AI systems & automation

The work stays human. Everything around it runs on a system.

We map the parts of your business that run on memory, email and guesswork, then build the system that carries them. You do the work. The system handles the rest.

  • Manufacturing
  • Restoration
  • Professional services
  • Med spas

AE / Handoff

  1. EnquiryYouForm, call or text
  2. ReplyYouA prompt first response
  3. BookedYouOnly slots you can work
  4. The WorkYouThe part you are paid for
  5. InvoiceYouThe day it finishes
  6. Follow-upNobodyBefore they go elsewhere
The work around the work

Every handoff needs your attention. Even the ones that should take care of themselves.

Illustrative service workflow · Built around your rules

Real systems. Real businesses.

More than a website.
A working operation.

People, jobs and production on one schedule. A working manufacturing prototype built to test what happens when the plan changes.

See the work
Manufacturing prototype showing worker assignments and production jobs across an eight-week schedule
Manufacturing · Production scheduling · Prototype

What we build

Build around the work that matters.

Customer workflows, internal operations and custom software. We connect the tools you use and build the parts your business is missing.

Customer and lead systems

Leads arrive while you are working, and the ones you answer last are the ones you lose.

  • AI receptionist
  • Instant lead follow-up
  • Custom CRM
  • +2 more
What this ships as

AI and automation

Somebody on your team spends hours retyping things a computer already knows.

  • Quote and estimate automation
  • Document intelligence
  • Workflow automation
  • +2 more
What this ships as

Custom software

The tool you pay for gets the one part that matters to your business wrong.

  • Production and job scheduling
  • Internal operations tools
  • Client-facing status pages
  • +2 more
What this ships as

Growth infrastructure

You spend on marketing and cannot say which of it produced a customer.

  • Websites built to convert
  • Local SEO
  • Content and sales pipelines
  • +1 more
What this ships as

Proof

The system behind the business.

All work
Curl Collective queue with appointment notes, product recommendations and follow-up drafts using sample client records

Review build · Human-approved messages

Curl Collective

The useful details of an appointment can disappear into notes: what the client liked, which products were used, and what they need to do next.

Read the build
Cloud 9 Home and Car Services website with a booking call to action and a red car photographed on a driveway

Live · Booking & customer operations

Cloud 9

Enquiries, availability and follow-ups lived in separate places. Keeping the work moving depended on the operator remembering the next step.

Read the build
Pierce Tripp, founder of AE Automation

Who builds it

Your business is personal. So is the build.

I’m Pierce. I build the systems, write the code and work directly with you. We start with how your business actually runs, then build around the rules that matter. You see it working, you own it outright, and you know who to call.

Pierce TrippFounder, AE Automation

How it goes

From the first conversation to a working system.

The full process and the FAQ
  1. 01

    Find the opportunity

    Thirty minutes on the phone, then a morning watching one real job go through your business.

  2. 02

    Design the system

    What gets built, what it connects to, when it lands, and what it costs. In writing, before anything is built.

  3. 03

    Build and integrate

    Built around your rules and wired into the tools you already pay for. You see it working on your own data.

  4. 04

    Launch and improve

    The code and the accounts go in your name, and it gets watched and extended once it is carrying real work.

30minutes

A first call to map the problem.

1person

From the first call to handover.

100%yours

Code, data and accounts in your name.

0AE licence fees

Hosting and third-party usage are separate.

Next step

Tell me what part of the week keeps breaking.

Thirty minutes, no pitch. If it is cheaper to live with than to fix, you get told that. Based in Southlake, so an in-person visit is on the table.