RELAY 1 · VENTURE STUDIO
FOUNDED 2026· AUSTIN, TX· AI WORKFLOW AUTOMATION· AUTOMATION FOR IMPACT, NOT REPLACEMENT
RELAY1.VC/AUTOMATIONS
// AUTOMATIONS · 001 · OPEN

Save the humans
for the moments
that matter.

We build AI workflow automation that gives your team time back. We take on the repetitive work that pulls people away from the customer, so the team can focus on the customer instead. Built for B2B sales companies and home services operators.

// THESIS · 002

Automation for impact, not replacement.

Most automation pitches start with the wrong question: what role can we cut? We start with a different one: what work is keeping your people away from the customer?

AI takes the repetition. Your team takes the relationship. The customer experience your business can deliver on its best days starts to be the experience you deliver every day.

We are not here to thin your team out. We are here to free it up.

WRONG
Automate every task in your company.
RIGHT
Automate every task that doesn't require a human, so the humans can do work only they can do.
// SCOPE · 003

What we automate.

Not jobs. Workflows. The kind of work that drains hours per week and never shows up to the customer.

01
LEAD INTAKE + QUALIFICATION
Inbound capture, enrichment, scoring, routing. Reps see only the calls worth taking.
02
QUOTE + PROPOSAL PREP
Estimates, quotes, line-itemed proposals generated from a brief. Rep reviews, sends.
03
SCHEDULING + DISPATCH
Booking, routing, reminders. The calendar runs itself.
04
FOLLOW-UPS + RETENTION
Post-sale check-ins, review asks, reactivation. Done at the right moment, every time.
05
INTERNAL OPS REPORTING
Daily ops reports, leaderboards, exception alerts. The 30-minute Monday standup.
06
KNOWLEDGE + SUPPORT
Internal AI agents your team queries instead of pinging Slack at 9pm.
07
PIPELINE HYGIENE
CRM updates, stage moves, dead-deal cleanup. Your CRM stays honest without anyone babysitting it.
08
FINANCE + BILLING OPS
Invoice generation, dunning, AR follow-ups. Cash collected on time without a person chasing it.
// FOCUS · 004

Two industries. On purpose.

We build deep into industries where the math is the cleanest: high volume of repetitive work, big gap between the customer experience teams want to deliver and the one they have time for.

// AUDIT · 005 · OPEN

Tell us the workflow.
We'll tell you what's automatable.

Free audit. Two-week turnaround. We come back with a written read on which workflows are worth building against, the rough ROI, and the order of operations. No deck, no pitch, just the read.

REQUEST AN AUDIT