Best for teams buried in documents, approvals, and cross-system handoffs.

Private AI workflows for the work that falls between your apps.

Turn documents, emails, spreadsheets, approvals, and SaaS handoffs into completed work with proof, human approval, writeback, and ROI tracking.

Fortune 10 AI caliber, built into custom intelligence for SMB budgets.
Industry-leading document processing with proof
Extract structured data from complex documents with over 99.5% accuracy and traceable evidence.
Scale revenue without new hires
Increase operating capacity by automating repetitive admin work.
Predictable AI Costs
Avoid billing surprises with clear workflow-based packages. We don't penalize you for using more AI like other vendors.
Consistent quality across teams
Help employees follow the same rules, workflows, and review standards.
Measure AI and employee productivity
Track time saved, work completed, exceptions caught, and ROI.
Cross-app workflow automation
Connect documents, emails, CRMs, spreadsheets, drives, and approvals.
Scans, PDFs, emails, attachments
Documents enter the workflow.
Extract, classify, match, summarize
AI prepares structured work.
SOPs, rules, customer history
Private context guides the result.
Review, approve, escalate
Humans stay in control.
CRM, drive, task, calendar, report
Approved updates write back.
Evidence, audit log, productivity tracking
You can see what happened.
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Best for document-heavy businesses where accuracy, privacy, approvals, and measurable time savings matter.
Start with one workflow. Prove the ROI. Expand what works.

Workflow Layer

Private AI that works between the apps your team already uses.

We are not a chatbot layer. We build the workflow layer that connects your tools, uses your operating context, and proves the work was done correctly.

Private AI Workflow Layer
Proof, approvals, audit, ROI
Email + Messenger / Slack
Scanner
Shared Drive
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
Accounting + ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
Calendar
Task System
Operations + Reporting
Featured Workflow

Turn Scanned Mail Into Tasks, Deadlines, and Updates

Your team receives mail, scans it, and uploads it. From there, the real work begins: figuring out what it is, who needs it, whether it has a deadline, where it belongs, and what system needs to be updated. We automate that post-scan work while keeping humans in control.

Create a task: “Review court notice by Friday.”
Notify assigned employee.
Add deadline to calendar.
Flag urgent documents.
Route invoices to accounting.
Route signed forms to onboarding.
Route claim letters to claims workflow.
Send daily digest of processed mail.
Send exception report for unmatched documents.
From document intake to completed work
01 Intake Documents, emails, scans, forms, spreadsheets
02 Understand Extract, classify, match, summarize
03 Ground Apply SOPs, rules, customer history, prior decisions
04 Prepare Draft task, update, report, response, or exception
05 Approve Human reviews sensitive actions
06 Write Back CRM, accounting, calendar, task system, shared drive
07 Measure Audit log, time saved, exceptions caught, ROI
Scanned notice
Prepared action
TaskReview court notice
Assigned toSarah
DeadlineFriday
Confidence91%
Evidence: page 2 deadline, page 1 customer name, page 3 account number.
Approve Edit Escalate

Process Offerings

Re-architect operations around what AI makes possible

Pick one high-value workflow, define the approval path, measure the outcome, then expand what works.

01

Intelligent Document Understanding

Turn documents, scans, emails, and attachments into structured business data.

Supports
  • Post-scan processing
  • Email and attachment extraction
  • Complex table and form extraction
  • Customer, matter, account, policy, or invoice matching
  • CRM, drive, task, and calendar write-backs
Outcomes
  • Less manual data entry
  • Faster document turnaround
  • Fewer missed details
  • Structured records from PDFs
02

Private Operating Brain

Turn your company knowledge into a private AI advantage.

Supports
  • SOP search
  • Customer-specific rules
  • Vendor history
  • Pricing logic
  • Prior decisions and exceptions
Outcomes
  • Faster plain-English answers
  • Less tribal knowledge risk
  • More consistent employees
  • Preserved company know-how
03

Cross-Software Automation

Automate the work that falls between the tools you already pay for.

Supports
  • Reconciliation
  • Compliance checks
  • Approvals and exceptions
  • CRM and document routing
  • Workflow-wide productivity measurement
Outcomes
  • Fewer manual reviews
  • Faster approvals
  • Less copy-paste
  • Audit logs for every workflow
04

AI Strategy Consultation

Clarify where AI should help first, what it is worth, and how to start.

Supports
  • Opportunity discovery
  • ROI prioritization
  • Workflow sequencing
  • Executive alignment
  • Privacy planning
Outcomes
  • Clearer AI priorities
  • Less wasted experimentation
  • Better team alignment
  • Practical next steps
05

AI Workflow Audit: Cost, Latency, Accuracy, Risk

A diagnostic offer for companies already using AI but unhappy with speed, cost, hallucinations, brittle prompts, or manual QA.

Evals and AI Quality Gates

A productized "trust layer" for RAG, document extraction, and summarization.

Diagnoses
  • Slow workflow steps
  • High model or vendor costs
  • Hallucinations and accuracy gaps
  • Brittle prompts
  • Manual QA bottlenecks
Deliverables
  • Bottleneck map
  • Eval suite
  • Cost-per-task model
  • Implementation roadmap
06

Back-Office AI Micro-App Factory

Rapidly generate small internal apps for approvals, intake, reconciliation, reporting, and exception handling, with governed deployment rather than uncontrolled "vibe coding."

Supports
  • Approvals
  • Intake flows
  • Reconciliation
  • Reporting
  • Exception handling
Outcomes
  • Faster internal tools
  • Reusable app patterns
  • Governed deployment
  • Less uncontrolled experimentation
07

AI-Native Startup Performance Engineering

Technical audits, optimization builds, sandbox systems, and reliability retainers for teams shipping AI products.

AI Performance & Evals Audit

Find where quality, latency, cost, retrieval, model choice, or eval coverage is blocking production.

Inference & GPU Optimization Build

Optimize serving architecture, batching, model routing, cold starts, cost per request, and observability.

Safe Agent Sandbox System

Secure code and file execution for agents, analysts, user-generated code, or AI coding products.

Production AI Reliability Retainer

Ongoing evals, benchmark runs, regression checks, cost reviews, and model/provider updates.

Private operating brain

Turn your operating knowledge into your private AI advantage.

Your business runs on SOPs, customer rules, vendor history, pricing logic, prior exceptions, and employee judgment. We make that knowledge searchable, reusable, and available inside your workflows.

Turn private know-how into an edge while competitors use generic AI.
Private Operating Brain
Answers with source evidence
SOPs
Emails
Shared Drive
Customer Rules
Vendor History
Prior Decisions

What it can include

SOPs, policies, and onboarding materials
Email history and shared drive documents
Customer rules, history, and preferences
Vendor records, pricing logic, and approval history
Prior decisions, exceptions, and internal operating logic

What your team can do with it

Ask questions in plain English
Find the rule, decision, or customer context behind the work
Use company knowledge inside document and approval workflows
Onboard employees faster
Preserve know-how when employees are out or leave
Employee asks a question or a workflow needs context.
The private brain retrieves the right source evidence.
Your team acts with consistent rules and prior context.
Your know-how stays in a private workflow layer.

Cross-Software Automation

Automate the workflows your SaaS tools cannot finish alone.

Most business processes cross email, PDFs, spreadsheets, CRMs, accounting systems, shared drives, and approval chains. We build the private workflow layer that connects them.

Your software tools each see their own product boundary. We build the workflow layer that sees the whole process.
Email
PDFs
CRM
Spreadsheet
Shared Drive
Accounting
Private AI Workflow
Check -> Compare -> Route -> Approve -> Write Back -> Audit
Automate reconciliation, compliance checks, reporting, and approvals.
Route exceptions instead of losing them in inboxes.
Connect systems without forcing a CRM replacement.
Add human approval before sensitive updates.
Track every action with logs and evidence.
Measure productivity by completed workflow outcomes.

How We're Different

Built for private, auditable AI workflows, not chatbot demos.

Industry-leading complex document understanding

Extract key fields, figures, risk indicators, and transaction details from dense documents, tables, forms, scans, and multi-page files.

Proof with every result

Show page references, coordinates, table-cell evidence, confidence scores, and source context so employees can verify outputs.

Private data boundaries

Use approved models, secure storage, role-based access, and zero-data-retention options where appropriate.

Predictable AI Costs

Avoid billing surprises with clear workflow-based packages.

Cross-system workflow design

Connect documents, email, SOPs, CRMs, accounting tools, calendars, task systems, and shared drives.

Measurable ROI

Track documents processed, hours saved, exceptions caught, approval rate, employee productivity, and workflow throughput.

Deployment Options

Choose the right AI boundary for each workflow.

We support multiple privacy tiers: hosted private-cloud inference for most SMB workflows, dedicated cloud or VPC deployments for sensitive operations, and local or on-prem inference when data cannot leave the customer environment.

Public AI allowed

For low-risk drafting, brainstorming, generic research, and non-sensitive workflow steps.

Hosted private-cloud inference

For most SMB workflows involving documents, SOPs, customer history, operating knowledge, and approvals.

Dedicated cloud or VPC

For sensitive operations, regulated workflows, IT-led environments, or teams that need stronger isolation.

Local or on-prem inference

For workflows where sensitive data cannot leave the customer environment.

Productivity Measurement

Measure AI by work completed, not usage.

Most AI tools report usage. Performance AI Lab reports business work completed: documents processed, actions prepared, approvals completed, exceptions caught, hours saved, and cost per outcome.

The goal is fewer manual handoffs, faster turnaround, fewer errors, and more productive employees.

You should not have to guess whether AI is helping. Every workflow should show documents processed, actions prepared, approvals completed, exceptions caught, hours saved, and cost per outcome.

Workflow ROI dashboard

Example monthly operating view

This month
Documents processed1,284
Manual hours saved96
Exceptions caught42
Auto-prepared actions812
Human approval rate31%
Cost per outcome$8.28

Industries / Use Cases

Best fit for teams buried in documents, emails, approvals, and handoffs

We prioritize teams with repeatable document work, private operating knowledge, and workflows that cross too many tools.

Law Firms

Pain: Court notices, signed forms, intake packets, deadlines, and client-specific procedures are scattered.

Workflow: Mail intake -> deadline tasking -> matter record update.

Outcome: Faster routing, fewer missed deadlines, clearer matter records.

Insurance Agencies

Pain: Claims letters, ACORD forms, policy docs, renewals, and coverage notes create review bottlenecks.

Workflow: Claims/policy intake -> extraction -> exception routing -> evidence-backed review.

Outcome: Faster review, better routing, clearer audit trail.

Financial Services

Pain: Applications, KYC packs, statements, term sheets, and supporting files slow review cycles.

Workflow: Document intake -> field extraction -> exception routing -> reviewer packet.

Outcome: Faster decisions, better data quality, clearer audit trail.

Architecture Firms

Pain: Plan sets, specs, submittals, RFIs, revisions, and code references take too long to reconcile.

Workflow: Project document intake -> extraction -> issue flags -> reviewer packet.

Outcome: Faster review, fewer coordination misses, clearer audit trail.

Accounting & Tax Firms

Pain: Client documents, receipts, statements, missing forms, and prior-year context are scattered.

Workflow: Tax document intake -> missing-info report -> reviewer packet -> client follow-up draft.

Outcome: Faster prep, fewer missed documents, less admin time.

AI-Native Startups

Pain: Quality, latency, inference cost, eval coverage, and agent safety block production launches.

Workflow: Audit -> evals/benchmarks -> optimization build -> reliability loop.

Outcome: Faster releases, lower cost per request, safer agents, clearer production gates.

Medical Practices

Pain: Referrals, intake packets, prior authorizations, lab documents, and scheduling notes slow staff down.

Workflow: Referral intake -> task creation -> approval queue -> scheduling handoff.

Outcome: Faster intake, clearer approvals, fewer dropped handoffs.

Property Management

Pain: Maintenance requests, lease terms, vendor emails, owner updates, and approvals live in separate tools.

Workflow: Maintenance intake -> vendor routing -> approval check -> owner update.

Outcome: Faster response, better documentation, fewer missed approvals.

Logistics & Operations

Pain: BOLs, PODs, invoices, carrier emails, WMS exports, spreadsheets, and exception queues need reconciliation.

Workflow: Document reconciliation -> exception report -> customer update draft.

Outcome: Faster exception handling, cleaner records, less manual follow-up.
Armen Donigian, founder of Performance AI Lab
Founder-led
You work directly with the people designing the workflow.
Former Meta SuperIntelligence Lab
25 years software engineering
Enterprise infrastructure
High-volume operations

Founder Note

Serious AI infrastructure without enterprise consulting overhead.

I started Performance AI Lab because small and mid-sized businesses deserve practical AI systems that remove real operating bottlenecks, not another hype project or chatbot demo.

The work is led by experience from Meta SuperIntelligence Lab, Instagram Ads, PayPal, unicorn startup Honey, major credit card companies, two of the largest Chinese tech giants, and professional services for a major high-volume logistics carrier.

That means clients get senior engineering judgment, enterprise infrastructure experience, and a practical focus on the business outcome: less manual work, safer data handling, predictable cost, and measurable return.

The larger goal is to help SMB owners compete and win with the kind of AI capability Fortune 100 companies can already afford, so AI economic gains can support local businesses, jobs, and communities, not concentrate only in a few hands.

25 years in software engineering and enterprise infrastructure
Built for demanding, high-volume environments
Experience across AI, ads, payments, logistics, and commerce
Focused on private workflows, not chatbot demos

How We Work

Five phases, sequenced for early ROI

Start small, prove value, then expand what works.

01

AI Strategy Consultation

02

Pick the First Workflow

03

Build With Proof

04

Approve & Write Back

05

Measure & Expand

Frequently Asked Questions

Have a workflow stuck between apps?

If your team is buried in documents, emails, approvals, spreadsheets, or software handoffs, there may be a workflow worth automating.

Where repetitive work is costing time
Which workflow should go first
What needs human approval
What data should stay private
How ROI should be measured
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Private AI workflows for the work that falls between your apps.

Industries

Accounting & Tax Firms AI-Native Startups Architecture Firms Financial Services Insurance Agencies Law Firms Logistics & Operations Medical Practices Property Management

Company

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