Adapta aims to own SMB workflows

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Max Peters, CEO of Adapta, on building AI agents for Brazilian SMBs

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Most of the things, 80% of the work, is in one place that has context for everything.
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The key move is turning AI from a scattered set of prompts into the default place where an SMB actually runs work. Adapta is expanding from chat into internal tools, CRMs, client portals, landing pages, dashboards, agents, and automations, so the same system can see what employees did, what agents did, and what data sits behind both. That shared context makes search, reuse, and automation much easier than stitching together many separate apps.

  • Adapta already describes usage in three layers, amplification first, then systematization, then automation. In practice that means helping a law firm draft documents, then build its own workflow tools, then let agents handle repeat tasks on top of the same company data.
  • The Skip acquisition matters because it adds the app builder layer. Instead of only chatting with models, customers can create custom internal systems for each team, which pulls more daily work into Adapta and reduces the need to bounce across separate SaaS tools.
  • This mirrors a broader pattern in Latin America, where underserved SMB markets can support all in one software products. Kapital in Mexico bundled lending, banking, bill pay, payroll, and FP&A into a back office superapp, showing how fragmented SMB workflows can consolidate into one system of record.

Over time, the winner in SMB AI is likely to be the product that owns the workflow, not just the model endpoint. If Adapta keeps pulling more creation, coordination, and automation into one interface, it can become the system Brazilian SMBs open first each week, and the natural place to launch agents on top of real business context.