Services

Fix one costly workflow. Earn the right to do more.

013 Labs helps owner-led teams evaluate what is possible, choose what is worth doing, and implement the smallest useful system with visible human control.

A clear boundary

We sell better operations, not artificial intelligence.

If a checklist, integration, or process change is enough, that is what we recommend. If AI can safely read, draft, compare, classify, or surface exceptions, we design it around the people already responsible for the work.

A second way to start

Join a bounded founding pilot.

Pilots apply the same controls to a defined, repeatable problem while helping shape a product or delivery pattern that can serve more businesses.

Focused operating pilots

Response, visibility, or capacity

Test one revenue-response, management-visibility, or administrative-capacity workflow with fixed boundaries and a measurement plan.

  • One sponsor and one bounded problem
  • Baseline, acceptance tests, and stop condition
  • Client-controlled proof decision
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Not a disguised retainer

A pilot must earn the next step.

Each pilot ends with a delivery decision: stop, revise, operationalize, expand, or return to a simpler process.

  • No automatic expansion
  • No invented success claim
  • No unbounded system access
Inspect the design method

Pilot capacity, pricing, timing, supported formats, and commercial terms are confirmed in writing; a request does not create an engagement.

01 / Low-risk entry

Workflow Fix Review

$750 fixed price

One recurring workflow. One structured working session. One written decision you can use—with or without us.

What you receive

  • Pre-session intake for one workflow
  • 60-minute session with the owner and up to three team members
  • Review of up to five representative workflow examples
  • Current-state map of steps, handoffs, systems, and exceptions
  • Assessment of value, feasibility, risk, and human review
  • Written recommendation: change the process, automate, use AI, or stop
  • High-level implementation range and next-step decision

Not included: software development, system access, vendor selection, or production deployment.

02 / The flagship

AI Transformation Sprint

$14,000 fixed price

You built a real business — and somewhere along the way you also became its operations, marketing, and reporting departments. In four weeks, the Sprint takes the heaviest of those jobs off your desk and hands them to systems that don't forget, don't take weekends, and report in plain English.

Order a Sprint within 30 days of your Workflow Fix Review and the $750 fee is credited in full. Nothing touches a customer without your approval, and everything we build has an off switch you can reach.

What you receive

  • Week 1: we map how work actually flows and find the three places hours leak or money stalls
  • Weeks 2–3: three working systems built into the tools you already use
  • An owner's dashboard that reads like a text message, not a spreadsheet
  • Week 4: handover, tuning, and a written playbook — you own everything
  • Acceptance criteria agreed on day one
  • Milestone payments: deposit, midpoint, on acceptance

Typical timing: four weeks, assuming access to the people and tools the workflows run on.

03 / Build and improve

Implementation that leaves your team in control.

Build

AI Transformation Sprint

$14,000 fixed

Design, build, integrate, test, document, and hand over — three working systems and an owner's dashboard in four weeks.

  • Milestones and acceptance tests
  • Controlled access and approvals
  • Team training and operating guide
  • Rollback and support window
Support

Ongoing Improvement

From $1,500/mo

Measured optimization, maintenance, and a prioritized backlog after a successful implementation.

  • Monthly performance review
  • Controlled changes and testing
  • Issue triage and vendor changes
  • No automatic renewal
Your control

What never becomes a black box

We define what the system may do, what requires approval, where evidence is stored, and how a person can stop or reverse it.

  • Named workflow owner
  • Visible decision points
  • Explicit sensitive actions
  • Documented limitations

A sensible first workflow

Repetitive, visible, and important—but not irreversible.

Good first candidates happen often, consume real time, use information you can access, and end with a result a person can review.

GOOD START

Examples

Quote intake, follow-up preparation, document comparison, exception reports, recurring customer summaries, internal knowledge retrieval.

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Higher risk

Final hiring decisions, autonomous payments, clinical judgment, legal conclusions, or any action that cannot be reviewed or reversed.

Request a conversation

Tell us where the work gets stuck.

A useful note names the workflow, who touches it, how often it happens, and what delay or rework costs you. We reply within two business days.

Submitting this form does not create an engagement or charge. Scope, availability, and commercial terms are confirmed in writing first.