You don't have to figure out AI.
That's what we do.

A business that runs itself is worth more than one that runs you. We build the AI systems that flip that equation.For the work you update in three systems.do by hand.never follow up on.pay overtime for.run on spreadsheets.have to chase down.approve all day.end up redoing.can't delegate.

ACE puts a fractional AI Chief Executive inside your business for 90 days. We find the work that's eating your team alive, build the digital labor that replaces it, and train your people to run everything themselves. We come in. We build. We train your team. You take the keys.

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The Problem

You already know AI could change how your company runs. You're not the one with time to drive it.

AI moves faster than any operator can track, and your competitors are already figuring it out. You're running a business, not chasing every new model. So the questions nobody answers pile up: what's actually possible, where to start, who to trust, whether it even works for a business like yours.

Hire a $300K AI executive and wait a year to ship. Hire an agency and pay $50K+ forever while they own the system.
We deploy it in 90 days. You own it. We leave.
That's what ACE was built for.

The Alternatives

ACE, an AI hire, or an agency? How the three actually compare.

	ACE	Hire an AI executive	AI agency
Time to a working system	First automations live in weeks. The full system in 90 days	6 to 12 months to hire, then ramp time	Open-ended, tied to their roadmap
Who owns the system	You. It runs in your accounts, on infrastructure you control	Tied to one person's tenure	The agency's. You rent access to it
Cost shape	One scoped project. You know the full number before we build	$300K+ a year in salary	$50K to $120K a year, to rent
Enterprise value	Digital labor cuts recurring opex, and recurring savings compound into what the business is worth	One salary bet on one person	A cost line that never becomes an asset
Your team afterward	Trained, fluent, independent	Depends on the hire	Dependent on the vendor
When it ends	You take the keys. We leave	You keep paying	The system stops when you stop paying

How It Works

How does ACE work? From first call to running system.

Caddy becomes the operating layer your company runs its AI on, at the admin level of your own plan, owned by you. Not a tool you rent.

STEP1

Discovery & Architecture

Two calls, both free. First we learn what's costing you the most and where AI moves the needle. Then we map your operation live, process by process, and blueprint your business in front of you.

STEP2

90-Day ACE Engagement

Your plan, scoped and priced to what we found. We move in, build the digital labor that replaces your most expensive manual work, deploy it in accounts you own, and train your team to run it.

STEP3

You Take the Keys

Your team trained, your system live, your keys. Optional ongoing support and senior advisory if you want a long-term partner. Your choice, never a dependency.

No recycled templates. We build your system fresh, tuned to how your business runs, on a foundation already proven in real operations. What we prove for you is yours to keep.

Inside the 90 Days

What happens inside the 90 days?

AI is the best employee you'll never hire and the hardest one to onboard. We do the onboarding. Your business does the compounding. Four phases, one standard 90-day agreement.

Discover. We go deep on your operation and surface every AI opportunity in the business. Most companies have 30 or more. We target the handful that make 90% of the difference.
Build (weeks 1 to 7). We build and deploy digital labor across your most expensive manual work, orchestrated around your existing tools and running in accounts you own.
Adopt (weeks 8 to 10). Hands-on training and custom SOPs for every system we build, so your team owns the day-to-day.
Optimize (final weeks). We stress-test everything in the real world, tune what we built, and hand over the keys, including a Customer Champion Operating Manual so your team runs it independently.
Always in the loop. We're inside your business every day; you feel it in results, not meetings. A written report every week, a standing call every other week, and a direct line whenever you want more.

What you hold in your hands

The paper trail of a real engagement.

ACE runs on paper, not promises. Every engagement produces the same three documents: a scorecard that tallies what the work is worth, a weekly report that shows it shipping, and a manual that keeps your team independent after we leave.

Deliverable 01 Illustrative Sample

21-Metric Value Scorecard

Sample engagement · value found by metric

Direct financial$9K to $14K / mo saved

Direct cost reduction

Time and throughput150 to 190 hrs / mo

Hours reclaimed

Time and throughput6 to 9 hrs / wk

Owner and leadership time

People1 to 2 roles

Hire avoidance

Quality and risk25% to 40%

Error and rework reduction

Strategic and growth1.5x to 2x volume

Capacity to scale

Deliverable 02 Illustrative Sample

Weekly Progress Report

Week 6 of 13 · build phase

Shipped this week

Meeting-prep briefs are live. Every client call now opens with a one-page brief built from your CRM and inbox.
Lead-intake automation is in testing. New inquiries arrive filed, tagged, and with a first reply drafted.
The morning ops report drafts itself from the job tracker. Your ops lead reviews and sends in minutes.

Next week

Invoice follow-up drafts move from testing into production.

Your time

Standing call Thursday. Need us sooner? The booking link at the top of this report comes straight to us.

Deliverable 03 Illustrative Sample

ACE engagement handoff

Customer Champion Operating Manual

How your team runs the system without us.

Contents

01Your system at a glance03
02Daily operations07
03When something breaks14
04Adding a new workflow19
05Handoff checklist24

Written for your team, in plain language, handed over on day 90.

The numbers above are illustrative, but the paper trail is standard: every ACE engagement produces all three documents. Wondering what the scorecard would surface in your business? See what an AI assessment should actually find.

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How We Score

How do we measure what AI is worth? 21 metrics. Five buckets.

We don't tell you "AI saves time." Every engagement is scored against our 21-metric value framework: which metric, by how much, sourced to a methodology a CFO would actually defend.

Direct financial

Working capital freedDirect cost reductionCash-flow accelerationRevenue saved

Time & throughput

Hours reclaimedCycle-time reductionThroughputResponse timeBatch/queue reductionOwner/leadership time

People

Hire avoidanceEmployee retentionEmployees freed for higher-value workChampion/leadership uplift

Quality & risk

Error/rework reductionCompliance event reductionCustomer satisfaction

Strategic & growth

New revenue linesCapacity to scaleSpeed to marketExit-value / EV improvement

Fit Check

Who is ACE for? And who is it not for?

ACE IS for you if

You're a company with real operations
Your team spends its days moving information from one system to another
You'd hire a $300K AI executive if you could justify the headcount or the price
You want the system built INSIDE your company, not from a distance
You want your team fluent on the way out, not dependent on a vendor forever
You're willing to invest in finding what AI is actually worth in your business

ACE is NOT for you if

You're a pre-revenue startup looking for a free pilot
You're shopping for the cheapest AI consultant on the market
You want a vendor to direct from a distance
You expect the work to happen without your team's involvement

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From the Founder

We figured AI out for our own portfolio first.

My family office invests across utility locating, military drones, manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare.

I'm a family-first operator. Time is the most expensive currency in my life. So when AI showed up and offered to give that time back, I paid attention.

AI is moving faster than any team can keep up with. We didn't wait for the right consultant or the right hire. We built the systems ourselves. We learned how to use them. We deployed them across the portfolio.

The work paid off. Hundreds of thousands in saved opex. Millions in enterprise value back on the table.

If you're staring at AI and wondering how to make it work for your business, that's why ACE exists. Now we want to do the same for you.

TUCKER BERN, FOUNDER Caddy

Hundreds of thousands

in operating expense saved across our own companies

Millions

in enterprise value back on the table

5 industries

one playbook, proven at home before it ever meets a client

21 metrics

every engagement scored in dollars, not vibes

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Next Steps

Four steps from "let's talk" to "we ship."

Discovery call (free). We ask the questions that matter: what you want the next 12 months to look like, which processes cost you the most, and where AI can actually move the needle. No forms, no homework. A conversation.
Architecture call. We map your operation live, together. You walk us through how the work actually gets done and we deconstruct it process by process, in front of you. You watch your own business get blueprinted.
Your plan and proposal. Within days you get a scoped plan: the highest-value automations we found, what we'll build, and exactly what it costs for your business. Every engagement is scoped to what we find, so pricing is set on the call, not on a rate card.
The 90-day engagement. We move in and ship. Discover, build, adopt, optimize. Your team is trained, your system is live, and you own all of it.

FAQ

The questions everyone asks.

What is an AI Chief Executive (ACE)?

An ACE is a fractional AI executive and operator deployed inside your business for 90 days. Instead of hiring a full-time AI leader, you get one dedicated expert who finds your highest-value AI opportunities, builds the automations, and trains your team to run them. The market also calls this role a fractional Chief AI Officer, or CAIO.

What is digital labor?

Digital labor is AI systems doing work a person would otherwise do: the reporting, intake, follow-up, and coordination that eat payroll hours. An ACE engagement builds digital labor around your exact operation, so output grows without headcount growing with it. The savings recur, and recurring savings compound into enterprise value.

Who is ACE actually for?

Owners who treat the business as an asset, not just a job. You want the operation leaner this quarter, worth more every quarter after, and you don't have a spare executive to make AI happen. If your team's days go to moving information between systems, that's exactly the payroll we turn into digital labor. We move fastest in real estate, financial services, professional services, ecommerce, healthcare, and manufacturing. Pre-revenue startups and cheapest-bid shoppers are not our fit.

How much does an ACE engagement cost?

Every engagement is scoped to your business. On the free discovery call we identify what AI can actually do for your operation, and your proposal prices exactly that work. No rate cards, no one-size-fits-all packages.

How long does an ACE engagement take?

Every ACE engagement is a standard 90-day agreement: discover, build, adopt, optimize. Systems often go live well before day 90; the full term covers training, adoption, and optimization so what we build actually sticks.

What do we get at the end?

A live, working AI system built around your exact business, deployed on your own enterprise AI plan. Your team trained to run it, custom SOPs for every automation, and a Customer Champion Operating Manual for full independence.

Who owns the system ACE builds?

You do. Everything is deployed at the admin level of your own enterprise AI plan. You own the plan, you own the system, and we never host your data.

How much of our team's time does the engagement actually take?

A weekly written progress report and a standing 30-minute update call every two weeks, plus focused working time with your key people during discovery and training. We built the cadence so your team keeps running the business while we build. The whole point is that you walk out fluent, not dependent on us.

What does "admin-level deployment" mean for our IT and security teams?

We deploy at the admin level of your own enterprise AI plan. You own the plan. We don't host your data. Your IT team manages seat distribution and access control directly. We're not a vendor with custody of your data. We configure the operating system that runs on your own infrastructure.

What happens after the 90-day engagement closes?

You own the system we built. Your team is trained on it. We hand over a Customer Champion Operating Manual so you can keep running independently. If you want a longer-term partner, optional ongoing support and senior advisory are available, and you can step away at any time. It's your choice, never a dependency.

Do you take competitors in our industry?

We don't offer vertical exclusivity by default. Your industry pattern library compounds across customers as a feature, not a conflict. If exclusivity matters to you, raise it on the discovery call. It's a separate conversation with separate scope.

What about data security and confidentiality?

We don't host your data. ACE is deployed at the admin level of your own enterprise AI plan, on infrastructure you control. Your IT team owns seat distribution, access logs, and data residency. We're not a vendor holding custody of your operating data. We configure the system that runs on your own infrastructure. Standard NDA covers the engagement work; we sign your DPA if you have one.

Who's behind Caddy?

Caddy was founded by Tucker Bern, who built AI systems inside his own family of companies first: utility locating, military drones, manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare. ACE is the same playbook, deployed into your business by the team that lives it daily.

Getting Started

The first call costs nothing. The status quo doesn't.

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