AI operations for seven-figure CPG brands

Run a bigger brand without hiring a bigger team.

The reporting, the email triage, the follow-ups: whole jobs that used to need a person run on their own now. I run my own CPG brand with more agents than people, and they hold the seats a growing brand hires for.

Free, twenty minutes.

Founderholds the judgment calls; approves anything that spends money or leaves the companyPerson
Chief of staffopens and closes the day, flags what stopped movingAgent
Marketingpaid, organic, email, socialAgent
Ad accountsAgent
EmailAgent
Sales & retaildoors, distributors, velocityAgent
DemosAgent
Retailer CRMAgent
Supply chainruns, inventory, co-packersAgent
Inventory forecastingAgent
3PLAgent
Financemargin after deductionsAgent
Channel profitabilityAgent
DeductionsAgent
Held by a personHeld by an agent
Where the week goes

The work that lands on whoever has the shortest list that week.

The weekly numbers, assembled by hand in a spreadsheet. The follow-up to the buyer, three days late. The deduction file from the distributor, opened, squinted at, and passed around until the weekend.

None of it is hard. All of it needs a person. And the need grows with the brand.

The operator

The team I did not hire.

My company is organised like any CPG company, on a real org chart with named roles. Agents I built hold many of the seats a growing brand fills with people.

A chief of staff opens the day and closes it, and tells me which projects have stopped moving. One agent reads the ad accounts. One watches what the email is doing. One assembles the weekly revenue numbers across Shopify and Amazon. One watches the rest and says so the same day when something stops. The reps who work store demos use tools built the same way.

Plenty of seats on that chart are still open. Many of them get filled with a build now, not a salary. Anything that spends money or leaves the company still stops at me, so I handed over the work without handing over the company.

More than 150 jobs run on schedules behind those seats. What I would likely recommend for your operation ran on mine this morning.

Done by hand~15 hrs

a week of somebody’s time, estimated seat by seat across the bottom row of that chart.

Running on its own0 hrs

of assembly. Reading the output is the only work left.

There are two ways this pays for itself.

One is the numbers. Every place you sell and every place you spend, in one picture. It is ready when you open it, so nobody has to build it first.

The other is the hours. Whole jobs stop needing a person. That gives the week back, and it catches the money that leaks when nobody has time to look. The deduction nobody disputed. The reorder that went in late.

Smári Ásmundsson
Smári Ásmundsson, founder and operator.

Before this brand, I took Smári Organics, Icelandic skyr, from my home kitchen to national retail.

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Questions
Where would you start?

In my own brand it was the weekly numbers and the deduction file.

Do we have to switch tools?

No. Builds run inside Shopify, Amazon, your 3PL exports and your accounting package as they stand. When a setting in software you already pay for solves the problem, I set it up and tell you so.

What happens when the build is done?

Thirty days of monitoring come with it. After that your team runs it, or I keep it watched and maintained on a monthly seat.

Adding ZeroesThe Friday note, on how AI gets used inside a seven-figure CPG brand.

Bring me the job that eats the most hours every week.

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