cause of death № 1 — brittleness
Planted wrong
Hard-coded to a snapshot of your process. The process moved; the bot didn't. It never failed loudly — it failed quietly, for months, and someone found out in an audit.
Verdant Systems · ops automation, cultivated
Systems that grow.
Not systems that break.
We build and tend the automations behind your operations — planted around your real process, pruned when the process changes, harvested every week. The bots that burned you were installed and abandoned. Ours are gardened.
est. 2019 · 61 systems in the ground · oldest: six years, still fruiting
Why bots die
Nobody kills an automation.
They just stop watering it.
cause of death № 2 — neglect
Left untended
Built by a contractor who rolled off, owned by a Zap nobody can open. When the API changed, there was no one whose job it was to notice.
cause of death № 3 — no harvest
Grew nothing you could point to
It ran. Probably. But no one could say what it yielded in hours or dollars, so the first budget review pulled it up by the roots.
Gardens fail the same three ways, and gardeners solved this centuries ago: plant for the soil you have, tend on a schedule, weigh the harvest. That's the whole method. Here it is running.
The greenhouse bench
Four beds, under glass.
Every system we plant has the same anatomy. Scroll, and the season runs.
Phaseolus dirigens
Intake & routing
Everything that arrives — forms, emails, orders — climbs one trellis. Each node is a routing rule you can read aloud; each pod lands in the right queue, labeled.
Solanum factura
Billing & documents
Invoices set like fruit: on schedule, in trusses, inspected before picking. Drafted, reconciled, filed — and held back, not sent, when a number smells wrong.
Helianthus hebdomadis
Reporting
One bloom every Monday, turned to face whoever needs it. The weekly report assembles itself from the beds below — nobody compiles anything by hand, ever again.
Capsicum vigilans
Exceptions & escalation
When something's off, this bed fruits hot and a person gets tapped on the shoulder — with context, not a stack trace. Escalation is grown in, not bolted on.
Pruning
We cut living systems. On purpose.
Automations accrete: a step added for a vendor you dropped in 2022, an export feeding a report nobody opens. Dead wood doesn't just sit there — it slows every run and hides real failures. So every quarter we walk each system with the shears.
last quarter: 41 steps pruned · 0 regressions · avg run 22% faster
Found one now. Try the shears.
The misting schedule
Tending is a schedule, not a mood.
Every system ships with its care rota — visible to you, run by us. Cron is a watering can with opinions.
*/15 * * * *sweepreconcile fresh invoices against the ledgernext in 12:00
0 7 * * MONmistassemble & send the weekly yield reportMondays, 07:00
0 2 1 * *turnrotate credentials · archive run logs1st of the month
on wiltpagewake a human — ours, not yours< 15 min, 24/7
Harvest ledgers
Before and after, in the client's own numbers.
Names withheld. Figures real, and audited by the people who used to do the work.
Freight brokerage · 48 seats
- Sown
- 09 JAN
- Germinated (first live run)
- 27 JAN
- First harvest (first weekly report)
- 09 FEB
- Manual re-keying
- 31 h/wk → 4 h/wk
Two prunings since. The four hours that remain are judgment calls — and should be.
Clinic group · 11 sites
- Sown
- 03 MAR
- Germinated
- 24 MAR
- First harvest
- 07 APR
- Intake error rate
- 6.1% → 0.4%
The exception bed fruits about nine times a week. Every one is a real edge case a human should see.
DTC warehouse ops · 3 sites
- Sown
- 14 JUL
- Germinated
- 01 AUG
- First harvest
- 18 AUG
- Order-exception response
- 26 h → 38 min
Carried their peak season without a frost day. Their ops lead took an actual vacation.
Companion planting
What grows well together.
Pairs we've grown in production. Honesty included: some pairs shouldn't share a bed, and we'll say so before you pay for the seed.
| Slack | Gmail | Salesforce | HubSpot | Stripe | QuickBooks | Airtable | Postgres | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slack | · | |||||||
| Gmail | grown together | · | ||||||
| Salesforce | grown together | grown together | · | |||||
| HubSpot | share a bed happily | share a bed happily | keep apart | · | ||||
| Stripe | grown together | share a bed happily | grown together | grown together | · | |||
| QuickBooks | share a bed happily | share a bed happily | share a bed happily | share a bed happily | grown together | · | ||
| Airtable | grown together | grown together | share a bed happily | grown together | share a bed happily | grown together | · | |
| Postgres | grown together | share a bed happily | grown together | share a bed happily | grown together | share a bed happily | keep apart | · |
grown together in production share a bed happily keep apart — pick one
Not on the chart? We've planted into 40-odd systems, SFTP included. Ask on the walk.
Glasshouse climate
Trailing 90 days, all systems.
read from the same monitors we read. status page included with every planting.
Seed packets
Prices, printed on the packet.
No "contact us for pricing". It's on the packet, where it belongs. Every tier includes the misting schedule, quarterly pruning, and the Monday harvest report.
PACKET Nº 1
Seedling
One system, planted and tended.
$6,500 planted · $480/mo tended
- One automation, up to three integrations
- Runbook your team can actually read
- Quarterly pruning & weekly harvest report
germination: 3–4 weeks
PACKET Nº 2 — MOST SOWN
Garden bed
One department, end to end.
$19,000 planted · $2,100/mo tended
- Five to eight automations that share soil
- Exception bed with human escalation
- Monthly garden walk with your ops lead
germination: 6–8 weeks
PACKET Nº 3
Glasshouse
The whole operation, under glass.
from $58,000 · $6,800/mo tended
- Every bed, one climate, one status page
- A resident gardener — a named engineer
- Roadmap reviewed season by season
germination: season by season
The garden walk
Walk the beds with us.
One hour, on your operation. We walk your process end to end and mark three things: what's overgrown, what's dead, and what wants planting. You keep the notes either way — most people fix two things themselves the same week.
If your ops don't need us, we'll say so on the walk. Bad plantings cost us more than they cost you.