Case Studies

The work nobody puts on a slide.

We're a young firm taking on a small number of founding clients. Below is a recent engagement, anonymized at the client's request — every number, timeline, and detail is real.

Founding cohort · 3 engagements open this quarter
Manufacturing — Global manufacturer, US divisionAnonymized at client request · ~500 employees globally · US operationsOrdering, support, and customer service transformation

Manual customer workflows, rebuilt at a tenth of the cost.

A global manufacturer's US division was running ordering, customer support, and service operations on manual, time-consuming processes. Traditional software transformation quotes ran into the millions. We delivered the same operational outcomes for roughly 10% of that — using agentic automation layered onto the systems they already owned.

~10%
Of traditional transformation cost
Ordering
Manual entry automated end-to-end
Support
Ticket triage and response assisted
Service
Status and handoffs unified
Before

What we walked into.

  • Order entry handled manually across email, phone, and spreadsheets
  • Customer support tickets routed and resolved without system-of-record visibility
  • Service requests tracked in disconnected tools, with status updates done by hand
  • Traditional transformation vendors quoting multi-million-dollar, multi-year rebuilds
The work

Twelve weeks, four phases.

Phase 1 · Audit

Mapped the real ordering, support, and service workflows end-to-end. Interviewed CSRs, service coordinators, and US leadership. Documented every manual handoff and where time was actually being lost.

Phase 2 · Blueprint

Designed an agentic automation layer over the existing stack — no rip-and-replace. Specified which steps stayed human, which became assisted, and which became autonomous.

Phase 3 · Automate & Integrate

Automated order intake and validation, built support-ticket triage and draft-response generation, and unified service-request status across the tools CSRs already use.

Phase 4 · Validate

Ran in parallel with existing processes, measured cycle time and time-to-resolution, trained the team, and handed it off.

"We were quoted a multi-year, multi-million-dollar rebuild. McQuays delivered the outcome we needed for roughly a tenth of that — without ripping out the systems we already run on."
US Division Leadership · Anonymized at client request
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