// FOUNDATION TIER · CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL SHOPS $5–50M

Grow the shop without hiring. In 21 days.

AI handles the busywork your senior people don't have time for: quotes, certs, ISO docs, customer email. Bid the work you were turning away on capacity. Packaged so you can buy it without a long discovery cycle.

// FOUNDER

Two prior exits. Built in Ottawa. Bilingual EN/FR.

Canadian, bilingual · Ottawa, ON
// WE SHIP THE CODE. YOU RUN THE OPERATION.
// 01 · The problem

AI is the lever. Your operations team isn't an IT department.

Your senior people know how the operation runs. RFQs take three days because writing a quote means hunting through Outlook, the ERP, and a stack of drawings. Customer email comes in two languages and somebody has to read every one. None of the tools talk to each other. The senior people who keep this together are the ones least replaceable, and they don't have hours to spare.

ThriveAI builds AI workflows that run on what you already have. The agent system lives in your code, on your infrastructure. Model-agnostic, ERP-agnostic, designed to survive the next platform shift. The senior people get their hours back.

// 02 · What you get

Two workflows in 21 days.

Two parts. Foundation Build gets your first two workflows live in 21 days. The Operating Retainer keeps them running and ships a new one every month.

// FOUNDATION BUILD · ONE-TIME $15,000 CAD

Foundation Build

Two workflows live in 21 days.

  • Your senior people stop being the bottleneck. Custom commands and skills configured for the way your shop actually works.
  • Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Excel, SharePoint, Teams) plus your ERP. Genius, Epicor, Fishbowl, Sage Production, SAP Business One, or whatever you're running.
  • Two production workflows live in 21 days, picked from the menu below.
  • Runs reliably in the background. Monitoring and alerts so you hear about problems before your team does.
  • Runbook and Loom walkthrough so your shop manager can use it without calling us.
  • You own the GitHub repo and all keys. The system keeps running even if ThriveAI disappears.
// OPERATING RETAINER · 6-MO MIN $3,500 CAD/mo

Fractional AI Operations

A working session every month, not a check-in.

  • 90 minutes of working session every month with you and your team. Real work gets done, not status updates.
  • Embedded in Teams or email as your AI ops lead. One new workflow shipped every month.
  • Monitoring, model upgrades, and integration repairs as your stack changes.
  • API costs covered up to $500/mo, passthrough above.
// YEAR ONE · $15,000 + ($3,500 × 12) = $57,000 CAD
That's everything for year one. Two workflows live from day 21. Twelve more shipped one a month after that. Your team uses them every day.
// 03 · What's included

Bonuses that make Foundation obvious.

Every Foundation client gets these. No upsells, no add-ons.

Bonus Status
AI Operations Audit

Know exactly which 5 automations to start with before we build anything.

$1,997 standalone
Multilingual Support Agent

Customer email triage in English, French, and Spanish. Your team stops opening every message themselves.

$4,500 build value
Workflow Library Access

All 12 workflows pre-built in your code. Turn any of them on later for the cost of activation, not a rebuild.

$42,000 build value
Quarterly Shop Visit

Derik walks your floor every quarter, finds the next automation worth building. Travel within Quebec and Ontario included.

$6,000+ value
Total bonus value Included · $54,000+
// 04 · Guarantees

Three commitments. In writing.

If we miss, you get refunded. No exceptions.

GUARANTEE 01

Continuity

Everything lives in your GitHub repo. The system keeps running even if we vanish, retire, or get hit by a bus.

GUARANTEE 02

Production

Two workflows live in 30 days, or full refund.

GUARANTEE 03

Time savings

Ten or more hours per week saved within 60 days, or refund and keep the code.

// 05 · The 21 days

From signed proposal to two workflows live.

No drawn-out discovery. We start the audit on day one and ship by day 21. Day 22 your team is using both workflows.

DAYS 1–3

Audit and planning

We map your stack, interview your senior people, pick the two workflows.

DAYS 4–10

Build and integration

Repo setup, ERP and Microsoft 365 wiring, both workflows in staging.

DAYS 11–15

Workflow one live

First workflow runs in production. Your team starts using it the same week.

DAYS 16–21

Workflow two + handoff

Second workflow live. Runbook delivered. Loom walkthrough recorded. The ThriveAI agent system is yours.

// 06 · The workflow menu

Twelve workflows. You pick two.

Tap a workflow to estimate your monthly hours saved. Tweak the numbers to your reality. Foundation Build ships your top two; the rest sit pre-built in your repo, ready to activate later.

01

RFQ to AI-drafted quote

BOM extracted from CAD or PDF drawings automatically. RFQ-to-quote in 2 hours instead of 3 days.

02

Tribal knowledge capture

Interview your retiring shop floor staff. Their answers become a knowledge base your team can search before you lose them.

03

ISO 9001 docs + audit prep

Friday afternoon: ISO 9001 audit on Monday. ThriveAI pulls the documentation overnight. Monday morning you walk in with the binder ready.

04

Drawing markup + revision tracking

Customer revisions tracked across PDF and CAD drawings. Old versions never sneak into production again.

05

Inspection report from photos

Phone photo on the floor at 10am, finished inspection report by 10:05.

06

Cert of compliance generation

Truck leaves at 4pm. Cert of compliance is on the driver's clipboard at 3:45, no one chasing job sheets.

07

Equipment manual Q&A

Trained on your specific machinery library. Operator question answered in seconds, not a call to the senior tech.

08

Production scheduling assistant

Job book rebalanced before the morning shift. Material shortages flagged the night before, not at 10am when the operator hits a missing part.

09

Multilingual customer service

EN, FR, and Spanish email triage and draft replies, with technical-spec context pulled from your records. Hours of triage become minutes of review.

10

Vendor portal + PO matching

Every vendor email and portal update matched to its open PO. Missing acknowledgements flagged before they cost you.

11

Content marketing engine

Last week's job becomes this week's case study. AI drafts LinkedIn posts, blog content, and email campaigns from your project records, photos, and customer wins. You review and approve.

12

Targeted prospect outreach

Twenty-five lookalike prospects identified each week from your best customers. AI drafts personalized outreach pulling from your project portfolio. You review and click send.

// IF YOU TURN THESE ON
0 hours / month saved
0 hours / week
0 / 12 workflows selected
// 07 · Fit

Foundation fits if you check most of these boxes.

// FOUNDER · BOOK A FIT CALL

Pick a 30-min slot. Talk to Derik.

A no-pressure call. Bring your stack. We'll talk through the two workflows that would move the needle for your shop.

Derik Lawlis, founder of ThriveAI

Derik Lawlis

Career entrepreneur turned AI services provider. Builds autonomous workflows and the abstraction layers that connect legacy ERPs to AI agents. Owner-operator perspective rare among service providers.

// 08 · Common questions

Questions Canadian operators actually ask.

Yes for the common ones. Genius, Epicor, Fishbowl, Sage Production, SAP Business One, Acumatica, Vista, Penta, Sage 100/300. If you're on something older, custom, or industry-specific, we'll tell you straight in the audit.
Then we build for them, not for engineers. The workflows trigger from email, Teams, or a one-button web page your shop manager can use without typing a command. The Loom walkthrough is the kind of thing you watch once.
Yes. Working sessions, runbooks, and customer-facing agents are delivered in EN, FR, or both, depending on your team. Quebec French specifically. Not France French.
Everything lives in your GitHub repo, on your Cloudflare Workers account, with your API keys. The system keeps running even if ThriveAI disappears tomorrow.
Zapier connects two systems on a fixed pattern. ERP add-ons solve a single ERP problem. Foundation builds reasoning into the workflow. The agent reads documents, looks up history, drafts a quote a person would write. And it lives in code you own, not a vendor's dashboard.
Yes. The shop-manager interface is a one-button web page or a Teams message. The retainer covers the technical operation. If something breaks, they call us.
Most shops we've worked with run between $150 and $400 per month in API spend. The retainer covers up to $500 of that. Above $500, we bill the difference at cost. No markup.
You can. The minimum is 6 months. After that it's month-to-month. Everything you built stays in your GitHub. Walk away clean.
Yes. Standard mutual NDA on request. We've signed them with every prior client.
// READY

$1,997 to start. Or thirty minutes to talk.

Two paths. Buy the Audit and walk away with a 15-page report on your top five automations whether you hire us or not. Or book a Fit Call to talk through your stack and which two workflows would ship first.

Code in your GitHub. System keeps running even if we vanish. Two workflows live in 30 days or full refund.

// CANADIAN, BILINGUAL · BUILT IN OTTAWA