Founder
Tariq Osmani
Founder & AI Automation Consultant
Founder of Smart AI Workspace. I build custom AI agents, agentic workflows, and end-to-end automation for B2B teams.
About me
I started Smart AI Workspace because I kept watching capable teams burn their best hours on work that software should already be doing — copy-pasting between tools, chasing approvals over email, manually reconciling data that lived in three different systems. The technology to fix it has existed for a while; what most teams need is someone who will sit with the actual workflow, design the right architecture, and ship something that runs reliably in production.
Day to day I design and build AI-powered automation for B2B companies — custom agents on Claude and OpenAI, agentic workflow architectures (n8n plus code) that span CRMs, comms tools and data warehouses, and retrieval pipelines that let teams ask questions of their own knowledge base. I'm hands-on through the entire engagement: discovery, build, deployment, and the boring-but-critical observability that keeps automations alive after launch.
Smart AI Workspace is intentionally founder-led. When you work with me you're not handed off to an account manager — you talk to the person writing the workflow. I write here regularly about what I'm shipping, what's actually working in production, and where the AI automation hype meets reality.
Focus areas
- AI agent development (Claude, OpenAI)
- Workflow orchestration (n8n + code)
- B2B process automation
- RAG and retrieval pipelines
- Workflow integrations (Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Workspace)
Recent writing
All postsClaude Fable 5.1 for Business Automation: What Changed and What It Costs
Claude Fable 5.1 nearly doubled its automation benchmark and cut cache reads 75%. What changed, what it costs, and when Fable 5 or Opus 5 is the better call.
Read postn8n vs Claude Agents for Customer Support: What to Build in 2026
n8n routes the ticket and updates your systems; a Claude agent reads it and decides the reply. How to split a 2026 customer support build, and what it costs.
Read postRAG Pipelines Explained: How AI Answers From Your Own Documents
A RAG pipeline lets an AI answer from your own PDFs, contracts, and spreadsheets instead of guessing. Here's how each stage works — and what I learned building one.
Read postWant to work together?
I take on a small number of B2B automation engagements each quarter. If you have a workflow that's burning time or a process that should be running itself, let's talk.