We design, build and run the AI systems behind operator-led businesses. Calls answered, data reconciled, teams coached. Quietly, every day.
Customer inquiries handled
Sales conversations reviewed
Products ranked by contribution
E-commerce revenue growth over four years
Where the phones, the catalog and the data don't agree. We go deep where we've operated ourselves, so the first meeting sounds like a peer, not a pitch.
Dealer groups, wholesalers and distributors. Phones, DMS or ERP, CRM, inventory feeds and the weekly numbers meeting, working as one system.
Explore dealer systems ↗Owner-run brands and deep catalog businesses. Margin you can see, inventory planned ahead, invoices accounted for and daily operations in view.
Explore commerce systems ↗The operating patterns transfer across industries. Each implementation is built around your systems and process.
One operating partner, not five vendors. Each system ships with a before number, so you know exactly what it's worth.
Handle customer inquiries, service requests and after-hours calls your team can't reach, and hand over a clean summary.Outcome / Calls answered when staff are busy
Every sales call scored against your process, patterns surfaced for the weekly meeting.Outcome / Managers coach on facts
CRM, DMS or ERP, ads and store data in one warehouse. One number for leads, one for profit.Outcome / One dashboard everyone believes
Every item ranked by the dollars it actually contributes, with moving unit costs kept current.Outcome / Buying and promotion follow profit
Invoices, supplier orders and restock decisions kept current, with exceptions sent to a person before they become expensive.Outcome / No invoice lost, no stockout left unseen
Orders, shipments, tracking, client history and system health distilled into one prioritized operating view.Outcome / Teams start with what needs attention
Customer inquiries handled and sales conversations analyzed. Connected systems support intake, follow-up and performance review across the operation.
Contribution, catalog and inventory intelligence connected to everyday buying, merchandising and operating decisions.
Order, fulfillment and client data reconciled into a shared operating view. A daily action brief surfaces exceptions, while coordinated AI roles support controlled system improvement.
Move the sliders to match your business. A quick estimate before we measure the real number.
866 unanswered calls a month.
A rough model based on your inputs, not a guarantee. The audit measures the real number.
Measure mine for real ↗Published prices, no surprise invoices. We ship the highest-value system first, then keep it running with you.
Thirty minutes. We find the process costing you the most.
Two weeks mapping systems, data and phone traffic. A ranked build plan with payback estimates.
Ship the highest-value system first, measured against where you started.
Monitor, improve and join your weekly meeting. One new build each quarter.
Your accounts, your data and a written runbook for every system. If we ever part ways, nothing goes dark.
See engagement details ↗You work with the people who build it. A trusted team of specialists gives us room to scale without adding a middle layer.
Meet your operating partners ↗Architect of the voice agents, data pipelines and multi-agent operations behind our own brands. Works alongside operators in recurring sales and performance reviews.
Finance MBA with over a decade leading finance teams, from the Fortune 100 to startups. Builds the invoice, supplier and inventory systems behind our clients' back offices and our own brands.
We connect your phones, DMS or ERP, CRM and inventory feeds into one system, then run it with you every week. Built by people who sit in the weekly numbers meeting.
Recreated call. No customer information is used.
What runs in the background, from before the doors open to after they close.
Source systems merged and pushed to the marketplace or catalog. Import errors caught before a buyer sees them.
Yesterday's leads by location, aged inventory, and the three things worth doing first. In the GM's inbox before coffee.
Every overnight customer inquiry and service request, already summarized, waiting for the right person.
Call scores and coaching themes from the week, with real clips. We're in the room.
The AI line picks up when the desk can't. No holds, no hang-ups.
And what we build in response.
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Margin you can see, product copy graded before it ships, and operations that keep pace across your own store and major sales channels. Built around real buying, fulfillment and operating decisions.
Every product ranked by the dollars it actually contributes, so buying and promotion follow profit.
| Product | Price | Unit cost | 90-day units | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalog product A | $14.00 | $5.10 | 1,240 | |
| Equipment product B | $689.00 | $452.00 | 31 | |
| Assortment product C | $32.00 | $19.40 | 310 | |
| Catalog product D | $24.00 | Missing | 88 | Can't rank |
Every AI-written description is scored against a house rubric. Nothing publishes below the bar.
A beautiful, versatile product. Perfect for everything you need.
Verdict: hold
A compact, durable product with clear specifications, practical handling details and compatibility guidance for the buyer.
Verdict: ship
Illustrative quality scores out of 5. Sample descriptions demonstrate the review process.
Supplier invoices are checked, logged and connected to the orders they support before anything reaches the payment queue.
| Supplier | Invoices | Open balance | Due in 30 days | Needs review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplier A | 18 | $12,480 | $7,920 | No |
| Supplier B | 9 | $4,210 | $4,210 | One invoice |
| Supplier C | 6 | $2,860 | $0 | No |
We connect the inventory decision to the supplier reality behind it, without turning either one into another dashboard to maintain.
Each product gets a reorder point built from its sales pace, supplier lead time and a safety buffer. Open purchase orders are counted, so nothing gets ordered twice.
We read the supplier email, orders, invoices and shipping notices behind a delay, then show where it started and what needs to change.
Live Shopify, analytics and email data turned into a short list of what matters today. Delivered at 5:15, every day.
The same operating pattern now runs for a luxury clothing retailer, reconciling client, order and shipment history into a daily action queue. See how the two-AI handoff works.
Connected operating systems in production. The businesses are described by category; identifying details are kept private.
A retail group with customer inquiries, inventory, sales activity and reporting spread across disconnected systems. We connected the records, improved inquiry handling and follow-up, and brought conversation data into recurring performance reviews.
An e-commerce retailer with a deep catalog. Contribution, inventory, supplier records and product content are connected so buying, merchandising and replenishment follow the same operating picture.
A luxury clothing retailer manages high-touch client relationships, made-to-order purchases and split shipments across systems that were never designed to provide one operating view. We connected the records, made shipment-level tracking authoritative, and built a daily brief that surfaces the clients, orders and exceptions requiring attention.
One AI helps the retailer manage today's priorities. A second investigates the automation underneath it and proposes tested improvements through a controlled queue with explicit human approval.
Read how the system works Review your operationsNotes from the work: the arithmetic, the arguments and the things that turn out to matter. Each note continues on its own page.
Most owners have never done the arithmetic on a ringing phone nobody picked up.
A missed call is easy to dismiss as a moment. Across locations, departments and weeks, it becomes an operating number. The useful first step is not buying technology. It is calculating the possible exposure with your own call volume, missed-call rate and average gross, then measuring what is actually happening before anything gets built.
Read the noteThe CRM, the ad platform and the spreadsheet each report a different number, and none of them is technically wrong.
Different systems count different events at different moments. The problem is not necessarily that one number is broken. It is that the business has not agreed which system answers which question, or what happens when the systems disagree. Until it does, every reporting meeting begins with reconciliation instead of decisions.
Read the noteRevenue tells you what sold. Contribution tells you what was actually worth selling.
A high-revenue product can still be a poor product for the business once its real costs are visible. Ranking a catalog by contribution changes what gets purchased, promoted and replenished. But first, the unit-cost data has to be honest enough to support the decision.
Read the noteOne AI helps the retailer run today. Another investigates the system behind tomorrow's brief, with human approval at the boundary.
A useful daily brief does more than summarize data. It reconciles orders, shipments, carrier events and client history into a prioritized action queue. When the automation itself needs attention, a separate systems AI receives the issue, investigates the cause and improves the operating layer without confusing maintenance work with customer service.
Read the noteNotes are drawn from systems running in production. Client details are anonymized by policy, and figures are generalized from measured implementations unless marked illustrative.
Start with a review, prove the value with an audit, then build and run what pays back first.
Because it's real work that produces a plan you can use with or without us. If you build with us within 30 days, the fee is credited.
Retainers start with three months so systems can settle, then run month to month.
Everything already lives in your accounts with written runbooks. We run a documented handover.
You do, directly, in your own accounts. We don't mark it up or hide it in our fee.
The first system usually ships within a few weeks of the audit, measured against a before number we agree on.
No. We take one client per market. When we start an engagement, that market is closed to competitors for as long as we're working together.
Usually, yes. The systems key off operating conditions, not industry: inbound calls that go unanswered, two systems reporting different numbers, a deep catalog nobody can rank by profit, and work someone redoes by hand every morning.
You work directly with the people who design, build and run your systems. A trusted team supports the work behind us, so we can scale delivery without handing the relationship away.
Every system we sell has already run in our own business or a live client's.
Each build starts with a before number and ends with an after number.
Your accounts, your data, your runbooks. No hostage-taking.
We'd rather sit in your weekly meeting than send you a monthly report. One client per market, always.
Kaine designs and builds the voice agents, data pipelines and multi-agent operations that run our clients' businesses and our own. He works alongside operators in recurring sales and performance reviews, connecting the systems behind their decisions.
John builds the systems behind a business's back office, backed by a finance MBA and over a decade leading finance teams at companies from the Fortune 100 to startups. He studies how the work really happens, down to the supplier emails, to find where orders and payments stall before automating anything. Every system he builds runs first on our own brands, where the systems have already processed hundreds of supplier invoices.
A private, thirty-minute review. Bring the one process that eats your team's week.
Tell us where the operation is getting stuck. We reply within one business day with two or three times.