Build like10Burn like01
We’ll study how your team works, find where AI makes the biggest difference, and turn your budget into a practical plan. Already started? We’ll find your next steps.
we don’t ship it.
Growth used to mean headcount. Not any more.
AI has changed the game. We are a boutique consultancy that deploys agentic systems around you and your team, so output scales without payroll, ramp, or dilution.
Growth used to mean headcount. Not any more.
AI has changed the game. We are a boutique consultancy that deploys agentic systems around you and your team, so output scales without payroll, ramp, or dilution.
Workflow First
Recommendations begin with how your work actually moves: where time is lost, which constraint matters first, and what should remain human. Tools are chosen only after the problem is clear.
Built by Operators
No account managers, no offshore bench. Every engagement is scoped and built by people who have run the companies and practices we serve, and you own everything we build.
Compounding Returns
Every month we measure what each workflow actually returns. Underperformers get cut, winners get expanded, so the system grows more valuable over time instead of going stale.
Find your lane.
The same agentic workforce, deployed around how you actually work. Pick your role to see the battle-tested workflows we build first.
No pitch decks. No 40-page reports.Shipped systems.
Discover
We map where your hours actually go, find the bottlenecks worth automating, and agree which workflows to build first, each with a clear SOP and success metric before anything ships.
Deploy
Your workflows go live: wired into the tools you already use, with your voice, your rules, and your boundaries. You own everything we build.
Operate & Compound
We monitor, optimize, and iterate. What does not pay gets retired, what does gets expanded: leverage that compounds instead of shelfware.
Self-improving workflowsthat get better every day.
Our proprietary pipeline turns every workflow we deploy into a scored, sourced, and versioned database record. Performance feedback flows back into the system, so weak workflows are flagged and proven ones keep improving.
Validated before deployment
Our pipeline scores every workflow against six criteria before it enters the database. If it relies on unavailable tools or bypasses human review, it does not ship.
Traceable by design
Every record keeps its source, evidence, score, and version history. Each recommendation can be traced to the run that produced it, not a consultant’s memory.
Improves through feedback
Results flow back into the database. Repeated failures pull a workflow from circulation for human review, while proven workflows keep getting stronger.
Amplify Human Agency
The capacity to act intentionally and cause change in the world.
Hours back, every week. Benchmarked by human leverage.
“We shipped double the roadmap with the same team. The investor update engine alone pays for the retainer.”
“Board prep used to eat my weekends. Now a draft is waiting Monday morning, and I spend the time on the deals instead.”
Price it by the workflow.
One rate. No discovery package, no implementation package, no tier theater. You pick how many workflows to deploy. We build them. You own them.
A 45-minute audit, then an AI Assessment mapping 5+ hours of weekly savings. Money-back guarantee. Fully credited toward any build.
Book the Audit →Discovery, implementation, SOPs, and integrations into the tools you already run, monitored and optimized monthly so it compounds.
Three or more one-on-one interviews across your team, then a roadmap ranking every workflow by modeled impact on the KPIs your board already tracks.
Book the Team Audit →Two 45-minute working sessions, bounded async guidance, and an experienced operator in the loop. Hands-on implementation remains separately scoped.
One team. Five targets. One plan.
Generic AI ignores what each person is measured on. We start from the number, map the workflow behind it, and deploy agents that move it, not a vanity dashboard.
The company OKR
The work that moves the quarter’s goal, not the busywork that fills the board deck.
Pipeline & conversion
Lead response, qualification, personalization at volume, proposal turnaround.
Cycle time & throughput
Spec translation, review and QA loops, support triage: where velocity leaks.
Retention & time-to-value
Onboarding, health signals nobody reads in time, renewal prep.
Margin & reporting integrity
Close, billing accuracy, and the spreadsheet that is secretly the source of truth.
The Agentic Team Audit runs a one-on-one with the owner of each number, then hands you a single plan sequenced by expected impact.
See the Team Audit →Start with a diagnosis, not a commitment.
The $999 Expert AI Audit: a 45-minute call, then an assessment mapping 5-10 hours of weekly savings to tools you can deploy yourself. Money-back guarantee, fee credited toward any build, capacity capped at 8 per month.
A Note from the Founder“I’ve been the founder up working at 2am, watching my runway get shorter.I built Uptick because I needed it: a team of truly useful AI coworkers I didn’t need to hire to grow my business.”
Vaughn DiMarco · CTO @ Uptick SystemsUptick is a small, founder-led practice.
Full background on LinkedIn →- 01Early Work
Start with context.
Early in my career, I worked as an engineer and data-science mentor, teaching more than 10,000 graduates and building a 10,000-member data community. That experience showed me how much good work depends on clear context, practical examples, and a path people can actually follow.
- 02Founder
Prioritize under real constraints.
As a technical co-founder, I helped raise $5M and grow AI products from zero to tens of thousands of users. Working with limited time and runway made prioritization concrete. We had to focus on the product and operational choices most likely to help customers and move the company forward.
- 03Enterprise
Design for the way people work.
Later, I built and led an AI Center of Excellence inside a 4,000-person enterprise, where GenAI adoption grew 550% year over year. The work reinforced that adoption depends on fitting new tools into real workflows, with clear ownership, boundaries, and useful outcomes.
- 04Advisory
Look carefully before building.
As a value-creation director and AI adviser, I evaluated more than 1,200 companies for M&A. Seeing many products, teams, and markets gave me a broader view of where technology creates durable value, and where a simpler operational change may be the better answer.
- 05Uptick
Bring those lessons to each engagement.
At Uptick, I apply that experience by first understanding how your work moves, where it gets stuck, and what is worth changing. From there, we can choose an appropriate tool or build, keep the right decisions with people, and measure whether the change is genuinely useful.
Field Notes
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What Uptick Systems Does
Uptick Systems is an AI consulting and automation practice that deploys agentic AI workflows (an agentic workforce) for founders, executives, and small teams. Most clients start with the $999 Expert AI Audit, a fixed-price audit that finds 5-10 hours of weekly time savings and recommends the exact off-the-shelf AI tools to reclaim them.
Explore custom AI coworkers →Read the AI BizOps operating model →