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AI agents that run the work, not the demo

We build AI staff that show up every morning and do the job.

Ward Consulting AI designs, deploys and manages fleets of AI agents for businesses of every size. Each agent owns one job, checks its own work before it acts, and writes down what it did. We built it first for our own company, Z-Clear. Now we build it for yours.

zclear / runs635 runs logged
06:02 Iris email-triage inbox sorted 9.0/10
06:15 Ada amazon-ads bids + budgets ROAS 2.48x
06:40 Tess website-title title published 9.4/10
07:05 Edi sps-edi POs in, invoices done
07:30 Bell fleet-rollup status board posted
08:00 Vic ceo-agent daily brief sent
Agent names and jobs are real. Times illustrate a typical morning.

What we do

One approach, sized to your business.

Every engagement starts the same way: we find the repetitive work that eats your week, give each piece to a dedicated agent, and put a scorecard on it so you can see what it did.

SMALL · 1–25 people

Your first AI hires

  • Inbox triage every morning: an hour of email cut to minutes
  • Review replies and review-request emails
  • Bookkeeping categorization and receipts
  • Local search, Google Business Profile and social posts
  • A simple website, built and kept current

Typical fleet: 3–5 agents

MEDIUM · 25–250 people

A fleet across every channel

  • Amazon, Walmart and Shopify listings and ad bidding
  • EDI purchase orders and invoices with wholesale buyers
  • Payroll prep and landed product cost
  • SEO content and weekly site health checks
  • A daily brief that tells leadership what changed

Typical fleet: 8–20 agents

LARGE · 250+ people

AI operations with governance

  • A manager agent that assigns work and scores the fleet
  • An audit agent that finds overlap and ungraded work
  • Numbered change requests for every rule change
  • Cloud scheduling with no single laptop to fail
  • Full run history your auditors can read

Typical fleet: 20+ agents, per department

Case study · Z-Clear Anti-Fog, Ogden, Utah

We run our own company on it first.

Z-Clear makes anti-fog paste and sprays and sells through event booths, Amazon, Walmart, wholesale and its own website. Every figure below comes from Z-Clear's books and the fleet's own scorecards and run logs.

$2,000/ month

saved on hotel rooms and rental cars by one agent. Remy shops every event trip, re-checks bookings before free cancellation runs out, and flags a cheaper option when one appears. That is about $24,000 a year from a single job.

Z-Clear event travel · monthly average
1 hr→ minutes

for the owner's inbox every morning, seven days a week. Iris reads it first, sorts it and flags what needs a person, so the day starts on what matters. That is about seven hours back every week.

Owner's morning inbox · before vs after

The business the fleet runs

$479,244
event booth revenue, January through August 2026
P&L · JAN–AUG 2026
~18,300
units sold at booths in the same eight months, all made in house
P&L · JAN–AUG 2026
82.6%
gross margin: $395,965 gross profit on that revenue
P&L · JAN–AUG 2026
5
sales channels run with agents: event booths, Amazon, Walmart, wholesale and the website
CHANNELS

The website, May 1 – Sep 27, 2026 vs the same dates in 2025

32,438
store visits, 3.1× the 10,396 from the same dates last year
SHOPIFY · SESSIONS
6.2×
more visits in August: 12,431, up from 2,001 in August 2025
SHOPIFY · AUGUST
1,180
website orders, from 1,119 first-time customers
SHOPIFY · ORDERS
+24%
website net sales: $27,451, up from $22,227 last year
SHOPIFY · NET SALES
Monthly store visits 2025 2026
05k10kMay 2025: 2,016 sessionsMay 2026: 2,944 sessions2,944MayJun 2025: 1,830 sessionsJun 2026: 3,485 sessions3,485JunJul 2025: 2,449 sessionsJul 2026: 6,732 sessions6,732JulAug 2025: 2,001 sessionsAug 2026: 12,431 sessions12,431AugSep 2025: 2,100 sessionsSep 2026: 6,846 sessions6,846Sep

September counts both years through the 27th. Hover a bar for the exact number.

Monthly Shopify sessions
Month20252026
May2,0162,944
Jun1,8303,485
Jul2,4496,732
Aug2,00112,431
Sep2,1006,846

What the agents did

21
AI agents across two fleets, each with one named job
FLEET ROSTERS
635
agent runs logged since July 9, 2026
RUN LOGS · ~80 DAYS
96
numbered change requests that improved how the fleet works
CR-001 → CR-096
47 → 19
loose one-off AI tasks replaced by standing agents
FLEET HQ
4
profitable Amazon ad weeks in a row, spending 52% under the ceiling
AMAZON ADS
0%
order defect rate across 2,129 Amazon orders, Account Health 296
AMAZON ACCOUNT HEALTH

Figures as of September 27, 2026, from Z-Clear's books, Shopify, scorecards and run logs. Measured results, not projections.

The Z-Clear fleet

Meet the staff.

Each agent has a name, a charter and a scorecard. This is the actual roster running Z-Clear today, across its two fleets. Yours will be built around your jobs.

VicCEO agent. Decides where money and effort go
BellRefreshes the status board, pages on red
MarshallFleet audit. Finds overlap and ungraded work
AdaAmazon ad bids, budgets and search terms
MackAmazon listing and account upkeep
WallyWalmart listing titles
TessWebsite titles and meta descriptions
SageSEO articles and on-site copy
DocWeekly website health check
BixBing ads
IrisEmail triage every morning: an hour of inbox cut to minutes
QuinnQuickBooks categorization
PennyLanded product cost
SalPayroll hours and pay periods
EdiWholesale EDI: purchase orders in, invoices out
PipWeekly social media check-in
VeraReviews, replies and review requests
JulesTraffic and launch for two local businesses
DashPre-market brief for the owner
RemyEvent hotels and rental cars, shopped and re-checked
CalThe event calendar, crew and travel for every show

From the run logs

What that looks like on a Tuesday.

Real entries from Z-Clear's agents, in plain English. Agents shop, compare and recommend. Anything that spends money waits for a person to say yes.

$247

Found a 2-bedroom rental for an 11-night fair that was cheaper than the one booked and half the drive to the booth. Re-priced it live four days later, before free cancellation ran out.Remy · lodging · Aug 2026

Keep it

Checked 33 alternatives for another fair and said to stay put. The cheapest one cost more than what was already booked, for half the bedrooms.Remy · lodging · Aug 2026

17%

Caught that a booking site's search totals leave out tax, so prices looked up to 17% cheaper than they were. Every quote since is opened and priced all-in.Remy · lodging · Aug 2026

4 → 1

Asked where the crew lived before pricing four rental cars. Three trips turned out to be drives from home, so only one car was needed. Then priced that one across every class.Cal · events · Sep 2026

$35–40

Found Alamo cheaper than Enterprise in every car class for that trip, with free cancellation, so there was no reason to wait to book.Cal · events · Sep 2026

1 Saturday

Spotted the owner booked at two shows 40 miles apart on the same day after a crew change, and flagged it before the weekend came.Cal · events · Sep 2026

61 runs

Found a scheduled job that reported success 61 times while the ads agent inside it never ran. Nobody would have seen it from the dashboard.Vic · CEO agent · Sep 2026

4,491

Checked the live Amazon listing before submitting new bullet points for a product with 4,491 ratings, found the approved copy was already up, and held the change instead of overwriting it.Mack · Amazon · Sep 2026

How every agent works

Checked before it acts. Logged after.

This is the loop each agent runs on every job. It is why the fleet can be trusted with live ad budgets and customer email.

  1. DraftThe agent does the work: a bid change, a title, a reply.
  2. ScoreA critic grades the draft 0–10 against the job's rules.
  3. ReviseAnything below the bar gets rewritten, or held for you.
  4. ActOnly passing work goes live, inside set spending limits.
  5. LogEvery run is written down, so you can see exactly what happened.

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