Track the job-order dates, hold the AEWR in force for your state and skill level, watch the housing, transport and guarantee obligations, and hold the file for the employer who signs it.
A job order is filed, and the agent pulls the dates that govern it from the rule version in force.
02
A wage rate applies, and the agent holds the AEWR for that state, occupational group and skill level.
Reason
03
Housing is inspected, and the determination deadline is tracked against the first date of need.
04
Transport and subsistence fall due, and the agent marks the contract point that triggers each one.
05
The three-quarters guarantee runs, and workdays offered are counted across the contract period.
Decide
06
A U.S. worker applies, and it is flagged as a 50 percent rule obligation rather than an inbox item.
07
Recruiter and agent records are assembled, and what is missing is named rather than quietly filled.
Out
08
Retain the obligation, the wage notice it was read against, the flagged gaps and the attestation.
09
Execute write actions only inside the approval boundaries agreed during implementation.
→Product statement
The agent tracks and drafts; a named person at the employer signs the ETA-9142A and ETA-790/790A and takes responsibility for every page, including anything the agent prepared.
Example workflow
One job order, filing to attestation
AgentHuman
1Job order receivedETA-790/790A draft, contract dates, worksites and housing details
2Obligations assembledFiling windows, wage rate, housing deadline, transport triggers and guarantee period, each with its source
3Coverage computedObligations met, obligations open, flagged gaps and confidence
4Controls appliedRule-version checks, state and skill-level wage checks, deadline checks and confidence threshold
No human action required
Stages 1 to 4 run unaided, and nothing is filed or attested at any of them — the agent is tracking, and the employer's lane opens at the confidence gate.
5DecisionBranches at the confidence threshold
High confidence
Goes to the farm labour manager to attest.
Low confidence
Adds a compliance read first.
Employer attestation
The file is held with its open obligations, its flagged gaps and the confidence.
Approve · Edit · Send to compliance review
Approved — released to file▼
6Payroll and HR systems updatedOnly where write access and approval policy allow it
7Outcome evaluatedObligation coverage, flagged-gap outcomes, wage-and-hour findings and post-season corrections
Edits
Every edit made before attestation is counted in the evaluation.
What should not run autonomously
Human approval stays in control
Outside the boundary — human approval required8 items
Signing the ETA-9142A or the ETA-790/790A.
Filing the job order or the certification application.
Deciding whether a U.S. applicant is rejected.
Completing or reverifying a Form I-9.
Automation boundaryAgent acts unaided
✓Track the filing windows and the housing determination deadline.
✓Hold the AEWR in force for the state, occupation and skill level.
✓Count workdays offered across the guarantee period.
✓Flag the obligations still open, and hold the file.
Any write happens inside the boundaries agreed at implementation, never ahead of attestation.
Setting the wage actually offered on the contract.
Certifying that housing meets the standards.
Terminating a worker or ending a contract early.
Changes to the wage tables or the rule-version library.
Example output
One obligation on the file, annotated
Everything the agent tracks is attached to the record it was drawn from.
Obligation-tracking output · single job orderIllustrative example
Job order
Tracked obligation
Effective date
Source of record
Confidence
Attribution
Georgia, field and livestock
Inbound transport and subsistence fall due at the contract midpoint, and the midpoint moved when the date of need was amended
17 August 2026
Job order and 91 FR 48946
88%
Farm labour manager and title
As receivedTaken from the job order and the Federal Register notice — nothing on this side is written by the agent.
Records usedJob order ETA-790A91 FR 48946 wage tablePayroll and field tally
Why this obligationThe date of need was amended, so the contract midpoint moved with it.
ActionApproveEditSend to compliance review
What the score decidesBelow the configured threshold the file picks up a compliance read first.
Value
Where AI adds value
The same four claims, placed at the point in the workflow where each one applies.
Where the value landsValue 01 – 04
Every job orderFrom the job order and payroll
03Tracking
Track against the rule in force
Draw on the job order, the payroll records and the wage tables published for that state and date.
01Approved path
The attestation is the employer’s
Routine deadline and wage tracking arrives already done.
02Human review
Point review at the open obligations
Open guarantee, transport and 50 percent rule obligations are flagged, so review starts where exposure concentrates.
04Build an evidence trail
The obligation, the rule version it was read against and the manager who attested stay on the file.
Integrations
Typical integrations
Five system groups connect to the same agent. Which of them are in scope is decided in discovery.
Farm payroll & timeFingercheck · Famous Field tally and time clocks
H-2A filing & case dataFLAG · iCERT case files SWA job-order postings
A single obligation-coverage figure can read clean while one state, or one skill level inside it, carries most of the exposure. Nestack reports the missed-obligation rate by slice, not only in total.
Slice performance — reported separately, not only in aggregateIllustrative example
Slice
Failure rate
Lift
Lift vs. threshold
Status
States under the Kansas order
8.7%
3.9×
Review
SOC-specific and Skill Level II roles
6.3%
2.8×
Review
Contracts with an amended date of need
4.1%
1.8×
Watch
Single-state, single-rate contracts
1.4%
0.6×
Normal
Bar: missed-obligation-rate lift vs. the single-rate baseline · scale 0–4.0× · tick at 2.0×2 of 4 slices over threshold
Evidence-linked improvement
The rule moves; the suite grows
A cycle closes when the missed obligation is a case the next release has to catch. That suite is what the next season tracked is measured against.
Improvement cycle · five stagesSwitchback — the path turns at Improve and returns at Learn
01Detect
Missed-obligation rate rises in a state slice.
02Diagnose
The crew member paid at last season's rate is traced back through the job order and the notice behind it until the cause narrows to one.
03Improve
The fix carries a version number, and the job orders that forced it ride along.
04Verify
Nothing goes out until every touched obligation case has passed a second time.
05Learn
It is kept for good, and the wage rules are amended in the same commit.
Learn → DetectThe return edge. The rule is still litigated and re-proposed; the suite is what absorbs the change.
Typical build scope
Twelve workstreams across six weeks
The build scope read against the delivery timeline. Week structure follows the six-week plan — discovery, sources, tracking workflow, evaluation, integration, then production validation and handover.
WorkstreamWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6
01Labour-workflow discovery and obligation boundary definition.
02Payroll and case-data source assessment.
03Wage-table, skill-level and rule-version mapping work.
04Job-order ingestion and normalisation.
05Obligation logic and record binding.
06Confidence scoring and gap routing.
07Employer attestation workflow.
08Payroll and HR-system integration.
09Wage and obligation cases.
10Guardrails and attestation controls.
11Job-order trail instrumentation.
12Deployment, documentation and Agent Care handover.
12 workstreams · 6 weeks · bar shows the weeks a workstream is active — several run in parallelFinal scope and sequence confirmed in discovery
Engagement tiers
What each tier includes
Rows are the capabilities named in each tier's scope. Higher tiers include everything below them.
Capability✓ in scope · — not at this tierPilotOne state, one cropProductionProduction payroll systemsAdvancedMultiple states / entities
Introduced at Pilot
Tracking to your rules and dates✓✓✓
Employer attestation✓✓✓
Obligation-coverage baseline✓✓✓
Introduced at Production
Reporting by state—✓✓
Attestation workflow in your systems—✓✓
Approved write-back—✓✓
Payroll-system integration—✓✓
Introduced at Advanced
Multi-state rule complexity——✓
Multi-stage employer approvals——✓
High contract volume——✓
Multi-state wage controls——✓
Build priceFrom $5,000From $8,000Custom quote
Final build priceConfirmed after discovery based on integrations, workflow complexity, contract volume, approval controls and deployment requirements.
Separate from buildBuild pricing is separate from recurring Agent Care, which covers managed monitoring, evaluations, incidents and verified improvements after launch.
What we need from you
What you bring, and what we build with it
Each input maps to a piece of build scope and a week in the delivery timeline.
You bringWe build with it
01Your job orders and contract dates→Job-order ingestion and obligation mappingWeek 1
02Representative past seasons, audits included→Obligation-tracking baseline and record bindingWeek 2
03Your wage tables and the rule versions you follow→Wage-table and rule-version mappingWeek 1
04Access to relevant APIs, feeds or exports→Payroll and case-data assessment, then integration setupWeek 2
05Obligations you would not want audited→Wage-and-hour cases and failure-mode testingWeek 4
06What no attestation may rest on→Confidence scoring, gap routing, guardrails and attestation controlsWeek 3
07Named farm labour managers to review files→Attestation workflow, then pilot and production validationWeeks 5–6
Nothing else is requiredDeployment, documentation and Agent Care handover are ours.
Delivery timeline
Four phases across six weeks
The bands are drawn over the weeks the work genuinely fills, which is why week 5 doubles up.
PhaseW1W2W3W4W5W6
DiscoveryW1
BuildW2 – W3
EvaluateW4 – W5
Pilot & LaunchW5 – W6
Week focusW1Labour workflow discovery, rule mapping and the automation boundaryW2Payroll and case-data integration and the tracking baselineW3Tracking workflow, confidence logic and attestation controlsW4Evaluation suite, wage-and-hour checks and failure-mode testingW5Payroll-system integration, pilot contracts and targeted correctionsW6One contract period tracked under the farm labour manager, then Agent Care handover
Reading the bandA bar covers the weeks its work is named in, and nothing else. The week 5 overlap is real, not padding.
At the end of W6Validation closes on live job orders, and Agent Care picks up monitoring.
DurationSix-week plan shown · typical delivery 4–6 weeks depending on scope confirmed in discovery.
Next step · Agriculture AI agent
Build a farm-labour agent on a rule that is still being litigated and re-proposed.
Show us your job orders and who signs them. If your farms fall under the Kansas order, then your rates took effect on 17 August 2026, not 3 August — on a methodology that is still an interim final rule.
