ABOUT

We bring the human part to intelligence.

Team working together
Where the KP came from.

kpApplied didn’t start as a software company. It started with two operators who spent two decades in the trenches of real businesses — order desks, service calls, collections, inboxes that never empty — and got tired of watching the same work get re-keyed into the same systems, day after day.

Michael Prassel
Michael Prassel
The back of the house
20+years
FinanceAccountingITBack-end Infrastructure

The part that keeps the lights on and the numbers straight. Built and ran the operations behind real businesses — the systems, the processes, the infrastructure that everything else depends on.

Michael Klear
Michael Klear
The front of the house
20+years
SalesMarketingNew Product DevCustomer Service

The part that talks to customers and closes deals. Built and ran the revenue side of real businesses — the relationships, the campaigns, the products that people actually buy.

We built these workflows for our own operations first. We felt the friction — the email that should have been an order, the CRM that didn’t talk to the ERP, the invoice that sat in a queue until someone called about it. So we started connecting things. Now we bring the same approach to other companies — the human part of intelligence.

We run it in our own businesses first.

We didn’t build this on a whiteboard. We implemented AI across four of our own operating companies — each in a different industry, each with its own systems, processes, and friction. What we sell is what we already run.

01
Distribution
Warehouse operations, order fulfillment, inventory management, and shipping logistics across multiple facilities.
02
Drop Shipping
Supplier coordination, automated order routing, inventory sync, and customer communication across a distributed fulfillment network.
03
Manufacturing
Production scheduling, parts ordering, quality monitoring, and ERP integration across a live manufacturing floor.
04
Sales Agency for Manufacturing
Outbound email marketing, active inbox management, CRM sync, and quote-to-order workflows across multiple manufacturing brands.

Every workflow we build for a client has been pressure-tested in our own operations first. We know where AI helps, where it breaks, and where a person needs to make the call — because we make those calls ourselves.

HOW WE OPERATE
Start with one workflow
Prove value on real work before anything grows.
People own the decisions
AI drafts. A named person approves anything that commits your business.
We stay and run it
No handoff and walk away. We operate it, measure it, and improve it.
Bring one workflow worth fixing.
Discuss a workflow