INTEGRATE THE STACK / AUTOMATE THE WORK / OWN THE PRODUCT

CRM. ERP. APIs. AI agents. Websites and apps—built as one system.

We connect the systems already running the company, automate the handoffs between them, deploy agents with explicit authority, and build the website, portal, or application people actually use. One accountable build path from operational map to production handoff.

Start with the system that is costing the business time, revenue, or control.

These are the four jobs we are emphasizing. They can stand alone, but the highest leverage usually comes from connecting the customer experience, operating data, automation, and agent authority as one controlled path.

01

CRM, ERP & API integration

Make customer, order, inventory, job, invoice, document, and payment states agree across the systems already running the business.

  • Source-of-truth and data-model mapping
  • OAuth, APIs, webhooks, events, and queues
  • Migration, deduplication, sync, and reconciliation
  • Retries, replay, rate limits, monitoring, and runbooks
BUILD OUTCOME

Connected records, visible failures, and fewer manual handoffs.

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02

AI agents

Give research, intake, documents, support, qualification, and operations agents bounded tools, evidence, evaluations, and human escalation.

  • Agent objectives, tools, memory, and permissions
  • CRM, ERP, inbox, document, and knowledge access
  • Grounded outputs, citations, and activity traces
  • Human gates, evals, cost ceilings, and rollback
BUILD OUTCOME

One production agent with a measurable job—not another chat demo.

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03

Websites & apps

Build the conversion surface and working product behind it: public websites, customer portals, internal apps, mobile workflows, and owned platforms.

  • Strategy, UX, original design, and engineering
  • Web, mobile, desktop, portal, and offline surfaces
  • Accounts, roles, payments, APIs, and data
  • Accessibility, analytics, testing, launch, and handoff
BUILD OUTCOME

A distinctive product connected to the real operation and ready to own.

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04

Automation buildouts

Trace the recurring business loop from trigger through exception, approval, external action, and reconciled finish—then remove the handoffs that do not need a person.

  • Lead-to-cash and quote-to-job
  • Onboarding, scheduling, dispatch, and delivery
  • Documents, approvals, support, and customer updates
  • Receivables, reporting, alerts, and operating command
BUILD OUTCOME

A deployed loop with an owner, evidence, exception path, and performance measure.

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Integration and build work first. Specialist depth when the system requires it.

CRM, ERP, APIs, agents, automation, websites, and apps lead the catalog. Strategy, assurance, private infrastructure, simulation, creative technology, and technical leadership strengthen the build where the job demands them.

01Integration & Automation Pilot

CRM, ERP, API integration, and automation

Connect the systems that hold customers, orders, inventory, jobs, invoices, documents, and operational truth—then automate the handoffs that should not require another person.

Our CRM, ERP, accounting, website, inboxes, spreadsheets, and field tools disagree, duplicate work, and make people chase the state of the business by hand.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
  • CRM and ERP data-model mapping
  • OAuth, REST, GraphQL, webhook, and event integration
  • Customer, product, order, job, invoice, and inventory synchronization
  • Migration, deduplication, reconciliation, and source-of-truth rules
  • Replay-safe queues, retries, rate limits, and idempotency
  • Lead-to-cash, quote-to-job, and order-to-fulfillment automation
  • Exception queues, approvals, alerts, and operating dashboards
  • Connector tests, observability, runbooks, and ownership handoff
THE CLIENT LEAVES WITH

A deployed integration layer and owned workflow where systems agree, routine handoffs move automatically, failures surface visibly, and people retain authority over exceptions.

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02AI Agent Pilot

AI agents and agentic workflow systems

Build agents that research, qualify, draft, reconcile, support, and coordinate through bounded tools instead of pretending a chat window is an operating system.

We want AI to move real work, but generic assistants have no durable context, permission model, evaluation standard, escalation path, or proof that the job actually finished.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
  • Agent role, objective, tool, memory, and authority design
  • CRM, ERP, knowledge, document, inbox, and API tool connections
  • Grounded retrieval, citations, provenance, and structured outputs
  • Human review, escalation, consent, and exception handling
  • Fixed evaluations, adversarial cases, and model regression tests
  • Cost ceilings, rate limits, retries, and provider routing
  • Activity trace, business receipts, monitoring, and rollback
  • Production deployment, operating playbook, and team handoff
THE CLIENT LEAVES WITH

A production agent with a named job, bounded authority, connected tools, measurable performance, and evidence leadership can inspect before expanding its scope.

Discuss AI Agent Pilot
03Website & App Engineering Sprint

Websites, web apps, mobile apps, and portals

Build the digital front door and the working product behind it—from conversion website through customer portal, internal app, mobile workflow, or owned software platform.

I know what should exist, but templates and off-the-shelf products cannot deliver the experience, workflow, intelligence, or control model.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
  • Product strategy, UX, and technical architecture
  • Conversion websites and interactive brand systems
  • Customer, partner, vendor, and employee portals
  • Web, mobile, desktop, and offline-capable applications
  • Accounts, roles, payments, subscriptions, and notifications
  • CRM, ERP, API, AI-agent, and data connections
  • Dashboards, search, reporting, and control surfaces
  • Accessibility, performance, analytics, testing, and deployment
THE CLIENT LEAVES WITH

A usable product or MVP that proves the critical path, exposes the real risks, and creates a foundation you own.

Discuss Website & App Engineering Sprint
04System Opportunity Map

Product, systems, and AI strategy

Turn an ambition, bottleneck, or scattered technology estate into a ruthless build-versus-buy decision and an executable architecture.

We know something important should change, but we do not know what to build, what to buy, what to integrate, or which technical path deserves investment.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
  • Workflow and operational audit
  • Product and technology opportunity map
  • Value, feasibility, and risk scoring
  • Data and integration posture
  • Build-versus-buy analysis
  • Platform, model, and vendor recommendations
  • Security, authority, and governance design
  • Implementation roadmap and measurement plan
THE CLIENT LEAVES WITH

A decision-ready plan showing what to pursue first, why it matters, what it requires, and how success will be measured.

Discuss System Opportunity Map
05Decision Intelligence Lab

Decision intelligence, forecasting, and simulation

Combine evidence, test assumptions, compare scenarios, and learn from outcomes before an expensive decision becomes an expensive lesson.

We make consequential decisions without one reliable way to aggregate evidence, simulate outcomes, track confidence, or learn after reality arrives.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
  • Research and evidence aggregation
  • Forecasting and calibration systems
  • Scenario and Monte Carlo analysis
  • Digital twins and causal models
  • Demand, capacity, and risk simulations
  • Decision dashboards
  • Point-in-time evidence records
  • Post-outcome learning and replay
THE CLIENT LEAVES WITH

A decision environment that makes assumptions visible, alternatives comparable, confidence measurable, and learning cumulative.

Discuss Decision Intelligence Lab
06Systems Assurance Review

Security, reliability, and systems assurance

Harden the architecture, permissions, observability, and recovery paths for technology trusted with consequential work.

We have software, agents, automations, or infrastructure, but we cannot prove the critical path, permission boundaries, failure behavior, or recovery plan.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
  • Architecture and permission review
  • Evaluation suites and adversarial testing
  • Security boundaries and threat scenarios
  • Evidence, provenance, and observability design
  • Approval gates and audit trails
  • Failure-mode analysis
  • Software, model, and prompt regression testing
  • Monitoring, rollback, and escalation
THE CLIENT LEAVES WITH

A clear architecture verdict, reproducible findings, permission map, and prioritized strengthening plan.

Discuss Systems Assurance Review
07Private Systems Architecture

Private infrastructure, networks, and local AI

Engineer distributed compute, secure routing, local and hybrid intelligence, and operator control without making one vendor account the operating core.

Sensitive data, unreliable connectivity, unpredictable cost, latency, vendor dependency, or operational control make a generic cloud-only architecture unacceptable.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
  • Local, hybrid, and distributed architecture
  • Service, model, and workload routing
  • Multi-machine compute and network topology
  • Sensitive-data isolation
  • Encrypted artifact handling
  • Private knowledge systems
  • Cost and capacity controls
  • Operator monitoring, access, and authority controls
THE CLIENT LEAVES WITH

A private or hybrid technology environment designed around your data, hardware, network, operating boundaries, and ownership requirements.

Discuss Private Systems Architecture
08Interactive Systems Sprint

Games, 3D, simulation, and creative technology

Build interactive worlds, responsive game systems, production tooling, digital twins, and browser-native experiences that do more than decorate a pitch.

We need an interactive world, game, simulation, or creative pipeline with real systems underneath it—not another disposable visual demo.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
  • PC, console, mobile, and browser game systems
  • Gameplay architecture and responsive behaviors
  • Unreal, Blender, and cross-tool pipelines
  • Procedural and AI-assisted production tooling
  • Interactive 3D websites and product demonstrations
  • Training environments and digital twins
  • Asset validation and evidence-bearing pipelines
  • Performance testing and delivery architecture
THE CLIENT LEAVES WITH

A working interactive system or production foundation that can be tested, extended, and carried into real development.

Discuss Interactive Systems Sprint
09Fractional Technical Architect

Technical leadership, rescue, and enablement

Put senior architecture, product judgment, AI implementation guidance, and ruthless technical triage behind the team without hiring an entire department.

The roadmap is drifting, vendors are difficult to evaluate, the system is fragile, AI use is inconsistent, or nobody owns the complete technical decision.
WHAT WE CAN DELIVER
  • Executive and department briefings
  • Role-specific workshops
  • Architecture, product, and delivery review
  • Technical rescue and modernization plan
  • Tool, model, and vendor selection
  • Vendor and proposal review
  • Architecture and initiative oversight
  • Office hours and continuing optimization
THE CLIENT LEAVES WITH

A team with sharper decisions, coherent architecture, explicit priorities, and a direct route from uncertainty to shipped work.

Discuss Fractional Technical Architect

A subscription is not an operating system.

Frontier products can be excellent ingredients. The complete cost also includes workflow discovery, architecture, integration, exception handling, testing, security, deployment, training, and somebody accountable for the result.

LOADED LABOR FACTOR1.43×

Private-industry compensation divided by wages.

REPRESENTATIVE STACK$170–$655+

Per month for a five-user AI, CRM, and app baseline.

CONTROLLED PILOT LABOR$14.3K–$28.6K

Estimated internal labor before recurring software.

The same work, priced two ways.

Each pair compares our fixed engagement range with the estimated internal labor to do the same work in-house (BLS median wages, 1.4× loaded, as of August 11, 2026). Bar length uses the midpoint of each range.

System Opportunity Mapsaves ~43%
$2,500–$5,000
$4,700–$8,400 (60–105 hours)
Integration & Automation Pilotsaves ~48%
$7,500–$15,000
$14,300–$28,600 (165–330 hours)
AI Agent Pilotsaves ~44%
$8,500–$18,000
$15,800–$31,600 (180–360 hours)
Website & App Engineering Sprintsaves ~48%
$12,000–$30,000
$26,100–$54,900 (300–630 hours)
Systems Assurance Reviewsaves ~48%
$3,500–$8,000
$7,300–$14,900 (85–175 hours)
Team Technology Enablementsaves ~29%
$2,000–$5,000
$3,200–$6,700 (35–75 hours)

Planning comparison only — scope, data sensitivity, volume, compliance, and existing licenses materially affect cost. Full assumptions in the tables below.

INTERNAL LABOR BENCHMARK
US BLS MEDIANS / BENEFITS INCLUDED
RoleMedian salaryEstimated loaded rate
Management analyst$101,190$70/hour
Computer systems analyst$103,790$71/hour
Software developer$133,080$91/hour
Software QA analyst$102,610$71/hour
Technology manager$171,200$118/hour

Formula. May 2024 occupational median salary ÷ 2,080 hours × 1.429. The multiplier comes from March 2026 private-industry employer costs: $46.60 total compensation ÷ $32.60 wages.

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Planning comparison only—not a quote, guarantee, promised savings, or claim that tools, employees, and a bounded studio engagement are interchangeable. Prices exclude tax, promotions, usage overages, implementation, data cleanup, procurement, and opportunity cost unless stated. Final architecture should use only the products the job actually needs.

A first purchase—and its alternative cost—you can understand.

Assessment → integration, agent, or product pilot → full build → ongoing optimization. Start with the smallest engagement capable of producing a defensible result, then compare it with the people and products required to own the work internally.

01Assessment

System Opportunity Map

A structured attack on the objective, workflows, product surface, technology, data, risks, and highest-value build opportunities.

OBTUSE TYPICAL INVESTMENT$2,500–$5,000

COMPARE INTERNAL COST$4,700–$8,400
Estimated role-hours
60–105 hours
Role mix
Systems analysis, management analysis, and technical leadership
Representative subscriptions
$40–$150/month

Covers the decision work once. It excludes the cost of pursuing the wrong platform or building the wrong workflow.

YOU LEAVE WITH

Prioritized opportunities, architecture guidance, build-versus-buy decisions, risk boundaries, and an implementation roadmap.

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02Pilot

Integration & Automation Pilot

Connect one consequential CRM, ERP, accounting, website, or operations workflow and make its handoffs observable, replay-safe, and measurable.

OBTUSE TYPICAL INVESTMENT$7,500–$15,000

COMPARE INTERNAL COST$14,300–$28,600
Estimated role-hours
165–330 hours
Role mix
Systems analysis, software engineering, QA, and technical leadership
Representative subscriptions
$170–$655+/month

Representative five-user AI, CRM, automation, and application infrastructure—not every vendor a project could require.

YOU LEAVE WITH

A deployed connector and workflow, source-of-truth rules, exception controls, test evidence, runbook, and scale recommendation.

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03Agent

AI Agent Pilot

Give one recurring research, intake, document, service, or operations job a bounded agent with connected tools and a measurable finish line.

OBTUSE TYPICAL INVESTMENT$8,500–$18,000

COMPARE INTERNAL COST$15,800–$31,600
Estimated role-hours
180–360 hours
Role mix
Systems analysis, software engineering, QA and evaluation, and technical leadership
Representative subscriptions
$40–$655+/month

Model usage, retrieval storage, monitoring, and connected-system licenses depend on volume, data sensitivity, and the tools the agent may use.

YOU LEAVE WITH

A working agent, tool and authority contract, evaluation suite, activity trace, cost controls, human escalation, and production handoff plan.

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04Build

Website & App Engineering Sprint

Move a conversion website, portal, web app, mobile workflow, platform, or product concept into a usable proof of capability or tightly scoped MVP.

OBTUSE TYPICAL INVESTMENT$12,000–$30,000

COMPARE INTERNAL COST$26,100–$54,900
Estimated role-hours
300–630 hours
Role mix
Product and systems analysis, software engineering, QA, and technical leadership
Representative subscriptions
$70–$655+/month

A production product may also require payments, email, maps, observability, app-store, or compliance services.

YOU LEAVE WITH

Working software, product definition, architecture, test evidence, and a clear next-stage plan.

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05Review

Systems Assurance Review

Evaluate existing software, infrastructure, agents, automation, or AI against its real job, threat surface, evidence, and authority.

OBTUSE TYPICAL INVESTMENT$3,500–$8,000

COMPARE INTERNAL COST$7,300–$14,900
Estimated role-hours
85–175 hours
Role mix
Security analysis, systems analysis, QA, and technical leadership
Representative subscriptions
Product-specific

Scanner, monitoring, testing, and evidence-retention products vary too widely to include honestly without a defined system.

YOU LEAVE WITH

Architecture findings, a permission map, governance guidance, and a prioritized systems-strengthening plan.

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06Ongoing

Fractional Technical Architect

Senior product, systems, AI, architecture, vendor, and delivery guidance without a full-time technical lead.

OBTUSE TYPICAL INVESTMENTFrom $3,000/month

COMPARE INTERNAL COSTAbout $20,400/month
Estimated role-hours
Full-time baseline
Role mix
Loaded benchmark for one computer and information systems manager
Representative subscriptions
$40–$150+/month

A fractional engagement is not a full-time employee replacement; this shows the scale of the alternative staffing decision.

YOU LEAVE WITH

A continuing decision partner who keeps products, systems, vendors, AI initiatives, and delivery coherent and moving.

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07Training

Team Technology Enablement

A practical workshop connected to your roles, software, AI tools, policies, and real workflows.

OBTUSE TYPICAL INVESTMENT$2,000–$5,000

COMPARE INTERNAL COST$3,200–$6,700
Estimated role-hours
35–75 hours
Role mix
Technical leadership plus management analysis for preparation and delivery
Representative subscriptions
$40–$150+/month

Participant time and the cost of organization-wide rollout are excluded because team size and adoption scope are unknown.

YOU LEAVE WITH

Approved use cases, tool guidance, operating policies, customized playbooks, and implementation priorities.

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These are working bands for a clearly bounded engagement, not a surprise invoice. Final scope, price, timing, ownership, and acceptance criteria are agreed in writing before work begins.