AI operations for growing businesses

AI is not your competitive advantage. How your team works is.

The companies pulling ahead are not using more AI tools. They are changing how work gets done.

We help growing businesses find the work worth changing, build practical AI workflows, and help teams use them day to day.

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The tools your team already has
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The adoption gap

Your team already has AI. Why is everyone still so busy?

Most teams have tried something. ChatGPT. Claude. A custom GPT. A new app someone found on LinkedIn.

They have seen enough to know AI matters. But the day to day has not changed much.

That is the gap. AI can save time, but using it well takes setup, judgment, testing, training, documentation, and a clear workflow. Without that, it becomes one more thing for busy people to manage.

Today's AI to-do list
Learn ChatGPT properly
Learn Claude too
Write the prompt again
Test the output. Fix it.
Wire up Zapier
Build a custom GPT
QA everything by hand
Train the team on it
Write the SOP
Decide who owns this
Nobody has time for this list.
Start where the pain is obvious

Find the work worth changing.

Pick the seat you sit in. We will tell you the moment your week falls apart, and the workflow we would rebuild first.

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What this feels like

I know we are behind on AI. I also cannot stop running the company long enough to figure out where to start.

What we would change

We do the figuring out. In a few weeks we surface the two or three workflows worth changing and prove value on the first one.

What we would build
Opportunity assessmentPriority roadmapA first working win
From curiosity to a shipped resultTalk through this workflow →
Use cases

Solutions hiding in plain sight.

The best AI projects are usually hiding inside the work your team already dislikes doing.

Quotes & proposals

Turn requests into draft proposals faster.

Intake, past-job retrieval, pricing, and a review-ready draft.

Ready for review →
Where is the latest pricing SOP?
Company Brain

Connect systems so people can find answers.

Reporting

Stop rebuilding the same reports every month.

Invoicing

Draft, route, and follow up with less manual work.

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How we get there

Four phases. Each ends with a deliverable.

See the full process →
01AssessMap how work moves today and rank the opportunities.→ Ranked opportunity map
02DesignPick one workflow and define what good output looks like.→ Workflow blueprint
03BuildShip it into production with the people who do the work.→ System in production
04AdoptTrain, document, and hand over ownership.→ Team runs it without us
Built by an operator, not an agency

Someone who has been in your chair.

Matt has been a founder, operator, investor, and an employee. He has run an aerospace manufacturer, built software companies from 0-to-1, scaled operations, navigated venture capital + acquisitions, and advised founders under pressure to move fast with lean teams. Matt gravitates toward solving key constraints to help teams thrive, often bridging technology into the physical world with business operations. He has wrestled with the same problem you have:

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Matthew Chimes
Founder. Operator. Builder. Cleveland, OH.
$6M
P&L run in aerospace
400+
accounts on SaaS he sold
9
founders advised at a fund

I know what it feels like to want to fix the process, deploy a new tool, and keep the business running...all while trying to make it home for dinner with the kids.

Start here

Your team does not need more tools. It needs work that works better.

Book an intro call with Matt, no sales pitch. We map where work gets stuck and find the workflows worth changing first. You'll leave with a clear picture of where to start.

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