Primary Entry
Operational Intelligence Diagnostic
4 to 6 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 to $50M founder-led product companies. Consumer health, wellness, supplements, beauty and personal care.
The market context, ecommerce operations 2025 to 2026
$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 18 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
For warehouses and 3PLs with congestion, poor slotting, labor inefficiency, or underused WMS functionality.
Learn MoreData and Systems
Inventory and Command Center
6 to 14 Weeks
We connect your data layer and build the live inventory control your team needs to stop managing by spreadsheet.
Learn MoreOngoing Retainer
Managed Operational Intelligence
6-Month Minimum
An ongoing operating-control layer that keeps your team aligned on what is working, what is not, and what to do next.
Learn MoreStrategy and Build
AI Workflow Buildout
6 to 16 Weeks
Purpose-built AI automations that reduce manual work, surface exceptions faster, and extend your team without adding headcount.
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.”
20
Business Days
6 to 10
Stakeholder Interviews
1 to 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 to 10 executive and operational interviews plus 1 to 2 days of warehouse and 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 extends the cycle significantly. The $10M to $50M band is the sweet spot.
- $10M to $50M revenue
- Founder-led or recently professionalized
- DTC or omnichannel consumer products
- 5,000 to 50,000 monthly orders
- 300 to 5,000 SKUs
- Fragmented ecommerce, WMS, and helpdesk stack
Initial vertical: Consumer health, wellness, supplements, beauty, and personal care brands. These products have healthy gross margins, repeat purchase, subscriptions, and meaningful fulfillment complexity.
Engagement Model
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.
Entry Point
Diagnostic
A bounded, paid assessment that quantifies leakage and builds the roadmap. Standalone or credited to implementation.
- 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
Core Engagement
Implementation
Intelligent Operations, WMS and Fulfillment, or Inventory and Command Center. Fixed scope, defined deliverables.
- Fixed-scope engagements
- Milestone billing structure
- Defined deliverables and acceptance criteria
- Change orders priced before work starts
- Adoption and training included
Ongoing Layer
Managed Intelligence
An ongoing operating-control layer for companies that need weekly visibility and continuous improvement. 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.
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.
No Blanket Discounts
Concessions only for annual prepayment, reduced scope, case-study rights, or multi-project commitment.
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.