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About

We give SMEs a team they could not otherwise afford.

Big companies have whole departments. SmartBee gives an SME the same firepower, as a hive of AI agents it owns and a real team that keeps them running.

The team
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Harsh Desai

Co-Founder & Chief Architect

Harsh has spent thousands of hours helping businesses put AI to work, and founded SmartBee to give UK SMEs that same edge: practical AI that turns manual, time-draining tasks into systems that run themselves. Every hive is built, installed, and looked after by a strong engineering team, so the work gets done and you get your time back.

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James Cuss

Co-Founder & CEO

James is a mission-driven entrepreneur and commercial strategist with over 25 years of sales leadership and venture building across fintech, professional training, and ecommerce, founding 12 startups along the way. Through his work at Rocket Industries he has helped over 100,000 learners access professional training, driving tens of millions of pounds of learner finance through affiliate lending partnerships.

That commercial instinct sits at the heart of how SmartBee goes to market, giving the SMEs we serve an immediate route-to-market advantage, backed by a network spanning the UK, USA, and UAE. Known for his energy and bias for action, James connects the right people at the right time. Away from work you will find him riding adventure motorcycles across mountains, deserts, and country roads.

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David Vazdauskas

Board Advisor & Chief Marketing Officer

David has worked with many of the world's most iconic brands as a Partner at leading global management consulting and brand strategy firms, including Oliver Wyman and Lippincott, and has held senior brand and marketing roles at a major financial services institution and two tech start-ups. He understands the unique needs of small and medium-sized businesses, and has helped many founders unlock new revenue growth through new customer segments, new products and services, and win-win partnerships.

David holds a B.A. in economics from Bowdoin College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and studied at the London School of Economics. He is an avid trail runner and cross-country skier, a collector of rare vinyl, and a playwright whose work has been produced in the U.S. and around the world.

What we believe

AI should give you your time back, not take your people away.

The hive does the busywork so your people do the work only people can do: the judgement, the relationships, the craft. Used well, AI gives an SME a team. It does not replace one.

We build for the businesses that keep a town running. The trades, the shops, the studios, the firms with fewer than ten people and more work than hours. They deserve the same tools the big players have, on terms that make sense for them.

The backing

SmartBee is an A Hive Mind Ltd company, registered in England and Wales. The hive is built and maintained by a strong engineering team, so your business is never carrying the technology on its own.

Ready to get your week back?

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