Crema Labs is a Vancouver firm with one purpose: to make your business sovereign.
A sovereign business owns its own software and AI, built around how it already works and inside the tools it already runs. Its data is in one place. Its next customers get found for it. Its routine work gets done without a person. Its people spend their time on customers, and the margin stays in the business.
A business that isn’t sovereign rents the same software as everyone else. Its data is spread across tools, so a person has to go and collect it. Its next customers go unfound, because nobody has the hours to look. Its routine work is done by hand, every week, by people who were hired to do something else. Each of those costs money, and the cost grows every month.
We wrote about why every business is about to make this change in The Sovereign Business. This piece is about how to tell whether yours needs to now, and what it looks like to work with us.
Three signs you need us now
There are many reasons to work with Crema Labs. We’ll spare you the time and give you the three that matter most. They decide whether your business is sovereign and your margin is growing.
Your data lives in five places. Customers in one tool, invoices in another, jobs in a spreadsheet, the rest in email. Every time someone needs an answer, a person goes and collects it from each one. That is a cost you pay every day, and it grows with every tool you add.
Your next customers are out there and nobody is finding them. Permits filed, businesses opening, listings posted, contracts coming up for renewal. The information that tells you who needs you this month is public, and there is far more of it than one person can read. Leads stall because nobody has the hours to go looking.
The same work gets done by hand every week. Invoices typed from one system into another. Quotes chased. The same five questions answered by email. The monthly report assembled on the last day of the month. None of it needs a person, and all of it is where your team’s week goes.
If your data is spread across tools, your leads are stalling or your team does the same work by hand every week, your margins are already tightening, whether or not it shows on this month’s statement. Each of these problems takes a little more every month, and the businesses across town that fix them first get cheaper to run with every month that passes. Fixing them costs less than the hire you would otherwise make, and every month you wait is a month of paying for hours a system could carry.
We fix all three the same way. We find the work, build the system that does it, and keep it running.
What stays with your people
Anything that touches money or a customer stays with your team. When a system drafts a reply, a person sends it. When it flags an invoice, a person approves it. You decide what it can access, and that line doesn’t move without you.
How it works
- We start with the work. A conversation about where your team’s time goes and what it costs you. We’ll tell you what should stay by hand.
- You see it working before you pay. A working demo on sample data. Nothing touches your business until you say yes.
- We build it inside what you already run. Your tools, your rules. If something has to be built from scratch, it’s built for you alone.
- We keep it running. Monitored, fixed and improved as your business changes. We charge for the systems we run, as a service rather than a project, because a system nobody maintains stops working within a year.
Who we are
We’ve spent six years building and scaling technology companies. Between us, we have:
- built a financial product for a $3B company that secured hundreds of millions in transaction volume
- run seven-figure go-to-market campaigns and a $15 million ecosystem initiative
- co-founded startups and raised the capital to build them
- built production AI and data systems for Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Azure
We’ve run businesses ourselves, and we know the pull between bringing in more work, keeping costs down and still getting home on time. We work with businesses in Vancouver first, because finding the right work to hand off means sitting with the people who do it.
If you run a business in Vancouver and any of the three sounds like yours, write to team@cremalabs.xyz this week. We’ll show you it working before you pay anything.