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AI implementation for business operations
Tell us what’s wasting your time & money. We build the software to fix it.
AI seems easy to use but it is difficult for you to make it truly useful. If your team is still copying, checking, prompting, chasing or stitching things together by hand, show us the problem.
Built by Kent Shi, Harvard Kennedy School ’22
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5 drafts to review
Next step
Ask Tom to approve the September report today.
Why flaggedReport goes out Thursday. No client approval recorded.
SourceProject board · Client email. Sample snapshot: Tuesday at 9 AM.
The ruleClient approval due 2 days before the report goes out.
ResponsibleMaya Chen
Waiting for a person to review
Tom, the September report goes out Thursday and still needs your approval. Can you approve it or flag changes today?
Sample only. Nothing is really sent.
Sample data. A person reads each draft and decides what to send.
What can 3Fold fix?
Time
Your team spends hours moving information between tools or checking the same things every day.
Money
Leads, invoices, bookings, renewals or opportunities fall through.
Things getting missed
Deadlines, approvals, files and follow-ups depend on someone remembering.
Visibility
Managers cannot quickly tell what needs attention or where work is stuck.
Repetitive work
People repeat work that software could prepare or finish.
Slow decisions
The information exists but it is scattered across systems.
Research and monitoring
Someone checks the same websites, records or databases again and again.
Owner dependence
A workflow only works because one person carries it in their head.
We don’t sell another tool to learn.
We build the missing piece between the tools you already use.
What you have
Your tools and information
- Email and calendars
- Spreadsheets
- Your CRM and project tools
- Billing and accounting
- Websites and public records
What we build
The 3Fold implementation
- Connects your software
- Watches for changes
- Brings information together
- Applies your business rules
- Uses AI where it helps
- Drafts the next action
- Keeps people in control
- Adds a management view when one helps
Each build uses only the parts your workflow needs.
What your team gets
A clear next step
- What needs attention
- What happens next
- Actions prepared or done
Keep the tools that already work. 3Fold builds around them.
Case study
What we built for a Shopify agency
A Shopify e-commerce agency coordinated time-sensitive client launches in Basecamp. Assets, approvals and deadlines got buried in project activity.
3Fold built an operating layer that surfaces what needs attention, flags work at risk and prepares follow-ups while the account manager stays in control.
The views below are samples with invented data.
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Harbor & Co report v2
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Next step ready
Ask Maya for a review slot today
Other examples
Agencies
Client launches, approvals, assets and the follow-ups between them.
Med spas, aesthetic clinics and plastic surgery practices
Consult follow-ups, staff tasks, supply orders and reviews. Operations only. We never ask for patient records.
Government and public affairs
Bills, hearings, coalition sign-ons and the weekly update to leadership.
Other businesses
Sales, billing, research, approvals, reporting and fulfillment.
We also built a free website check for local businesses. Check a website
One workflow. One implementation.
3Fold Implementation
$5,000 one time*
No sales call.
- Workflow mapping
- Custom implementation
- Integrations
- Testing
- Deployment
- Documentation and handoff
To start
$2,500
Paid after you approve the scope in writing.
At acceptance
$2,500
Due when the implementation is ready for acceptance.
No subscription.
*For your first standard 3Fold build. Larger or additional builds are scoped separately.
Complex or regulated projects may need a custom scope.
Want to see the idea around your workflow first? We build a $250 prototype. It comes off your implementation.
Questions
What does AI implementation mean?
We learn how one workflow runs today. Then we build the software that fixes it inside the tools you already use. We use AI where it makes sense. It can read messy emails or draft a reply. We use normal software where normal software makes sense. We care about the business result.
Is this another project tool?
No. We build around the tools you already use. Your team keeps working where it works today.
Do I have to replace my software?
Usually no. We connect what you have and build only the missing piece.
Do we have to meet?
No. The intake happens in writing. So does onboarding. Questions go to kent@3fold.me.
What can you build?
Integrations between your tools. Alerts and drafted follow-ups. Approval and decision queues. Reports and management views. Research and monitoring systems. Custom internal software when nothing else fits.
What does $5,000 cover?
One bounded workflow. We map it and build it. We connect up to three of your existing systems. Then we test it, deploy it and hand it over with documentation.
What if my workflow is larger?
Then it needs a custom scope. We write it down and price it before we start. Nothing outside the agreed scope starts without your yes in writing.
Do you send messages without approval?
No. A person on your team approves every outside message. That changes only if your written scope says so.
Who owns the work?
When the final payment clears you own the custom code we wrote for you and the documentation that goes with it. Your data is always yours.
What happens after?
Nothing is required. There is no subscription. Later work is quoted in writing and priced on its own. Nothing recurring starts without your yes.
I’ll handle the build.
I’m Kent Shi, founder of 3Fold.
My builds track what governance meant at Harvard Kennedy School: who owns what, what’s approved and what’s late.
- I scope and build every implementation
- You work with me directly
Tell us what isn’t working.
You answer three to eight short questions and approve a written brief. We check the fit and email you the offer.