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Dark Horse CPA

Account Summary

Dark Horse CPA is an accounting firm that onboarded with OneAI in January 2026 and has remained consistently active through May 2026. After a front-loaded optimization phase in January–February (3 tech and script sessions, a HubSpot CRM integration, and a kickoff), the account moved into a monthly touch-base cadence. The account is live and most recent contact was May 5, 2026. However, there is a single named contact — justin — creating a meaningful single-point-of-failure risk.

Use Case

The AI voice agent qualifies leads for Dark Horse CPA’s accounting and CPA services — likely calling inbound prospects or leads from marketing campaigns to assess their needs (business size, service type, tax situation) and route qualified prospects to a human advisor or sales rep. The HubSpot integration connects the agent’s output directly into the CRM pipeline, enabling automated lead tracking and follow-up.

Relationship Health

🟡 Moderate — Account is active and justin is engaged, but single-contact coverage is a material risk. Monthly cadence is holding but there is no visibility into agent performance data or expansion potential.

Key Contacts

What’s Working

  • Agent is live and has been running since approximately late January / early February 2026
  • HubSpot CRM integration is complete, enabling seamless lead flow from the AI agent into Dark Horse’s sales pipeline
  • justin is responsive and engaged — the account has maintained regular contact through May 2026 (most recent of any non-UBS account in the portfolio)
  • Optimization work was front-loaded and resolved early, suggesting the agent is running in a stable, tuned state

Open Challenges

  • Single stakeholder risk: justin is the only documented contact. If justin leaves, changes roles, or goes on leave, there is no secondary relationship at Dark Horse CPA
  • No performance metrics are documented — unclear whether the agent is delivering qualified leads at the volume and quality justin expects
  • Accounting is a seasonal business (heavy around tax season — Jan–April) — unclear whether agent volume and performance fluctuates with the CPA calendar and whether expectations have been set accordingly
  • No expansion discussion documented — 7 meetings in and the relationship appears stable but not growing

Open Action Items

  • Introduce a stakeholder expansion conversation with justin: ask who else at Dark Horse CPA should be involved in or aware of the OneAI relationship
  • Document agent performance metrics from the last 90 days — contact rate, qualification rate, leads handed to advisors
  • Discuss seasonal patterns: did tax season (Jan–April) affect lead volume or agent performance? What should be expected in the off-season?
  • Explore whether there are additional use cases (e.g., client re-engagement, referral outreach, appointment scheduling) that the agent could support

Recent Meeting Highlights

  • 2026-05-05 — Agent Status Catch Up: Most recent meeting; justin was the sole contact. A status check-in — good signal that the relationship is maintained but the single-contact pattern continues
  • 2026-03-12 — Touch Base: Regular monthly check-in; mid-tax-season timing, suggesting the account was stable during the busiest period of the CPA calendar
  • 2026-02-23 — HubSpot Optimization: Dedicated session to optimize the HubSpot CRM integration — confirms the technical connection is actively managed and not just set-and-forget
  • 2026-01-28 through 2026-02-11 — Tech and Script Optimization (x3): Three consecutive optimization sessions in the first three weeks suggest the initial script needed significant tuning before going live, which is common for professional services use cases with nuanced qualification criteria

Prep Tips for Next Meeting

  • Acknowledge the May 5 conversation and pick up from wherever the agent status stood at that point — ask for any updates or issues since then
  • Bring a post-tax-season performance summary if data is available: April and May should show a shift from peak-season volume to off-season baseline
  • Raise the stakeholder question directly but gently: “justin, it’d be great to loop in anyone else at Dark Horse who might benefit from visibility into how the agent is performing — is there a partner or ops lead we should include?”
  • Ask whether the HubSpot integration has been working as expected since the February optimization session
  • Probe for any new services or practice areas Dark Horse is expanding into — those could be new lead qualification scenarios for the agent
  • Prepare a brief ROI narrative: how many leads has the agent qualified and passed to the team over the last 4 months?

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