Your Context: We Speak Your Language
You operate a B2B e-commerce operation selling refurbished enterprise networking equipment—Cisco, Juniper, and other tier-one hardware—primarily through Shopify. Your business isn't just about online listings; you also manage comprehensive IT lifecycle services and ITAD operations, and you've even established an AWS Marketplace assessment offer to expand your reach.
Your catalog breadth creates enormous opportunity: with the right systems in place, you could dramatically accelerate listing throughput, implement healthier pricing strategies that protect margins, and systematically expand across multiple marketplace channels. The infrastructure exists; what's missing is the connective tissue that turns potential into performance.
We understand the refurbished enterprise hardware space. We know the challenges of maintaining accuracy across thousands of SKUs, the complexity of multi-channel selling, and the critical importance of pricing intelligence in a market where values shift monthly.
Current Reality: 2,000 active listings with potential for 10,000+. The opportunity is massive—execution capacity is the constraint.
What This Actually Costs You
Revenue Left on Table
Thousands of listable SKUs sitting idle in your inventory while competitors capture buyers actively searching for exactly what you have in stock.
Margin Erosion
Pricing blind spots create a double-hit: overpaying on equipment purchases and underpricing on sales. Every transaction without pricing intelligence costs you margin points.
Team Burnout
Sales reps spending hours on data entry instead of selling. Manual work crowds out strategy, customer relationships, and proactive business development.
Invisible Customers
Can't answer "Who buys what when?" which means you can't forecast demand, anticipate refresh cycles, or proactively reach out before competitors do.
The data exists. The opportunity exists. The connective tissue doesn't.
The Offer: Scaled-Back and Simple
We embed as your fractional Director of AI + E-commerce Operations
Retainer model: We function as an embedded resource—think of us as your fractional Director of AI who shows up every week, understands your business context deeply, and drives continuous improvement.
Two core promises: First, you'll receive a clear, actionable assessment that identifies your highest-ROI opportunities. Second, we deliver concrete short-term value during that same assessment period—you see results while we're still evaluating.
Shape of work: We operate on a 30-60-90 day cadence: audit your current state, ship quick wins that demonstrate value immediately, then scale what works and build a pragmatic roadmap for continued growth.
Important: Deliverables and quick wins described throughout this proposal are examples of work we can tackle. We'll focus on the highest-impact opportunities identified during assessment. All capabilities remain available for future long-term engagements.
The "Tech Preview": Show, Don't Tell
Based on your conversation, we believe your highest-ROI opportunity is catalog velocity and pricing intelligence. We'll build a working prototype of an "AI Pricing & Listing Assistant" for a small slice of SKUs (50–100 items) that demonstrates the future workflow:
- Reads part numbers and fetches structured product attributes automatically
- Drafts optimized titles using SEO best practices and marketplace requirements
- Suggests competitive prices with clear rationale based on recent comps
- One-click preparation and publishing to Shopify and selected marketplaces
However: If the Week 1 assessment reveals a different priority—perhaps Salesforce data reconciliation, real-time sales analytics, or quote follow-up automation ranks higher—we'll pivot the Tech Preview accordingly. We follow the data, not assumptions.
Purpose: Align stakeholders on the future workflow before we scale it. This isn't about perfection—it's about getting everyone in the room to say "yes, this solves the problem" before we invest in production infrastructure.
Available in Standard and Original retainer tiers only.
Why IS4.AI? How We're Different
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We Ship, Not Consult
No 100-slide decks gathering dust. Week 1: we're hands-on in your Shopify, Quipt, Salesforce, and ERP systems. Week 2: first quick win ships and your team sees results. We write code, fix data pipelines, and train your people—not hand you a PDF roadmap.
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Embedded, Not External
We operate like your internal team with better pattern recognition because we've seen this movie before. Weekly stand-ups, shared Slack, rolling backlog you control. Lightweight governance: pre-authorize reversible changes, notify on customer-facing moves. No bureaucracy.
3
Proven Rapid-Value Model
30-60-90 cadence delivers results fast: assess current state, ship quick wins that demonstrate value immediately, then scale what works and plan strategically. Tech Preview ensures alignment before you scale. 100% credit guarantee means zero-risk pilot.
The Bottom Line
You're not hiring "AI consultants" who'll disappear after a keynote presentation. You're getting a fractional CTO + COO + data architect who've built the exact systems you need—at Uber, Visa, Sony, and a dozen startups—and who will embed in your business until the problems are solved.
We don't just identify opportunities. We implement solutions, train your team, measure results, and iterate until you're operating at the level your market demands.
Why This Fits Inteleca
Your business model thrives on three critical capabilities: catalog velocity (getting more SKUs to market faster), accurate specifications (building buyer confidence in refurbished equipment), and price agility across channels (optimizing margin while staying competitive).
These are exactly the capabilities that a fractional AI and growth operations team accelerates. We're not proposing a science experiment—we're proposing to systematize what you already know needs to happen.
Your established Shopify footprint provides a solid foundation, and your ITAD services plus AWS Marketplace assessment offer give us clear, low-risk insertion points for quick wins. You've already built the business infrastructure; we're adding the automation and intelligence layer that unlocks the next growth phase.
The opportunity isn't theoretical—it's sitting in your inventory right now, waiting for the systems to catch up with the strategy.
TL;DR – The Complete Picture
What We're Proposing
Position us as your embedded, fractional Director of AI focused on four core areas: e-commerce throughput, pricing velocity, marketplace synchronization, and reporting you can trust.
We run a 30-60-90 day plan that ships quick wins while we assess, capped by a Tech Preview prototype and a pragmatic roadmap for continued growth.
Investment Options
$6K
Lite Retainer
~40 hrs/month, 1-2 wins
$9K
Standard Retainer
~60 hrs/month, 2-3 wins + Tech Preview
$10K
Original Scope
~80 hrs/month, maximum velocity
Risk Mitigation
100% Credit Guarantee: The full engagement cost applies as credit to future work within 90 days. This is a paid pilot that credits back if you continue—zero sunk cost risk.
Why This Works
- Fast: Quick wins ship in Week 2, not Quarter 2
- Reversible: Monthly retainer, not multi-year contract
- Transparent: Weekly reporting on time, outcomes, and KPIs
- Proven: Team built these systems at Uber, Visa, Sony, Yelp
- Embedded: We work like internal team members, not external consultants
We don't just identify opportunities. We implement solutions, train your team, measure results, and iterate until you're operating at the level your market demands.