Built and operated
The owner does not learn a tool. We design it, build it, run it and report on it. You are selling an outcome, not software.
Silk Road AI Solutions & SCMSilk Road AI Solutions & SCMSilk Road AI SolutionsA working guide for sales partners across both Silk Road brands: what AI Solutions builds and what SCM consults on, who buys each, how a deal moves from first contact to handoff, how engagements are priced, and what every account pays you.
We design, build and operate AI systems for owner-led businesses: systems that capture leads, answer customers, process documents and clear the busywork that owners and staff do by hand.
The owner does not learn a tool. We design it, build it, run it and report on it. You are selling an outcome, not software.
A short assessment, then one live system for 30 days with a measurable target set on day one. No six-month build.
After the pilot the owner can stop with no further obligation. Most keep going, and most add systems. That is why your commission runs for years, not months.
35 years running operations and sales in supply chain, including as a VP at Mainfreight. He scopes, prices and delivers every engagement you sell.
Finds the right prospects, writes and sends the outreach, qualifies replies, books meetings on the owner's calendar.
Answers calls, texts and web inquiries in seconds, day or night, and hands off to a person when it matters.
Reads invoices, intake forms, tax documents, BOLs and rate confirmations, and puts the data where it belongs without re-typing.
Connects the tools a business already uses so follow-ups, reminders, status updates and handoffs happen on their own.
One screen with the numbers the owner actually looks at, pulled from the systems automatically.
For owners who want the roadmap before the build. Often the front door to a pilot.
Before or at first contact, log the prospect in your partner portal or email it with your partner code. Silk Road confirms within five business days. First to register owns the account.
Walk their operation: what happens when a lead or call comes in, where balls drop, what they would hand off tomorrow. No pricing on this call.
Send Dallas the bottleneck notes. He returns a pilot scope and price, and a proposal in the client's name.
Present the proposal, handle objections, negotiate inside approved terms, and bring it to a signed agreement and first payment.
You lead the kickoff meeting with the client and Dallas, and stay close until Silk Road confirms the system is live.
Commission accrues on every dollar the client pays, from the first payment on. Statements and payouts monthly, all visible in your dashboard.
Dallas prices every engagement to the actual bottleneck. Use these ranges to qualify, never to quote.
Carrier vetting and VIN checks, lead follow-up, quote response, track and trace, and client onboarding, built in phases starting with the two that hurt most. $3,250 to build, $2,500 per month to operate. The 60-day pilot is $8,250 all in, and the client can stop any time after it.
Success targets set on day one: five to eight hours a week handed back, carrier vetting time cut by more than half, every open lead on an automatic cadence.
Consulting projects typically run $10,000 to $40,000. Fractional leadership engagements typically run $25,000 to $150,000 for the term. Dallas scopes and prices every engagement; use the ranges to qualify, never to quote.
These are project engagements, so they pay a flat 20% of net revenue for the length of the project, for referral and sales partners alike, in place of the schedule on slide 8.
A $40,000 consulting project earns you $8,000. A $90,000 fractional engagement earns you $18,000, paid out as the client pays. An SCM client who later buys an operated AI system goes on the standard schedule for that account.
Register every prospect before or at first contact. If two partners claim the same account, it goes to whoever registered it first.
A registered account counts as yours if it signs and makes first payment within 180 days. Re-register with Silk Road's written okay if it runs longer.
A business that was a Silk Road client, or in active discussion with us, in the prior 12 months is not a new account. We tell you within five business days.
Use the ranges to qualify. Quotes, discounts, guarantees and custom terms need Silk Road's written approval first.
You bring the deal to signature; the client agreement is between Silk Road and the client. You cannot bind Silk Road to anything.
You are an independent partner, never an employee. Approved materials and claims only, lawful outreach only, and no Silk Road brand terms in paid ads without approval.
Then stop talking. Write down their words. Those words go into the bottleneck map, and they come back to the owner in the proposal.
The AI takes the busywork so the owner stays the trusted point of contact. During the pilot nothing goes out without their approval, and it all goes out in their voice.
Our pilots are built for two-person shops. The CPA firm and the freight agency we use as examples were both small. Small is where the bottleneck is most personal.
So did most of our clients. This is operations work, done by an operator, measured against a baseline you agree on day one.
Neither did the CPA firm's. We build around closed systems by producing outputs that feed them. That is normal for us.
Data stays in the client's own accounts, is processed only as instructed, is never used to train general AI models, and a BAA is signed where health information is involved.
"Dallas scopes every pilot to the actual bottleneck, so I'd be guessing. A recent freight pilot ran about $8,000 for sixty days, build included, with no long-term commitment, to give you an order of magnitude."
Automated client communication, an AI tax-strategy research assistant, and document processing into closed tax software. First 90 days, client-reported: 46% less tax-prep time, under 1% input error rate on processed documents, 58% higher overall productivity.
Full page: silkroadaisolutions.com/cpa-accounting-firms
Carrier vetting assistant, automated lead follow-up, and the pilot structure on slide 7. The agent got hours back every week and every open lead onto a cadence, with the owner approving everything that went out.
Full case study: silkroadaisolutions.com/case-study-freight-agency
Your referral link, send-a-lead form (tag each lead AI Solutions or SCM), promo copy, every lead and its status, and every commission line. Sign in with a free Claude account and enter your partner code.
The freight agency pilot deck is the model. Dallas builds a prospect-specific proposal for every deal you bring to that stage.
silkroadaisolutions.com/case-study-freight-agency, /logistics-3pl and /cpa-accounting-firms are all fine to forward.
Email, LinkedIn and text copy with your link already in it, in your dashboard. Edit freely; keep the facts as written.
Then book 30 minutes with Dallas to walk the portal, pressure-test the list, and agree which three to contact first.
dallas@silkroadaisolutions.com
(435) 233-6044
silkroadaisolutions.com
Silk Road AI Solutions
Suite 203, 2750 Rasmussen Road
Park City, Utah