Consumer Brands · AI · GTM Systems

Consumer brands are data-rich.
AI turns that into insights
and automated action.

I help consumer brands turn scattered customer and business data into AI-powered systems that route work, draft responses, recommend next steps, and automate repetitive actions.

Customer Intelligence Sales Operations AI Workflows GTM Systems
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What I do

I work on the operating layer inside consumer brands — the systems that help sales, support, marketing, and operations teams understand their customers and move faster. That means connecting fragmented data, redesigning clunky workflows, automating repetitive tasks, and using AI where it actually helps.

Real problems.
Practical systems.

These projects are based on real internal systems built at a high-growth consumer hardware brand alongside a small, nimble team. Some details have been generalized, but the business problems, workflows, and outcomes are too real.

01 — Customer Support

Giving Customer Support an AI Sidekick

Cleared a 1,000+ ticket backlog in under two weeks, cut first response time nearly in half, and automated first-touch resolution for the most common ticket types.

Redesigned an overwhelmed support workflow using structured intake, AI classification, smart routing, and AI-handled first responses — so most tickets resolve without an agent touching them.

ZendeskFormstackAI TaggingTicket RoutingWorkflow Automation

The Problem

The support team was handling thousands of tickets per month with a 1,000+ ticket backlog and first reply times approaching 10 days. Agents were capable, but the workflow made speed impossible. Tickets arrived without the information needed to act on them — leading to manual triage, follow-up questions, and delays before any real work could start.

What We Built

  • Structured intake via Formstack — collecting issue type, order number, and product before the ticket hits the queue
  • AI tagging and classification for every incoming ticket, including those arriving through email
  • Routing logic that sends tickets to the right agent, queue, or automation path
  • AI summarization for tickets bypassing the form, so they can still be routed intelligently
  • AI handles the first one or two responses autonomously — sending troubleshooting steps, tracking updates, or order status without an agent involved
  • Most tickets resolve after a couple of exchanges, so AI carries the full resolution for a meaningful portion of volume
  • When escalation is needed, the agent steps in with full context already surfaced

Impact

~50%faster first response time
~50%reduction in time-to-solve
1,000+ticket backlog cleared in two weeks

The Lesson

AI support workflows work best when paired with good intake design. Collect the right information upfront, and AI can do more than just classify and route — it can handle the first response entirely. For most common ticket types, that first response is enough. The goal isn’t to replace agents — it’s to resolve the solvable tickets automatically so agents can spend their time on the work that actually requires a person: complex situations, escalations, and the kind of attentive service that builds customer loyalty.

Before & After

Before ~9–10 day avg. reply
Ticket arrives without key info
Manual triage & categorization
Back-and-forth to collect missing details
Manually routed to right agent
Agent researches context, then responds
After ~5 day avg. reply
Intake form captures issue type, order #, product upfront
AI classifies & routes — or handles the first response entirely
Shipping/tracking: AI pulls status & sends customer update directly
Product issues: AI sends troubleshooting steps — most tickets close here
Remaining cases go to agent with full context → resolves
02 — Customer Intelligence

Ask Anything About Your Customers. Get an Answer in Seconds.

Any team — marketing, sales, leadership — can now get answers to customer questions in plain English, in seconds, with no analyst bottleneck.

Built a unified Customer 360 across seven source systems, then layered on natural language querying so the whole business could actually use it.

SnowflakeCustomer 360Identity ResolutionSnowflake IntelligenceCortex SearchSemantic ModelsKlaviyo

The Problem

The brand had grown quickly but customer understanding hadn’t kept pace. Data lived in seven different systems that didn’t talk to each other. Even when data existed, it wasn’t flexible enough to answer the questions teams actually had. Marketing needed campaign lists. Sales needed account context. Leadership needed to understand how the customer base was shifting. Every request went through the analytics team.

Phase 1 — The Foundation

  • Built a Customer 360 in Snowflake connecting 7 source systems
  • Identity resolution and deduplication across 1M+ customer records using recursive logic
  • Profile enrichment with third-party demographic data
  • Segmentation logic powering Klaviyo marketing audiences
  • Dashboards for initial exploration — useful but not flexible enough

Phase 2 — Making It Useful

  • Connected Snowflake Intelligence on top of the unified C360 and internal business documents
  • Semantic models translate how the business actually talks about itself into something the system can reason about
  • Cortex Search indexes PDFs, decks, case studies, and business updates
  • Any team member can now ask customer questions in plain English and get an immediate, cross-system answer

Impact

~60%fewer ad hoc analytics requests
~30%better campaign performance
7source systems unified into one view

How It Works — The 1–2 Punch

Phase 1 — Build the foundation
Shopify — ecommerce
Salesforce — wholesale
Zendesk — support
Proprietary app data
SurveyMonkey — surveys
Klaviyo — email
3rd-party demographics
Snowflake Customer 360
  • Identity resolution
  • Deduplication
  • Profile enrichment
  • Segmentation
  • Klaviyo audience activation
Phase 2 — Give the business a new interface: questions
Instead of building another dashboard, teams could ask:
“Which wholesale accounts haven’t ordered in 60 days but opened emails this month?”
“What support issues are most common for customers who bought in the last 90 days?”
“Which customer segments convert best on premium product launches?”
“Did we execute on our planned GTM strategy and were the results as expected?”
Snowflake Intelligence
Customer 360 data
Orders, support, segments, email engagement
Business knowledge
PDFs, decks, GTM plans, status updates
Answers in seconds.
03 — Sales Operations

Automating the Most Painful Part of Wholesale Order Management

Turned hours of recurring manual order entry into a near-instant automated process for bulk wholesale accounts.

Built a custom tool to convert bulk wholesale invoices into drafted Salesforce orders automatically — submission, approval, and close-out included.

SalesforceOrder AutomationInvoice ProcessingInternal ToolsWorkflow Design

The Problem

The wholesale team managed a growing network of multi-location retail accounts. When large bulk orders came in — a single invoice spanning multiple locations across several states — reps had to manually enter every line item into Salesforce. A single recurring monthly order could take hours. It was happening regularly, and it was the kind of work that had nothing to do with selling.

What We Built

  • Custom invoice upload tool that parses bulk order data and auto-drafts Salesforce orders
  • Automated orchestration handling submission for approval and downstream close-out steps
  • End-to-end workflow from invoice to closed order — with human approval kept in the loop
  • Built to handle the complexity of multi-location accounts with varying SKUs and quantities

Impact

~90%faster per bulk order
~80%less manual data entry
Hourssaved per monthly order cycle

What Made It Work

The hard part wasn’t the automation itself — it was making the tool flexible enough to handle the real-world messiness of bulk wholesale invoices: inconsistent formats, multiple locations, mixed SKUs. Getting that parsing right is what made the time savings real.

Before & After

Before Hours per order
Bulk invoice arrives
Rep manually enters every line item into Salesforce
↓ hours later
Submit for approval
Close out
After Minutes per order
Bulk invoice arrives
Upload invoice → Salesforce order auto-drafted
↓ minutes later
Rep reviews & approves
Order closes out automatically → done
Aneesh Kuda

Hakone, Japan

Hey, I’m Aneesh.

I’m a builder focused on AI-powered business systems for consumer brands. Based in LA, I’ve spent the last few years working inside a fast-growing consumer hardware brand — helping teams connect customer data, redesign workflows, and put AI to practical use across sales, support, and marketing.

I like working close to real business problems. The most interesting projects aren’t clean technical puzzles — they’re messy workflow problems involving people, process, data, and tools that weren’t designed to talk to each other.

I’m also beginning to take on consulting work. I’m especially drawn to consumer brands where the support team is underwater, customer data is scattered across too many places, or manual work is eating into time that should be spent delighting customers. If that sounds familiar, I’d love to hear about it.

Outside of work
Running the coast Rock climbing Snowboarding Painting DIY fashion

Working on something messy?

If your team is dealing with an overwhelmed support operation, scattered customer data, or manual workflows eating into selling time — I’d love to hear about it. I also have a broader interest in connecting with people building at the intersection of AI, consumer brands, and GTM systems.

aneeshkudaravalli@gmail.com →