Matador Systems
Matador Vanguard LLC · Houston, TX
Workflows · Automation · Operations — for any business
Built by someone who runs
his own business on it.
Most AI consultants read about it. TC ships it — an app in the App Store, a computer-vision inventory system, storefronts that run themselves. Every engagement is TC plus the AI systems he builds with: a human operator and a tireless digital team. Flat prices. Plain language. Houston-local.
Not slides — shipped
Built in 2026, Running Today
Kesla — AI Learning App
Full iOS app with an AI lesson engine, subscriptions, and a production backend — built solo, submitted to the App Store (in review).
Vision Inventory Pipeline
Photograph a product → AI identifies it → priced against three live market feeds → logged to inventory. Minutes of work per item became seconds.
Automated Storefront
A live-commerce card business whose show setup, listings, and marketing run on automation TC built and operates daily.
Cloud Research Agents
Autonomous agents that research markets overnight and deliver a decision-ready brief every morning — while everyone sleeps.
Before the AI — the operator
The Numbers Travel
Nine years running a high-volume distribution company end to end — production, warehouse, logistics, purchasing, payroll, and the P&L. The discipline that held those numbers is the same discipline that gets applied to yours.
Flat prices, no retainers required
What We Build For You
AI Workflow Audit
$250 then $500
A 90-minute working session plus a written roadmap of the three highest-payoff automations in your business — what they'd cost, what they'd save, what to build first. If AI can't pay for itself in your shop, the roadmap says so in writing.
Automation Sprint
from $1,500
One working system, built and handed over: customer intake, quote generation, inventory pricing, report automation, response drafting. You watch it get built. You own it when it's done.
AI Operations Partner
$750 / month
An embedded automation department for less than a day of a consultant's time: a build request handled every month, unlimited quick asks, your systems tuned as models improve, and a quarterly automation roadmap. Cancel anytime — the systems stay yours.
Custom App / MVP
from $7,500
Your idea, shipped: a real application with AI inside — the same stack that carried our own app from idea to the App Store. Scoped honestly; if it's a $2,000 tool, we'll tell you.
AI Operator Training
$150 / session
Your team, your real work, live: how to actually use AI day-to-day — prompting that works, guardrails that keep you safe, workflows that stick.
Keep-It-Running
$250 / month
The maintenance lane: systems tuned monthly, updated as models improve, and a standing line for "can we automate this too?" — the answer is usually yes.
Integrated Profit Analysis
$1,250 flat
Not an AI project — a whole-business one. Two weeks inside your operation: pricing, costs, workflow, customer flow, the numbers behind each. It ends in a written profit plan — where margin is leaking, which levers actually move revenue, and the 90-day sequence to capture it. Built on integrative analysis: the discipline of connecting what your departments can't see about each other. AI shows up in the plan only where it earns its keep.
Guaranteed in writing. If the Workflow Audit or the Integrated Profit Analysis can't identify value worth at least four times its fee — in savings, recovered margin, or new revenue — you don't pay. Finding money in an operation is the job; it's been the job for nine years.
The process
How It Works
Free call
Ten minutes. You describe the annoying part of your week; we tell you honestly what will fix it.
Audit
We map your three best automations with real numbers attached.
Build
Sprint: one system, built with you in the room, on your accounts, your data.
It runs
You own everything. We maintain it if you want us to.
The toolbox
What We Can Build
If it's repetitive, describable, or buried in paperwork, it can probably be automated. A sample of the shelf:
Customer-Facing
Response drafting, review replies, quote generators, booking flows, FAQ assistants trained on your actual business.
Back Office
Document pipelines, form filling, invoice and report automation, data entry that stops being a job.
Inventory & Pricing
Photo-to-catalog identification, live market pricing, reorder alerts — the system our own card business runs on.
Agents & Apps
Overnight research agents, daily decision briefs, dashboards, and full custom apps when the idea deserves one.
You're hiring the founder — and you keep him. TC is a Houston operator who has run food-industry operations, launched retail concepts, and now runs his companies on AI he builds himself. No account managers, no hand-offs, no junior "strategist" reading a script. The person who sells you the system builds the system and answers the phone about the system.
Operator, not consultant. Every system we sell is a cousin of one already running inside our own companies. We feel the same pain you do — payroll, inventory, hours in the day — and we automated our way out of it.
Human + AI, openly. TC works alongside the AI systems he builds with — that's not a gimmick, it's the product demo. You're watching the exact way of working we set up for you.
Local and accountable. Houston-based, LLC-registered, real phone number, and the founder answers it.
Direct engagements
Available for Private Contract
Beyond the flat-price offers, TC takes a limited number of direct contracts — scoped privately, priced to the work, delivered by the founder.
Development
Custom software and full applications on the same stack that shipped our own app to the App Store — scoped, built, and maintained under contract.
Authoring & Documents
Lender packages, pro formas, permit and licensing roadmaps, operating playbooks, proposals, and web copy — investor-grade paper, produced fast.
Fractional Operations
Ops and finance leadership by the month: P&L management, vendor negotiation, purchasing, and controls — nine years of running it, on your books.
AI Operations
Standing AI systems run for you — market research desks, pricing engines, content pipelines — managed as a service under private terms.
Contract inquiries: tc@matador-llc.com — describe the work and the timeline; you'll get a straight answer on fit and a fixed quote.
Every business has a bull
The Matador Is Ready. Bring Your Bull.
tc@matador-llc.com · (832) 808-0399
Matador Vanguard LLC · Spring / Houston, Texas