Operations
Orders, stock, suppliers and schedules. The agents follow your playbook, chase what is late and flag what doesn't add up.
- Purchase orders
- Stock checks
- Supplier follow-ups
- Daily reports
AI automation agency for $1M+/month businesses
We build and run your company's AI brain.
Your rules, playbooks and data become agents that do the work. Done for you, run by us, and kept current as the business changes.
- Operations
- Customer support
- Finance back office
30 minutes with the founderA fixed quote within a week
- Finance42 supplier invoices read and matched to their ordersDone
- Support31 order-status questions answered from the order systemDone
- OperationsStock under the reorder line on 6 items: orders draftedDone
- FinanceA refund over your $500 limit, with the order history attachedNeeds your OK
what it is
Not a chatbot over your files. The work, done.
A company brain is a living map of how your business really runs: how a refund gets approved, when a price can bend, who gets called when an order goes wrong. We write it down with your team, connect it to the systems you already use, and put AI agents to work on it.
That is AI automation done for you. You don't get a login and a manual. You get the work done, a record of every step, and one person who answers for it.
Customer support
Answers the way your best person would give them, from your own policies and records. Anything unusual reaches your team with the context attached.
- Order status
- Returns
- Account questions
- Hand-offs to your team
Finance back office
Invoices read and matched, payments chased, the books kept current. Nothing that moves money happens without a person's OK.
- Invoice matching
- Collections
- Reconciliation
- Month-end prep
your rules, your call
It asks before it spends. It writes down everything.
- A person approves what mattersMoney out, an unusual reply, a price change: the agents ask first, with the facts attached.
- Every step on the recordWhat was done, when and why, in plain words your team can read and check.
- Kept currentWhen a rule changes, we change the brain. Upkeep is our job, not your team's.
- On accounts you ownYour data stays in your systems, and every line we write is yours to read.
proof, not promises
We run our own businesses on it first.
No borrowed logos. This is what runs today.
- Our own company brain
It runs our five businesses every day: it takes the day's work, writes and ships the code, watches the servers around the clock and brings each decision that needs a person to the founder.
- A building-supply store, Toronto
The store's whole system, from the till and the card terminal to stock, purchasing, supplier invoices read from the PDF, deliveries and the online store, built and run by our agents. It replaced Lightspeed.
- This page
Book a call below and the same brain puts your request in front of the founder within a minute.
how it works
Book a call. Get a fixed quote.
- 01
Book a call
30 minutes with the founder on how the work runs today and where it piles up.
- 02
A fixed quote within a week
In writing: the work the agents take on, the rules they follow, what comes to a person, one price and a start date.
- 03
Built in milestones
We map your rules with your team, connect your systems and switch on one job at a time. You pay as each one works.
- 04
We run it
We watch it, fix it and keep its rules current as the business changes, every month, for as long as you want it.
Book a call 30 minutes with the founder · A fixed quote within a week
fit
Who it's for
A good fit
- Building-supply dealers and distributors, contractors and mid-market manufacturers
- You do $1M+ a month and the back office grows with every new customer
- Your best people spend their days on work that follows rules
- You want the work done for you, not another tool to learn
Not a fit
- A chatbot or a tool to set up yourself
- A business still finding its first customers
questions
Before you book.
What does it cost?
Every project gets a fixed quote within a week of the first call, based on a written scope. You pay in milestones as each job goes live, then monthly for us to run and maintain it.
Is this a chatbot?
No. A chatbot answers questions about your documents. A company brain does the work: it follows your rules, uses your systems and hands anything unusual to a person.
Will it replace our team?
It takes the repeat work off them. Your people keep the decisions, the customers and the exceptions, and get their hours back.
What happens when it gets something wrong?
Anything it is unsure of comes to a person before it acts, and everything it does is on the record. When we find a mistake we fix the rule, so the same mistake doesn't happen twice.
Which systems does it work with?
The ones you already run on: email, accounting and payments, your store or order system, spreadsheets, the support inbox and the CRM. If a system has no way in, we build one.
Where does our data live?
In your systems and on accounts in your name. Nothing is locked inside a product of ours.
Who builds it?
The founder of Arete Zero leads every engagement, with the same agents that run our own businesses.
Do you work outside Canada?
Yes. We work with companies anywhere, in English, with calls in your time zone.
book a call
Thirty minutes. A straight answer.
Tell us which work piles up. On the call you will hear whether a company brain fits, and within a week you get a fixed quote.
- 01A 30-minute callRequest it here; we email you to set a time.
- 02A fixed quote within a weekA written scope, one price and a start date. Yours to keep.
- 03Built in milestones, then run by usOne job at a time, paid as each one works.