For Founders
Build like a team of 10. Burn like a team of 2.
You have 18 months of runway and a roadmap that would take a team of 10. Uptick gives you the agentic workforce to execute on it, so every sprint ships, every dollar stretches, and you reach the next milestone on your own terms.
Uptick Systems provides AI automation consulting for startup founders: agentic workflow implementation across product, research, GTM, and operations. A $999 assessment identifies 5–10 hours per week of savings; each workflow is built for $7,000 and operated for $300/month inside the tools you already use.
Sound Familiar?
The math of your week doesn't work, and hiring won't fix it.
The roadmap needs ten people. The runway affords three.
Every sprint starts with planning debt and ends with ops debt.
Investor updates, CRM hygiene, and user research slip to 11pm, or slip entirely.
Hiring is the only lever you know, and it's the one you can't afford to pull.
What We Deploy
An agentic workforce, built around how you already work.
Ship First, Then Hire.
Agentic product and engineering workflows that write specs, scaffold code, and turn user feedback into ranked changes overnight. Validate before you add payroll.
Fundraising & GTM
Your workforce drafts investor updates, researches prospects, enriches leads, and updates your CRM, with your voice and your milestones.
Burn-Proof Operations
Turn fixed headcount into a variable cost. Agent systems scale up during sprint weeks and down during quiet periods, you pay for output, not idle payroll.
Battle-Tested Workflows
The First 90 Days
The workflows founders deploy first, proven across seed to Series A teams, live in under two weeks.
- 01Planning time → near zero
Product Sprint Agent
PRDs, wireframes, and user stories drafted overnight. Your board wakes up scoped, and the sprint starts shipping instead of planning.
- 02One memo, zero anecdotes
Customer Truth Pipeline
Tickets, calls, and reviews mined into one ranked weekly memo. Roadmap debates end in minutes because everyone argues from the same evidence.
- 032 hours → 10 minutes
Investor Update Engine
Drafts monthly updates in your voice and tracks the KPIs your cap table actually cares about, before you remember they're due.
- 04Edit, don’t author
The Founder's Shadow
Board pre-reads, hard emails, and follow-ups after every call, drafted with your context and your voice, ready for a 10-minute edit.
- 05A pipeline without a recruiter
Recruiting Screener
Sources candidates, writes outreach, screens replies, and books interviews straight into your calendar.
- 06Nothing slips
Ops That Run Themselves
Renewals, deadlines, and anomalies flagged before they bite. The COO you can't afford yet.
These are teasers, not the menu. Every engagement starts by mapping the workflows worth building for your practice, then pricing them at $7,000 each to build and $300/mo to operate.
Book a Founder CallHow an Engagement Works
No pitch decks. No 40-page reports. Shipped systems.
Discover
We map where your hours actually go, find the bottlenecks worth automating, and agree which workflows to build first, each with a clear SOP and success metric before anything ships.
Deploy
Your workflows go live at $7,000 each: wired into the tools you already use, with your voice, your rules, and your boundaries. You own everything we build.
Operate & Compound
$300 per active workflow covers monitoring, optimization, reliability, and small iterations. We retire what doesn’t pay and expand what does: leverage that compounds instead of shelfware.
Prefer to start smaller?
Start with a diagnosis, not a commitment.
The $999 AI Workflow Assessment is a one-time diagnostic: a 45-minute call, then a report mapping 5–10 hours of weekly savings to off-the-shelf tools you can deploy yourself. Money-back guarantee. No retainer. Assessment fee is fully credited toward any workflow build. Every assessment is delivered personally, so capacity is capped at 8 per month.
A Note from the Founder
I’ve been the solo technical co-founder scrambling to ship before cash runs low. I’ve also been the professional managing a practice where every hour of admin costs me billable revenue.
An agentic workforce isn’t a chatbot or a task manager. It’s the team you can’t afford to hire yet, or the COO you don’t have bandwidth to manage.
It codes, researches, operates, and qualifies, with your authority and your voice, so you show up to high-stakes moments with shipped product, not slides, and to client meetings with focus, not firefighting.
Vaughn DiMarco, CTO @ Uptick Systems
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