AI Operations Partner for Growth-Stage Businesses

Your Ops Team Is Doing Work That Should Be Automated.

Manual order entry. Invoice reconciliation. Supplier follow-ups. Inventory sync errors caught at 9pm. Your team is capable of much more — and so is your business. We map the workflows burying them, build the automations that free them up, and stay on to make sure it keeps working.
We integrate with tools you already run.

The Problem

The Ceiling Isn’t Your Team. It’s Your Processes.

Growth-stage businesses between $3M and $20M hit a point where more revenue means more manual work. Another 200 orders a month doesn’t feel like growth — it feels like more data entry, more supplier emails to chase, more invoice pileup at month end.

You don’t have a people problem. You have a process problem. Hiring another ops coordinator to absorb the volume is the most expensive way to not fix it.

The businesses that break through this ceiling build better systems first. 

Your Processes
What used to take 5–7 minutes per order now runs in under 5 seconds.

The Solution

What an AI Operations Partner Actually Does

We’re not a software tool. We’re not a freelancer who builds one workflow and disappears. We’re the operational partner that maps your broken processes, builds the automations that deliver the highest ROI first, and stays on to keep everything running and improving.

Three services. Delivered in sequence. Built to compound.

AI Operations Audit

Map your workflows, quantify the waste, get your 12-month roadmap

Workflow Implementation

Fixed-price builds of your highest-ROI automations.

Managed AI Operations

Ongoing monitoring, optimization, and expansion. Your fractional AI ops team

Why Carve

Most Automation Vendors Sell You a Build. We Stay for the Results.

There’s no shortage of freelancers who’ll build you a workflow. There’s no shortage of AI agencies promising transformation. What’s rare is a partner who speaks operations before technology — who maps your processes before touching a tool, manages the change so your team actually uses what gets built, and stays accountable for outcomes over months and years.

That’s the Carve model. The retainer isn’t optional — it’s what turns a one-time build into a
compounding operational advantage.

Ongoing accountability
Multi-client pattern recognition
Proactive improvement
Time to first workflow live
Annual cost (Professional)
Freelancer
Ongoing accountability
Multi-client pattern recognition
Proactive improvement
Time to first workflow live
Weeks–months

Annual cost (Professional)

Varies
Internal Hire
Ongoing accountability
Multi-client pattern recognition
Proactive improvement
Sometimes
Time to first workflow live
Months

Annual cost (Professional)

$120K–$150K fully loaded
Carve Solutions
Ongoing accountability
Multi-client pattern recognition
Proactive improvement
Time to first workflow live
2–4 weeks

Annual cost (Professional)

$18K–$30K

Industries

Built for Physical-Goods Operations

We work deeply in the industries where operational complexity is highest and the cost of manual processes compounds fastest.

Retail E-Commerce & DTC

Order Processing

Invoice Reconciliation

Inventory Sync

Returns Automation

Supplier Communications

Automotive Aftermarket

Order Entry

PO Management

Supplier Communications

Warranty Claim Processing

RMA workflows

Also serving

Manufacturers

3PLs

Logistics

Freight Brokers

The Proof

We’ve Lived This. At Collectors Auto Supply, We Built It.

Before Carve helped other businesses fix their operations, we fixed one of our own. A dropship automotive aftermarket retailer, 300 orders a month scaling to 800, every order and invoice processed manually. We automated the order-to-cash cycle end-to-end — and scaled to 800 orders a month without adding a single person.

Up to 130 hours a month recovered. $2,375–$3,250/month in labor capacity returned to
the business.

130+

Hours recovered per month

800+

Orders/month zero new headcount

One Conversation. Here’s What Happens Next.

The Discovery Call is 30 minutes. We qualify fast — in both directions. If the fit is there, we’ll book your audit kickoff within the week. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you that and point you somewhere more useful.

No slides. No pitch. Just a direct conversation about where your operations are leaking
time and money.

Carve Solutions — Intelligent automation that scales your business and elevates your team.