Activate Your Company's AI Enablement Backlog
Bait Shop is a network of AI and automation professionals that help ambitious teams leverage cutting edge AI capabilities.
Enterprise Output At Startup Speed
Unlike big consulting shops, we tailor our teams to best fit each project as a small crew embedded with your operators—wiring together the tools you already use, proving ROI fast, and leaving you with playbooks for scale.
Seed Fund
We enjoy meeting new startups and write seed checks for founders & operators building bold things.
Trusted by Operators Leveraging AI
Traditional corporate innovation takes years to pay off. Bait Shop compresses it into 90-day pilots, so you prioritize concepts based on performance—not assumptions. We run two tracks: Factory projects that streamline and automate the business you have today, and Lab initiatives that test new revenue, products, and growth plays.
Innovation Pilot Approach: Factory + Lab
Factory
Short sprints that pay for themselves—automation, lead flow, onboarding, reporting. Ship in 6-12 weeks.
- CRM enrichment
- Instant lead responder
- Self-booking
- Ops dashboards
Lab
Experiments that change the business—new products, pricing, or channels. Clear hypotheses. 90-day new revenue pushes.
- New ordering formats
- Data products
- New products / services
- Autonomous workflows
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Find Your Company's Potential
Pilot Concepts in 60 Seconds
Enter your company's website address and let "deep mode" evaluate your business and probable use cases (~1min). You'll receive 5 initial pilot concepts with clear metric contribution for both Factory and Lab frames of your business.
Try Backlog GenerationHow We Work
Not a heavy-consulting bench. Our contracted network of experts is tailor fit for each project to effectively ship 90-day pilots with enterprise-grade discipline and startup speed.
Workshop & Scoping
- •Define the one KPI that matters
- •Establish prioritized backlog of use cases
- •Scoping and team alignment
Pilot Build & Ship
- •Weekly ship notes; demo every week
- •Secure-by-default development approach
- •Operator-ready artifacts and metrics
ROI Review → Keep, Cut, Scale
- •Side-by-side baseline vs pilot metrics
- •"Go" yields a 90-day scale plan
- •"Cut" yields a one-page postmortem
Building Something Bold?
We know small checks are a big push for founders and operators building bold things. We'd love to talk with you if you're raising pre-seed or seed stage capital.
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Ready to put AI to work?
Turn busywork into benchmarks
You don't need a 40-page strategy deck. You need a few smart pilots that move real numbers. Tell us a bit about your team and where you're considering AI or automation. We'll review and follow up with next steps if we're a good fit.
Connect"You don't have to be an AI expert, but you must be an AI explorer."
— Andrew Ng, Founder, deeplearning.ai
"The hottest new programming language is English."
— Andrej Karpathy
"AI is not a robot apocalypse; it's a tool for a better future."
— Demis Hassabis, Co-founder & CEO, DeepMind
"AI is one of the most profound technologies we are working on—more profound than fire or electricity."
— Sundar Pichai
"AI won't replace humans—but humans with AI will replace humans without AI."
— Karim Lakhani
"AI is the runtime that is going to shape all of what we do going forward."
— Satya Nadella
"I knew I had just seen the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface."
— Bill Gates
"We are at the iPhone moment of AI."
— Jensen Huang
"Artificial intelligence will augment human intelligence, not replace it."
— Ray Kurzweil, Futurist
"AI is not just a tool; it's a partner for human creativity."
— Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
"There's nothing artificial about AI—it's inspired by people, it's created by people, and it impacts people."
— Fei-Fei Li
"You don't have to be an AI expert, but you must be an AI explorer."
— Andrew Ng, Founder, deeplearning.ai
"The hottest new programming language is English."
— Andrej Karpathy
"AI is not a robot apocalypse; it's a tool for a better future."
— Demis Hassabis, Co-founder & CEO, DeepMind
"AI is one of the most profound technologies we are working on—more profound than fire or electricity."
— Sundar Pichai
"AI won't replace humans—but humans with AI will replace humans without AI."
— Karim Lakhani
"AI is the runtime that is going to shape all of what we do going forward."
— Satya Nadella
"I knew I had just seen the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface."
— Bill Gates
"We are at the iPhone moment of AI."
— Jensen Huang
"Artificial intelligence will augment human intelligence, not replace it."
— Ray Kurzweil, Futurist
"AI is not just a tool; it's a partner for human creativity."
— Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft
"There's nothing artificial about AI—it's inspired by people, it's created by people, and it impacts people."
— Fei-Fei Li