Managed AI on retainer · Toronto · 2026
Roux.
One senior engineer in Toronto. I build the automations underneath your business — then host them, watch them, and keep making them better. Three are already built and live, from $149 a month.
Cold-outbound pipeline (an Apollo-style stack, rebuilt)
~100 ICP-ranked leads a week, no SDR headcount added
- Roughly 100 ICP-ranked leads processed a week, each with a written, not merged-field, opening line
- Built to lift reply rates by replacing template outreach with a real personalization hook
- Sized to cover the outbound work a first SDR hire would otherwise be asked to do
What this builds
A Claude-driven cold-outbound pipeline that ingests Google Maps Places + Hunter + a CRM, ranks ICP fit per lead, writes a one-line personalization hook, and inserts ready-to-send drafts for a rep to review.
- ICP scraper from Maps Places API → ~400 candidate companies/wk
- Claude enrichment: decision-maker name, role, tenure, recent funding/hiring/launch signal
- Hunter verifies email deliverability (≥95% confidence threshold)
- Claude writes the personalized hook against a handful of seed example quotes per ICP
- CRM upsert, assigned to a rep, nothing sends without review
RETIRESReplaces the kind of stack Apollo, Lemlist, and Clay cover today
Daily ops briefing (Shopify + Klaviyo + Meta + Stripe)
One Doc at 6am instead of a Sunday spent in four dashboards
- Replaces a recurring block of weekend dashboard-checking with a single daily read
- Built to surface a ROAS or spend anomaly the same day it happens, not at month-end
- Retires the need for a paid analytics-dashboard subscription
What this builds
A daily ops briefing that pulls Shopify + Klaviyo + Meta Ads + Stripe at 05:55 ET, drafts a one-page Google Doc with the top anomalies and top actions, and has it in the inbox before 06:00.
- Cron at 05:55 ET hits Shopify Admin API, Klaviyo API, Meta Marketing API, Stripe API
- Claude reads deltas vs. a 7-day baseline, flags moves outside the normal range
- Top actions ranked by likely $-impact (ROAS drops > inventory > churn signals)
- One-page Doc generated, formatted, and emailed via Gmail API
- Weekly: a longer write-up with a chart of the week and a 12-week trend
RETIRESReplaces the kind of analytics-dashboard subscription tools like Triple Whale or Daasity sell
CI spend monitor + cron audit
Built to catch a CI billing spike before the invoice does
- Flags a cost spike the same day instead of at the next invoice
- Ranks every scheduled job by projected monthly cost so the expensive ones are visible
- Sized to replace the part-time job of someone whose only task is watching the bill
What this builds
A GitHub Actions billing anomaly detector plus a cron audit tool that ranks every scheduled job by cost-per-invocation × frequency and flags the over-runs.
- GitHub Actions billing API polled every 15 min
- Rolling 7-day baseline per workflow, alert on deviations outside the normal range
- Slack notification with workflow + run-id + projected hourly burn
- Cron audit scans .github/workflows/ + crontab + Kubernetes CronJobs, sorts by predicted monthly cost
- Daily report: the most expensive crons with downsizing recommendations
RETIRESReplaces the kind of dedicated cost-monitoring tier something like Datadog sells separately
Pre-appointment intake + multi-channel recall
Built to cut no-shows and put recall outreach on autopilot
- Sized to lift recall coverage from a couple of due patients in five contacted, to nearly all of them within a day
- Front-desk intake time modeled to drop from most of a day a week to under an hour
- Built to meaningfully reduce no-shows and recover chair time that would otherwise sit empty
What this builds
A pre-appointment intake system that drafts a short chart summary 24 hours before each appointment, plus a multi-channel recall automation (SMS / email / voicemail) for patients who are due.
- 22:00 nightly: pull tomorrow's schedule from a practice-management-system API
- For each patient: chart history + notes → Claude drafts a short summary for the front desk
- Insurance pre-check via an eligibility lookup
- Recall pipeline: SMS → email → voicemail-drop, in sequence
- Confirmation rebooking: SMS reply auto-books in the PMS
- 06:00 office-manager dashboard: today's appointments, intake-delivery status, recall coverage
RETIRESReplaces most of the front-desk hours spent on manual recall calls
From the studio
Built by Thomas. Toronto.
Roux is one person. I'm a senior engineer who spent the last decade shipping production software at SaaS companies you've used, and the last two years building Claude-assisted tooling for the kinds of automations on this page. I don't hand the work off to a junior, don't subcontract strategy, and don't run a content team. When you hire Roux, I'm the one who scopes it, builds it, and is on the hook when it breaks at 03:00.
Based in Toronto. Working with teams in the US and Canada. Engagements priced and invoiced in USD.
Thomas Peng · Toronto · May 2026
Pricing · USD
Two ways in. The audit is free either way.
Twenty jobs that are the same in every business — lead replies, inbox triage, quotes, chasing invoices. Three are already built and live; the rest are on the way, so you pay a fraction of a custom build.
- Hosted, monitored, and tuned by me
- Nothing sends without your approval
- Three for $349/mo
- Cancel any month
For the work that is specific to how you operate, where no pre-built automation fits. Scoped to what I build and then run for you.
- Free 48-hour audit before you commit anything
- First working version inside two weeks
- Built, hosted, and improved monthly
- No lock-in — cancel in the first 30 days, no charge