AI automation for service & industrial companies
Find your #1 AI opportunity in less than a minute. Then we build it into the tools your team already uses.
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What we do
We find where AI pays off in your business, build it, train your team, and measure the hours it gives back.
Human first, systems second. We talk to you and the people doing the work before we build anything, so what we build actually gets used.
How it works
Every engagement starts with an assessment, so you see where the hours are before you commit to anything bigger.
What we build
Proof
We've quoted the jobs, scheduled the crews and chased the invoices ourselves. Together, our businesses have worked with 1,000+ clients.
Our storyAn AI receptionist, quote drafting, an invoice reader, dispatch and more, running on sample data in your browser.
Try themHours saved are tracked against your starting point, so the return is in writing, not in our estimates.
How we measurePricing
The first call and your #1 AI opportunity are free. After the assessment you get a fixed quote, scoped to what we found, before any build starts.
Questions
Free. Nine quick questions, and a report built from your answers.
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AI opportunity assessment
We follow real work from start to finish, then tell you what's actually causing the friction. Sometimes that's AI. Often it isn't.
Nine questions about one bottleneck. You get a report on your #1 AI opportunity, with the hours behind it and how we'd build it.
The one that finds what nobody at the top knows about. We interview the owner and the people doing the work, survey the whole team, and map where the hours go.
Our method
Automating a broken process just makes it break faster. We work the same order every time, and AI comes last.
The numbers
Automation frees hours, but hours aren't money. They become money in one of three ways: a cost stops, a planned hire doesn't have to happen yet, or the time goes into work that earns money. We count one per workflow, never two.
When the honest answer is that the hours just disappear into the day, we say so and the number is zero. Every figure in your report traces back to something you told us.
Read: Saved hours aren't moneyIt takes about a minute and it's free.
Services
We become the AI team you need but aren't ready to hire: finding the opportunities, building the systems, training your people and measuring the return.
What we build
What we do
Every automation
We only build what your business needs. Filter or search, and open any one to see how we'd build it.
Industries
Results
We're working with our first clients now, and every case study will be published here with the before and after numbers. Until then, here's exactly how we measure, and what you can try yourself.
What you'll see every month
Every build gets a simple monthly report: hours saved, what that's worth, and the status of every system. Measured against your own starting point.
Illustrative example with sample numbers. Your report shows your real numbers.
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Founding clients
Our first clients get both founders on every step, and their results published here with their permission.
Pricing
Every business needs something different, so we don't sell off a menu. You see the opportunity in your own numbers first, then get a fixed quote before any work starts.
Plans
The only thing that changes is how much we build at once, and we scope that from your audit, not a menu.
Pricing questions
Insights
Plain-spoken guides on where AI earns its place and where it doesn't. No hype.
Working demos
These run in your browser on sample data. We add new ones as we build them.
About
We each started our own service business more than six years ago and ran it alongside school. Different trades, same problem: the work was never the hard part. The admin was.
Quotes written at midnight. Invoices nobody chased. The same phone calls all day. Every owner we talked to was stuck in the same place, and the tools they were sold didn't fit how they actually work.
So we started Backshop Systems: AI automation that starts with the owner and the team, not with software.
30 minutes with both of us. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.
Book a call
One line about what eats your week is plenty. We'll map where AI could give the hours back, and tell you honestly whether we can help.
