

THE AI GAP
Most AI tools are built by people who have never run the systems inside a jewelry business.
A generic AI vendor can build you a chatbot, a marketing calendar, or a dashboard. What they can't do is sit inside your POS system and take over the manual work someone on your team is doing every day.
That’s the gap Crabtree Consulting fills.
We don't train you to use AI. We do the execution ourselves and hand back the payroll hours it used to take.
BUILT FROM JEWELRY INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
This is what AI for jewelry retailers and manufacturers looks like when it's built by people who've run the systems themselves, not adapted from generic retail AI.
Crabtree Consulting builds these tools in-house not outsourced to a developer or bought from a generic retail AI platform.
The same team behind decades of hands-on experience inside jewelry POS systems, vendor negotiations, and buying decisions is the team building the AI.

WHERE WE START
Your Business, Not a Package.
Every engagement starts with your business, not a package we're running the same way for everyone.
Then turn the middle into three compact content blocks rather than one large paragraph:

01 — Buying Decisions
Building AI support into buying decisions, so the decisions you make are informed by more than your POS system gives you on its own—research on competitors, current vendor costs.
02 — POS Intelligence
Turning what's already sitting in your POS system into the kind of report your software was never built to produce.
03 — Existing Engagements
For clients already working with Crabtree Consulting, AI can be layered directly into that engagement, taking more of the manual, repetitive work off your team's plate.
THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM A GENERIC RETAIL AI PLATFORM
The tools are built around how a jewelry business actually operates, not adapted from software built for grocery chains or apparel retailers. Every tool comes out of the same operational depth behind Crabtree Consulting's work, the same work that's negotiated $4M in aged inventory out of a single retail operation in under a year and grew a manufacturer's division from $10M to $22M in revenue.
WHAT AN ENGAGEMENT LOOKS LIKE
Every engagement starts by defining exactly what you need the tool to do inside your business, and ends with a system your team can run on its own, with ongoing support built in as your needs change. Pricing is scoped per engagement once we understand what you need.
GETTING STARTED
If your matter touches any part of the jewelry industry and you need someone who has run this business not simply studied it from the outside, tell us about it below.
Share a few details about your business, what you’re working through, and where you need support. We’ll review your message and be in touch.
