Activate Your Company’s AI Enablement Roadmap

Bait Shop is a network of professional AI and automation consultantants that help ambitious teams turn fuzzy “we should be using AI” ideas into shipped pilots in 90–120 days.

Enterprise quality. Startup Speed.

Unlike the big consulting shops, we tailor our teams to best fit each project as a small crew embedded with your operators—wiring together the tools you already use, proving ROI fast, and leaving you with playbooks for scale.

We enjoy meeting new startups and write small seed checks for founders & operators building bold things.

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Trusted by Operators Leveraging AI

Traditional corporate innovation takes years to pay off. Bait Shop compresses it into 90-day pilots, so you prioritize concepts based on performance—not assumptions. We run two tracks: Factory projects that streamline and automate the business you have today, and Lab initiatives that test new revenue, products, and growth plays.

Innovation Pilot Approach: Factory + Lab

Factory

Immediate ROI

Short sprints that pay for themselves—automation, lead flow, onboarding, reporting. Ship in 6-12 weeks.

  • CRM enrichment

  • Instant lead responder

  • Self—booking

  • Ops dashboards

Lab

New Expansion

Experiments that change the business—new products, pricing, or channels. Clear hypotheses. 90‑day new revenue pushes.

  • New ordering formats

  • Data products

  • New products / services

  • Autonomous workflows

Select Work

  • Case Study: Relay’s New Prospecting Email Machine

  • Case Study: AI Innovation Roadmap for a Mountain-West General Contractor

  • AI-Powered Factory & Lab Concepts for 780 Store Retailer

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Find Your Company’s Potential

Tap our agent to evaluate pilot opportunities you can initiate in 90 days or less.

Pilot Concepts in 60 Seconds

Enter your company’s website address and let “deep mode” evaluate your business and probable use cases (~1min). You’ll receive 5 initial pilot concepts with clear metric contribution for both Factory and Lab frames of your business.

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How We Work

Not a heavy-consulting bench. Our contracted network of experts is tailor fit for each project to effectively ship 90–day pilots with enterprise-grade discipline and startup speed.

1. Workshop & Scoping

  • Define the one KPI that matters

  • Establish prioritized backlog of use cases

  • Scoping and team alignment

2. Pilot Build & Ship

  • Weekly ship notes; demo every week

  • Secure-by-default development approach

  • Operator-ready artifacts and metrics

3. ROI Review → Keep, Cut, Scale

  • Side-by-side baseline vs pilot metrics

  • “Go” yields a 90-day scale plan

  • “Cut” yields a one-page postmortem

Building Something Bold?

We know small checks are a big push for founders and operators building bold things. We’d love to talk with you if you’re raising pre-seed or seed stage capital.

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