For sound, lighting, video, staging & production companies

AI tools for live events companies, built and delivered in 14 days.

GearOps.ai finds the workflows costing your rental and production business time, money, and margin — then builds practical AI tools to fix them. With a focus on measurable ROI as quickly as 90 days.

  • Fixed-fee, productized sprint
  • Built & delivered in 14 days
  • ROI scorecard agreed upfront
The Problem

Most rental and production companies are buried in manual work.

You already know where the leaks are. Quotes that take a day. Follow-up that depends on memory. Inventory that's a Frankenstein of spreadsheets and tribal knowledge. SOPs that live in two people's heads. Marketing that goes silent for weeks. The owner still answering the same questions.

01

Quotes take too long

Salespeople copy-paste old proposals, hunt for prices, and re-do the same package math every week.

02

Follow-up is inconsistent

Open quotes sit. Hot leads cool off. Nobody can tell you which proposals actually need a nudge.

03

Inventory data is messy

Categories, model numbers, accessories, kit lists — incomplete in some places, duplicated in others.

04

Cross-rental is manual

Sourcing missing items from sub-rental partners eats hours of phone calls and email threads every month.

05

SOPs are tribal

The way things actually get done lives in people's heads, not in your systems. Training new hires is slow.

06

Marketing goes quiet

Newsletter, social, case studies — they all stall the moment your team gets busy on a real show.

07

Reporting is scattered

Numbers live in your rental software, your accounting tool, a stack of sheets, and your CRM. Nothing talks.

08

Leadership is the search engine

The owner or GM is still answering the same operational questions ten times a week. That's a tax on growth.

Good people are spending hours every week on work AI can assist with — and the leaks are bigger than they look.
The GearOps Model

Find the leaks. Build the fixes. Track the value.

No 6-month consulting engagement. No abstract "AI strategy" deck. One focused, productized sprint, built around your actual workflows — and a scorecard you sign before we build.

1

Discovery call

30-minute call to understand your shop, your team, your tooling, and where the pain actually is.

2

Workflow diagnosis

We map your quoting, sales, inventory, dispatch, marketing, and admin workflows, end to end.

3

High-ROI opportunity map

We rank the leaks by recoverable value and pick the builds most likely to deliver meaningful, measurable value fast.

4

14-day build sprint

We build, integrate, and ship the AI tools, automations, and lightweight apps your team actually needs.

5

90-day ROI scorecard

We measure the agreed metrics for 90 days and report back. If we can't reasonably show the value, the fee is refundable on agreed terms.

What We Build

Practical AI tools for the way rental and production companies actually run.

Each engagement is scoped from the highest-ROI opportunities we find. Not every tool below ships in every sprint — these are the categories we build from.

Quote & Proposal Tools

AI quote assistants, proposal builders, package generators, and pricing helpers that turn a one-line request into a draft your sales team can send.

Inventory & Product Data

Inventory cleanup assistants, product matching, kit and accessory mapping, normalized model data, and pull-list helpers that fix years of messy data.

Sales Follow-Up Tools

Follow-up agents, stale-quote alerts, AI-drafted nudge emails, and workflow logic that makes sure no warm lead gets dropped because someone got busy.

Marketing Tools

Content engines, newsletter assistants, case-study generators, social schedulers, and AI-drafted email sequences pulled directly from your real project work.

Internal Knowledge Bases

SOP builders, AI knowledge assistants, and staff-facing chatbots that answer "how do we usually do this?" so leadership stops being the company's search engine.

Dashboards & Reporting

Job profitability trackers, sales pipeline visibility, dispatch dashboards, and ops scorecards that pull from the systems you already use.

Workflow Automations

Make, Zapier, n8n, HubSpot, and CRM workflows that wire your existing systems together — so data flows without anyone copy-pasting.

AI Assistants & Agents

Customer inquiry response agents, voice-agent intake, internal staff assistants, training assistants, and lightweight web apps with AI under the hood.

How It Works

From first call to live tools in 14 days.

A clean, predictable engagement. No scope creep, no open-ended retainer.

  1. Step 1

    Book Your AI Ops Call

    30 minutes on Roam. We talk through your business, your stack, your team, and the workflows that frustrate you most. No pitch deck.

    ~30 min
  2. Step 2

    We Map the Leaks

    You give us limited, secure access to the relevant systems and a few real examples (quotes, inventory, threads). We diagnose where the time and money is going.

    Days 1–2
  3. Step 3

    We Choose the Highest-ROI Builds

    We rank opportunities by recoverable value and propose the 1–3 tools we'll ship inside the sprint. You approve the scope and the ROI scorecard.

    Day 2
  4. Step 4

    We Build and Deliver in 14 Days

    We build the tools, integrate them with your stack, and train your team to use them. Weekly stand-ups, working software, no slideware.

    Days 3–14
  5. Step 5

    We Track Value for 90 Days

    We instrument the agreed scorecard metrics, check in at 30/60/90 days, and tune what we built. You see the value in numbers, not adjectives.

    Days 15–90
The Sprint

One focused engagement. Fixed scope. Fixed timeline.

Our goal is simple: identify and build practical AI tools that produce measurable operational value, with ROI tracked over 90 days against a scorecard you and we agree on before we build.

That scorecard might include time saved, faster quoting, better follow-up, reduced admin work, increased output, improved collections, better reporting, or other measurable business outcomes — whatever actually moves the needle in your shop.

  • 14-day build & delivery sprint
  • Workflow diagnosis & ROI scorecard
  • 1–3 practical AI tools shipped
  • Integration with your existing stack
  • Team training & documentation
  • 30/60/90-day ROI tracking

Bold but controlled

If we can't reasonably demonstrate the agreed value at the end of the measurement window, the fee is refundable on agreed terms — provided your team completed the agreed participation, data-sharing, and usage requirements. We'd rather be paid for value than for hours.

Book Your AI Ops Call Scope, timeline, and pricing tailored on the call.
Example Use Cases

Real workflows. Real tools. Real operational value.

A representative set — not every sprint includes every one. Your scope is chosen based on where the recoverable value is biggest.

Problem

Your sales team loses deals because quotes take too long.

AI Tool

AI quote assistant trained on your inventory and pricing.

Value

Faster turnaround, more completed opportunities, fewer dropped quotes.

Problem

Your inventory spreadsheet is a mess of duplicates and bad model numbers.

AI Tool

Inventory cleanup & product matching assistant.

Value

Cleaner data, fewer miss-pulls, less manual correction by your warehouse team.

Problem

Your team answers the same customer questions every week.

AI Tool

Customer-facing knowledge base or chatbot.

Value

Fewer interruptions, faster answers, sales team focused on real opportunities.

Problem

The owner is still the company's search engine for "how do we do this?"

AI Tool

Internal AI knowledge assistant trained on your SOPs and history.

Value

Leadership pulled into fewer routine questions, more time on growth.

Problem

Marketing has no consistent content engine.

AI Tool

Marketing content assistant pulling from real project work.

Value

More consistent newsletter, social, and case study output with less effort.

Problem

Your follow-up process depends on memory.

AI Tool

Follow-up automation with AI-drafted, contextual nudges.

Value

Fewer missed opportunities, more closed business, no awkward "remembering" emails.

Problem

Your SOPs live in three people's heads.

AI Tool

SOP builder + training assistant.

Value

Faster onboarding, less operational dependency on a few key people.

Problem

Managers can't see what's stuck or slipping.

AI Tool

Operations dashboard pulling from your existing systems.

Value

Better visibility, faster decisions, fewer fires the night before a load-out.

Built by Operators

This isn't a consultancy learning your business from scratch.

GearOps.ai is built by Marcel Fairbairn — founder of GearSource, GearShare, GearNet, and Geezer Media Group — alongside CTO Stephan Peralta, who has held product leadership roles at multiple AI companies and spent his career building real software.

Between us, that's decades of marketplace, rental, production, and workflow experience inside the live events equipment industry — paired with deep AI product chops. We know what a pull list looks like, why your salespeople hate the CRM, and which "AI tools" are actually worth your time.

  • Built specifically for the live events equipment industry
  • Decades of real-world rental, production, and marketplace experience
  • AI product leadership, not theoretical AI consulting
  • Productized engagements — no open-ended retainers
FAQ

Straight answers.

Who is GearOps.ai for?

Live events rental and production companies — sound, lighting, video, staging, full-service production, touring vendors, corporate AV, and regional production houses. Sweet spot is roughly $3M–$50M in annual revenue, but we work with smaller and larger companies when the fit is right.

What's included in a sprint?

Workflow diagnosis, an agreed ROI scorecard, the 14-day build and delivery sprint (1–3 practical AI tools, scoped from the highest-ROI opportunities), integration with your existing stack, training and documentation for your team, and 30/60/90-day ROI tracking.

What happens on the first call?

30 minutes on Roam. We talk through your business — what you rent, who your customers are, where your team spends time, what tools you use, and what's frustrating you. We share an honest read on whether a sprint makes sense for you. No deck, no pitch.

What kinds of tools can you build?

AI quote assistants, proposal builders, inventory cleanup, product matching, follow-up automation, customer inquiry agents, marketing content engines, internal knowledge bases, training assistants, dashboards, CRM and HubSpot workflows, Make/Zapier/n8n automations, job profitability trackers, and lightweight internal web apps. Every sprint is scoped to the 1–3 builds with the biggest expected ROI for your shop.

Do we need clean data?

No. Most of our clients have messy data — that's part of why they need us. Cleaning and normalizing data is often itself one of the highest-ROI builds in the sprint.

Do you replace our current software?

Almost never. We build on top of what you already use — Flex, Current RMS, R2, HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, whatever your stack looks like. The point is to make your existing systems do more, not to add another platform.

What if we don't know where AI can help?

That's normal — and it's our job to figure that out. The diagnosis phase exists exactly for this. You bring the business and the pain points; we bring the map of where AI realistically helps and where it doesn't.

How is ROI measured?

Through a scorecard you and we agree on before we build. It usually mixes time saved, faster quoting, better follow-up, reduced admin work, increased output, improved collections, or better reporting. Whatever metrics make sense for the tools we ship — and whatever your team can actually track.

How does the refund work?

If, at the end of the 90-day measurement window, we cannot reasonably demonstrate the agreed value against the scorecard, the engagement fee is refundable on terms agreed in writing before work begins. The refund is conditional on your team completing the agreed participation, data-sharing, and usage requirements — those are written into the scorecard so there are no surprises. Specific terms are walked through on the discovery call.

Is our data confidential?

Yes. We sign an NDA before discovery, scope data access to the minimum needed to build, and never use your data to train third-party models. Your customer lists, pricing, and inventory stay yours.

Can this work for small companies?

Often, yes. The smaller the company, the more your most senior people are stuck doing manual work. The sprint is a way to get a few hours per week back for a small team — which can be transformational at sub-$3M revenue.

Can this work for larger companies?

Yes. At $20M+ we typically scope a single department or workflow as the sprint target — sales, dispatch, marketing, or customer support — and use the result as a beachhead for follow-on work.

What happens after the first 14 days?

The tools are yours. We track the scorecard for 90 days and tune what we built. Plenty of clients run a second sprint on the next-highest-ROI opportunity, but there is no obligation, no retainer, and no auto-renewal.

Book the call

If your team is still quoting, chasing, reporting, writing, and searching manually,
there's money leaking out of your business every week.

30 minutes on Roam. Honest read on whether a sprint makes sense. No pitch deck.

  • Fixed-fee, productized sprint
  • Built & delivered in 14 days
  • ROI measured as quickly as 90 days