# AppGarden | Embedded AI Partner > AppGarden is your embedded AI engineering and advisory partner, working with you to cultivate an AI-first business. ## AI that grows with you. AppGarden is your embedded AI engineering and advisory partner, working with you to cultivate an AI-first business. --- ## How we work We'll map your workflows and build solutions that handle the busywork, then stay on as your embedded AI team, so you and your teams can focus on what actually grows your business. ### 01. Embed The first step is putting your daily routines and workflows onto paper. We run a focus session with each team, one at a time, to map out the tools, systems, and processes that drive your business day to day. **What that looks like** - One focused session per team - Tools, systems, and processes mapped - Talk to the people doing the work ### 02. Plan Next, we build a roadmap: what to build, what to skip, what it costs. We work shoulder to shoulder with your team to shape each fix. Sometimes that's AI tooling and training they can run with themselves. Sometimes it's custom software and agents that take the busywork off their plate entirely. **What that looks like** - Plain-English roadmap - Priced and prioritised - Honest 'don't bother' list ### 03. Implement Then we get to work, shipping one solution at a time. We ship early and often, keeping us aligned on outcomes. Strategy, training, custom builds, or ongoing support, all backed by deep technical expertise, built to last. **What that looks like** - One solution at a time - Tooling, training, or custom builds - Shipped in days, not months ### 04. Iterate At this point, we are in your corner. We have an open-door policy. Every month, we bring what's new in AI and map it to your workflows. A dedicated engineering allocation keeps what we built evolving alongside you. **What that looks like** - Proactive AI opportunity scouting - Dedicated engineering allocation --- ## Recent Projects Three engagements: a finance team, a manufacturer, a lender. Different problems, same playbook. ### Automated financial reporting A three-day close became half a day. A finance team was buried in manual data work. Monthly reports took days, reconciliations lived in spreadsheets. We built a custom pipeline that ingests complex financial data and structures it for Claude to query, so reporting and reconciliation run on autopilot. - Financial services - Custom data pipeline - 70% less reporting time ### Retail data pipeline A week of wrangling became a few hours. A specialist manufacturer was stuck cleaning sales data from dozens of retailer portals, each with its own format. We built connectors that pull and normalise the data automatically, plus a report builder the team queries in plain English. - Manufacturing - Third-party integrations - 90% faster processing ### AI-powered collections agent A three-person team, replaced by agents. Replaced a three-person manual collections process with autonomous SMS and voice agents. 55% more debt collected in the first month. - Debt collection - Voice & SMS agents - 55% more collected --- ## Who we are One of us spent a decade running finance and operations inside real businesses. The other has spent it shipping software. We map your workflows, find the ones AI can take over end-to-end, and build it. We started AppGarden because we kept watching businesses get sold AI consulting that ended in slide decks and vague roadmaps. The actual work (figuring out which workflows AI can take over, then building it) wasn't getting done. So that's what we do. We embed with your team, learn the work, and ship the tooling, training, and custom builds that move it forward. No deck, no jargon, no abstract transformation strategy. ### Asher Kark, Co-Founder Asher is a Chartered Accountant. He started in financial audit, moved into commercial finance, and spent the last few years inside a utility company building AI-driven tools that took weeks of manual finance work down to hours. At AppGarden, Asher leads client engagement, discovery, process mapping, and solution design. Outside of work, you'll find him lapping up KMs on Strava. ### Ari Kark, Co-Founder Ari is a Software Engineer who has shipped systems across retail, banking, HR, and insurance. At AppGarden he leads architecture and build, turning what Asher maps in discovery into working software, end to end. Outside of work you will find him kicking back on the Tel Aviv beachfront. --- ## Start with a conversation. 30 minutes, no deck. Tell us what's in the way, we'll tell you honestly whether we can help. - Homepage: https://appgarden.io/ - Contact: ari@appgarden.io - Enquiry form fields and agent skill: https://appgarden.io/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json