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A Brain
Your operational data, unified and queryable. A day-long question takes a minute, and every answer shows its source and how fresh it is.
Fractional, not full-time
An AI team, without the AI hire.
No recruiting, no salary, no one learning on your dime. Senior people from day one, for as long as the work needs them.
Hiring an AI lead
Getting started
Months to recruit, then ramp-up
Experience
One person, learning on your systems
Cost
A full salary, whether there's work or not
When it's built
Still on payroll, and it walks out with them
Themel
Getting started
A working proof on your data, first
Experience
A team that's built this in its own businesses
Cost
One defined build. Ongoing only if there's something to run.
When it's built
Documented and handed to your team
Why operators
We've sat in your chair.
Between us, we run a custom apparel and merchandise distributor, coffee shops and a handful of other local businesses. We sign the checks, chase the vendors and close the books, and our own operations run on the same kind of systems we build for you.
We know where the data lives.
In the ERP, the spreadsheets, the inbox and somebody's head. We start there, not with a slide.
We know what a wrong answer costs.
A bad ship date or a double-paid bill comes out of real margin. So our software escalates instead of guessing.
We know your team is busy.
If it doesn't fit how people already work, it doesn't get used. We build for Monday morning.
What we build
AI that does real work inside your business.
Most engagements are one of these. Nothing assumes you need all three.
Vendor bills agentWaiting on you
Freight bill matched to 3 ordersReady
Decoration bill matches the POReady
Bill is higher than quotedReview
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Agents
Software that does one defined job, like checking vendor bills or chasing a late order, and asks a person before it spends money.
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Custom apps
For the job nothing off the shelf actually fits.
How we work
Proven on your data before anything is designed.
Step two is a working proof on your actual data, not a demo. If it isn't real and useful, we stop there, and you haven't bought a system.
- 01Discover
- 02 · The gateProveWorking proof on your real data.
- 03Design
- 04Build
- 05QC
- 06Deploy
- 07Operate
Isolated.
One client, one repository, one database, one key set. Nothing pooled.
Declared in writing.
Who holds your data is in the SOW before anything moves, with an export you can run any time.
Never trains anything.
AI vendors whose terms prohibit training on your data, retention off wherever possible.
Who we are
Operators, not an agency.
Based in Greenville, SC and Houston, TX. We've built, bought and operate multiple businesses, and we apply the Themel approach in them every single day.
Data not in great shape? That's normal.
It's where almost everyone starts. Tell us what you're running and where it hurts.