Shouldered AI / For tailors, alteration shops and custom clothiers
You be the tailor. We shoulder the rest.
Your craft is measured in fittings and fine stitches, not phone calls. Shouldered gives your shop an HQ that books fittings, tracks every garment, collects deposits and reminds customers to pick up, so you can stay at the bench.
"The rack is full of garments nobody picked up."
Nehemiah at the Operations Desk sends pickup reminders when work is ready and follows up until the garment goes home.
"Wedding season fittings get tangled."
Tabitha at the Service Desk books fittings for the whole wedding party, sends reminders, and keeps each person's dates straight.
"Custom orders need deposits, and I forget to ask."
Matthew at the Finance Desk sends the deposit request when an order is placed and the balance at final fitting.
"People call just to ask if it's ready."
Tabitha at the Service Desk answers status questions from your order list, so you are not stopping work to check.
Simon and seven desks of Heroes, working for tailors.
Tells you each morning which fittings are today, what is due this week and what is waiting to be picked up.
Follows up on custom suit and dress consults, and reaches out to wedding parties and past clients ahead of the season.
Posts finished work, asks for reviews and lets the neighborhood know about seasonal services.
Answers questions about prices and turnaround, books fittings and gives order status.
Collects deposits and balances, tracks payments by order and prepares records for your accountant.
Tracks every garment from drop-off to pickup, sends ready notices and keeps fabric and supply orders on time.
Simon runs HQ: all the tech and all the brain power, and the one you talk to. Each of the seven desks is run by a Hero, and Simon directs all seven and answers for them. A person approves what matters, and legal, tax, medical and financial decisions stay with you and your licensed advisers.
You open at 10 with three fittings on the book. While you pin a hem, Customer service books a groom and four groomsmen for next Saturday. Nehemiah at the Operations Desk sends ready notices for twelve finished garments, and Finance collects the deposit on a custom jacket. At close, Simon tells you seven garments went home, one rush job is due Thursday and the lining fabric you ordered ships tomorrow.
An illustration, not a promised result.
Start
Start with a Hero seat for you and anyone on the bench, then add HQ Small at $750 a month paid for the year for fittings, order tracking, deposits and pickup reminders.
Grow
As custom orders grow, add seats or move to Medium, so you take on more work without more paperwork.
Your Hero is here to improve the human. Your HQ, led by Simon, is here to improve your business.
Two prices, and 50 Founding places.
First, what the work costs you today. A full-time office manager runs most small businesses about $4,000 to $5,000 a month with taxes and benefits, and goes home at five. Every call nobody answers is a job that goes to someone else.
Business coaching often costs $5,000 to $7,500 for one session day. HQ does the work every month, with a coach running the Shouldered Way and workshops included. Already have a coach? HQ works alongside them.
Founding 50: of 50 places left. When they are gone, this price closes.
For you
An assistant for one person: mail, chat, calendar, to-dos and contacts. It learns how you work.
- A seat a month
- $25
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $20
- A seat a month. Cancel any time
- No onboarding fee
- It stops where you stop. It does not run a business
Up to five people
5 seats and 80 hours a month. Onboarding $1,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $750
- Month to month
- $1,100
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $500
- Simon and all seven desks
- Starts the work itself
- About $25 a day, paid for the year
- The six-month guarantee
- Arrives in December. Join the founding list now
Six to twenty people
20 seats and 200 hours a month. Onboarding $2,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $1,875
- Month to month
- $2,750
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $1,250
- Everything in Small
- Room to grow without changing plan
- The six-month guarantee
Prices are per month. Only the first 50 companies (the Founding 50) get the Founding price with a two-year commitment, paid yearly by bank transfer, and keep it for as long as they renew. Pay yearly by bank transfer and take 3% off. Onboarding is $1,000 for Small and $2,000 for Medium, paid once, and free at Shouldered events. It is one 1-hour call: technical setup with our technical team first, then your business with our team. The person who sold you HQ joins your onboarding call. Paid for the year, you get a named person who checks in every month. Month to month gets standard support. Twenty-one people and up is built around you. More seats are $25 each (Founding price $20), and more hours $12.50 each; hours count only while HQ is working, like minutes on a phone plan.
Enterprise and government. For large companies and public agencies. Custom plans start at $5,000 a month. Pilots are paid. We start SOC 2 Type 1 work in 2027. Texas agencies: we are working toward TX-RAMP.
If HQ does not complete at least 40 hours of real admin work a month for you in your first six months (100 hours on Medium), tell us by the end of month five and we refund every dollar you paid for the plan.
The onboarding fee is not refunded. The guarantee asks one thing of you: let HQ do its work. Give it the access it needs and review its work in good faith. If our records show you kept declining or blocking the work HQ set out to do, the guarantee does not apply. If we see that happening, we tell you in writing so you can fix it.
The six months start the day HQ goes live for you. The Founding 50 are included. The guarantee covers HQ only, never coach fees.
I'm a one-person shop. Is this for me?
Start with a Hero for $25 a month. Add HQ when the phone and the pickup rack start eating your day.
Can it handle measurements?
It keeps measurement notes with each customer's record in your own system, so they are ready at the next fitting.
Will it upsell my customers?
Only in ways you approve, like letting a customer know you also do custom shirts. Your tone, your rules.
When can I start?
The Hero is available now. HQ launches in December 2026, and the Founding 50 list is open today.
What if it doesn't help?
If HQ does not complete at least 40 hours of real admin work a month for you in your first six months (100 hours on Medium), tell us by the end of month five and we refund every dollar you paid for the plan. Tell us by month five.
A Christian-run company, and proud of it.
Churches get free Hero seats. When a member's business joins, its church gets an HQ, free.
Simon is named for Simon of Cyrene, who stepped in and shouldered the cross for another. Shouldered takes no outside funding and is open to everyone. The technology comes from the OurWorld group: ten years of work, 60+ engineers, running in 20+ countries.
Pull up a chair.
Start with your Hero today, take a Founding 50 place for HQ, or just come and ask questions in the community.
Founding list
One of the first 50 places. Keep the Founding price as long as you renew.
Hold my place →Your Hero
$25 a seat (Founding price $20). Available now.
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