AI Workflow Consulting

Cut the
Manual
Work.

We help logistics, distribution, and retail operations teams eliminate the repetitive manual processes eating hours every week — using AI that actually works in the real world.

73%
Faster deployment
Network overhaul program compressed from 30 months to 8 months per site
96%
Time reduction
Infrastructure validation: 4 hours of manual work down to under 15 minutes
25yr
Ops experience
Enterprise retail, supply chain & distribution at scale
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Where Your Team
Loses the Day

  • 01
    Order entry by hand Someone copies data from customer emails and PDFs into your ERP or spreadsheet, every single day.
  • 02
    End-of-shift inventory counts Manual counting, recounting, and spreadsheet updates that could be automated and verified in minutes.
  • 03
    Reporting that takes all morning Pulling numbers from three different places, formatting them, and sending the same report every week.
  • 04
    Chasing shipment status Logging into multiple carrier portals, copying tracking info, responding to the same "where's my order?" questions.
  • 05
    Route planning in spreadsheets Building driver routes by hand or with static tools that don't adapt when orders change.
15min
Down from 4 hours

At a 2M sq ft distribution center, infrastructure acceptance testing required 4+ hours of manual validation per site — checking thousands of cable drops and fiber runs by hand. We rebuilt it as an automated workflow. Same accuracy, 96% less time, repeatable across every future site.

That's the pattern we apply to your operations.

What We Do

01

Order Entry
Automation

Stop re-keying order data from emails and PDFs. AI extracts customer, address, line items, and quantities — structured and ready for your system.

Available now
02

AI Workflow
Audit

A focused assessment of your operations to identify the top 3 manual processes where AI can deliver measurable time savings within 90 days.

Available now
03

Custom
Workflow Build

End-to-end design and deployment of a specific AI-powered workflow for your team — from scoping through implementation and training.

Coming soon

How It Works

01

Identify

We map your current manual workflows and find where time is actually being lost — not where you think it is.

02

Scope

We define a specific, bounded problem — one that can be solved in weeks, not months, with results you can measure.

03

Build

We design and deploy the workflow — tested against your real data, not demo scenarios.

04

Measure

We track the time saved and the error rate. If it's not better, we fix it.

Built on 25 Years
of Ops Reality

Edge Core Advisors was founded by Paul Byrnes after a 25-year career at Target Corporation — building and running infrastructure at a scale most businesses will never encounter. 2,000+ store locations. 50+ distribution centers. $100M+ capital programs.

That career was a long lesson in one thing: the gap between what technology can do and what operations teams are actually using it for. Most of the time savings we found at enterprise scale came from replacing manual work that nobody had gotten around to automating yet.

That gap is even wider at small and mid-size businesses — and the tools to close it have never been more accessible. That's what Edge Core does.

We don't sell AI strategy decks. We find the specific manual process costing your team the most time and we fix it.

Target Corporation — 25 years Infrastructure Implementation Leader, Wireless Engineering Leader, NOC Leader
$100M+ capital program delivery 20 new supply chain facilities, 500K–2M sq ft each
Enterprise wireless at scale 70,000+ access points across 2,000+ locations
First commercial fixed 5G in North America Purpose-built for WAN redundancy at Target scale, with Verizon
Victoria, MN Serving SMBs in the Twin Cities and nationally

See It in Action

Paste any customer order email — clean or messy — and our AI extracts the full structured order in seconds.

No templates. No training data. Works on the first try with real emails your customers are already sending.

  • Customer name & company
  • Ship-to address & delivery instructions
  • Line items, SKUs, quantities & units
  • PO number, delivery date, payment terms
  • Flags for missing info that would block fulfillment
Try the Demo →
Hi, we need 10 units of Heavy-Duty Pallet Wrap
(SKU: PW-1200) and 4 Stretch Film Dispensers
(SKU: SFD-80). Ship to Northland Distribution,
1850 Commerce Drive, St. Paul MN 55120.
PO# NDC-2024-1187. Need by Thursday EOD.
— Karen Olson, Purchasing
customer_name Karen Olson
company Northland Distribution
po_number NDC-2024-1187
delivery Thursday EOD
ship_to 1850 Commerce Drive
St. Paul, MN 55120
line_items[0] Pallet Wrap PW-1200 × 10
line_items[1] Film Dispenser SFD-80 × 4
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Manual Work?

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