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Varde Labs

Varde Labs

United States, Oregon, Bend
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AI operations and workflow automation for professional services firms. We redesign the work around Process Street, integrate the rest of the stack, and stay engaged until adoption sticks.

Varde Labs is an AI operations and workflow automation firm based in Bend, Oregon. We work with professional services and mid-market operations teams that want real leverage out of AI and automation rather than another experiment that stalls after launch.

Engagements usually start the same way. A team has messy manual processes, too many disconnected tools, and a stack of "we should automate that" items nobody has time to own. We map the current state, redesign the workflows around Process Street as the operational backbone, and integrate whatever else the team relies on (Zapier, Power Automate, PandaDoc, Pipedrive, HubSpot, Notion, Miro, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, custom APIs). Then we stay engaged through rollout so people actually adopt the new system instead of falling back to old habits.

We Cover the Full Path: Process discovery and mapping, workflow redesign in Process Street, integrations across the existing stack, AI copilots and agents for the repetitive and judgment-light parts of the work, change management and adoption coaching, and ongoing optimization as the business grows.

Track Record: Client onboarding (70+ step sequences rebuilt into a single master workflow), approval and review processes, commission and schedule tracking, artwork and creative review, and operational reporting. Recent results include a financial planning firm that 3x'd onboarding capacity and cut contract prep by 85%, a Medicaid-workflow SaaS that tripled onboarding capacity and paid back the engagement in month one, and a manufacturing client recovering 10 hours per month permanently on their monthly close.

Why Firms Pick Us: A small, senior team that has done this work for enough clients to know where it breaks. We build the system we sell, which is why our own operations run on the same stack we recommend. That means we show up with a working reference implementation, not a slide deck.

"Kai & Bryan not only changed how I manage the business; they've enabled us to experience serious growth without increasing overhead. Our sales guy said the contracting phase went from a two-to-three-hour slog to about 25 minutes... huge. And that's not including all the follow-up and all the system maintenance time saved for me."

Eli Kaplovitz
CEO & Founder at Aidace

Process Street and Varde Labs

Varde Labs has delivered AI adoption and workflow automation work for Process Street customers since before Varde Labs existed under that name. Our predecessor firm, Improvizations, was one of Process Street's longest-standing implementation partners, and every live client system we have built uses Process Street as the operational backbone.

How it works today. Process Street routes customers to us when they need help turning the platform from a workflow library into an operational system. We handle discovery, design, and implementation, typically alongside integrations into the client's existing tools. We join Process Street sales calls when it helps close, and the Customer Success team often loops us in when a customer has a process redesign or adoption problem we can solve.

Recent and active collaborations include Aidace (Medicaid SaaS), The Financial Architects, RICO Manufacturing, and E.T. Browne Drug Co. Several are Process Street case studies.

If you are a Process Street customer and you want a partner who has built dozens of production workflows inside the product and knows how to integrate it with the rest of your stack, we are the right call.

Use Cases

Client Onboarding at Scale

We rebuild messy, multi-step onboarding into a single Process Street master workflow the client team can actually run. Typical scope: intake forms, contract generation, document routing, internal handoffs, and status visibility for the client. We integrate the tools that already exist in the stack (PandaDoc, Pipedrive, HubSpot, Google Drive, SharePoint) so data flows without manual re-entry. A recent Medicaid-workflow client went from a 70+ step manual process to one managed workflow that 3x'd their onboarding capacity, cut contract prep by 85%, and deferred 3 to 4 admin hires. Onboarding is where most professional services firms lose the most time, and it is where Process Street shines when the design is right.

Workflow Redesign & System Integration

Most firms do not need another tool. They need the tools they already have to actually work together. We map the real current state of a process, redesign it around Process Street as the operational backbone, and stitch the rest of the stack together with Zapier, Power Automate, or custom integrations. Example: a financial planning client where we rebuilt the entire client journey across Process Street, Power Automate, Notion, and Miro. Process Street handles traffic control. Power Automate does the heavy lifting. Notion and Miro hold the strategic context. One system where before there were four disconnected ones.

Approval & Review Workflows

Approvals are where operational work quietly dies. We design approval and review workflows that make it obvious what is being approved, by whom, and when. Scope includes artwork and creative review, executive sign-off, compliance review, and commission approval. Example: a manufacturing client's commission approval process where we built the tracker, the approval logic, and a monitoring layer so the team could see work moving without status meetings. Another: a consumer goods R&D team running artwork approvals with segmented rounds (R&D, marketing, executive) and notification logic tuned to the way each group actually works.

AI Copilots & Agents Inside Operations

AI works best embedded inside the real workflow, not bolted onto the side. We build AI copilots that run inside Process Street workflows and across the surrounding stack: drafting content in approval steps, triaging inbound requests, summarizing meetings into task lists, sweeping inboxes for unresolved commitments, updating CRM records from unstructured notes. The rule: AI handles the operational grind so people can spend their judgment on the work clients actually hire them for. Every AI layer we build has a clear scope, a human checkpoint where it matters, and an audit trail.

Operational Reporting & Recovered Capacity

If a team is spending a full day a month pulling together a report, that is a workflow problem. We rebuild the reporting process around automated data collection, Process Street checklists for review and sign-off, and dashboards that pull from the source systems. A manufacturing client recovered 10 hours per month, a full day of operations time, when we moved their monthly reporting into an automated flow. The recovered time goes back into higher-value work, and data quality usually improves in the process.

Adoption Coaching & Change Management

A workflow that no one uses is worth nothing. We stay engaged past go-live to coach teams through adoption, observe where the real workflow diverges from the designed one, and iterate until the new system is how people actually work. This is the part most firms skip and the reason most automation projects stall. It typically runs 4 to 8 weeks after launch, depending on team size. We hand off with documented operating rhythms and a named internal owner who can keep the system healthy.

Clients

Aidace
RICO Manufacturing
The Financial Architects
E.T. Browne
Townsquare Media
Puretec Industrial Water

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