// AI WORKFLOWS · CANADIAN OPERATIONS

We build the AI workflows that take busywork off your senior people.

Quoting, data cleanup, customer onboarding, and document automation that runs on the stack you already have. Owner-built. Bilingual EN/FR. You own the GitHub repo, the API keys, and the code.

Book a discovery call // 30 MIN · EN OR FR · NO PITCH DECK
// SECTORS Professional services & training · Specialty manufacturing · Distribution & wholesale · Federal departments & prime contractors
// 01 · THE NUMBER

AI is moving from pilot to P&L.

In a controlled study with 758 consultants, BCG and Harvard Business School found knowledge workers using GPT-4 completed tasks 25% faster, produced 40% higher-quality output, and finished 12% more work. Junior consultants gained 43%.

0% FASTER ON TASKS 0% HIGHER QUALITY 0% LIFT FOR JUNIORS // BASELINE: WORKERS WITHOUT AI ACCESS

Field experiment, n=758. Dell’Acqua et al., HBS Working Paper 24-013.

Most operators we work with are not chasing those numbers. They want their senior people focused on the operation instead of cleaning up POs at 8pm.

// 02 · WHAT WE BUILD

Five capabilities. One way of working.

We build inside the stack you already run. Microsoft 365, your ERP, your CAD tool, your accounting. We connect what is already there before we add anything new.

01

Quoting & RFQ workflows

BOM extraction from CAD or PDF drawings, quote drafts in hours instead of days, plan-based pricing for complex jobs. Configured for the way your shop already writes quotes.

02

Data cleanup & consolidation

Pull from every system you use, verify across sources, surface conflicts, produce a single clean structured dataset your team can trust. Daily refresh.

03

Customer onboarding & ops sequences

Multi-tool sequences orchestrated by AI: CRM, billing, support, docs, analytics, payments. Hand-offs run themselves. Drop-off surfaces at the right moment.

04

Document & coding workflows

POs, GL coding, certs of compliance, ISO documentation, inspection reports. The paperwork that runs the operation, automated.

05

Bilingual customer communication

Customer email triage and drafting in EN, FR, and Spanish. Quebec French specifically. Senior people stop opening every message.

// 03 · RECENTLY SHIPPED

Three operations untangled.

Real work for Canadian operators. Anonymized for client confidentiality.

// SAAS · PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

A six-tool customer onboarding

Customer onboarding ran across CRM, billing, support, docs, analytics, and payments. Hand-offs broke. Customers fell through gaps.

We built an AI-orchestrated pipeline that runs across all six tools, monitors for drop-off, and surfaces interventions at the right moment. The team stopped manually chasing every account through six dashboards.

Shipped
// SPECIALTY MANUFACTURING

Fusion to QuickBooks, untangled

Quotes ran through Fusion (CAD) and QuickBooks (accounting), but the connection was fragile. POs got mis-coded, quote files scattered, customer email lost.

We built a coding and file-management layer that links Fusion file tags to QuickBooks GL codes, runs daily AI cleanup on POs, and consolidates customer email into one stream. In build: instant AI-generated quotes from drawings.

Shipped · quoting in build
// COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION

One source of truth, finally

Product, customer, and pricing data scattered across an ERP, a homegrown database, supplier feeds, and a dozen spreadsheets. No single source of truth.

We built an AI-driven cleanup pipeline that pulls from every source, verifies records against each other, surfaces conflicts, and produces a single clean structured dataset the team can trust. Daily refresh.

Shipped
// 04 · WHO WE WORK WITH

Canadian operators, $1M to $50M and up.

01

Professional services & training

Multi-tool customer ops, sequencing, and document workflows.

02

Specialty manufacturing

CAD-to-quote pipelines, ERP coding, file management, daily cleanup.

03

Distribution & wholesale

Data consolidation across ERP, suppliers, and spreadsheets. Verified single source.

04

Federal departments & prime contractors

Bilingual delivery. Built in Ottawa. Familiar with federal procurement context.

// 05 · WHY US

A small focused team. The person who scopes the work delivers the work.

Operator-built

ThriveAI is led by a founder with two prior software exits and a senior industrial engineer with deep digital transformation and program management credentials. Senior people stay on every engagement, end to end.

Bilingual by design

Working sessions, runbooks, and customer-facing agents are delivered in English, French, or both. Quebec French specifically. Built in Ottawa.

You own everything

Code in your GitHub repo, API keys in your account, infrastructure on your Cloudflare or your cloud. The system keeps running with or without us. No vendor lock-in, no hostage IP.

Ecosystem-flexible

We deploy on Claude, GPT, Gemini, and open-weights models. We pick the technology that fits the problem, not the vendor with the loudest sales pitch.

Derik Lawlis, founder of ThriveAI
// DERIK LAWLIS · FOUNDER
// 06 · FOUNDER

Two prior exits. Ten-plus years building systems for industrial businesses.

Derik Lawlis runs every ThriveAI engagement personally. The discovery call is with him directly. The work is delivered by him and the senior people he works with.

Operator-built. Bilingual EN/FR delivery. Based in Ottawa.

// 07 · COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions Canadian operators actually ask.

Our current clients run between $1M and $15M in annual revenue, across professional services, manufacturing, and distribution. We have capacity for businesses up to $50M and beyond if the work fits.

Engagements are scoped to the operation. We price after the discovery call once we understand the workflow, the stack, and the outcome you need. The one published price is the AI Operations Audit at $1,997, which is a 15-page report on your top five highest-ROI automations. The audit fee credits 100% toward a build engagement if you upgrade within 30 days.

Most production workflows go live in 21 to 45 days from signed proposal, depending on the integrations involved. The audit ships in 7 days from intake. Multi-quarter programs run longer with monthly delivery cycles.

We have shipped against Genius, Epicor, Fishbowl, Sage Production, SAP Business One, Acumatica, Vista, Penta, Sage 100/300, QuickBooks Desktop, and Sage 50, in addition to Microsoft 365 and CAD tools like Fusion. Other ERPs are assessed in the discovery call. If the integration is feasible, we will tell you in week one.

Quebec French specifically. Working sessions, runbooks, and customer-facing agents are delivered in EN, FR, or both. Our French site is at thriveai.com/fr/.

Everything lives in your GitHub repo and your cloud account, with your API keys. The system keeps running with or without us. No vendor lock-in.

Yes. Standard mutual NDA on request, before any deep stack conversation.

// START THE CONVERSATION

Thirty minutes. Bring your stack.

We will discuss what your senior people are spending hours on, where the AI workflows fit, and what the engagement would look like.

Book a discovery call
// AI OPERATIONS AUDIT

Not ready to talk yet? Buy the audit.

A 15-page report on your top five AI automations, ranked by hours saved per week, payback in months, implementation cost, and complexity. Delivered in seven days. EN or FR walkthrough included.

$1,997 CAD// CREDITED 100% TOWARD A BUILD ENGAGEMENT · 48-HOUR REFUND WINDOW
// QST/HST INCLUDED · BUSINESS INVOICE PROVIDED