Deep Dives
Ambrose Upholstery Company
$130,000 Saved Annually by Automating a Broken Workflow
The Challenge
Manual administrative processes were consuming 48.8 hours weekly and costing over $130,000 annually. Quote generation alone took 65–100 minutes across six steps, 30–40% of potential customers never received follow-up, and data was re-entered across email, Google Sheets, QuickBooks, and work orders — simultaneously.
Our Approach
We built a five-phase AI-powered automation ecosystem: intelligent email parsing for instant quote generation, automated follow-up sequences with CRM priority scoring, single-entry financial integration directly into QuickBooks, predictive inventory management with vendor automation, and an intelligent customer communication layer for appointments and progress updates.
Outcomes
Quote generation time cut from 65 minutes to 5 minutes — a 92% reduction
Follow-up consistency improved from 60% to 100%, recovering $50,000+ in previously lost revenue
Invoice accuracy improved from 85% to 99%; no-show rate dropped from 15% to under 3%
Total annual value of $131,770 against a $1,200 technology cost — a 107× return on investment
Harambeans
5,000+ Applicants. 6 People. Zero Data Loss.
The Challenge
A prestigious African entrepreneur alliance ran its selective fellowship program on Excel spreadsheets — a system riddled with data integrity issues, manual data transfer, broken workflows, and communication breakdowns. With only 3 full-time staff and 3 part-time volunteers managing a three-round interview process, the fragile setup risked overlooking talent and damaging organizational credibility under pressure.
Our Approach
We implemented a three-phase integration: a custom Airtable database as the single source of truth with multi-stage pipeline tracking, Zapier automation to eliminate manual data entry and conditionally route applicants to the right interviewers, and Mailchimp for stage-specific, fellow-type-segmented communications across every round.
Outcomes
100% elimination of manual data entry across all three selection rounds
Zero data loss across 5,000+ applicants in a single cycle
6-person team confidently managed a process that previously required far more overhead
Scalable CRM infrastructure built for long-term relationship management beyond the fellowship
More Engagements
Data & Analytics
Full Product Lifecycle — Strategy to Launch
End-to-end engagement
Dex AI
An AI Analytics Layer That Delivers Instant Data Insights Where Your Team Already Works
Most organizations have more data than they can act on. The bottleneck isn't access — it's translation. Pulling a chart, running a query, or getting a straight answer from a dashboard requires either a data analyst's time or a non-trivial investment in learning tools most employees never fully adopt. The result is a two-tier organization: a small group who can interrogate data fluently, and everyone else making decisions on instinct or waiting days for answers they needed yesterday. The gap compounds at the pace decisions are made — which in Slack and Teams is constant.
Data analysis made accessible to every team member — no SQL, no dashboards, no analyst dependency for routine insight retrieval
Automated chart generation delivers visual answers inside Slack and Teams in real time, collapsing the gap between a question asked and a decision made
Career Technology
Full Product Lifecycle — Strategy to Launch
End-to-end engagement
Dr CV
A Platform That Diagnoses Your CV in 30 Seconds and Rewrites It to Get You Hired
Most professionals don't lose job opportunities because they're underqualified — they lose them because their CV never makes it past the first filter. ATS systems reject candidates before a human ever reads their application, recruiter attention averages seconds per CV, and the feedback loop for improvement is essentially nonexistent. Job seekers are left guessing: wrong keywords, weak framing, no visibility into why applications go unanswered. The market for CV help exists — but it's either expensive, slow, or generic. A one-size-fits-all template isn't a diagnosis. It's a different kind of guesswork.
CV diagnosis delivered in 30 seconds — giving candidates actionable, recruiter-grade feedback at a speed and price point no human service can match
ATS keyword scoring and tailored rewrites directly address the first and most common reason qualified candidates are filtered out before human review
EdTech
Full Product Lifecycle — Strategy to Launch
End-to-end engagement
ElevnAI
An AI Tutor That Gives Every UK Child a Personalised Learning Experience at a Fraction of the Cost of Private Tutoring
Private tutoring in the UK is effective but inaccessible — cost, availability, and geography put consistent one-on-one support out of reach for most families. The alternative, generic EdTech platforms, deliver content but not conversation. They can't identify where a child is struggling in real time, adjust their approach mid-lesson, or respond to a student who needs encouragement as much as explanation. For children in Years 1–9, the window for building foundational skills is narrow. A platform that couldn't adapt to each child's pace and gaps wasn't solving the problem — it was repackaging it.
Real-time voice tutoring delivered at scale — every child gets a responsive, conversational learning experience without waitlists, scheduling friction, or per-session cost
Adaptive practice engine continuously targets each student's weak spots, ensuring sessions build on gaps rather than revisiting mastered material
Workforce Development
Landing Page Design & Development
Single engagement
FutureSkills
A Landing Page That Positions a Workforce Development Platform for Its First Impressions
FutureSkills needed a digital presence that could communicate a multi-audience value proposition — students, professionals, and organizations — clearly and quickly. Workforce development platforms risk feeling either too academic or too corporate, losing the human dimension that makes career readiness feel attainable. Without a compelling landing page, even a well-built platform struggles to convert interest into signups, partnerships, or institutional trust. The first impression had to do real work.
A performant, animated landing page that communicates a multi-stakeholder value proposition — students, professionals, and organizations — within a single cohesive experience
Custom CMS integration giving the internal team full content ownership with no developer dependency for routine updates
Beauty Technology
Full Product Lifecycle — Strategy to Launch
Ideation through beta launch
PLAITED
From Community Problem to Production iOS App
Haircare discovery for Black and textured hair is deeply personal and highly fragmented. Users piece together recommendations from Instagram, TikTok, group chats, and word-of-mouth because existing booking platforms reduce haircare to generic ratings — stripping out the trust, cultural context, and nuance that actually drive confident decisions. PLAITED needed more than a marketplace. They needed infrastructure built around lived experiences, community validation, and visual storytelling. The challenge was translating that insight into a focused MVP without foreclosing long-term growth.
Refined product vision with a structured MVP strategy and complete PRD
Fully designed and developed iOS application ready for App Store launch
Enterprise AI
Full Product Lifecycle — Strategy to Launch
End-to-end engagement
Ranti AI
An AI Business Assistant That Turns Organizational Knowledge Into Instant, Actionable Answers
Knowledge inside most organizations is scattered — buried in documents, wikis, past email threads, and the heads of senior staff. When employees need answers, they interrupt colleagues, search through outdated files, or make decisions without the context they need. The cost accumulates quietly: onboarding takes longer, repetitive questions consume expert time, and workflows stall waiting on information that already exists somewhere in the organization. For teams operating at scale, the gap between the knowledge an organization holds and the knowledge employees can actually access in the moment is one of the most expensive inefficiencies no one is measuring.
Organizational knowledge made queryable in plain language — eliminating search friction and reducing dependency on senior staff for routine information retrieval
Document analysis and summarization capabilities that compress hours of review into seconds, directly recovering time across knowledge-intensive teams
Catering & Event Services
Custom Application Development
Implementation + rollout
Tastings
Real-Time Inventory That Eliminated Stock-Outs Across Three Cities
A premium catering company operating across NYC, LA, and Miami had zero real-time visibility into alcohol inventory. Manual, infrequent counts became outdated immediately. The result: 8–12 emergency orders monthly at 20–40% premium pricing, 10–15 hours of staff time lost to procurement firefighting, and a growth ceiling that made expansion into new markets impossible to justify.
Rush order incidents dropped from 8–12 monthly to fewer than 1 — a 95%+ reduction
Events affected by shortages fell from ~15% to under 2%
Healthcare Technology
Full Product Lifecycle — Strategy to Launch
Strategy through launch
TheraMotive
A HIPAA-Compliant PT Platform That Unified Patients, Clinicians, and Administrators in One System
Physical therapy practices are operationally complex — patients move through intake, assessment, treatment, and discharge across weeks or months, while clinicians juggle documentation requirements, billing codes, and care coordination simultaneously. Most practices stitch this together across disconnected tools: one system for scheduling, another for clinical notes, another for billing. The result is administrative overhead that pulls therapists away from patient care, compliance risk spread across platforms, and a patient experience that feels fragmented from the first appointment. For growing PT practices, that fragmentation isn't just friction — it's a hard ceiling on how many patients they can serve well.
Four distinct user roles — patient, therapist, administrator, partner — served from a single platform with zero cross-role data exposure
Clinical documentation, billing, and scheduling unified into one workflow, eliminating the multi-platform reconciliation that pulled therapists away from patient care