Revenue waits for someone to remember.
Leads, quotes, renewals, and past-due invoices sit between systems and people.
See the workflow →Practical AI for owner-led businesses
Put AI to work. Make the business easier to run.
013 Labs turns fast-moving AI into clearer management, better workflows, and more capacity for the team you already have—without turning your company into a technology experiment.
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Free · one business dayFree Business AnalysisSee your business from the outside →
Plain-language guidanceAll ArticlesBrowse the library →
Not every problem needs AI. We will tell you when a simpler fix is better.
See the company more clearly
Fix the work that slows growth
Keep human authority visible
Use our tools on your own team
The real AI problem
Capability is moving faster than most businesses can evaluate it.
You do not need to become an AI expert. You need someone who can see the work as it happens today, know what the tools can actually do, and turn that gap into a safe, useful system.
That is the role of 013 Labs: translator, designer, builder, and honest filter.
The goal is not “more AI.” The goal is fewer dropped handoffs, faster answers, lower administrative cost, and more capacity from the team you already have.
Where value hides
Look for the work your team has learned to tolerate.
The answer exists, but not when you need it.
Status, margin, exceptions, and customer context require a meeting or a spreadsheet hunt.
See the workflow →Growth creates more administration than momentum.
Every new customer adds copying, checking, scheduling, and reporting to the same team.
See the workflow →One company. Four ways to create leverage.
Start with the business question—not the technology.
Whether the need is company-wide visibility, one painful workflow, a ready-to-use operating kit, or a better way to evaluate the noise, 013 Labs gives owners a practical next move.
BI
See the whole company.
013BI turns approved business records into a clearer management view, proposed KPIs, a dashboard prototype, and a sharper agenda.
Explore 013BI → 01Fix one expensive workflow.
Use a bounded pilot to improve response, capacity, visibility, or another problem the team feels every day.
Explore pilots → 03Learn what matters.
Plain-language field notes that help owners separate capability from hype and make better decisions.
Read the field notes →BIThe 013 Labs flagship product
Your company may already contain its next management system.
013BI connects an approved set of corporate, organizational, commercial, financial, and legal documents to propose the KPI system, management view, findings agenda, and investment-readiness work the business actually needs.
The output is evidence-linked and human-reviewed. Missing or conflicting information stays visible instead of becoming manufactured certainty.
Company intelligence mapIllustrative / no customer data
Corporatemapped
Organizationquestions open
Commercialmapped
Financialreview
Legalrestricted
Proposed view
Measures tied to decisions
Revenue qualitysource mapped
Capacitybaseline missing
Cash conversionneeds review
Management agenda
Questions before conclusions
Two records define the same measure differently.
A growth priority has no baseline or owner.
Human review required before delivery.
How 013 works
Small enough to start. Concrete enough to judge.
We begin with the workflow—not a software pitch. Each step creates evidence for the next decision.
- 1Show us where work slows down.A recurring handoff, backlog, report, decision, or customer moment.
- 2We map what actually happens.Inputs, owners, exceptions, risk, time, and the result that matters.
- 3We choose the smallest useful intervention.Sometimes AI. Sometimes automation. Sometimes a process change.
- 4We build, test, and hand over control.Your team sees what changed, approves sensitive actions, and can stop the system.
Ways to start
Choose the amount of certainty you need.
Every engagement has a defined output. No open-ended discovery theater.
Is This Task Worth Fixing?
Ten questions to test whether a recurring process is a sensible first project.
- Five-minute assessment
- Immediate recommendation
- No sales call required
Workflow Fix Review
$750
We examine one recurring workflow and show you what to change, what not to automate, and what a bounded build would require.
- 60-minute owner/team session
- Up to five representative examples
- Current-state workflow map
- Risk and opportunity review
- Written fix recommendation
AI Transformation Sprint
$14,000
Four weeks, fixed price. We map where hours leak, build the fixes into the tools you already use, and hand you the keys.
- Week 1: diagnostic and workflow map
- Weeks 2–3: three working systems and an owner's dashboard
- Week 4: handover, documentation, you own everything
- $750 review fully credited within 30 days
The Sprint is $14,000 fixed. Ongoing improvement and support begins at $1,500 per month, with no automatic renewal. 013BI and other founding pilots use separate, unpublished pilot terms. Final scope is confirmed before work begins.
How we solve it
Three kinds of businesses. Three expensive bottlenecks. Three better ways to run the work.
See the business problem, how the work breaks down today, the workflow we would build, what stays human, and the change we would measure.
Home services company
Turn incomplete quote requests into a source-linked, reviewed follow-up queue.
See how we fix it →
Dental practice
Surface schedule gaps and prepare staff-approved outreach without automatic contact.
See how we fix it →
Distribution company
Bring order exceptions into an owned review before the customer discovers them.
See how we fix it →Bring us the process everyone complains about.
We will help you decide whether it deserves AI, automation, or a simpler operational fix.