Cooperage Assistants

Employees that don't forget.

Named assistants that do one real job in the tools you already use, draft instead of act, and report weekly. Start one free for a month. Keep what earns, one flat fee.

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Why named assistants

"AI" is a category. An assistant is an employee you can hold accountable.

Most AI pitches sell a capability. We productize the job. Each assistant has a defined scope, a list of things it never does, and a track record you can inspect. You know what it is for, the same way you know what your bookkeeper is for.

Every assistant below runs on Cooperage's own operation before we offer it to anyone. The numbers on this page are from our books, not a demo environment.

AI is cheap. Bad decisions are not.

Featured assistant

Lead Foundry

Finds companies that fit your customer profile, researches each one from public sources, verifies the contact is real, and forges every record into something ready to use, not just a name and a maybe-email, but a verified contact plus the one real reason to reach out this week. No scraped lists, no guessed email addresses, no duplicates.

What it never does: it never contacts anyone, never guesses an email address to fill a blank, and never marks a lead as ready until a real contact is verified.

  • Researches every company from its own site and public records, with sources kept
  • Separates verified email contacts from phone-only and in-person leads
  • Flags a real timing signal on each lead (hiring, expansion, an award), not just a firmographic match
  • Checks every new record against your existing CRM before adding it, merging what it already knows instead of duplicating
  • Reports two honest numbers: companies added, and contacts actually reachable

vs. ZoomInfo/Clay: ZoomInfo is a stale static database you pay $15-40K/yr for whether you use it or not. Clay does real research but you're still the one building and running the workflow. Lead Foundry does the Clay-style work (verify, don't guess) as a finished assistant, and writes the actual reason to reach out on every lead. No platform to operate, no credits to manage.

One real run, on our own pipeline
156 qualified West Michigan companies researched, verified, and loaded into our CRM in one overnight run, each with sources
102 contact records created, honestly split: named-person emails, general inboxes, and phone-only leads flagged for a call instead
0 guessed email addresses. When no address could be verified, the lead was routed to phone or in-person outreach instead

Cooperage is client zero. We run this on our own pipeline every week.

Featured assistant

CRM Groundskeeper

Your CRM says a lead was contacted. Was it? The Groundskeeper audits your CRM against reality: it finds duplicates, catches records that claim a touch that never happened, flags data gaps, and keeps your pipeline stages honest.

What it never does: it never deletes a record without checking what links to it first, never invents data to fill a gap, and never changes a stage without evidence.

  • Cross-checks "contacted" claims against your actual sent mail
  • Finds duplicate records, including the same business under two different websites
  • Flags data gaps as questions for you instead of guessing answers
  • Reports what it fixed, what it found, and what it deliberately left alone

vs. Insycle/Openprise: those are enterprise data-hygiene platforms with real config work to set up and maintain. The Groundskeeper is a standing assistant that quietly keeps your CRM honest on a schedule. Nothing to configure, nothing to operate.

One real run, on our own CRM
11 duplicate company records caught and safely merged, each one verified for linked contacts before anything was removed
1 lead marked "contacted, no reply" that had never actually been emailed. Caught by checking the mailbox, not trusting the note
14 records flagged for a human decision instead of an automated guess: unnamed companies, a possible rebrand, thin research

A CRM decays every month. The Groundskeeper is built to run on a schedule, not once.

What it costs

Free month to start. One flat fee to keep them, no matter how many.

Start with one assistant on one real workflow for a free month. If it catches money, one flat monthly fee covers every assistant you turn on, plus a one-time setup the free month waives. Flat means flat: no per-seat pricing, no usage meter, no surprise invoices, cancel any time, and you keep every account and credential. The number is quoted on your call and it does not climb the more you use it.

Built to be safe

Every assistant drafts, summarizes, and recommends. None of them run loose.

An assistant that quietly makes things up, or quietly acts on your behalf, is worse than no assistant at all. Every Cooperage Assistant works under the same standing rules.

  • No silent sending of emails or messages to customers.
  • No spending money, changing subscriptions, or touching payroll.
  • No invented data. A gap gets flagged as a question, never filled with a guess.
  • Every outward step waits for your approval until trust is earned.
  • Every run ends with a report: what it did, what it found, what it left alone.
  • You keep access to every account, workflow, and credential.

Find out what your business is slipping through.

30 minutes. No pitch. We pick one workflow that leaks and put an assistant on it for a free month. You see what it catches before you pay anything.

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