Custom AI for your team

How we think

How we think about your team.

Every team has 10–20 hours a week of work that doesn't need a human anymore.

We find it and replace it.

AI works when it's built into your workflow, not bolted next to it.

We build custom into your tech stack, not around it.

Your best people should be doing what they're best at.

We make that the default, not the exception.

What we do

What this looks like at your company.

We become your AI team — embedded with your people, building, training, and refining alongside them. Here's what's running once we're in:

Custom agents living inside your Slack, CRM, inbox, and ops stack — doing the work, not waiting for someone to open a tab.
Internal tools and dashboards built around your actual workflow, not a SaaS template you'll outgrow.
A team that knows how to use them — fluent on the tools we built and the AI you already pay for.
A partner who stays on as your workflows change, your tools change, and the next thing needs building.

The time leaks we close

Wherever the busywork lives, we'll find it.

The work that's eating your team's week usually hides in plain sight. Here's where we end up most often.

Operations

Internal tools, reporting, manual data shuffling — the spreadsheet someone "just keeps for now."

Sales

Outbound, lead enrichment, CRM hygiene — follow-up that never quite happens on time.

Hiring

Sourcing, screening, candidate comms — the back-and-forth between recruiter and hiring manager.

Customer service

Inbound triage, drafting replies — knowledge-base answers that should already exist.

Data

Pulling, joining, summarizing — the work your best analyst shouldn't be spending the day on.

Internal knowledge

Every "ask Sarah" question that should be a two-second AI answer.

Reporting

The weekly deck nobody likes building.

Case studies

Real teams. Real results.

A few of the teams we've built for.

Catering & Events

Affextionate Cuizine

$48K+ active pipeline · <60s response time

Pipeline automation from inquiry to signed proposal, AI-crafted custom menus, and Google SEO for an Atlanta caterer.

Ecommerce & DTC

Sereia Official

Unprofitable → profitable in 48 hours

An AI ad audit found 85% of spend hitting the wrong audience — restructured the campaigns and flipped it profitable in two days.

Recruiting & Staffing

PE Recruiting Firm

30+ executive candidates in 24 hours

An AI candidate-sourcing engine that surfaced 30+ qualified C-suite candidates in a single day.

Youth Sports

Philly Basketball School

200+ kids enrolled · 562 messages automated

An AI SDR that answers every parent inquiry, follows up on trials, and converts them to paying members automatically.

Sales Enablement

Cynthia Meet

40% improvement in close rate

AI video meetings with real-time sales coaching, transcription, coaching scores, and automatic CRM sync.

Legal Services

Legal Halp

$17.95 cost per lead · 500+ businesses served

Built the whole digital presence — website, Meta funnels, AI SDR, and automated booking — for a flat-fee law firm.

Healthcare

Beverly Hills Wellness

HIPAA compliant · 10+ hrs/week saved

HIPAA-compliant AI ops for a naturopathic practice: scheduling, intake, compliance, and patient comms.

Food Service

Sides BBQ & Catering

First Google rankings in 40 years

SEO and lead automation that finally put a 40-year catering company on the map online.

Construction

Allied Exteriors

5+ enterprise prospects, personally engaged

AI-powered B2B prospecting for a contractor going after enterprise clients across Greater Boston.

Legal & Wellness

Conscious Counsel

Full AI marketing & sales engine

AI-managed Meta campaigns, SDR automation, video content, and multi-niche cold email for a legal-templates company.

B2B SaaS

Voice ERP (Viki)

Full marketing stack, built from scratch

Paid ads, landing pages, ad creative, and analytics — the entire marketing engine for a logistics SaaS startup.

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How we work

Three steps. Built into your business, not pitched to it.

STEP 01

Map.

We sit with your team, audit your systems and workflows, and find the exact places where AI can save your people time and your business money. You walk away with a clear picture of what's worth building — and what isn't.

STEP 02

Build.

We design and build the custom tools, agents, and integrations that close the leaks we found. Real software in your stack, on your data, inside your security perimeter.

STEP 03

Install + train.

We deploy into your environment, hand it off to your team, and train your people to run it, improve it, and build on it themselves.

AND WE STAY ONBOARD

We don't ship and disappear.

Once it's live we keep refining what's running, fixing the edges that show up in real use, and building the next thing your team needs. The work compounds — so does our partnership.

Who we are

You get an AI team, not another out-of-the-box software.

ARK was built by operators with real business experience who went deep down the AI rabbit hole so you don't have to. We're not selling you software. We become your AI team — auditing where your time leaks, building what closes them, and staying onboard as the work compounds.

We're a small, hands-on team. We've built custom AI for private equity firms, staffing agencies, legal recruiters, multifamily mortgage teams, CPG founders, recovery platforms, and more. We sit with your team, build the thing, and stay onboard as the work compounds.

Co-Founder · Strategy & Install

Joshua Church

"Knows the founder journey because he's lived it." Built Edge Theory Labs from a garage prototype to $20M+ in under three years. Forbes 30 Under 30, Class of 2024.

Co-Founder · Audit & Growth

Chad Sonkin

"Knows how revenue actually gets closed." Tens of millions in sales moved across his career. Coaches founders on execution and becoming uncommon.

Co-Founder · Build & Engineering

Ricki Bodner

"The architect behind the systems." Built multiple 7-figure businesses and built ARK's first AI employee from scratch.

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