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LionShieldAI

We work out where AI pays in your business, then build it.

Came here from an email we sent? You're with the same people.

Have you ever watched good people spend their week chasing?

Chasing forms, chasing cover, chasing replies. Capable people, doing work nobody designed for them.

We find that work and automate it, across every department.

It suits owner-led firms of about 20 to 1,000 people, where the chasing still happens by hand.

Work out your own sumAsk for a first conversation

first, your own numbers

What does the chasing cost you now?

Think of one chasing job in your firm. Cover for call-outs, forms from new hires, replies from applicants.

Your estimate

That's 720 hours a year.

Or about 18 full working weeks.

Worked on 48 weeks a year and 40-hour weeks. Multiply the hours by their hourly cost. That's what the job costs today.

Most firms have more than one job like this. Bring the list to a first conversation.

the work, by department

Thirteen jobs we take off people's desks.

Sales, finance, operations, HR, customer service and marketing. Each note: before, after, and what it buys you.

Sales

Promised by Friday, still unsent on Tuesday

Before
A number, an intro, a quote. Each promised in a sent email, then buried.
After
A weekly sweep lists every open promise, overdue ones first.

Your word holds, and clients stop having to remind you.

Wealth management · Accounting and tax

Sales

Proposals that start from your best past work

Before
Each proposal starts from a blank page and swallows a day.
After
A first draft arrives, built from proposals you've already won.

Your team edits instead of starting over.

Construction · Staffing

Finance

Timesheets in before the invoices go out

Before
One missing timesheet holds up a whole week of billing.
After
Missing ones are named by Monday morning, reminders drafted.

Invoices leave on time, and so does the cash.

Staffing · Home health

Finance

Receipts gathered all month long

Before
Receipts get chased in one painful sweep after month end.
After
Each missing receipt is asked for in the week it's spent.

The close starts with a complete pile.

Construction · Manufacturing

Operations

A 6 a.m. call-out, covered by 6:30

Before
One sick call and the scheduler spends the morning on the phone.
After
Three ranked cover options arrive, messages already drafted.

The day holds, and the client never notices.

Home health · Staffing · Construction

Read the call-out cover example

Operations

One list of what's waiting on you

Before
A finished proposal sits in drafts for your yes. The client sits waiting too.
After
Every item parked on you, gathered on one list, oldest at the top.

Ten minutes, and the work is moving again.

Accounting and tax · Insurance agencies

Operations

Decisions that leave the meeting room

Before
The room agrees. A month later the same meeting happens again.
After
Decision meetings with no follow-up are flagged within days.

What you decide actually happens.

Manufacturing · Professional services

Read the follow-up check example

HR

Every application read on the day it lands

Before
Ninety applications for one opening. Nobody has opened them yet.
After
Each is read against your written requirements, with reasons shown.

Strong applicants hear back while they're still free.

Staffing · Home health · Manufacturing

Read the same-day shortlist example

HR

New hires ready on their first morning

Before
A new starter arrives to no login, no badge and no forms.
After
Every step starts when the offer is signed. Gaps show the week before.

Day one is a working day.

Accounting and tax · Manufacturing

Read the day-one tracker example

Customer service

The 9 p.m. client email, answered first

Before
Late-night client mail sinks under alerts and invoices by morning.
After
By 8 a.m., the handful that need you sit on top, ranked.

That client gets your answer ahead of a rival firm's.

Staffing · Wholesale distribution

Customer service

Documents chased from January, not March

Before
The portal nags. The same clients ignore it, every single year.
After
A weekly chase drafts a personal note to each late client, for staff to send.

Fewer extensions, and a calmer March.

Accounting and tax · Insurance agencies

Marketing

Your own work, turned into a monthly letter

Before
The client letter needs a quiet afternoon, so it skips months.
After
A draft lands each month, made from your recent work.

A monthly letter that sounds like you reaches every client.

Wealth management · Home health

Marketing

Referral sources counted, not guessed

Before
Nobody knows which referrers send clients who stay.
After
A monthly tally ties each new client to the source that sent them.

You thank the right people and drop the rest.

Home health · Staffing

by industry

The same chasing, in seven industries.

  • Home healthA 6 a.m. call-out covered before the first visit of the day.
  • StaffingApplicants for this week's job order read the day they apply.
  • ManufacturingSecond-shift starters trained before they walk onto the floor.
  • Accounting and taxSeasonal preparers with working logins on their first morning.
  • ConstructionA rained-out crew moved, and the client told, in one sitting.
  • Insurance agenciesPromised quotes listed with their dates, every Monday.
  • Wealth managementReview-meeting decisions followed through the same week.

a week, in notes

A week like this one probably looks familiar.

  • Mon, 6:12 a.m.A call-out. The scheduler starts phoning round.
  • Tue, 11:00 a.m.Ninety applications for one opening, still unopened.
  • Wed, 9:00 a.m.A new hire arrives. No login, no badge.
  • Thu, 4:00 p.m.Last week's decision still has no owner.

Nothing here is difficult. It's simply chasing, all week long.

four, written up in full

Four of them, start to finish.

Three run inside teams. One sits on the owner's desk. Yours won't match exactly.

A same-day shortlist

Suits: Firms that hire often, and fast.

Does: Reads every application against your requirements, reasons shown.

Gain: Good people hear back while they're still looking.

Read the full example

A call-out cover desk

Suits: Firms whose day depends on the right person showing up.

Does: Finds the best cover for each gap and drafts the messages.

Gain: Your scheduler chooses instead of searching.

Read the full example

A day-one readiness tracker

Suits: Firms that bring new people on every week or season.

Does: Runs each onboarding step across everyone who owns one.

Gain: New starters do real work on their first day.

Read the full example

A meeting follow-up check

Suits: Owners whose meetings are meant to decide things.

Does: Notices when a decision meeting produced no next step.

Gain: Decisions get an owner while people still remember them.

Read the full example

what you get back

Here's what the chasing turns into.

Your estimate says what the chasing costs. This is the shape of the work once it's handled: a list a person can clear before lunch.

Starting next Monday · sent to HR on Wednesday

12 new starters

Ready: forms, checks, accounts and training
8
Missing a form, reminders drafted
2
Background check still pending
1
Laptop not yet assigned, IT told
1

Counts only. HR approves every message before it goes.

how we think

We pick the place before the tool.

Building is rarely the hard part. Choosing where it pays is.

We follow the chasing to the one spot that costs most.

We'll tell you when AI is the wrong answer.

Read how we work

Your people spend their week on the work that needs them.

Start with a first conversation.

  • One of our co-founders, for about an hour, free.
  • No access to your systems, and nothing to prepare.
  • Bring every chasing job you can think of.
  • You leave knowing which are worth solving, and which aren't.

Leave your name and work email, and we'll be in touch to find a time.

A person reads each message and replies, usually within one working day.