High‑leverage people waste 1–2 hours/day hunting for answers in tools, docs, and chat. That wasted
time is an Information Tax on EBITDA and Net Present Value.
Slake builds Capital Systems that turn tickets, contracts, logs, and manuals into a performing data
asset—by loading them into a private Vertex AI Search/RAG corpus in your Google Cloud project and
wiring automation around it.
You’ll get a quantified Information Tax estimate and a pilot Capital Systems plan—not a generic audit.
Where is your Information Tax highest?
Most SaaS teams pay a heavy tax on manual search and context switching. Here is where the bleeding happens. Common hotspots: Field Ops Search Tax, Sales & Estimating Question Tax, Management Prep Tax, and Admin & Glue Work Tax.
Symptom: crews/technicians hunting through email, SharePoint, PDFs, or group
chat for “how do I do X?” steps (permits, SOPs, safety checks).
The Fix: a Capital System that surfaces the exact step-by-step
answer or playbook instantly, embedded where they work, so they don’t have to search.
Symptom: sales/estimating burning hours answering the same technical/compliance
questions and rebuilding RFIs/proposals from scratch.
The Fix: a Technical Defense System that pulls answers from
your contracts, specs, and security docs automatically into proposals and responses.
Symptom: managers and leadership pulling data from 4–5 tools (CRM, billing, ops
spreadsheets, time-tracking) to prepare reviews or check health.
The Fix: a Signal-Based System that aggregates key signals and
drops a prepared view or briefing into their inbox or dashboard automatically.
Calculate the annual EBITDA drag from manual search and lost context.
Formula Basis
Calculation applies a standard 1.3x Labor Burden multiplier (taxes, benefits) to your hourly cost.
Annual Information Tax
Recurring annually without intervention.
Even a single workflow leak of this size can justify a $2,500, 100‑document pilot in under a quarter.
Stop the BleedingWe ship production-grade systems on:
If your team lives in HubSpot or Pipedrive, charges via Stripe, and talks in Slack or Intercom, you’re exactly who this is for.
Also battle-tested with: Help Scout, Zendesk, Close, Xero, Salesforce, Make/Zapier.
A 3-step process to quantify your opportunity and demonstrate immediate asset value.
We map exactly where your high-leverage people are hunting for answers or doing manual glue work (permits, contracts, SOPs, reports).
I quantify the Information Tax (hours × rate × opportunity cost) and design the Capital System to remove it. You see the "Future State" architecture before we build.
We ingest 100 mission-critical documents/logs into a private Vertex AI Search/RAG corpus and demonstrate immediate EBITDA recovery. You see the asset work in your environment.
How we think: Structural changes, not just better colors.
"Stop passing permit PDFs around in email. Move to a live job record where permit requirements, status, and documents are all attached to the work order."
We deploy different Capital Systems depending on where your Information Tax is highest.
For crews and operators who need instant answers.
Embed retrieval into the tools your teams already use so they can pull exact steps,
specs, and permit requirements in seconds instead of hunting through PDFs, email, or chat.
For managers who need a clean signal, not five dashboards.
Aggregate key events from CRM, billing, ops, and time-tracking into a single briefing so
leaders stop pulling reports from multiple tools and can act on exceptions immediately.
For founders and admins drowning in glue work.
Automate the “contract → invoice → onboarding → compliance” loop so
senior people are not doing $20/hr data entry or checking if X happened across systems.
I build permanent data assets (indexes, retrieval graphs) that compound in value, unlike fragile scripts.
We start with a $2,500 High-Yield Pilot to prove the Information Tax reduction before any large commit. No hourly billing surprises.
You work with the Principal Systems Architect who designs internal architectures around risk, controls, and EBITDA—not a junior dev experimenting on your production data.
We identify your existing "search tax" and "manual tax" and model the EBITDA recovery. Free.
Start AssessmentStraight answers for technical leaders.
Under the hood, these Capital Systems use Vertex AI Search/RAG over your internal docs and logs, plus LLMs for retrieval, classification, and summarization. Everything runs in your cloud project so answers stay grounded in your data, not a public model.
You get ingestion of 100 mission-critical documents/logs into a private retrieval architecture, a formal Information Tax assessment (annualized EBITDA drag), and a working Capital System interface your team can test in 48 hours.
We deploy logically isolated environments (VPCs) on major clouds. Your documents are never used to train public models. Every answer includes citations, and the system is engineered to say "I don't know" rather than hallucinate.
No. You own your data and vector index. Our architecture is built on open standards so you can migrate your stack if needed. We design and deploy the Capital System, we don't lock your IP in a black box.