Founder Pilot · San Diego · Q2 2026

Managed AI operations
for QSR and
shift-based small businesses.

McPherson AI encodes real store judgment into AI workflows that handle the operational work GMs spend hours on every week. The Founder Pilot is open to the first three local operators — at flat pricing, with full setup included.

Founder
Pilot
Open to the first three local operators
$1,000
to begin — setup
and first month
$250
per month
after
Cancel
anytime, no
long-term contract

The operational work GMs
spend hours on every week.

Daily monitoring, weekly diagnostics, and the kind of follow-through most stores never get to because the rush always wins.

Daily Ops Monitoring
Three-point compliance checks across opening, mid-shift, and close. A running record of what happened — and what didn't.
Labor Variance Tracking
Daily labor-vs-revenue tracking with mid-week alerts. Hours-to-cut math runs before payroll closes, not after.
Food Cost Diagnostics
Weekly COGS variance analysis across the four control levers — ordering, portioning, recipes, waste. Drift caught weekly, not monthly.
Shift-to-Shift Continuity
Structured end-of-shift handoffs. Wins, bottlenecks, follow-up items. The next shift starts with the picture, not blind.
Audit Readiness Countdown
A 30-day cadence that turns inspection prep from a scramble into a structured pre-audit walk. Gaps surface before the inspector does.
Weekly P&L Narrative
Plain-language explanation of what happened, why, and what's next. Variance translated into operational decisions.

Each store gets its own private system. Your data stays scoped to your store. No shared infrastructure with other clients. No cross-contamination between deployments.

Your team interacts through Telegram on their phones. Natural language in, structured records out. The agent listens, echoes back what it understood, and writes only after explicit confirmation.

Setup is included. McPherson AI handles deployment, configuration, and onboarding. Your team is using the system the same week.

No new dashboard.
No new login.
Your managers already have a phone. They already have Telegram, or they install it once. That's the interface. The rest runs in the background.

Founder pilots are about getting the first deployments right. Three operators, flat pricing, full setup, direct access to the founder. The goal is to refine the system in real operating environments — not to sell as much as possible as fast as possible.

If you're a local QSR or shift-based small business operator who has been watching labor drift, food cost surprises, or audit scramble eat into your week, this is built for you. The system encodes the judgment a sixteen-year operator brings to those problems and runs it consistently across every shift.

If it works for your store, you stay. If it doesn't, you cancel. No lock-in, no termination fees, no fine print.

"Built from the kinds of problems I've spent sixteen years actually solving."
Apply for the Founder Pilot

Three spots.
San Diego market.
Q2 2026.

If your store fits the pilot — high-volume QSR, multi-unit franchise, or shift-based retail — reach out directly. The fastest path is a short call to walk through your operation and confirm fit.

Email Blake Directly