YC W19 · Preflight Built & Sold · 6.5 FTEs Replaced
I Build AI Agents That Replace Manual Operations
Mustafa Bayramoglu — Y Combinator W19 alum, built and sold Preflight, replaced 6.5 full-time employees with AI agents at a Series D logistics company. Now building the same for your operations team.
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Y Combinator Alumni
Preflight
Built & Sold
Series D Logistics
Operations Overhaul
6.5 FTEs
Replaced with AI Agents
Your Operations Team Is Drowning
Scaling companies hit the same wall. Revenue grows, headcount balloons, but operations never get more efficient. Manual work multiplies while margins shrink.
Repetitive Tasks Eat Your Day
Your best people spend 60%+ of their time on data entry, ticket routing, status updates, and report generation. High-value work gets pushed to evenings and weekends.
Hiring Can't Keep Up
Every 30% revenue increase demands another ops hire. Recruiting takes months, onboarding takes more, and the cycle repeats before the new hire is fully productive.
Errors Compound Silently
Manual processes mean manual mistakes. Missed SLAs, misrouted tickets, duplicate data entry — each error cascades downstream and erodes customer trust.
What Does 6.5 FTEs of AI Automation Look Like?
At a Series D logistics company, Agentic Edge deployed three AI agent workflows that replaced the equivalent of 6.5 full-time employees — without a single layoff.
Workflow 1
Customer Ticket Triage & Response
AI agents now classify, route, and draft initial responses for 85% of incoming support tickets — handling what previously required a team of three.
Workflow 2
Order Processing & Validation
End-to-end order ingestion, validation against inventory systems, and exception flagging. Processing time dropped from 12 minutes to 45 seconds per order.
Workflow 3
Reporting & Data Reconciliation
Daily cross-system data reconciliation and automated report generation that previously consumed one analyst's entire workday plus a part-time contractor.
Total Impact
6.5 FTEs
Replaced with AI agents — team reallocated to strategic work
How Does Agentic Edge Build AI Agents?
A proven three-phase process from assessment to production. No black boxes, no vaporware — working AI agents deployed into your existing stack.
Assess
Week 1–2
Deep dive into your operations workflows. Map every manual touchpoint, identify automation candidates, and build a prioritized roadmap with ROI projections for each workflow.
Build
Week 3–8
Design, develop, and deploy AI agents using the CorePiper platform. Integrate with your existing tools — Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, Slack, and more. Test with real data, iterate with your team.
Evolve
Ongoing
AI agents improve over time. Monitor performance, expand coverage, and fine-tune based on real-world feedback. Your automation gets smarter every month, not just maintained.
Why Trust Agentic Edge?
Agentic Edge is not a agency with a slide deck. It is one senior operator who has built, scaled, and sold AI products — and now builds AI agents for operations teams.
Y Combinator W19
Built Preflight through the world's most competitive startup accelerator. Learned to ship fast, measure everything, and build products that solve real problems.
Preflight — Built & Sold
Created a no-code testing platform licensed by a major US bank. Full lifecycle — founding through exit. Proof that Mustafa builds products that institutions trust.
Series D Logistics Operations
Led AI automation at a Series D logistics company — replacing 6.5 FTEs of manual operations work with AI agents across customer support, order processing, and reporting.
CorePiper Platform
Built CorePiper — a proprietary AI agent orchestration platform purpose-designed for operations workflows. Not a chatbot wrapper. Real multi-system automation.
Who Is Agentic Edge For?
- Series A–D companies with 50–500 employees scaling operations
- VP/Director of Operations drowning in manual workflows
- Teams spending 60%+ time on repetitive tasks across Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, or Slack
- Companies that have tried basic automation (Zapier, Make) and hit its limits
- Leaders who want to reallocate headcount to strategic work, not just cut costs
Who Is Agentic Edge Not For?
- Pre-revenue startups without established operations processes
- Companies looking for a chatbot or customer-facing AI assistant
- Teams that want a "set it and forget it" automation tool
- Organizations unwilling to invest time in process documentation
- Anyone expecting overnight results — real automation takes weeks, not days
"We thought we needed to hire three more ops people. Mustafa showed us we needed zero — his AI agents handled the work in a fraction of the time, and our existing team finally had bandwidth for the strategic projects we'd been postponing for months."
VP of Operations
Series D Logistics Company
Ready to Replace Manual Operations With AI Agents?
Book a free AI automation assessment. Mustafa will review your workflows, identify the highest-ROI automation opportunities, and deliver a clear roadmap — no obligation.
Book Your Free AI AssessmentFrequently Asked Questions
What is an AI automation assessment?
An AI automation assessment is a free, no-obligation analysis of your current operations workflows. Mustafa Bayramoglu reviews your processes, identifies automation opportunities, and delivers a prioritized roadmap showing which workflows AI agents can handle — with estimated FTE savings and implementation timelines.
How long does it take to build an AI agent?
Most AI agent implementations at Agentic Edge take 3–8 weeks from kickoff to production deployment. Simple single-workflow automations can ship in 3–4 weeks. Complex multi-system integrations involving platforms like Salesforce, Zendesk, or Jira typically require 6–8 weeks including testing and iteration.
Will AI agents replace my entire operations team?
AI agents replace manual, repetitive tasks — not people. At Agentic Edge, the goal is to free your operations team from low-value work so they can focus on strategy, relationship management, and edge cases that require human judgment. In practice, companies reallocate headcount rather than eliminate roles.
What platforms do Agentic Edge AI agents integrate with?
Agentic Edge builds AI agents that integrate with major operations platforms including Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, Slack, HubSpot, Notion, Airtable, Google Workspace, and custom APIs. The CorePiper platform handles orchestration across multiple systems simultaneously.
How much does AI automation cost compared to hiring?
A typical AI agent implementation costs a fraction of one annual salary yet replaces 1–3 FTEs of manual work. Agentic Edge clients see ROI within the first quarter. The ongoing optimization cost runs significantly below the loaded cost of a single operations hire, while handling work that would require multiple people.