Primary Entry
Operational Intelligence Diagnostic
3 to 4 Weeks
A bounded, paid assessment that maps your operation, quantifies leakage, and delivers a sequenced 90-day plan.
Learn MoreOperations Transformation & Intelligent Systems
Build the operation
your growth
demands.
DF Intelligence Group helps founder-led ecommerce and product companies reduce operational leakage, connect fragmented systems, and build scalable fulfillment, inventory, data, and AI workflows.
Serving $10M–$50M founder-led product companies · Consumer health, wellness, supplements, beauty & personal care
$326.7B
U.S. Ecommerce Q1 2026
9.8% year-over-year growth
71%
Organizations Using Gen AI
Yet only 1% call themselves mature
$849.9B
U.S. Retail Returns 2025
19.3% of online sales returned
29%
Supply Chains Future-Ready
Massive gap in execution capability
Service Portfolio
Built around your biggest operational constraints.
Every engagement begins with a paid diagnostic. We connect the warehouse floor, leadership cadence, system architecture, data layer, and automation in one engagement.
Core Implementation
Intelligent Operations Rebuild
12 to 16 Weeks
A full cross-functional rebuild for companies where fulfillment, inventory, systems, and management have grown out of alignment.
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WMS and Fulfillment Optimization
8 to 16 Weeks
We go inside the warehouse and rebuild what is slowing you down, from receiving to shipping.
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Inventory and Command Center
6 to 14 Weeks
We connect your data layer and build the executive visibility your team needs to run the operation.
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Managed Operational Intelligence
6 to 12 Month Minimum
An ongoing operating-control layer that keeps leadership running on verified data, not gut feel.
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AI Workflow Buildout
4 to 12 Weeks
Outcome-led AI automation tied to a measured use case, not a generic chatbot install.
Learn MoreWhat we do not do
We reject commodity creative work, low-budget websites, hourly development, generic chatbot installs, paid-media management, generic IT support, and staff augmentation below our minimum contract size.
How It Works
Within 30 days, you know exactly where margin is leaking.
The Operational Intelligence Diagnostic is a real consulting product, not disguised presales. It gives you decision-grade clarity and a financial prioritization, regardless of who you hire to execute.
Core Promise
“Within 30 days, leadership will know where margin, cash, service, and management attention are leaking and what to address first.”
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Business Days
6–10
Stakeholder Interviews
1–2
Onsite Days
Qualification & Data-Readiness Screen
We confirm economic pain, executive sponsor, data access, internal project owner, and budget before issuing a proposal. We only take on engagements we can win.
Baseline & Evidence Collection
You upload standardized datasets (12 months of orders, SKU master, inventory snapshots, carrier invoices, support tickets) and complete a structured operating questionnaire.
Interviews & Onsite Observation
We follow the order-to-cash and procure-to-stock flows, including 6–10 executive and operational interviews plus 1–2 days of warehouse/process observation.
Constraint & Leakage Analysis
Every issue is connected to service, margin, cash, risk, or executive capacity. We quantify the exact operational drag on your business.
Opportunity Design & Prioritization
DF ranks process, system, data, AI, and management changes by impact, feasibility, dependency, and time to value. You get a sequenced decision, not a list.
Executive Decision Session
We present what to address now, later, and never. Then we offer a bounded implementation path. You can execute it internally, with us, or with another provider.
About DF Intelligence Group
We rebuild the operating system behind growing ecommerce companies.
DF Intelligence Group was built by Ryan Foster and Luis Despiau to do what most consultants cannot: connect the warehouse floor, leadership cadence, system architecture, data layer, and automation in one engagement.
Competitors commonly cover only operations, only software, or only advisory. We bridge the gap with senior-led transformation at a price designed for founder-led businesses, not Fortune 500 procurement.
Ryan Foster & Luis Despiau
Co-Founders, DF Intelligence Group
Cross-Functional Diagnosis
We link process, technology, data, and management behavior rather than optimizing one silo. The solution holds across departments.
Implementation Ownership
We ship workflows, configurations, integrations, dashboards, and adoption mechanisms. Not recommendations. You get a changed operation, not a slide deck.
Financial Instrumentation
Every project begins with a baseline and an agreed value model. Benefits are tracked after launch, not claimed in a proposal.
Ideal Client Profile
We work best with specific businesses.
Below $5M, many companies have real pain but insufficient data or budget. Above $100M, procurement complexity and integration requirements extend the cycle significantly. The $10M–$50M band is the sweet spot.
- $10M–$50M revenue
- Founder-led or recently professionalized
- DTC or omnichannel consumer products
- 5,000–50,000 monthly orders
- 300–5,000 SKUs
- Fragmented ecommerce/WMS/helpdesk stack
Initial vertical: Consumer health, wellness, supplements, beauty, and personal care brands. The founders have domain credibility, these products have healthy gross margins, repeat purchase, subscriptions, and meaningful fulfillment complexity.
Pricing Architecture
Premium fixed-fee work. Pricing scoped to your operation.
We do not publish standard rates because every engagement is sized to your specific operation, systems, and goals. Reach out and we will walk you through what an engagement looks like.
Diagnostic
The entry point. A bounded, paid assessment that quantifies leakage and builds the roadmap.
- Single-site or multi-site options
- 20 business days to readout
- Quantified leakage model
- Sequenced 90-day roadmap
- Up to 25% credited to implementation
- 60% deposit / 40% before readout
Implementation
Core rebuilds: Intelligent Operations, WMS and Fulfillment, or Inventory and Command Center.
- Fixed-scope engagements
- Milestone billing structure
- Defined deliverables and acceptance criteria
- Change orders priced before work starts
- Adoption and training included
Managed Intelligence
An ongoing operating-control layer. Six-month minimum.
- Weekly KPI pack and exception report
- Cross-system data verification
- Monthly executive review sessions
- Action register and benefit tracking
- Optimization hours included
Value-Based Pricing
Priced at 10 to 25% of first-year expected value. Financial baseline agreed before work begins.
No Blanket Discounts
Concessions only for annual prepayment, reduced scope, case-study rights, or multi-project commitment.
Scoped Before We Start
No work begins without a signed statement of work and deposit. Scope is defined by named workflows, systems, sites, and deliverables.
Apply for Diagnostic
Start with a paid diagnosis, not a pitch.
We do not begin by selling software or AI. We begin by tracing where orders, inventory, labor, data, and decisions create drag. The diagnostic gives you a quantified operating map and a 90-day action plan.
Qualification criteria
- At least one executive-level sponsor
- Credible path to $250K+ annual impact
- Access to relevant systems and data
- An internal implementation owner
- Minimum $12,500 diagnostic budget
- Authority to change workflows
Payment terms: 60% at signature, 40% before executive readout. Work begins after deposit and data-readiness check. Up to 25% of the diagnostic fee may be credited to an implementation signed within 30 days.