Ops Manager, Reporting Analyst, Lead Coordinator, QA Reviewer. $80–$100K base each, plus benefits, plus tooling, plus management overhead.
Operations · AI agents · Founder-led
Run a four-person ops team for $30K a year.
Math sourceBLS 2025, Glassdoor, Levels.fyi.
45 minutes with a co-founder. Free. Written deployment plan within five business days. No agency retainer attached.
The case
One number that closes most audits.
In-house operations is a four-person team line item. We replace the headcount with a small stack of agents, audited by an operator. Same output. Different invoice.
Source · 6 active retainers · Trailing 12m average · 2026.05.14
$400KIn-house annual cost$30KDPL retainer annual
Same output. Different invoice.
The difference
Not the agency mailbox.
Most agencies route you to info@ and a support queue. Every reply on a DPL audit lands from Faizan or Anwaar inside 6 hours. Both reachable, both replying.
Faizan Rafiq & Anwaar Tayyab
Co-founders. Both on every audit. Both online during business hours, both reachable after.
- Founders replying to you
- 2 of 2
- Median first reply
- 4–6h
- Support tiers between you and a co-founder
- 0
Operational history
Track record on file.
Eight years of operations behind every reply. The contractor business that ran before the rebrand still anchors how we deliver. Founders sign every engagement. Every commitment goes into the tracked record.
- 2017
- Operating since
- First citation engagement closed August 2017.
- 15+
- US states · contractor era 2017–2025
- Local SEO + citations work, pre-rebrand. Operational history, not AI engagement count.
- 20
- AI engagements · Feb to May 2026
- Avg $14K per engagement. 11 returning, 9 new. Tracked in internal sales record.
- 2 / 2
- Co-founders signing every audit
- Faizan and Anwaar, both reachable, both replying.
Sources. Delaware Secretary of State (founding date). Internal sales record, segmented contractor era 2017–2025 vs AI engagements 2026 to present. Co-founder signatures on file.
Four pillars
Three services we ship. One recovery practice.
01 · Agents
Production AI agents
Custom-trained agents that run repeatable knowledge work. CRM updates, lead routing, qualification, follow-up cadences. Operator-audited edges.
~Replaces $200K of headcount
02 · AutomationWorkflow handoffs
Replace manual handoffs across your stack. n8n + custom TypeScript + Postgres for production pipelines. Not a Zapier shop, not a Make rebadger.
~60s lead-to-CRM end-to-end
03 · OperatorsRemote operators
Vetted humans audit the edges where automation breaks. Live in your Slack on day one. Not generic VAs, not offshore data-entry farms.
~<6h escalation response
System flow
A production stack with self-hosted handoffs.
Every inbound signal moves through orchestration and a Groq-hosted agent, with an operator auditing the edge cases the model gets wrong. State writes to Postgres. The CRM and Slack pick up downstream.
Operator-audited edges are the only step a human owns. The rest is automated.
The math
$400K of in-house ops, replaced for $30K a year.
A four-person ops stack costs $400K fully loaded. Our retainer covers the same coverage. Agents handle the work, operators audit the edges. Same outcome. 13× lower cost.
$2,500/month. AI agents do the work, operators audit, co-founders sign off. Real-time Slack visibility on every agent decision.
Math anchor only. Sources: BLS, Glassdoor, Levels.fyi (US 2026 medians for the role mix).
Signed · Faizan
A four-person ops team costs four hundred thousand a year. We replace three of those four with agents. The fourth is a real human who watches the agents. That’s the whole pitch.
M. Faizan Rafiq
Co-founder · paid media + account restructure
Operators
Two co-founders. Both on every audit.
M. Faizan Rafiq
CO-FOUNDER · PAID MEDIA + ACCOUNT RESTRUCTURE
Faizan rebuilds account structure end-to-end when he sees broad-targeting waste past $50K/month spend. The pattern repeats across e-commerce DTC accounts. Most of his audits surface 20-35% budget leakage in the first hour.
Pattern from current engagements
Anwaar Tayyab
CO-FOUNDER · ATTRIBUTION + DATA INTEGRATION
Anwaar runs attribution rebuilds for B2B SaaS accounts where pipeline data lives in 5+ tools without integration. The signal his work is landing: a CMO can defend the marketing budget to the board 90 days in, without engineering's help.
Pattern from current engagements
01 · Audit
Free, written plan in 5 days
Co-founder review of your stack, attribution, team, funnel. Deployment-ready blueprint, no retainer attached. If we can't help, we'll tell you.
Free
02 · Pilot
30 days, one workflow scoped
We scope, build, and operate one workflow for 30 days. You own the runbooks. Real-time Slack channel on day one.
$2,500 fixed
03 · Retainer
Production operations
Continuous operation of the workflow portfolio. Replacements, updates, monitoring, monthly written report. Cancel any month.
$2,500 / month
The production stack
n8n, Groq, Postgres, TypeScript. Self-hosted where it matters.
Buyer’s guides tell you to demand the tech stack upfront. So here it is. Open-source covers the cost curve. Custom code handles the edge cases.
n8nself-hosted orchestration
Groqllama-3 inference
Anthropic Claudeplanner + reviewer
PostgreSQLstate + audit log
TypeScriptcustom services
Vercelhosted surfaces
Slack Connectlive observability
BotIDbot defense
Stack integrations
We deploy on a self-hosted backbone. We integrate with the tools you already pay for.
- n8nOrchestration
- GroqInference
- ClaudeReasoning
- Postgres / NeonState
- Upstash RedisCache · rate
- VercelSurfaces
- SlackObservability
- ResendEmail
- HubSpotCRM
- SalesforceCRM
- NotionKnowledge
- StripeBilling
- LinearIssues
- ZapierInbound bridge
Self-hosted where it matters. Cloud where it doesn’t.
Category creator · Recovery
Recover the agent you already shipped.
Most teams shipped an agent in 2024 or 2025. By 2026 it has drifted or retries on its own without flagging the failure. DPL recovers it as a managed service.
Audit your agent stack
30-criteria audit covering observability and retry logic.
$5,000 · 2 weeks
Ship the patch
Production fixes with proper observability, retries, and rollback. We ship the new runbooks and walk your team through every change before handover.
$10,000 · 4 weeks
We run it from there
Standard DPL retainer takes over. Real-time Slack channel with every agent decision logged. You watch us work for you.
$2,500 / month
Pricing at a glance
01 · Audit
Free
45 min · co-founder review
Book audit02 · Pilot
$2,500
30 days · one workflow · cancel any month
Pilot terms03 · Retainer
$2,500
Per month · cancel any month, no annual lock-in
Retainer terms04 · Recovery
$5K–$10K
Broken-agent diagnostic plus fix
Recovery scope
Let’s map the work
Audit your repeatable work in 45 minutes.
45 minutes with a co-founder. Free. Written plan within 5 business days. We come back with which workflows fit agents and which still need operators.
Free · 45 min · Co-founder reviews your stack · Written plan within five days