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Your AI Can't See Your Data. That's Why It Can't Do Your Job.

If you're a founder who's tried to build an AI workflow and hit the wall at 'how does it access Salesforce,' you've found the missing piece.

You use ChatGPT for drafting emails and brainstorming. But what if AI could read your CRM, check your inventory, book appointments, process insurance claims, and answer customers -- automatically? We connect Claude and ChatGPT to your existing business systems so AI stops being a chatbot and starts being an employee. Not a science project. Not a 6-month R&D initiative. A working AI integration in 2 to 4 weeks that plugs into the tools you already use.

40%
Ops Cost Reduction
Typical AI workflow automation replacing manual content/data tasks
$0.003/1K
Claude Haiku Cost
Per token -- AI features affordable at scale on Anthropic API
6-16wk
Integration Timeline
AI feature build -- from spec to production including fine-tuning
$30-150K
Build Cost
AI-powered feature set integrated into existing platform
What AI Integration Actually Fixes--And What Copy-Paste Doesn't

Your sales rep opens ChatGPT, pastes in a customer email, asks for a reply draft, copies the output into Salesforce, then manually checks three other tabs to confirm inventory before hitting send. That's not automation--that's just more steps. AI integration connects Claude or ChatGPT directly to your CRM, ERP, Shopify, scheduling tools, and databases via secure APIs and Model Context Protocol. The AI reads your actual customer records, sees your real inventory counts, checks your live appointment calendar, and acts--books the slot, processes the return, updates the ticket, sends the notification. No copy-paste. No tab-switching. Your team asks a question, the AI pulls from your systems and does the work. This matters for regulated industries. Healthcare data stays encrypted with BAAs in place, built to HIPAA requirements. Financial integrations follow FCA and PCI DSS frameworks. Your data never leaves your infrastructure. AI processes in memory and doesn't store it. Same agentic architecture you see in enterprise deployments--scoped and priced for your business, not theirs.

What is holding your current website back?

You are using AI for chat. Here is what it could be doing instead.

Your team is copying data into ChatGPT and then manually pasting the results back into your actual systems
Risk: It's the worst of both worlds -- you're doing extra work just to use a tool that's supposed to save you work. And honestly, that's not automation. That's just a different kind of manual labor with an AI in the middle.
Your AI chatbot can answer "what are your business hours?" But the moment a customer asks "where's my order?" or "can I book for Tuesday?" -- it falls apart
Risk: And customers notice. Fast. Nothing kills trust in AI faster than a bot that sounds helpful but can't actually do anything useful.
You've got five systems -- maybe Salesforce, QuickBooks, a custom ERP, a scheduling tool, and Shopify -- and none of them talk to each other
Risk: So when you ask AI for help, it's working completely blind. The recommendations it gives you are based on general knowledge, not your actual inventory numbers, your real customer history, or what's actually happening in your business today.
You called a traditional AI consulting firm and they quoted $500K and 12 months
Risk: But here's the real kicker: by the time that project launches, your competitors will have had working AI for a full year. Markets move fast. That 12-month timeline isn't just expensive -- it's a competitive liability.
Your staff is burning roughly 3 hours every single day on admin tasks -- data entry, report pulling, status checks, routing emails
Risk: That's 780 hours per year, per employee. For a team of five in Dallas or Denver or wherever you're based, that's nearly 4,000 hours annually. Gone. AI handles most of that in seconds.
So you tried building AI features in-house
Risk: Your developers are smart -- but they've never built production AI integrations before, and there's no shame in that. It's a genuinely different discipline. The problem is that learning curve plays out on your live systems, with your real customer data. That's where security gaps appear, where edge cases get missed, and where things break in ways that are hard to explain to clients.

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

AI Customer Service

Imagine customer support that actually pulls up the order, checks your Shopify inventory, processes the return in Salesforce, and closes the ticket -- without ever transferring the customer to a human. That's what this looks like in practice. Claude-powered support connected directly to Shopify, Salesforce, HubSpot, and your ticketing system. It reads order history, checks inventory in real time, and resolves issues end to end.

AI Internal Assistant

Instead of digging through dashboards or waiting for your analyst to pull a report, you just ask. In Slack or your own dashboard -- "what were returns last week in the Chicago region?" or "summarize yesterday's sales call notes." Connected to your actual database, it pulls real answers. KPIs, documents, meeting summaries, report data -- all through plain language queries.

AI Workflow Automation

Most AI tools give you suggestions. This actually does the work. Books the appointment. Routes the lead to the right rep. Processes the claim. Updates the record in your CRM. Sends the notification. And for anything sensitive -- approvals, financial transactions, exceptions -- there's a human-in-the-loop control layer so nothing runs fully unsupervised unless you want it to.

RAG Document Intelligence

Got thousands of contracts, policy documents, procedure manuals, or compliance records sitting in folders? We ingest all of it into pgvector embeddings so your AI can run semantic search across the entire library. Ask a question, get a specific answer -- with citations back to the exact source document. No more "I think it's somewhere in the 2022 policy update."

AI Voice and Communication

Phone, SMS, email -- we connect AI across every channel your customers actually use. ElevenLabs voice integration for phone systems that sound natural, Twilio SMS for appointment reminders and follow-ups, AI-generated email responses tied to your real business logic. Not generic templates. Responses that know the customer's history, their open tickets, their last order.

Agentic Commerce

ChatGPT is increasingly how people shop. And if your Shopify product data isn't structured for AI to read and act on, you're invisible in those conversations. We optimize your product descriptions, data architecture, and Agentic Commerce Protocol setup so customers can literally buy through an AI conversation. It's a new channel -- and it's growing fast.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Reads your CRM, ERP, inventory, and scheduling systems in real-time via API

Your AI assistant sees Customer #4821 has two open tickets and hasn't reordered in 90 days--then acts

Books appointments, processes returns, updates records, and routes notifications autonomously

Your Chicago clinic's AI checks Epic, finds Dr. Patel's Thursday opening, and books the patient without staff intervention

Deploys in 2–4 weeks with working demos every week--not 12-month consulting timelines

Your team stops burning 780 hours per year per employee on data entry and status checks

Maintains HIPAA, FCA, and PCI DSS compliance for regulated healthcare and finance workflows

Your contracts get drafted with your actual boilerplate, shipments reroute when FedEx flags delays

Runs as white-label for agencies--your brand, your clients, our engineering and support

Your agency clients pay you 40–60% margin while we build and maintain the integrations under your brand

Uses Model Context Protocol and function calling to act inside your systems, not just respond

Your AI processes insurance claims, analyzes return patterns, and automates workflows across your entire operation

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Claude APIOpenAISupabasepgvectorVercelElevenLabsTwilioStripeHubSpot APIShopify APISlack API

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

System Audit

Week 1

We start by mapping what you've already got -- your tools, your APIs, your data flows, and where the actual pain is. Then we identify the highest-ROI integration opportunities, the ones that pay back fastest. You walk away from discovery with a concrete integration plan and a fixed-price quote. No vague estimates, no "it depends" non-answers.

02

Connection Architecture

Week 2

Before we build anything, you see exactly what we're building. We design the API connections, data pipelines, MCP server configuration, and security layers in a technical blueprint. You review it, ask questions, request changes, and sign off. Development doesn't start until you're confident in the plan.

03

Build and Connect

Week 3-4

We build the integration, connect it to your live systems, and test it with your real data -- not synthetic test cases. Everything gets deployed to a staging environment first so your team can interact with it, break it intentionally, and verify it handles your actual workflows before it touches production.

04

Train and Tune

Week 5-6

After the build, we don't just hand it over and disappear. We fine-tune AI responses, optimize prompts, and add edge case handling for the weird scenarios that always come up in real use. Your team tests with real situations. You give feedback. We refine until it's right.

05

Launch + Monitor

Week 7-8

Production deployment comes with error monitoring, usage analytics, and 30 days of free support -- because the first month is always where the interesting edge cases surface. After that, an ongoing optimization retainer keeps the system tuned as your business evolves and AI models improve.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Pricing is pretty straightforward once we know your scope. A simple AI chatbot connected to your website and FAQ database runs $8,000 to $15,000. Connecting AI to a single system -- your CRM or Shopify store -- is $15,000 to $40,000. Multi-system integration across 3 to 5 tools with workflow automation runs $40,000 to $100,000. Enterprise builds with custom RAG, multiple departments, and compliance requirements range from $100,000 to $250,000. All fixed-price after a 1-week discovery sprint. No hourly billing surprises.
Honestly, if it has an API or a database, we can connect AI to it. In production we've integrated Claude and ChatGPT with Shopify, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, SAP, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Epic, Cerner, FedEx, DHL, Stripe, Twilio, and dozens of others. Custom ERPs that nobody outside your industry has heard of? Usually fine. The question isn't really whether we can connect to your system -- it's what's worth connecting first.
ChatGPT out of the box knows nothing about your business. It doesn't know your customers, your inventory, your pricing, or your policies. Our integrations fix that by connecting AI directly to your actual data sources in real time. So instead of a nurse copying patient info into a chat window and hoping the AI gives useful output, she just says "schedule a follow-up with Dr. Patel" -- and the AI checks the Epic calendar, finds the Thursday slot, and books it. That's the difference.
Yes, and this is something we take seriously. All data stays in your infrastructure. We use the Claude API with enterprise-grade encryption -- not the consumer ChatGPT product. For healthcare clients we build HIPAA-compliant systems with BAAs signed and in place. For financial clients we follow FCA, SEC, and PCI DSS requirements. AI processes data in memory and doesn't store it between sessions. Your data doesn't leave your systems.
Timelines depend on scope, but here's a realistic breakdown: a simple AI chatbot is 2 to 3 weeks. Single-system integration -- connecting AI to your CRM, for example -- takes 3 to 4 weeks. Multi-system integration with workflow automation runs 6 to 10 weeks. Enterprise deployments with compliance requirements and team training take 10 to 16 weeks. And you see working demos every week throughout, not just at the end.
Both, and the distinction matters. We build AI agents that take real actions inside your systems -- booking appointments, updating CRM records, processing returns, sending emails, rerouting shipments, generating reports. Using MCP protocol and function calling, the AI doesn't just chat about what should happen. It actually executes the workflow. With human-in-the-loop controls for anything sensitive, so you're never flying completely blind.
We primarily use Claude API from Anthropic -- it's genuinely better for reasoning, instruction-following, and handling long context windows than most alternatives. For specific use cases we also bring in OpenAI's GPT-4o. Document processing and semantic search runs on pgvector embeddings. Voice integrations use ElevenLabs. We're not locked to one vendor, which matters -- because the right model for a healthcare scheduling system in Boston isn't necessarily the right model for an ecommerce returns workflow in Austin.
Yes, and it's a clean business model for agencies that want to offer AI without building an AI practice from scratch. You sell the AI features to your clients under your own brand. We build the integrations, connect the systems, and handle all the technical complexity on the back end. You sell and support the client relationship. Typical agency markup is 40 to 60 percent. We've built white-label AI solutions for agencies with 50 or more clients -- it scales well once the model is set up.
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