AI-automation consulting · back office

Your back office runs on retyping. We ship the system that ends it.

Finance, purchasing, data entry, receiving, reporting, HR — automated in weeks by the operator-CFO who returned 100+ hours a week to her own team at a precision defense manufacturer. Your people approve everything. Working automation. Not slideware.

MISSION CONTROL — live pattern
Every engagement starts with a baseline your team signs. Results are measured, not promised.
0+
hours/week of manual work returned to one team
$0K+
annual savings & recovered costs, finance + procurement
0/5
AI does the work · your people approve everything
0/wk
items handled by our own live agent system
Operating discipline from AS9100 environmentITAR / CMMC frameworksCFO-level finance ops20 yrs clinical operations
Proof, not promises

Built and running in a real back office. Daily.

All three systems run in production at an 80-person AS9100 precision CNC defense manufacturer, operated on our 95/5 model. Anonymized measurements available on request.

Purchasing · Finance

The Vendor Price Watchdog

Every PO line checked against quoted and historical pricing. Drift flagged, recovery drafted, a human approves.

Six figures/yr

in savings and recovered overcharges · ~76 purchasing items weekly

Data entry · Universal

A Hundred Hours, Returned

Documents read once, entered everywhere — invoices, receiving with custom cataloging, scanned records. Daily reconciliation across ~950 invoices.

99.9% match

and 100+ hrs/week of manual entry eliminated — capacity gained, nobody replaced

Operations-wide

The Self-Running Cadence

Department agents run status checks, reconciliations, and document processing — queuing only real decisions to the owner.

144 items/wk

handled with minutes per day of human approval time. See it live →

Fixed scope · fixed price · working software

Start where it makes sense. Every rung ships something.

AI Quickstart

$2,500
half-day · 4/month max
  • One automation shipped live in the session
  • Plain-English 90-day roadmap
  • For teams under ~20 staff
  • $1,000 credit toward the next rung
Stay in the race

Back-Office Teardown

$6,500
2 weeks · ~3 hrs of your time
  • Top 2 pain areas mapped & dollarized
  • ROI model on your volumes
  • Quick-win automation demonstrated
  • 50% credited to any build in 60 days
Know your number

Autopilot Build

$16.5–45K
4–8 weeks · one named workflow
  • Production-grade, exceptions to your people
  • Signed baseline → measured results
  • Working demo every Friday
  • Mission Control dashboard (Standard+)
  • SOP, training video, 30-day hypercare
Ship the system

Automation Program

$60K+
3–6 months · multi-workflow
  • 3–5 chained builds, one roadmap
  • One governance cadence
  • Sold only after a Teardown
Go department-wide

Fractional Automation Officer

$5K/mo+
monthly · defined capacity
  • Monitoring & incident response
  • Monthly value report vs. baseline
  • Defined build-hours allowance
  • Roadmap ownership at CAIO tier
Keep it improving

Skeptical? Ask about shared-savings pricing — part of our fee rides on documented results. Rate card: $275/hr advisory · $350/hr build.

How it works

The anti-slideware operating model.

STEP 01

Baseline first

Before we build, we measure the current state — hours, volumes, error rates — and your team countersigns it. Every result is measured against it.

STEP 02

Demo every Friday

Working software every week, not status decks. If you can't watch it run, it doesn't count.

STEP 03

Your people approve everything

95% AI, 5% human: agents draft, humans approve. Nothing sends, posts, or pays without a person saying so.

Security & data governance

Defense-grade habits, in writing.

Our controls come from daily work inside a regulated defense-manufacturing environment: documented data boundaries, human approval on every send, and a full audit trail — written into every statement of work.

Recipient whitelists

Agents refuse to send to any address the owner hasn't explicitly approved. You'll see this working in the demo — it's a feature, not a limitation.

Draft-first, human-approved

Every outbound action is a draft until a person approves it. Full audit trail on everything the system does.

You own the accounts

Agents run on your identities, your domains, your systems — from day one. You are never dependent on infrastructure we control.

We say no when we should

Year-one policy: no PHI, no export-controlled data, no cardholder data, no automated hiring decisions. If your data needs a certification we don't hold, we'll tell you — which is exactly what you want from a vendor.

60-second scorecard

What is your back office overpaying for?

Rough numbers are fine. This is the same math we use in a paid Teardown — just smaller.

Estimated annual cost of manual back-office work at your company:
$0

Get the real number — book a call
The operator behind it

Built by someone who has actually closed a month-end.

I spent twenty years in clinical healthcare operations, then moved into manufacturing — where I now run operations and finance for an 80-person AS9100 precision CNC defense contractor. Seven departments, five overseas offices, ITAR and CMMC compliance, and every back-office headache a company can have.

I got tired of watching skilled people spend their days keying invoices, chasing vendor quotes, and retyping data between systems. So I automated it. More than a hundred hours a week returned to my team. Six figures a year in savings and recovered costs.

These days that makes me the company's de facto chief AI officer — but the title that matters is operator: I own the month-end, the audits, and the processes the automation touches. That's the difference between automation designed from a slide and automation designed from the inside.

My philosophy is 95% AI, 5% human: the systems do the work, people approve the exceptions, and nobody is surprised by anything the automation does. Now I build the same thing for other companies. Not a strategy deck. The working system.

— Sarah · Founder & Principal, Shipped Systems
Ready when you are

The audit ships software. The build ships a system.
Nothing we do ships a deck.

Start here

Tell us where it hurts.

Two-minute intake. You'll get a reply from Sarah — a real observation about your business, not a canned pitch.

We reply within one business day — or write us directly: contact@shippedsystems.com