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AI operations for multi-location operators

Forty stores, one finance team, and a month-end close that takes a month.

Receipts arrive as photos. Cash gets reconciled by hand. Leadership sees the numbers 33 days after the month ends. 3rd Brain embeds an AI Operator who connects every location to headquarters so the books close in a day and store-level data rolls up on its own.

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Built for restaurant groups, franchisees, and service operators with 10 to 100+ locations. QSR and fast-casual holding companies, franchise operators, and multi-site service businesses where headquarters runs on paper from the field.

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Operators and engineers embedded with

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Proof for multi-location operators

What changed for a $50M, 40-store QSR operator.

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Month-end finance automation

33 → 1

days to close the books

$50M revenue · QSR operator

AI receipt extraction, cash reconciliation, and bookkeeping integrations cut month-end close to one day across 40+ stores. Leadership sees the financial picture the day after, not the month after.

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Operations engagement savings

$170K

saved per year across the wider engagement

$50M revenue · QSR operator

A permissioned operating system connected finance, operations, HR, meetings, and management reporting across two entities, removing duplicate processes and manual transcription.

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Stores connected to headquarters

40+

stores reporting cash, deposits, and tasks daily

$50M revenue · QSR operator

Store-level cash and task-completion data rolls up to headquarters automatically. Comparing stores no longer starts with building a spreadsheet.

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Sound familiar?

Where is headquarters still running on paper from the field?

A process that works at five stores becomes a full-time job at twenty and a month-long backlog at forty.

  • Store receipts arrive as photos.

    Someone at headquarters transcribes them into a reconciliation sheet by hand. AI receipt extraction reads the fields, matches deposits, and writes to the bookkeeping system without a person retyping anything.

  • Month-end close takes weeks.

    By the time leadership sees the P&L, the month it describes is long over. Daily reconciliation per store turns close into a one-day task and gives you numbers you can act on.

  • Store-level data has no shared home.

    Cash, task completion, staffing, and maintenance live in different tools, group chats, and heads. Headquarters cannot compare stores without building a spreadsheet first.

  • Two entities, two sets of everything.

    Holding companies with multiple operating entities end up with duplicate finance, HR, and reporting processes. One permissioned system can serve both without exposing either.

  • Department work never meets operations data.

    Finance, HR, and management meetings run on separate tracks from what is happening in stores.

Your AI talent partner

An Operator to connect every store to headquarters. An Engineer to build the pipeline from the field to the books.

Embedded in your organization, not sold as software. Combine them as your needs grow.

AI Operator

Connects every store to headquarters.

Turn store reporting and reconciliation into an automated system.

Works inside your accounting, POS, and operations tools.

  • Daily cash reconciliation and deposit workflows per store, rolled up to the group
  • A permissioned operating system covering finance, operations, HR, and meetings across entities
  • Store-level task completion and cash data visible to headquarters the same day
  • Management reporting assembled automatically for the weekly and monthly cadence
  • Vendor and bookkeeping integrations that remove the transcription step

From $3K/month

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AI Engineer

Builds the automation between the field and the books.

Own the integrations and AI pipelines.

An embedded developer who ships the tools your organization needs and maintains them.

  • AI and OCR extraction of receipts, invoices, and store paperwork into structured records
  • Custom dashboards comparing stores on cash, labor, and task completion
  • Rebuilding legacy internal tools that no longer have a vendor behind them

From $8K/month

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Fit guarantee

If your embedded team member is not the right match, we replace them.There is never a replacement fee.

Client story

33 → 1days to close the books, 40+ stores
A $50M quick-serve franchise holding company with 220 employees and more than 40 stores ran on disconnected tools, paper receipts, and manual reporting. AI receipt extraction, cash reconciliation, and bookkeeping integrations cut month-end close to one day. A permissioned operating system connected finance, operations, HR, meetings, and management reporting across two entities, saving $170K a year.

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How an engagement runs

From first call to a close that takes a day.

1

Strategy call

Twenty minutes on how data moves from your stores to your books today, and what the lag costs. You leave knowing whether you need an Operator, an Engineer, or neither.

2

Diagnosis

We map the flow from store to headquarters across finance, operations, and HR, and put a number on the manual hours and the days of delay.

3

Embedded build

Your Operator or Engineer works inside headquarters, goes live store by store in weeks, and hands off a documented system your team owns.

See every store's numbers the day after, not the month after.

Tell us how your stores report today. We'll show you where the manual work sits and what it would take to close the books in a day.

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