EX-META ENGINEERING · PHD DATA SCIENTISTS

Stop losing margin to manual processes

We build AI systems that parse inconsistent buyer POs, generate product imagery without photo shoots, and give you real-time visibility across your entire production pipeline.

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"His talent as a remarkable software developer enabled us to take our platform to a level that would take most dev shops months to complete. Gabriel Perez is a true hidden gem!"
Kevin Malley
Kevin Malley
CEO, GyftGram (Techstars '24)
"Gabriel has been an incredible asset. Having his level of talent on a fractional basis has been an absolute game changer for us."
Helaine Knapp
Helaine Knapp
Founder & CEO, CITYROW (acquired by WaterRower)
"He quickly got to work building what we asked for, and he did it well in a reasonable time frame at a reasonable price. We would love to have him on our team full-time."
Dr. Kimberly Pace Becker
Dr. Kimberly Pace Becker
Founder, Moxie (FERPA-compliant EdTech)

Why Apparel Operations Hit a Ceiling

"Every buyer sends POs in a different format — email, Excel, PDF — and we re-key everything by hand"

AI parses any PO format and maps it directly into your ERP load template. What takes a 4-person chain hours gets done in seconds.

"We spend hundreds of thousands a year on hang tag and catalog photo shoots"

AI-generated product imagery at a fraction of the cost. Same quality, no studio time, no scheduling bottlenecks.

"We're tracking tens of thousands of SKUs across production and we still don't have real-time visibility"

We bridge the gap between your PLM and ERP so you see every style, every order, every status — live, not in a spreadsheet someone updates on Fridays.

"Our most experienced people are retiring and taking decades of institutional knowledge with them"

We capture tribal knowledge into structured systems before it walks out the door. Your processes survive personnel changes.

These aren't reasons to keep doing things the old way. They're reasons to automate what should have been automated years ago.

What We Won't Do

We understand apparel companies run on systems that took decades to build

Rip out your ERP or PLM — we integrate with what you have
Require your team to become technical
Push technology that doesn't pay for itself in the first quarter
Build something that only works for one buyer's format
We've automated operations for companies with 30,000+ SKUs. We know what scale actually looks like.
Our Process

How We Work With You

Whether you need order entry automation, AI-generated imagery, or production visibility — we find the highest-ROI problem and solve it first.

We deliver:

Parse any buyer PO format into your ERP automatically
Generate product imagery without photo shoots
Real-time production tracking across thousands of SKUs
Capture institutional knowledge before it's gone
1

Discovery Call

30 minutes to understand your operations and biggest pain points.

2

Process Audit

We identify where manual work is costing you the most margin.

3

Build & Prove

A working prototype in days — not a slide deck in months.

4

Scale Across

Once it works for one process, we roll it across your operation.

Three ways to start. Each one ends with something you keep.

You do not need to know which service you want. Find the situation you are actually in — then check you are not ruled out underneath it.

Proof of Concept

Find out whether it works before you fund it.

This is you ifYou know what you want built, and you want to watch a real piece of it run before you commit the budget.

  • A working feature in your repo, live on your data, inside a week.
  • A real answer to “can this actually work here” for $2,500, instead of a six-figure guess.
  • The code, whether or not you take it any further with us.
Price
$2,500
Time
7 days
Credited to your build
$1,250 back if you build within 90 days

Not you if

  • Nobody internally agrees on what to build yet. AI Blueprint →
  • The build behind this is already six figures and unspecified — one working feature will not de-risk it. Discovery Sprint →
See the Proof of Concept

AI Blueprint

Spend the budget on the thing that pays it back.

This is you ifSomething is clearly costing you time or money, and nobody can tell you which fix is worth making first.

  • Three to five opportunities ranked by what each returns, with the arithmetic behind the ranking.
  • An ROI model you can defend to your board, and use with any team — not only ours.
  • Permission to not build: when the answer is fix the process first, we say so.
Price
$5,000
Time
2-4 weeks
Credited to your build
$2,500 back if you go ahead within 90 days

Not you if

  • You already know which single process to fix and only need it specified and priced. Discovery Sprint →
  • There is only one candidate on the table — ranking five of them is not worth $5,000.
See the AI Blueprint

Discovery Sprint

Know the real number before you sign for it.

This is you ifYou know the problem, and you are about to commit six figures to an estimate nobody has actually checked.

  • A clickable spec of the thing itself, so the argument about scope happens now and not in month three.
  • A price written by the engineer who would build it — at three budget levels, not one number.
  • The whole package to take to any firm, including one that is not us.
Price
$8,000
Time
2 weeks
Credited to your build
$4,000 back if you build within 90 days

Not you if

  • You only want to see one idea work first. Proof of Concept →
  • The build behind it is under roughly $55,000 — this is hard to justify. Email us, there is a smaller version that fits.
See the Discovery Sprint

Ready to Stop Re-Keying Orders?

See your biggest operational bottleneck solved in working code in 7 days, for $2,500 — half credited if you build with us. You keep the code either way.

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Fixed $2,500. Seven days. You keep the code whether or not you build with us.