Cloudfinch

AI for operations. Built for 10–100 person teams.

Less manual work. Faster workflows. Software that gets smarter.

Your team shouldn't be copy-pasting between tools. Your CRM should be talking to your billing system, your docs should update themselves. Tell us where the friction is and we'll tell you where AI pays off.

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App Performance

99.2%

+18%

AI Accuracy

96.8%

+12%

Deploy Speed

2.4x

+0.5%
Document AI
85%
Client Intake
62%
Compliance
94%
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A 30-minute scope call.

No slides, no demo, no sales script. A working conversation about your workflows, the systems you run, and where AI actually pays off. If we're a fit, we follow up with a fixed-fee proposal within a week.

Workflow walkthrough
Systems sanity check
Rough scope and timeline
Honest “fit or not a fit” read
Fixed-fee proposal within a week
Automation & Integration/
Embedded AI Features/
Custom Applications/
Systems Integration/
Predictive Analytics/
Document Intelligence/
Workflow Orchestration/
Operational Dashboards/
Automation & Integration/
Embedded AI Features/
Custom Applications/
Systems Integration/
Predictive Analytics/
Document Intelligence/
Workflow Orchestration/
Operational Dashboards/
AI for Operations

Six beliefs behind the work

The philosophy we've arrived at after fourteen years of building operational software. Boring. Hard-won. Works.

01

Operations is the unit of work, not "AI."

Your problem isn't that you need more AI. It's that your systems don't talk, your people are the glue, and your data never moves. AI is the tool, not the goal.

02

Workflows, not initiatives.

"AI initiative" is the wrong unit of work. The right unit is a workflow — a specific thing your team does thirty times a week that shouldn't require a human.

03

Production over pilots.

If it never leaves a demo, it didn't count. We build for production from week one.

04

Measure by elimination.

Hours back. Headcount-flat growth. Reports that write themselves. What you add is vanity; what you remove is the work.

05

Fixed-fee aligns incentives.

The moment you bill hourly, you start rewarding slowness. Scope is fixed, price is fixed, the thing ships.

06

Glamorous AI doesn't fix a broken invoicing workflow.

But we've been fixing workflows like that since 2012. The AI is new. The craft isn't.

What we do

Three ways we create operational leverage

Most operations problems aren't “we need more AI.” They're “our systems don't talk, our people are the glue, and our data never moves.” These three services fix that.

Automation & Integration

Replace manual handoffs and fragmented systems with connected workflows. Your CRM talks to your billing system. Approvals move automatically. Data flows end-to-end.

  • CRM → invoicing → accounting automation
  • Document intake, classification, and routing
  • Approvals and exception handling across systems
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Embedded AI Features

Add intelligence to the software you already use. Natural language search, document understanding, recommendations, and summaries — without replacing anything.

  • Natural language search across existing data
  • AI summaries, extraction, and classification
  • Copilots for internal operations teams
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Custom Applications

When off-the-shelf tools stop fitting, we build internal tools and operational software designed around how your business runs — with AI where it creates leverage.

  • Operational dashboards with predictive signals
  • Client portals with auto-classification
  • Internal tools when SaaS stops fitting
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How we work

Assess. Build. Ship. Optimize.

Every engagement follows the same arc — starting with a scope call, ending with ongoing optimization. No surprises, no black-box projects.

Step 01

Assess

We start with a 30-minute scope call: a working conversation about your workflows, the systems you run today, and where AI actually pays off. If we are a fit, we follow up with a fixed-fee proposal within a week.

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Why Cloudfinch

Most AI budgets are funding one of four bad options.

Here's where we see AI spend going in 2026. Cloudfinch is the fifth option.

Them

The Big Consultancy AI engagement: 12-month roadmap, a deck, a pilot that never scales.
The enterprise Copilot license: generic AI that doesn't know your data or your systems.
The in-house "AI initiative": slide decks and three pilots that never ship.
The GPT wrapper a freelancer built: pretty branding, no business context.

Cloudfinch

A 30-minute scope call, then a fixed-fee sprint that ships working software in weeks, not quarters.
AI embedded in the workflows you already run, trained on your own data.
Fixed scope, fixed fee, measured in hours removed from your team's week.
Systems connected to your CRM, billing, and accounting. Data moves between them, humans don't have to.
Fit check

Where we do our best work.

We turn down projects that aren't a fit. Here's how we read one.

We're a fit if you're

A 10–100 person business where operations runs on spreadsheets, email, and five SaaS tools that don’t talk
An operations, finance, or ops-adjacent leader with a workflow you can name in one sentence
Ready to ship in weeks on a fixed fee, not pilot for a year
Willing to let us kill the idea on the scope call if the numbers don’t work

Not a fit if you want

A strategy deck, an AI roadmap, or a maturity assessment
An experimental AI project with no workflow behind it
A multi-year enterprise transformation with a steering committee
An hourly advisory retainer — every engagement we take ships something
What changes

What operations teams feel after we ship.

Ranges from engagements since 2012. Your number depends on the workflow — we'll put a real one on the scope call.

10–20+ hours/week back

Per team, from the workflows we automate first. The repetitive stuff your people shouldn’t be doing.

30–40% less operational load

When we consolidate the tools and connect the systems, whole categories of manual work disappear.

Hours, not days, on handoffs

Approvals, document routing, and exception handling stop waiting on someone’s inbox.

Headcount-flat growth

Volume goes up without the ops team going up with it. That’s the math that usually pays for the engagement.

The receipts

Numbers from shipped work.

These aren't projections. They're before/afters from engagements we've delivered since 2012.

2012

Building custom software since

15 hrs/week

Saved per client on manual tracking

40% less

Operational workload after consolidation

4 weeks

From kickoff to live MVP

The custom scheduling system Cloudfinch built replaced three separate tools and cut our operational workload by 40%. Worth every penny.

General Manager
Fortune 500 Energy Company

Cloudfinch delivered our logistics platform's MVP in just four weeks. We went from manual Excel tracking to automated route optimization — saving 15 hours a week.

Director of Operations
Logistics SaaS
FAQ

Common questions, straight answers.

Everything you need to know about working with us. Still have questions? Book a call.

With a 30-minute scope call. We walk through your workflows, the systems you run today, and where AI actually pays off — not a sales pitch, a working conversation. If we're a fit, we follow up within a week with a fixed-fee proposal for the Project. If we're not a fit, we tell you and point you somewhere better.

No. It's a diagnostic — we're trying to figure out whether there's a real workflow worth automating and whether we're the right team to build it. If the problem isn't ready yet, we say so. If it's outside what we do well, we say that too.

Most Projects run 2–8 weeks. Smaller automations ship in 2–3 weeks; custom applications up to 8 weeks. You see working software every week — no 3-month silence.

Yes. Most of our work is connecting, automating, and adding intelligence to systems you already run. New applications only when your existing stack genuinely can't support the workflow.

Through the Retainer — $1k/month for monitoring, model tuning, cost optimization, and new automations. Optional, but most clients stay on because AI systems drift and business needs evolve.

Yes. Every Project is fixed fee once scoped. No hourly retainers — every engagement ships something. Projects start at $2k. We price yours on the scope call.

Tell us what you're building.

A 30-minute scope call. We'll figure out where AI actually pays off for your operations — or tell you honestly that it doesn't, and save you the cycles.