process to Product

Stop thinking about your business processes as manual workflows. Start seeing them as potential products. With an autonomous AI digital worker like Lexi, you have the building blocks to convert your company's expertise into scalable, on-demand API services.

Ready to turn your business logic into code? Visit Lexi.do to get your API key and start building today.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is Lexi.do?
A: Lexi.do is an autonomous AI agent that functions as a digital coworker. You can delegate complex business tasks to Lexi through our simple API, allowing it to handle research, data analysis, report generation, and more, freeing up your team for high-value strategic work.

Q: How is Lexi different from a standard automation tool?
A: Unlike basic automation tools that follow rigid rules, Lexi is an agentic system. It can understand complex objectives, reason about the steps needed, use various digital tools, and adapt its approach based on real-time information, much like a human colleague.

Q: Is it secure to give Lexi access to my company's data?
A: Security is core to the .do platform. Lexi operates in a secure, sandboxed environment. You maintain full, granular control over the data and systems Lexi can access, ensuring your company's information remains confidential and secure at all times.