Leverage, Not Headcount
Build like a team of 10Burn like a team of 1
High Impact. High Agency. No BS
Uptick Systems builds custom AI coworkers and agentic workflows so ambitious teams can ship faster, automate operations, and scale without adding headcount.
Why Uptick
Leverage was 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.
A Workforce, Not a Chatbot
Agentic systems that act: they code, research, operate, and qualify across the 100+ tools you already use, with your authority and your voice. Output you ship, not suggestions you babysit.
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.
Leverage That Compounds
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.
Who We Work With
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.
Founders
Ship a ten-person roadmap on a three-person burn. Product, GTM, and ops agents deployed around you.
Explore02Executives
An AI-native chief of staff: daily briefs, inbox triage, and follow-through, in your voice, on your rules.
Explore03Operators
Coordination, reporting, and vendor management, automated. The infrastructure your company needs to scale.
Explore04Partners
An agentic back office for law, accounting, and consulting practices. Intake, prep, and time capture, automated.
Explore05Fund Managers
Thesis-scored deal flow, diligence coordination, and portfolio signal, across the full fund lifecycle.
Explore06Something Else?
Consultants, family offices, brokers, coaches: tell us what you do and we’ll map your highest-leverage workflows on a 20-minute call.
Talk to UsHow an Engagement Works
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 at $7,000 each: wired into the tools you already use, with your voice, your rules, and your boundaries. You own everything we build.
Operate & Compound
$300 per active workflow covers monitoring, optimization, reliability, and small iterations. We retire what doesn’t pay and expand what does: leverage that compounds instead of shelfware.
Illustrative Outcomes
Leverage you can hear in their calendars.
Composite scenarios drawn from the founders, partners, and operators Uptick is built for, not verbatim client quotes. See the full case studies.
We shipped the roadmap we budgeted two hires for, without making either hire. The investor update engine alone pays for the retainer.
Intake used to eat the first three billable hours of every new matter. Now the file is open, conflict-checked, and billed before I read the first email.
I walk into every meeting with the research done and every board meeting with the surprises already flagged. It changed how the whole fund operates.
Pricing
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.
Start here
$999 AI Workflow Assessment
A 45-minute diagnostic, then a report mapping 5+ hours of weekly savings to practical tools and workflows you can start using right away. Money-back guarantee if we don’t find them.
Assessment fee is fully credited toward any workflow build.
Build your stack
How many workflows?
$7,000 build per workflow · $300/mo operate per active workflow
One workflow includes
Discovery for that workflow, full implementation, SOPs, and integrations into the tools you already run.
Monthly operate covers
Monitoring, monthly optimization, reliability, and small iterations so the system compounds instead of rotting.
You own everything we build. No lock-in.
Start with a discovery callStart From The Number
One team. Five numbers. One plan.
A founder is judged on the company OKR. GTM on pipeline. Delivery on cycle time. Success on retention. Ops on margin. Generic AI ignores all of that. We start from the number each person is measured on, 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 just 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, late escalations.
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 Agentic Team AuditPrefer to start smaller?
Start with a diagnosis, not a commitment.
The $999 AI Workflow Assessment is a one-time diagnostic: a 45-minute call, then a report mapping 5-10 hours of weekly savings to off-the-shelf tools you can deploy yourself. Money-back guarantee. No retainer. Assessment fee is fully credited toward any workflow build. Every assessment is delivered personally, so capacity is capped at 8 per month.
A Note from the Founder
I’ve been the solo technical co-founder scrambling to ship before cash runs low. I’ve also been the professional managing a practice where every hour of admin costs me billable revenue.
An agentic workforce isn’t a chatbot or a task manager. It’s the team you can’t afford to hire yet, or the COO you don’t have bandwidth to manage.
It codes, researches, operates, and qualifies, with your authority and your voice, so you show up to high-stakes moments with shipped product, not slides, and to client meetings with focus, not firefighting.
Vaughn DiMarco, CTO @ Uptick Systems
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 AI Workflow Assessment, a fixed-price diagnostic that finds 5-10 hours of weekly time savings and recommends the exact off-the-shelf AI tools to reclaim them.