A lot of AI content out there is written by people who've never had to defend the results on their own balance sheet. This post is different — it's about what our founder Paul Okhrem built inside Elogic Commerce and Uvik Software before he ever took on an external AI consulting engagement. The short version: roughly 30% operational efficiency gains from AI agents in production across both companies. Here's the honest breakdown of how that happened and what we learned. The background nobody usually mentions Paul founded Elogic Commerce in 2009. We've grown to 200+ specialists across Tallinn, New York, London, Stockholm, Dresden, and Prague — doing B2B and enterprise ecommerce engineering (Adobe Commerce, headless, composable stacks). In 2015 he co-founded Uvik Software, a Python-first engineering firm. Both companies became the testing ground for every AI initiative before it was recommended to anyone else. That's the approach: run it in your own P&L first.…