ARK Partners — Give your business an AI employee that actually does the work

A day with your AI employee

It's already at work before you open your laptop.

Every morning your AI employee sends one message in Slack: what needs you, what it already handled overnight, and a few moves it recommends — each one a tap to approve.

#daily-brief Auto-posted every morning by your custom AI employee Cynthia

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Today

Cynthia is typing

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CynthiaAPP7:02 AM

Good morning, Ricki 👋 Here's where things stand for Wednesday, May 21.

🌙 Handled overnight

Replied to 12 inbound leads — booked 3 calls on your calendar
Logged 47 new prospects to the CRM and enriched their contacts
Categorized 12 transactions in QuickBooks
Drafted follow-ups for 8 stalled deals (waiting for your review)

⚠️ Needs you

Bradley asked to move his 2:00 PM call to Thursday — want me to confirm?
Invoice #1043 is 5 days overdue. I drafted a friendly nudge.

Meta Ads — already on it

CPC on Aesthetic Reps · Q2 fell 22% overnight from the changes I made yesterday ($3.10 → $2.42)
I'd move $500 from your two flat campaigns into this winner to double down while it's converting.

✅ Recommended moves

Send the 67 qualified reps I sourced overnight to Bradley
Approve this week's nurture email — it's ready to go out at noon

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Reply to Cynthia…➤

Cynthia is the AI employee we built for ourselves — she's the example here. Yours is custom to your business: your tools, your data, your name.

Why we built this

We built this for ourselves first. Then we couldn't keep it to ourselves.

We're founders. We were drowning in the same busywork you are — follow-ups, reporting, content, chasing leads, the thousand small things that keep a founder out of the real work.

So we built an AI employee inside our own business and called her Cynthia. We connected her to our tools and trained her on how we operate. After she handled the simple things like scheduling and admin, we were mind-blown when she started running outreach, lowering the CPC on our Meta ad campaigns, and surfacing recommendations from patterns in our data we'd never have seen. We couldn't wait for the brief she handed us each morning.

Then we started installing it inside other founders' businesses — and got the same reaction every time:

"This is what I thought AI was supposed to do."

Now we want every founder-led business to have one.

The AI wave is here — and we've thrown ourselves all the way into it so you don't have to. You stay focused on running your business; we make sure it's ready for what's next.

Co-Founder · Operator

Joshua Church

"Knows the founder journey because he's lived it."Built Edge Theory Labs from a garage prototype to $20M+ in under three years. Forbes 30 Under 30, Class of 2024.

Co-Founder · Growth

Chad Sonkin

"Knows how revenue actually gets closed."Tens of millions in sales moved across his career. Coaches founders on execution and becoming uncommon.

Co-Founder · Tech

Ricki Bodner

"The architect behind the systems."Built multiple 7-figure businesses and built ARK's first AI employee from scratch.

Real people you can call. We stay accountable for the outcome — not just the install.

How it works

Three steps to set up. Then a teammate that never sleeps — and a team that never leaves.

STEP 01

We plug into your stack

We connect the tools you already run on — 2,700+ app connectivity. Slack, Shopify, Stripe, Notion, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Google Workspace, QuickBooks, Meta Ads, and the rest of your stack.

STEP 02

We connect the dots

Your data stops living in ten silos. We unify it into one picture — so your AI employee, and you, can finally see the whole business at once.

STEP 03

We give you an AI employee in Slack

A custom AI employee lands in your Slack with its own email, phone number, inbox, and browser. You talk to it like a teammate. It actually does the work.

STEP 04 · THE HUMAN PART

And we stay in the room with you

You also get a private Slack channel with the real humans behind ARK — Joshua, Chad, Ricki, and our team. We don't install and disappear. We keep training your employee, adding new skills, and building custom use cases for your business so everything runs flawlessly. This isn't another free trial you never touch, or an AI tool that collects dust — it's custom-built by us, for you. You're always one message away from us.

⚡ 72 HOURS

From kickoff to your AI employee live in Slack — we get you set up and running within 72 hours.

A few of the things it handles

One employee. Limitless job description.

Because it's connected to everything and has its own inbox, phone, and browser, the list is basically endless. A few of the most-loved by founders:

Sends your daily brief

Every morning: what needs your attention, what it already handled, and recommendations you approve with one tap.

Works leads like an SDR

Its own inbox and phone number. Finds the right people, enriches them through the proprietary skill base we've trained it on, sends real follow-ups, and books the call.

Runs your ads

Wired into Meta Ads. Surfaces what's working, flags what's wasting spend, and adjusts on your say-so.

Handles the money admin

Creates payments, sends invoices, reconciles with QuickBooks, and chases what's overdue through Stripe.

Makes your content

Drafts posts, repurposes your calls, and builds assets right inside your Canva.

Automates the busywork

The repeated weekly ops — reporting, onboarding, data entry — just happen.

If a human on your team could do it across these tools, your AI employee can too.

Not another tool

It's not software you log into. It's a teammate that logs into yours.

Every other "AI tool" is one more tab, one more login, one more thing for you to run. Your AI employee is the opposite. It doesn't sit on top of your stack — it works inside it, using the same tools your team already uses, the way a great new hire would.

Always reachable

Its own email

A real inbox of its own. It sends, replies, follows up, and loops you in only when it matters — from its own address, not buried inside yours.

Answers in seconds

Its own phone number

It texts and calls. Leads get an instant reply, appointments get confirmed, and you get the summary — all from a number that's hers, not yours.

Gets in and does it

Its own browser

When a task lives in a tool with no integration, it simply opens a browser and does it — logging in, clicking through, and finishing the job like a person would.

You're not buying another piece of software. You're hiring someone who already knows how to use the software you have.

Grow without growing headcount

Supercharge your team.

You don't need to hire more people. You need to multiply the ones you have.

Every person on your team operating at the top of their license — doing the work only they can do — with AI handling the rest. That's how you grow: without adding headcount, without adding overhead, without adding chaos.

What you actually get

What changes when your AI employee is installed.

01 / TIME

Your time back

The follow-ups, the reporting, the "can you check on this?" — out of your calendar, into the system.

02 / FOCUS

Busywork gone

The repetitive work your team shouldn't be touching just disappears.

03 / DEMAND

More leads

Better follow-up, smarter outreach, fewer dropped balls.

04 / REVENUE

More sales

Faster responses, cleaner pipeline, nothing slipping through the cracks.

05 / PEACE OF MIND

Relief from the AI anxiety

The questions that keep founders up at night — am I behind? am I doing this right? — quiet down. With ARK on your side, you're not watching the AI wave from the shore. You won't get left behind.

Case studies

Real founders. Real results.

A few of the businesses already running on Cynthia.

Catering & Events

Affextionate Cuizine

$48K+ active pipeline · <60s response time

Pipeline automation from inquiry to signed proposal, AI-crafted custom menus, and Google SEO for an Atlanta caterer.

Ecommerce & DTC

Sereia Official

Unprofitable → profitable in 48 hours

An AI ad audit found 85% of spend hitting the wrong audience — restructured the campaigns and flipped it profitable in two days.

Recruiting & Staffing

PE Recruiting Firm

30+ executive candidates in 24 hours

An AI candidate-sourcing engine that surfaced 30+ qualified C-suite candidates in a single day.

Youth Sports

Philly Basketball School

200+ kids enrolled · 562 messages automated

An AI SDR that answers every parent inquiry, follows up on trials, and converts them to paying members automatically.

Sales Enablement

Cynthia Meet

40% improvement in close rate

AI video meetings with real-time sales coaching, transcription, coaching scores, and automatic CRM sync.

Legal Services

Legal Halp

$17.95 cost per lead · 500+ businesses served

Built the whole digital presence — website, Meta funnels, AI SDR, and automated booking — for a flat-fee law firm.

Healthcare

Beverly Hills Wellness

HIPAA compliant · 10+ hrs/week saved

HIPAA-compliant AI ops for a naturopathic practice: scheduling, intake, compliance, and patient comms.

Food Service

Sides BBQ & Catering

First Google rankings in 40 years

SEO and lead automation that finally put a 40-year catering company on the map online.

Construction

Allied Exteriors

5+ enterprise prospects, personally engaged

AI-powered B2B prospecting for a contractor going after enterprise clients across Greater Boston.

Legal & Wellness

Conscious Counsel

Full AI marketing & sales engine

AI-managed Meta campaigns, SDR automation, video content, and multi-niche cold email for a legal-templates company.

B2B SaaS

Voice ERP (Viki)

Full marketing stack, built from scratch

Paid ads, landing pages, ad creative, and analytics — the entire marketing engine for a logistics SaaS startup.

Want results like these?

A 30-minute call. We'll show you exactly what Cynthia would handle first.

Book a call →

The Vault · free forever

Want the exact AI workflows we use to run businesses?

The Vault is every Claude skill, workflow, and breakdown we ship — the same ones we install for paying clients.

Steal the prompts, the playbooks, and the step-by-step builds. Use them yourself — or have us install them for you.

Steal our AI workflows — free → Or book a call

INSIDE THE VAULT

What you'll find inside

01Claude skills — copy-paste skills that do real work

02Workflow breakdowns — how we wire AI into a business

03Step-by-step builds — follow along and ship it yourself

04New drops weekly — everything we ship, as we ship it

100% FREE

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