AI automation consulting in St. Louis

We built Kestrel for the companies that keep the region running: manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers, logistics teams, and the professional services firms around them. Greater St. Louis, Inc. counts about 2,750 manufacturers in the region, and the St. Louis Regional Freightway describes it as one of the largest rail hubs in the U.S. The office work behind those numbers, between email, spreadsheets and the ERP, is what Kestrel’s agent is built for.

• Manufacturers with customer orders, supplier confirmations and invoices passing between email, spreadsheets and the ERP.
• Distributors and wholesalers keying in emailed purchase orders, updating prices and following up on overdue accounts.
• Logistics and supply chain teams entering the same shipment details into several systems.
• Professional services firms setting up new clients and chasing invoices across tools.

The agent looks for work that repeats, follows rules most of the time and moves between tools. Three kinds of work fit best:

• Order entry automationEmailed purchase orders become draft sales orders in the ERP, with exceptions sent to a person.
• Invoice follow-up automationReminders for overdue invoices, drafted after checking payments, disputes and promises to pay.
• Customer setup automationA new customer created in every system from one approved record.

See what this looks like for distributors and for manufacturers.

We start with one workflow, the one that costs your team the most time, and deploy our agent to it. Your team stays in charge at every step.

1. 01Connect

   You authorize only the tools the workflow touches. The agent reaches nothing else, and you can revoke its access at any time.

2. 02Learn

   It studies records and activity in those tools to map how the work really moves, step by step.

3. 03Find

   It shows where the time goes: the retyping, the duplicate entry and the handoffs between tools.

4. 04Automate

   It drafts the automation. Nothing runs until your team switches it on, every run is logged, and you can pause it at any time.

We are based here. Both founders, Bom Pattanapaisal and Andre Romero-Carey, study at Washington University in St. Louis. Being local means we can meet your team in person to agree what the agent may access and which steps stay with people, review what it finds with you, and stay close while each automation runs.

The agent finds the repetitive work. People decide what it should automate, and we’d rather make those decisions with your team in person. Meet the founders.

Our focus is Greater St. Louis, on both sides of the river:

• St. Louis City and St. Louis County
• St. Charles County
• Jefferson County and Franklin County
• The Metro East in Illinois, including Madison County and St. Clair County

That covers everything from offices in Downtown St. Louis and Clayton to the industrial parks of Earth City, Chesterfield Valley and the Metro East. If your company is outside the region, tell us about the workflow anyway, and we will say honestly whether we can help.