AI & Automation
Stop paying people to do work software should handle.
Grade finds expensive manual workflows and replaces them with practical software, automation, and AI, designed around how your business actually operates.
Core offer
Workflow Elimination Sprint
Find one repetitive, costly process and determine whether it can be substantially automated.
Where the hours usually hide
- Quoting
- Order entry
- Document processing
- Reporting
- Scheduling
- Customer communications
- Production reporting
- Data reconciliation
- Inspection documentation
- Purchasing
- Engineering administration
Pricing
Automation Assessment: $5,000
After the assessment
Automation Sprint
$15k–$30k
Custom Operations System
$30k–$100k+
Managed Support
Recurring
We measure the workflow before and after.
If ten people collectively spend 80 hours a week moving information between systems, that’s the problem, not which AI model we use.
Built by operators, not career consultants.
Grade was founded by Matt Hroma, a mechanical engineer and technology executive whose experience includes SpaceX, Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper), Astra, and leadership roles building manufacturing systems, factories, products, and software.
- Ran launch vehicle assembly at SpaceX
- Built Astra’s first engine lines and a 100,000 sq ft rocket facility
- Authored the capital case for Amazon Leo’s $200M satellite factory and delivered it in under 18 months, scaling integration 30×
- CTO at Grounded through a 4× revenue turnaround, with work spanning mechanical engineering, automation, software, and operations
Matt Hroma · Founder · Detroit, MI
AI & Automation
Show Us the Work You Want Gone
Describe the process you want off your plate. We’ll come back with whether it can be substantially automated, and what that’s worth.