We raise your profit margin by +25%. Or you don't pay.
a1a2 puts forward-deployed engineers inside your operations, finds where margin can be improved and deploys agentic software to improve it. No retainer, no upfront fee, no monthly fee. We're paid out of the gain — or not at all.
We'll tell you on the call whether there's an engagement worth pursuing.
A business at a 12.0% net profit margin reaches 15.0% — a gain of 3.0 margin points, which is a 25% relative lift. Illustration only.
- Margin you keep today
- The margin we go find
Please note: we only work with selected businesses in which we have an advantage in improving their margin.
How the engagement runs
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Audit
We embed with your operations and map where margin leaks — cost lines, rework, throughput, the headcount spent doing what agentic software should do. Two weeks.
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Proposal
One document: what we build, the margin gain we underwrite, and the measured trigger that releases payment. Both sides sign it before we write a line of code.
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Build
Our engineers ship end-to-end — data, models, interface, integrations, deploys. Your team keeps running the business and gets to use the result.
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Payment on proof
The trigger hits, you pay. It misses, you don't. The software is yours either way, and we keep iterating until it earns or we retire it honestly.
What it costs
| Retainer | None |
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| Upfront fee | None |
| Monthly fee | None |
| Your risk | None |
| Your first $1,000,000 of gain | No fee — you keep all of it |
| After that | 10% of the profit gain we deliver |
| If the margin target misses | No fee. You keep the software. |
| Ownership of the software | Yours |
| Lock-in | None, and we don't need it |
Where the margin usually hides
- Back office
- Invoicing, reconciliation, vendor onboarding, contract review, claims triage.
- Customer interface
- Inbound support, qualification, scheduling, post-sale follow-through.
- Knowledge work
- Research, drafting, summarisation, document QA, internal search.
- Workflow glue
- The spreadsheets and copy-paste pipelines that quietly tax every team.
Questions
What's the catch?
We pick our engagements carefully. We need access, honest numbers, and a fast lane to ship. In exchange, you carry none of the build risk. If we can't anticipate a clear substantial gain for you, we say so before we sign because we wouldn't make any money either.
How is the gain measured?
We agree on a measurable financial trigger up front: a specific cost line, throughput metric, or revenue figure over a defined window. Both sides see the dashboard, and both sides sign before the build starts.
What does it cost if it works?
10% of the profit gain we deliver, only after you get the first $1m cost-free.
Who actually does the work?
We do. Senior forward-deployed engineers, embedded with your team, with nothing relayed off-shore or subcontracted. The same people who scoped the project ship the project.
Do we own the software?
Yes. The code, models, prompts, evals, infra, and documentation belong to you on day one of deploy. We don't lock you in, because we don't need to.
Can you give me a crappy analogy of what you do?
We are like a genie who MIGHT be able to grant you your wish of millions of more dollars of profitability. But if it's not in our power to do so, we just tell you upfront that we can't grant your wish. If we are able to grant your wish, we keep 10% of the gain as a genie fee.
One call. Then you'll know.
We'll tell you whether there's an engagement worth doing, on the call.