Case studies

Implementation, evidenced.

The examples below are clearly labelled representative engagements that illustrate the shape of Mainfold's AI work — the challenge, the system we build and the outcome it produces.

Representative exampleProfessional Services

AI-Powered Document Management

Challenge
Employees spent a significant part of every week searching through thousands of documents spread across drives and email.
Solution
AI-powered document search, classification, summarisation and retrieval with permission-aware access and cited answers.
Outcome
Faster information discovery, less duplicated work and a single intelligent entry point to company knowledge.
10x
faster document retrieval
70%
less manual searching
Representative exampleEcommerce & Retail

AI Customer Support Automation

Challenge
Support volumes grew faster than headcount, and repetitive order and returns questions dominated the queue.
Solution
An AI support agent connected to order data and the helpdesk, resolving routine tickets and escalating with full context.
Outcome
Routine enquiries resolved instantly, first-response times cut and agents focused on complex cases.
62%
tickets auto-resolved
24/7
coverage without new hires
Representative exampleEcommerce & Retail

AI Ecommerce Operations

Challenge
Catalogue work, marketplace compliance checks and performance reporting were entirely manual across channels.
Solution
Agents that enrich listings, monitor marketplace issues, flag pricing anomalies and produce daily operating summaries.
Outcome
Listings kept current across channels and issues caught before they affected sales.
3x
catalogue throughput
Daily
automated operations reporting
Representative exampleB2B Services

AI Sales Intelligence

Challenge
Sales teams spent hours preparing for meetings and CRM records were incomplete and inconsistent.
Solution
A research agent that builds account briefings from public and internal sources and keeps CRM records enriched.
Outcome
Reps arrive prepared, pipeline data stays clean and prospecting time shifts to selling.
5 hrs
saved per rep each week
90%
CRM field completeness
Representative exampleFinance & Operations

AI Document Processing

Challenge
Invoices and purchase orders arrived in dozens of formats and were re-keyed by hand into the ERP.
Solution
An extraction and validation pipeline that structures documents, cross-checks totals and posts clean data to the ERP.
Outcome
Straight-through processing for most documents, with humans reviewing exceptions only.
85%
documents processed untouched
99%
field-level accuracy target
Representative exampleEnterprise Operations

AI Knowledge Assistant

Challenge
New joiners took months to become productive because process knowledge lived in people's heads.
Solution
An internal assistant grounded in policies, SOPs and system documentation, available in chat and the intranet.
Outcome
Shorter onboarding, fewer interruptions to senior staff and consistent answers across teams.
40%
faster onboarding
1
source of truth for process questions

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