Founding cohort · 2026
One stack you own.
Self-hosted on a server you control — code, data, and all.
Replaces SaaS sprawl.
Eight subscriptions, three spreadsheets, a Zapier graveyard — gone.
AI that knows your numbers.
Talk to your data. Get answers from your real operation.
Live in six weeks.
For e-commerce, wholesale, and distribution operators.
What you can build with it
Every operation is different. The course ships working templates for the most common starting points — wired up, ready to adapt — and teaches the pattern for everything else. Below are real systems running at Springer Pets every day, dropped here as examples, not a fixed feature list. Pull what you need. Skip what you don't. Build what's missing.
Plan POs, production runs, and container shipments from one cockpit. Supplier lead times, demand forecasts, and cash constraints wired together.
Free up six-figure cash from over-ordered inventory. Never miss a stockout.
Real-time stock across warehouses, channels, and SKUs. Reorder triggers fire automatically when cover drops below threshold.
One source of truth across DTC, wholesale, and Amazon — never a 3-tab reconciliation again.
Reconcile every order, payment, refund, and fee against bank, Stripe, and platform statements. Journals push to QuickBooks automatically.
Close the month in hours, not days. Numbers your accountant trusts on the first pass.
True per-order profit after fees, ad spend, refunds, and shipping. Cash position, channel margin, and live P&L — not lagged a quarter.
See the financial truth in real time. Defend every number with the underlying data.
EDI integration, automatic PO parsing, credit checks, AR aging, intl + US wholesale flows. Label generation and shipment tracking built in.
Process 10× the wholesale volume without adding headcount.
Meta + Google performance attributed at campaign and creative resolution. True ROAS after fulfillment, fees, refunds, and returns.
Kill unprofitable campaigns the day they break — not 30 days later.
Score and compare creatives by hook rate, click-to-purchase, and post-purchase margin. Find what works at the creative level, not the campaign level.
Compound what works. Cut what doesn't. Stop bleeding spend into dud creatives.
Continuous monitoring across Amazon, eBay, and other marketplaces. Flag counterfeit listings before they erode brand and margin.
Defend the brand at scale, without a $100K/yr brand-protection vendor.
Wholesale buyers, distributors, and key accounts — contacts, deals, email threads, and pipeline forecasts wired to your real revenue data.
A pipeline you own — without paying Salesforce per seat to track your own customers.
All of it adds up to one thing: your team operating with leverage. The same team running 2× the company. Tasks that took hours take minutes. Roles that needed two hires need one. Scale without the proportional headcount line.
Why trust us
I'm Gabe Ficht. I run Springer Pets — a product company in the pet space. I built this stack to run our entire operation before I built it for anyone else. Today every part of the business flows through it.
It's completely transformed how we operate. We're doubling revenue every year, and we've only hired one additional person to do it. Decisions that used to take a half-day take seconds. Process that used to slip doesn't anymore. The 11pm manual work is gone. The whole company is faster, leaner, and more disciplined — and we own every line of it.
This course is the playbook for what I learned building it — the leverage I wish someone had handed me three years ago, adapted for product-business operators who want the same.
What you'll have built
Each layer makes the next one possible. Self-hosted on infrastructure you control.
Connect Shopify, ShipStation, QuickBooks, Plaid, Meta Ads, Google Ads — every system that touches the business. Data flows in on the schedule you set, into a Postgres database you own. One source of truth replacing eight tabs, three spreadsheets, and the Zapier graveyard. Build the core primitives — a unified ledger, an inventory record, a customer 360 — that every layer above sits on.
Reconciled, normalized, and visible. True per-order profit after fees, ad spend, refunds, and shipping. Inventory across warehouses. Cash position. Wholesale AR. Channel margins. The questions you couldn't answer last quarter — answered in seconds, sourced from numbers you can defend in front of your accountant.
The Tuesday-morning tasks, gone. Orders in Shopify trigger fulfillment in ShipStation, push journal entries to QuickBooks, fire reorder alerts when stock dips below threshold. Embed rules and approvals so nothing important slips. Cross-tool flows — order in one system, accounting in another, fulfillment in a third — finally one continuous flow.
A chat interface with read access to everything underneath — your data, your reports, your workflows. Ask in plain English; get answers from your real numbers. Have it draft cohorts, write SQL, propose decisions, kick off workflows. Or wire it into agents that watch the business 24/7 and surface what matters before you ask.
How it changes the business
The same operations, on infrastructure you control, with intelligence that knows your data. The cost line moves. The decision speed moves. The hours your team spends moving data between tools moves. Most of all: ownership moves — back to you.
The shift
For decades, institutional capability was locked inside large organizations with full engineering teams and complex bespoke systems. Smaller teams stitched together SaaS — eight tabs, three spreadsheets, a Zapier graveyard — and called it operations.
Two things changed. Intelligence collapsed the build cost of internal software: what used to take a six-figure engineering hire and a quarter now takes days from a well-written spec. And the SaaS layer above ERP — the dashboards, the workflows, the coordination tier — is the most exposed. ERPs aren't going anywhere. The duct tape above them is.
Small teams can now operate with the leverage once reserved for the world's largest organizations. Not by hiring more, not by buying more software — but by owning the systems they run on.
How it works
Consciousness alone moves nothing. It needs a body. The product is the layer that turns operator intent into coordinated action — the same idea Archimedes named with a lever and Jobs named with a bicycle.
A small input, applied at the right point, produces disproportionate output. The experience of operating through the system: one decision moves many things.
The mechanism beneath the leverage. Signals from inventory, orders, ads, and the books wired into one body — so the organization has reflexes, not just dashboards.
What accumulates over time. Every workflow you build, every decision encoded, every blueprint added — strengthens the next one. Operational memory that gets sharper with use.
What we believe
Four operating principles underneath everything we build. They're the reason the system looks the way it does — and the reason it feels different from the AI-agent products racing to commoditize themselves.
AI should not replace human judgment. It should amplify it. Every system we build keeps the operator in the loop where it matters and out of the loop where it doesn't.
Most businesses don't fail from lack of strategy. They fail because knowledge, decisions, and execution are fragmented across tools that don't talk. Wire the body together; the rest takes care of itself.
The best companies of this decade won't have the most employees. They'll have the highest capability per person — operators with force multipliers under them, not org charts above them.
Every workflow, every decision encoded, every blueprint added strengthens the next one. Institutional memory for modern businesses — operational flywheels that keep accelerating after the cohort ends.
Who it's for
The first cohort is built around e-commerce operators (5–50 person teams) who have outgrown spreadsheets-and-Zapier and are tired of paying rent on software their business depends on. The pattern generalizes — the cohort doesn't.
The offer
Six weeks. A small group of operators. Live, with the build partner in the room. You leave with a system you own, hosted on a server that costs less than a single SaaS seat — and a community of operators building the same thing alongside you.
30-day money-back guarantee. Sit through the first two weeks; full refund if it isn't what you expected.
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