AI Operations & Systems Integration

AI That Gets
Work Done

We learn how your business actually operates, connect the systems you already run on, and build AI infrastructure that performs real work across your organization — around the clock, under your rules.

Engagement

Discover · Design · Build
Train · Maintain · Expand

We don't sell you another AI tool. We build AI into the systems you already run your business on.

01The Problem / The Approach

Most companies bought AI.
Few of them gained capacity.

The gap is never the model. It is the distance between a capability and the way work actually moves through a business. Big Timber closes that distance by hand.

Where it breaks

  • 01

    Tools, not capacity

    Another subscription arrives. The work it was supposed to absorb stays with your team.

  • 02

    Advice that stops at the deck

    A roadmap is delivered, nobody implements it, and the operation runs exactly as before.

  • 03

    Automations that don't speak

    Nine disconnected scripts, each solving a fragment, none aware of what the others changed.

  • 04

    No one owns it

    An API changes, a workflow silently fails, and the capability quietly decays.

What we do instead

  • A

    We learn the operation first

    Economics, workflows, handoffs, bottlenecks, and the informal work nobody documented.

  • B

    We connect what you already run

    Your ERP, CRM, storefront, marketplaces, finance, and messaging become one environment.

  • C

    We build and we train

    Workflows and agents ship into production, and your people are taught to work with them.

  • D

    We stay responsible for it

    Monitoring, governance, repair, and expansion — the environment keeps compounding.

02Integration Surface

Your systems stop being
separate software.

Each platform your company runs holds one part of the truth. We wire them into a single operating environment where a change in one is understood everywhere it matters.

Commerce

R1
  • Shopify / Ecommerce
  • Amazon & Marketplaces
  • Merchandising
  • Pricing

Record

R2
  • ERP
  • CRM
  • Accounting / Finance
  • Purchasing & Inventory

Signal

R3
  • Analytics / Warehouse
  • Paid Media
  • Email & SMS
  • Customer Service

Work

R4
  • Email
  • Slack / Teams
  • Project Management
  • Code Repositories
  • Internal Knowledge

Integration is not a logo wall. It is permissions, data contracts, error handling, and accountability — the unglamorous infrastructure that makes an AI decision trustworthy enough to act on.

03Capability Map — Ecommerce

Where capacity
can be built.

Not a claim that AI can do everything. A map of where, in a real ecommerce operation, useful capacity can be added — and where we have built it before.

Know the state of the business without assembling it by hand.

  • Daily operating briefing assembled from every system
  • Anomaly detection across revenue, margin, and spend
  • Plain-language answers over warehouse data
  • Board and investor reporting prepared automatically
04Connected System — Worked Example

One business.
Connected intelligence.

Nine isolated automations would each be blind to the others. This is a single system that understands the relationship between them — and knows when a human has to decide.

Isolated automation

Nine tools fire in nine directions. None of them knows what the others just changed.

Connected system

One chain of awareness. Every step below is informed by the step before it.

  1. 01Marketing

    Paid media spend increases

    Observed
  2. 02Ecommerce

    SKU sales velocity accelerates

    Observed
  3. 03Inventory

    Coverage falls below supplier lead time

    Observed
  4. 04Big Timber

    Stockout risk identified

    Reasoned
  5. 05Big Timber

    Recommended reorder calculated

    Reasoned
  6. 06Big Timber

    Purchase order prepared

    Reasoned
  7. 07Purchasing

    Approval request received

    Human in the loop
  8. 08Finance

    Cash requirement visible

    Human in the loop
  9. 09Marketing

    Warned about inventory constraint

    Human in the loop
Signal observed in your systemsReasoning and preparation by the environmentHuman authority and approval
05Three Levels of Capability

Assist. Automate.
Operate.

Most companies stop at the first level. The value compounds at the third — but only where autonomy is deliberately bounded. Not every process should run itself, and we will tell you which ones shouldn't.

L1Stage

Assist

AI helps a person perform work.

Drafting, retrieval, analysis, and summarization inside the tools your team already opens every morning. The human still drives.

L2Stage

Automate

AI performs a defined, repeatable workflow.

A bounded process runs end to end on a trigger or a schedule, with logging, error handling, and a clear owner when it fails.

L3Destination

Operate

AI runs a part of the business, continuously.

The environment monitors the operation, decides what needs to happen, works across systems, executes within defined authority, and escalates exceptions to the right person.

Governance

Autonomy is a setting,
not a promise.

  • Defined authority limits per workflow
  • Human approval on financial and customer-facing commitments
  • Full action logging and audit trail
  • Exception routing to a named owner
  • Permissions inherited from your existing systems
  • Review cadence on output quality
06Engagement Model

A loop, not
a project.

Each cycle leaves behind working infrastructure and a team that knows how to use it — and reveals the next thing worth building.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Learn the business, its goals, economics, systems, workflows, and real bottlenecks.

  2. 02

    Design

    Prioritize opportunities by value and feasibility, then architect the operating environment.

  3. 03

    Build

    Connect systems and implement the workflows and agents that perform the work.

  4. 04

    Train

    Onboard employees and redesign how the work gets done around the new capability.

  5. 05

    Maintain

    Monitor, troubleshoot, update, support, and govern the environment in production.

  6. 06

    Expand

    Identify the next opportunity and build the next layer of capability.

Expand returns to Discover — capability compounds with each pass

07Recurring Service

Managed AI
Operations.

You retain someone to administer your IT. An AI environment needs the same thing: ownership, monitoring, maintenance, permissions, support, and continuous improvement. Without it, capability decays quietly.

Think of it as an outsourced AI department — an operations partner, not a vendor.

Talk Through Your Business
M1

Monitor integrations and workflows

Continuous health checks on every connection and process in the environment.

M2

Troubleshoot failures

When something breaks, it is our responsibility to find it and fix it — usually before you notice.

M3

Adapt to change

APIs, models, and software move constantly. We keep the environment current.

M4

Maintain permissions and documentation

Access stays correct, and what was built stays legible to your team.

M5

Support and train employees

New hires onboard, existing staff level up, and questions have somewhere to go.

M6

Review output quality and impact

Regular review of what the system produced and what it was worth.

M7

Identify new opportunities

We are inside the operation, so we see the next constraint early.

M8

Ongoing AI strategy

Where the capability should go next quarter, and what is not worth doing.

M9

Scope expansion projects

New builds specified, estimated, and sequenced against business priority.

Ongoing
M1 — M9
Every month

Start Here

Find where
AI fits.

We start by understanding the business — not by pitching a predetermined product. One working session, and you will have a clear read on where AI creates real capacity in your operation and where it doesn't.

  • How your operation actually runs today
  • Where time, margin, and attention are leaking
  • Which systems are worth connecting first
  • What we would build in the first ninety days