AI growth + operations for owner-led businesses

Find where your business is leaking money.
Then prove the fix.

Manual work. Disconnected systems. Missed follow-up. Spreadsheets holding critical processes together. InteractiveInfo finds the operational profit gaps worth fixing — then uses AI and custom software to prove the best solution before you make a major investment.

No chatbot pitch · No giant discovery project · Business case first

Founded 1994 · Three decades of custom business systems. We’ve delivered software for manufacturers, energy companies, real estate organizations, benefits administrators, and other operating businesses — long before anyone called these problems AI workflows.

Founded 1994 · Incorporated 1999

The mess

Nobody designed this. It accumulated.

A tool bought for one problem, a spreadsheet bridging two others, people carrying data between them by hand. It works until volume, turnover, or a customer question exposes it. Our job is the second picture.

Before / the mess

ExcelEmailPDFsERPCRMApprovalsManual entryReports

Nothing here is broken on its own. The cost is in the crossings: every line is a person, a re-type, or a thing that gets missed.

Does any of this sound familiar?

These aren’t IT annoyances. They’re profit gaps.

If more than one is true, money, time, or capacity is leaking out of the operation every week — and it rarely shows up as a line item anyone owns.

  • A spreadsheet is quietly running a core part of the business
  • PDFs arrive and someone re-types every field
  • Approvals happen in email threads nobody can find
  • Month-end reporting takes a week of manual assembly
  • One person knows the process, and they're going on vacation
  • Two systems hold the same customer, spelled differently

Proof before the big investment

Don’t take our word for it. Prove the best idea.

When the top opportunity suits rapid proof, we build enough of it to show how the work would actually run — representative data, outside your production systems. A working proof, not slides. Then you decide whether it deserves production investment.

  • Representative data only

    The proof runs outside your live systems. Sanitized examples or a screen-share are enough to start.

  • Built for the people doing the work

    It has to survive contact with the person who currently keeps the process alive by hand.

  • A proof, not production software

    Production is a separate, scoped stage — with your IT team in the room.

Why the judgment matters

AI made us faster. It didn’t teach us how businesses work.

We’ve spent decades with owners, operations leaders, and the people doing the work — then turned what they described into production software: line-of-business applications, ERP-connected integrations, approval systems, consolidated reporting, quality and safety systems, field data capture.

The hard parts haven’t changed: knowing what to automate, what to leave human, and how to take a working prototype into software a company can run on for years.

Since 1994 · Incorporated 1999 · Today’s AI development speed

In practice

  • We’ve translated business problems into working software since 1994.
  • We’ve maintained our own systems for a decade or more, so we build things that can be handed over, changed, and lived with.
  • We were solving ugly business processes long before anyone called them AI workflows.

Selected client work

We were solving ugly business processes long before anyone called them AI workflows.

Problem-first, as always: each of these started as a process someone inside the business was holding together by hand.

  • Motorola

    Quality control

    Moved a manual quality-control process off paper records into automated data collection, with notifications, analytics, and reporting built around it.

  • Praxair

    Engineering-to-ERP workflow

    An engineering-to-ERP workflow that transfers engineering designs into the ERP and manufacturing systems instead of people re-keying them between the two.

  • Anadarko Petroleum

    Safety management

    A safety management system covering safety meetings, incident tracking, training records, and compliance reporting.

  • Hines

    Cost and cash-flow accounting

    A cost and cash-flow accounting system tracking project budgets, revenue, expenses, and profitability.

  • Reliable Administration Services

    Benefits administration

    A benefits administration system supporting insurance plans, eligibility, enrollment, and billing.

  • Detail

    We describe this work in scope and outcome terms on a call rather than publishing numbers we can’t substantiate in writing.

The AI Profit Diagnostic

Start with the business, not the technology.

The free AI Profit Scan is one conversation about where work is getting stuck. If something is worth pursuing, the AI Profit Diagnostic works through six zones of the business and ranks what is actually costing you the most.

Acquisition
Where demand is created — and where it quietly gets lost.
Conversion
Quotes, proposals, and follow-up that depend on memory.
Fulfillment
Delivering the work: hand-offs, rework, bottlenecks.
Retention
Repeat business, service recovery, accounts drifting away.
Administration
Duplicate entry, reconciliation, approvals in email.
Strategy
Whether leadership can see the business in time to act.

What you get out of it

  • Your Top 3 profit gaps, ranked.
  • An estimated economic impact for each — based on your numbers and our experience, not a guaranteed result.
  • The root cause or operational constraint underneath each one.
  • Whether the answer is buy, integrate, automate, build — or leave it alone.
  • A recommended first move, not a twelve-month roadmap.

How it starts

The AI Profit Scan is free. If we uncover something worth pursuing, the full Profit Diagnostic is a separate fixed-fee engagement. No open-ended consulting meter.

Business case first · Integration project second

Why now

AI changed what is economical to automate.

Documents, email, and messy human input can now become usable business data, with people reviewing only the exceptions. And because development is dramatically faster, we can prove ideas that previously weren’t worth the time or cost.

What hasn’t changed: knowing which parts of a workflow should stay human, and how to hand over software a company can live with for a decade.

After the first fix

Where this can ultimately go.

First we fix the broken process. As systems and data become reliable, more of the routine work can run automatically across your ERP, accounting, CRM, and the tools your team already uses — inside rules you set, with approvals and an audit trail. Your people keep the judgment.

An event happens in the business, and the routine follow-through happens with it.

Turn operational mess into measurable value

Event

“Smith Co. paid their invoice.”

Agent

Matches the payment to the open invoice, checks the amount and any short-pay tolerance you've set, and reconciles it.

  1. ERP

    Invoice marked paid, credit hold released.

  2. Accounting

    Receipt recorded and reconciled to the bank feed.

  3. CRM

    Customer record and balance updated for whoever picks up the phone.

  4. Downstream

    Held order continues; collections follow-up cancelled.

Where a human steps in: A short-pay outside tolerance stops and routes to your controller with the evidence attached. Every action is logged, reversible, and bounded by rules you write.

Rules before autonomy

Agents act inside thresholds, policies, and reason codes your team writes down. Anything outside them escalates.

Everything is auditable

Each action records what happened, why, which policy applied, and what it touched. Reversible by design.

People keep the judgment

Exceptions, credit decisions, customer relationships — anything with real discretion stays with your team, surfaced faster.

After launch

We don’t disappear after launch.

Managed AI Operations keeps what we built worth having: running correctly, still earning its place, and improving as the business changes.

Run
Monitor + measure: are the systems and agents operating correctly, and still earning their place?
Control
Govern + train: what AI may do on its own, where a human approves, and how the team uses it.
Improve
Improve + expand: refine workflows and logic as reality changes, and find the next profit gap.

Your people keep the judgment. Your systems handle the routine work.

How this works

Four steps. No discovery theatre.

  1. 01

    Profit Scan

    A 20–30 minute conversation about where the business is constrained. Not a sales call.

  2. 02

    Profit Diagnostic

    We rank your Top 3 opportunities, name the root cause, and recommend the first move.

  3. 03

    Proof + Implementation

    Prove the best idea where practical, then scope and build production if it's justified.

  4. 04

    Managed AI Operations

    Monitor, measure, improve, govern, and expand what's running.

The next step

Start with the business problem.

Twenty to thirty minutes on where work is getting stuck, money is leaking, or growth is constrained. If there's nothing material there, we'll say so.