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Custom automation for retail ops, creative workflows, and sales sequences—funded by us, owned by you.
Costa Mesa businesses run fast. Whether you're coordinating inventory across South Coast Plaza retail locations, managing design client pipelines, or scaling an action sports brand, manual processes create bottlenecks. AI agents and automation don't just save time—they give you leverage. We build custom Claude-based agents, workflow automations, sales sequences, and data pipelines that slot into your existing stack. No templates. No generic chatbots. Just systems that do the work you're tired of doing manually.
Costa Mesa sits at the intersection of commerce and creativity. South Coast Plaza drives massive retail volume. The LAB and The CAMP anchor independent retail and experiential brands. Segerstrom Center brings arts infrastructure. Action sports apparel companies that started here now distribute globally. Design studios serve clients from LA to Orange County.
What connects them: operational complexity that scales faster than headcount. A boutique managing seasonal inventory across multiple SKUs. A creative agency tracking revisions, approvals, and invoicing for twelve clients. An apparel brand reconciling Shopify orders, wholesale accounts, and warehouse stock. These aren't problems you solve by hiring another coordinator. You solve them with automation that works while you sleep.
We've seen founders spending six hours a week on tasks a well-configured agent could handle in six minutes. Email triage. Data entry. Lead qualification. Report generation. The work isn't hard, it's just relentless. Automation gives you that time back.
MarketStra deploys operating capital to fund the build and maintenance of your AI systems. We cover our team's time—strategy, development, integration, testing, ongoing optimization. You keep full equity. We earn back through a percentage of revenue over 24 months, so we only win when the automation drives measurable impact.
This isn't a one-time implementation fee. We stay in it with you. If an agent breaks, we fix it. If a workflow needs adjusting as your business changes, we adjust it. If a new integration becomes critical, we build it. Our capital funds the execution work. You're not writing checks to consultants or hiring a full-time automation engineer. You're getting a technical partner whose success depends on your growth.
Basic automation follows rigid if/then logic. An AI agent uses language models like Claude to interpret context, make decisions, and handle nuance. If you need something that can read an email, understand intent, pull relevant data, and draft a response, that's an agent. If you just need Zapier triggers, that's automation. We build both, depending on what the task requires.
Usually not. We build agents and automations that connect to your current stack—Shopify, HubSpot, Slack, Google Workspace, whatever you're using. The goal is to make your tools work together better, not replace them.
We fund our team's work: strategy, agent development, workflow design, integration, testing, maintenance. You fund any third-party API costs or software subscriptions required to run the systems. No ongoing retainer to us. We earn back through revenue share as the automation performs.
We track time saved, tasks completed, error rates, and downstream revenue impact where applicable. For a sales agent, that's meetings booked and pipeline created. For an operations agent, it's hours recovered and accuracy. We build dashboards so you can see what's running and what it's doing.
Yes. We've built agents that manage inventory alerts, process wholesale orders, route design feedback, track project revisions, and qualify inbound leads based on custom criteria. If the task has structure and you can explain the logic, we can automate it.
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