About The Intelligence Layer

We build the custom software that connects your business.

Mid-market companies ($10M–$500M) run on a dozen apps that were never built to work together. We use AI to build the custom integration and intelligence layer that unifies them — and to build it fast.

How we think about it

Integrate, automate, intelligence.

The same three moves, in the same order, on every engagement — whether a company needs to see its business or to run it without manual glue.

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Integrate

We build the custom pipelines between the apps you already run — ERP and accounting, commerce and CRM, fulfillment and the spreadsheets in between — into one unified, normalized data layer. For one client that meant unifying Business Central with the pricing spreadsheet only one person understood; for another, wiring Shopify to ShipStation to carrier invoices to QuickBooks.

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Automate

Once the data is connected, we replace the recurring manual work — reconciliation, billing, exports, report assembly — with deterministic software. AI handles the ambiguous parts, like parsing a messy carrier invoice; it never touches the math. Reconciliation that used to take a fulfillment team a week each month is built to run in minutes.

03

Intelligence

Then we layer dashboards, scenario modeling, and a data-grounded AI assistant on top, so leadership can finally see and question the whole business in one place — the kind of view that turned one company's invisible inventory exposure into something it could act on before the write-off.

We connect to what you already have. We don’t rip-and-replace your systems, and — by default — we never write back to your source of truth. You stay in control of your data; we make it useful.

The apps we connect

Whatever a business runs — ERP, commerce, accounting, CRM, fulfillment, spreadsheets — we unify it into one layer.

  • Business CentralERP
  • ShopifyCommerce
  • QuickBooksAccounting
  • HubSpotCRM
  • ShipStationFulfillment
  • SpreadsheetsThe glue

The Intelligence Layer

Unified, automated, and explained

How we work

Custom software, at a pace that used to require a firm.

Because we build with AI, a two-person team ships custom software at a pace that used to require a large firm and many months. That speed isn’t the pitch — it’s the enabler. It’s the reason building genuinely custom software for a mid-market company finally pencils out.

You get a working demo on your data in days and a live platform in weeks — without a six-month statement of work or a translation layer between the people who understand the problem and the people who build the fix.

The Team

Finance expertise meets AI-powered development.

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Jason Lowery

Co-Founder & Technical Lead

Data science and finance background spanning data analysis, marketing analytics, and full-stack development. Jason is the builder — the person who turns a 60-minute discovery conversation into a working, data-connected intelligence platform. His ability to translate executive pain points into production software in days, not months, is the engine behind The Intelligence Layer's speed-to-demo advantage.

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Kaleb Wilkes

Co-Founder & Finance Lead

Accounting and finance background with recognition as a top 2% hire at Paro. Kaleb has delivered projects for Kellogg and 25+ companies across industries. He understands the language of the CFO and ensures every platform we build is financially sound, analytically rigorous, and mapped to the metrics that drive real business decisions.

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Together — the combination of deep financial domain expertise and AI-powered development capability. One person understands what executives need. The other can build it in days. No translation layer. No project managers. No requirements documents that take six weeks to write.

Who it’s for

Built for mid-market companies running too many systems.

We’re built for mid-market companies — roughly $10M to $500M in revenue — running multiple siloed systems with no internal data team to connect them. If your leadership flies on stale exports, your ops team loses hours a week to manual reconciliation, and you suspect money is leaking in the gaps between systems, that’s exactly the problem we solve.

We’re not a fit for pre-revenue startups, companies with a mature internal data-platform team, or buyers shopping for an off-the-shelf dashboard. We build custom software, not a seat license.

Our Values

What drives every engagement.

Precision

Every demo uses the prospect's real numbers, real quotes, real terminology. Nothing generic. Nothing hypothetical.

Speed

First working demo within 1–2 weeks of the initial call. Not 3 months. Not 6 months. Weeks.

Intelligence

AI that understands domain-specific business logic — not a chatbot with a database connection.

Transparency

We show exactly what’s real data versus synthetic. We never oversell. We let the product do the talking.

Partnership

We don’t hand off a tool and disappear. Continuous optimization, new features, and platform evolution as your business evolves.

Let’s connect the apps your business already runs on.

See what one unified, intelligent layer looks like on your data.