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The missing piece between AI and the tools you already run on. Ask real questions, get real insight, and hand off the busy work to an AI coworker.

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what was my best-selling item last quarter, by margin?
AFD works with —your inboxyour spreadsheetsyour accountingyour inventorywhatever you built in 2014
› ask

Talk to your data

Ask exactly what you want — and keep asking. Real answers, real insight, the freedom to dig deeper just by asking the next question. The conversation no report or dashboard could ever give you.

› ask: "why is my cash cycle slipping?"
› automate

Hand off the busy work

The tedious data entry, the manual processing, the same five steps every Tuesday — give them to an AI coworker. You and your team focus on what actually matters.

› ask: "process everything in my inbox"
› connect

Built into the tools you already use

Your accounting, your inventory, your CRM, the custom system you built years ago. The answers and the actions live where your business already runs — nothing new to learn.

› ask: "show me low stock against open sales orders"
› What it looks like

Conversations your business already wants to have with itself.

Each one starts with a question reports can't easily answer. The first response is the data. Every response after that is insight — and the freedom to keep asking until you're done.

› Financial · cross-system

Stop asking 'where's my money?' Start asking why.

An aging report tells you what's owed. It doesn't tell you why your cash cycle slowed down this quarter, which lever closes the gap, or what happens to next month if one big customer keeps slipping. That used to be a consultant's project.

Now it's a conversation. You can keep asking — one question at a time — until you have the answer no dashboard could shape for you.

Things to ask
  • Why is my cash conversion cycle slipping?
  • Drill into Acme — what's their payment pattern?
  • If they tightened to 30-day terms, what's the impact?
  • Show me how this looked the last time we hit this pattern.
Why is my cash cycle slowing this quarter?
› afd coworker

The drift is on the collections side. DSO is up 9 days; DPO and inventory days are basically flat. Two customers account for ~60% of the change.

$22.1kCurrent$31.4k1–30$26.8k31–60$48.2k60+ days

Top drift contributors: Acme (DSO went 32 → 58 days over 4 months) and Beacon (32 → 47). Want to dig into Acme?

Yes — what's Acme's pattern?
› afd coworker

Acme used to pay around day 32 like clockwork through Q1. Then 45 by mid-Q2. Now hovering at 58 days. Their order volume is flat — this isn't a relationship problem, it's a cash one on their side.

Two moves to consider: a softer reminder cadence on the next invoice cycle, or pulling them onto a 30-day-with-2%-discount term. Want me to model what the discount would actually cost you vs. the financing cost of waiting?

ask a follow-up…

› Operations · multi-system

Make production decisions in a conversation, not a meeting.

Should you run the next batch? Most small manufacturers answer that with a spreadsheet and a guess. The data is there — on-hand, open orders, demand trend, vendor lead times — but pulling it together is a week of work, so you don't bother.

Ask. Get a recommendation grounded in your live data. Then probe the edge cases the way you would with a senior planner sitting across from you.

Things to ask
  • Should I start the next batch of Product 412?
  • What's the optimal batch size given the current pipeline?
  • What if my main vendor slips two weeks?
  • Model a 15% demand spike next month.
Should I run a batch of Product 412 next week?
› afd coworker

Yes — start by Friday at ~1,800 units. Current cover is 6 weeks but 3 of those are already committed to open sales orders, demand is trending +8% MoM, and your slowest raw component (coupling 7-spline) has a 4-week lead time from Atlas.

On hand6 wks
Open SOs3 wks committed
Demand trend+8% MoM
Critical lead time4 wks (Atlas · coupling)

Smaller and you'll stock out before the next batch. Larger and you tie up cash with no upside.

What if Atlas slips by 2 weeks?
› afd coworker

You'd hit zero on the coupling by mid-Julyand lose the last 12 days of this batch's runway.

Mitigation: order a 4-week buffer now from your secondary (Hydra). 14% cost premium vs. Atlas, but it covers the gap without you having to short any of the committed SOs. Want me to draft the PO?

ask a follow-up…

› Customers · pattern recognition

Know which customers are about to ghost you.

The “top customers” report flatters you with the names you already know. The harder question — which customer is about to slip — doesn't show up on a report. By the time it's in your aging buckets, you've already lost them.

Patterns live in the gap between “orders are smaller” and “orders are less frequent.” Ask the pattern. Then keep asking until you understand it.

Things to ask
  • Which of my top 20 customers show churn signals right now?
  • Why is Crestline's order cadence dropping?
  • Draft a check-in email I can send today.
  • What would I have to offer to keep them on contract?
Which of my top 20 customers are showing churn signals?
› afd coworker

3 names are concerning. Each shows a different pattern:

Crestline Engineeringhigh
Order frequency dropped 40% over 90 days
Acme Industrieshigh
Last 3 invoices paid 18+ days slower than their 12-mo avg
Pacific Freightmed
Halved their last order size with no comment

Which one do you want to dig into?

Crestline.
› afd coworker

Crestline ordered every 18 days like clockwork for two years. Then 28 days, then 42, last gap was 67. Their last order was 38% smaller than their average. No payment issues, no support history to explain it.

The shape of this is usually one of two things: a competitor displacing share, or an in-house alternative. Public filings don't show anything new. Want me to draft a low-pressure check-in email from you, asking how their year is going?

ask a follow-up…

› Accounts payable · bulk + insight

Process the inbox. Then ask why the same exception keeps showing up.

Routine AP is grunt work that AI clears in minutes. The interesting part is what's left — the invoices that don't match, the vendors that keep tripping the rules, the patterns no one has time to spot.

You don't fix those by running a report. You fix them by asking the system what it's seeing, drilling into the one that's weird, and turning the insight into a new rule.

Things to ask
  • Process everything in my AP inbox.
  • Why does Hydra keep coming through with no PO?
  • Show me vendors whose costs are rising against their contract.
  • Which bills should I pay late on purpose this month?
Process the AP inbox.
› afd coworker

11 of 12 matched cleanly and are queued for one-click approval. 1 needs a look.

Atlas Supply
PO-2419
$4280.15
matched
Pacific Freight
auto-coded · Shipping
$612.40
matched
Hydra Components
no PO on file
$9145.00
review
Northwest Tooling
PO-2417
$1840.60
matched

Hydra Components has no PO. Open it for review?

Why does Hydra always come through without a PO?
› afd coworker

Looked at the last 14 Hydra invoices: 9 had no PO. Two patterns explain it almost entirely:

Pattern A · 8 of 14
Rush orders called in directly by the shop floor when a line goes down. Can't be PO'd in advance.
Pattern B · 4 of 14
Standing-order consumables. Same SKUs, monthly cadence. These couldbe PO'd if you set up a blanket PO.

Want me to draft a blanket PO for Pattern B? That alone would convert 4 of 14 to clean matches next month.

ask a follow-up…

› Strategy · what-if modeling

Price for the business you have. Not the one you had last year.

Vendor costs creep. Product mix shifts. Negotiated discounts age. The price list you set last year is almost certainly wrong — but auditing every SKU is hours you don't have, so it just keeps drifting.

Asking your business once a quarter is a 15-minute conversation. And the second question — the “what if I lifted prices 5%?” one — gets a real answer, not a hand-wave.

Things to ask
  • Which SKUs are quietly losing money?
  • Model a 5% price lift on my top 10 by volume.
  • Where am I leaving margin on the table?
  • What's my real cost on Product X this year vs. last?
Which SKUs are quietly losing money?
› afd coworker

4 SKUs are net-negativeafter current vendor costs. 7 more are under 8% margin (which won't cover overhead by anyone's math).

7-22-A−$0.14/unit240/mo−$34/mo
118-W−$0.06/unit180/mo−$11/mo
CP-7−$1.22/unit85/mo−$104/mo
BR-2410−$0.41/unit60/mo−$25/mo

All 4 share rising vendor costs that you absorbed instead of passing through. Want me to model what a price correction would do?

Model a 5% lift across the top 10 by volume.
› afd coworker

Based on your historical elasticity in this category, a 5% lift is likely to cost you roughly 1.8% volume. Net effect on monthly margin: +$8,400.

The 3 SKUs most likely to feel volume softness are the ones where you're already premium-priced versus your nearest alternative. Want me to surface those so you can decide whether to exempt them from the lift — or mock up the new price list and a customer-facing change note?

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› Start here · day one via Cowork

Most of the win is just knowing what you can already ask.

Everything above is what we build for the systems that don't have a connector yet. Before any of that — before a single line of custom integration — there's a layer that's already turned on for every small business. Most of them don't know it's there.

We set you up on Anthropic Cowork with the connectors that already exist — Outlook, Excel, SharePoint, Drive, Slack, Teams — walk you through what's possible, and you start the same day. Once you've felt the value, the deeper custom builds make sense.

Things to ask
  • What did I commit to this week that's not in any system yet?
  • Find the latest version of the Q3 budget across SharePoint and Drive.
  • Which customer emails am I behind on, ranked by urgency?
  • Draft replies to everything older than 48 hours.
What did I commit to this week that I haven't logged anywhere?
› afd coworker

3 commitmentsI can see that aren't on your calendar or task list:

Email · Tue 2:14pm
Acme — confirmed Thursday demo at 10am
Slack DM · #leadership
Agreed to a 30-min lunch with Pat on Friday
Teams reply · Sam
Approved the customer escalation ahead of Monday's call

Want me to add them to your calendar and draft confirmation replies?

Yes — and which customer emails am I behind on?
› afd coworker

4 customer emails older than 48 hours without a reply. Ranked by what looks most actionable:

Crestline Engineering4 days
Q3 quote — final pricing
they replied with a counter-offer; ball is in your court
Beacon Co · Maya3 days
Re: line break this Sat morning?
they're asking for a specific time confirmation
Pacific Freight5 days
RE: shipping discrepancy #4419
credit memo question — easy yes/no
Riverview Supply2 days
Year-end purchase plan
they want to lock volume — opportunity, not a complaint

Want me to draft tactical replies for all 4 in your voice, ready for you to review?

ask a follow-up…
› Where AFD lives

AI that fits whatever your business already runs on.

We don't sell a product. Half the value is showing you what AI can already do with the apps you use every day — no build required. The other half is the connection to the systems that don't have a connector yet.

Live· Day one · via Cowork

Your everyday apps

What's in my inbox, what does that spreadsheet say, what's overdue?

Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Excel, SharePoint, OneDrive), Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar), Slack, Teams. The connectors already exist — we set you up on Anthropic Cowork and you start asking the first day. No custom build needed.

Live· AFD custom build

Your books

What's happening in my accounting?

Connected to systems like QuickBooks Online today. Statements, AR/AP, cash flow, vendor and customer questions — answered in plain English.

Live· AFD custom build

Your warehouse

What's on the floor, what's moving, what's stuck?

Connected to systems like Fishbowl today. Stock levels, slow-movers, reorder modeling, draft POs.

Coming on first customer

Your customers

Who's growing, who's slipping, who's about to ghost me?

CRM and order-history integration — patterns, churn signals, drafted outreach.

Coming on first customer

Your ERP

How does everything actually fit together?

Cross-system analysis — the questions that only make sense when accounting, inventory, and operations are in the same conversation.

On request

Your custom system

That thing you built in 2014?

If it has an API, we can connect to it. Bring it on a discovery call and we'll tell you straight whether it's a good fit.

› How it works

Four phases. You don't have to commit to the whole journey on day one.

01

Discovery + scoping

A short call. Bring your tools and your top frustrations. We map what you'd ask if asking were possible and what the smallest useful first step looks like.

02

Training

We set you up on Anthropic Cowork with the connectors that already exist for your everyday apps, and walk your team through what's possible. Day-one wins, no custom code.

03

Integration build

When you want more than the day-one stack covers, we bridge AI to the systems that don't have a connector yet — your accounting, inventory, ERP, your custom systems.

04

Along the way

We host and run what we built. As your business and systems change, we keep the connection healthy and add what you need. Cancel any time.

NoteAFD sets you up on Anthropic Cowork — Anthropic's platform for putting an AI coworker inside the tools your business already runs on. The day-one connectors are already there. We build the rest.

› Pricing

Honest pricing. No surprise invoices.

Four phases. You only pay for the ones you choose to use. Most engagements start with discovery and training — the deeper work follows only if you decide it's worth it.

01
Discovery call
Free

20 minutes. We listen, you talk. No pitch.

Book a call
02
Training
Fixed quote

Cowork setup + walkthrough of what's already possible with the apps you use every day. Day-one wins.

See what's included
03
Integration build
Fixed quote

When you want more than day-one wins. We bridge AI to the systems that don't have a connector yet.

How it's scoped
04
Along the way
Monthly

Hosting, care, and evolution for whatever we built. Not IT support — ongoing partnership.

Plan details

What will you ask of your data next?

Twenty minutes, free, no pitch. Bring your tools and the questions you wish your team had time to answer.