We built BackOps after living the problem first hand.

We built BackOps after living the problem first hand.

At BackOps, we’re building an AI resolution layer for companies that make or move physical goods. It improves and executes internal processes across systems, internal teams, and external parties, helping them improve operating margins, complete work faster, and provide more reliable service.

The problem we're solving

The problem we're solving

Companies that make or move physical goods depend on internal processes that span systems, internal teams, and external parties. Requirements vary, conditions change, and people must gather information, coordinate decisions, complete manual steps, and follow up with everyone involved. Critical knowledge may remain concentrated with a few experienced operators, making processes difficult to standardize, scale, and improve. Work slows, operating costs rise, customer commitments are put at risk, and recoverable value is left on the table.


This is the Resolution Gap: the distance between identifying an operational need and achieving the required outcome across the systems, internal teams, and external parties involved.


AI can now synthesize information, communicate, and take action. But general-purpose AI does not arrive knowing the supply-chain process or the resolution patterns that improve outcomes. Teams must still capture and improve the real process, connect it across company systems and third-party portals, define rules and approvals, test it, and keep it working as interfaces change. That slows time to value and creates an ongoing maintenance burden.

What we built

What we built

Relay is an AI-native operations platform built for the complexity of real back-office work.


It ingests your SOPs, learns your processes, and deploys agents that execute across your systems like web portals, carrier APIs, ERPs, email, Slack, and everything in between. When exceptions arise, it routes them to the right person with the right context. When decisions get made, it logs them with full lineage.


Relay isn't a chatbot bolted onto your workflows. It's an operations OS, a living system of record for how your team actually works, and an execution engine that keeps things moving when humans are occupied with higher-order problems.

Relay is an AI-native operations platform built for the complexity of real back-office work.


It ingests your SOPs, learns your processes, and deploys agents that execute across your systems like web portals, carrier APIs, ERPs, email, Slack, and everything in between. When exceptions arise, it routes them to the right person with the right context. When decisions get made, it logs them with full lineage.


Relay isn't a chatbot bolted onto your workflows. It's an operations OS, a living system of record for how your team actually works, and an execution engine that keeps things moving when humans are occupied with higher-order problems.

How we work with customers

How we work with customers

We don't believe in "set it and forget it" deployments. Operations are too complex, too variable, and too important to hand off to software and walk away.


Our forward-deployed team model means BackOps works alongside your operations team from day one. Mapping processes, deploying agents, tuning decision logic, and building custom insights around the metrics that matter to your business. We get our hands dirty so your team doesn't have to.


This model isn't a workaround for an immature product. It's a deliberate choice: the best automation deployments we've seen happen when software and human expertise work in tight partnership, not when software is handed over with a user manual.

We don't believe in "set it and forget it" deployments. Operations are too complex, too variable, and too important to hand off to software and walk away.


Our forward-deployed team model means BackOps works alongside your operations team from day one. Mapping processes, deploying agents, tuning decision logic, and building custom insights around the metrics that matter to your business. We get our hands dirty so your team doesn't have to.


This model isn't a workaround for an immature product. It's a deliberate choice: the best automation deployments we've seen happen when software and human expertise work in tight partnership, not when software is handed over with a user manual.

The team

The team

BackOps was founded in 2024 by two builders who approached the same problem from opposite ends and realized they were describing the same gap.


Sean McCarthy (CEO & Co-founder), one of the earliest hires at Amazon Shipping, led global sales and saw firsthand how operators stitched together WMS portals, emails, carrier calls, and spreadsheets just to resolve a single issue. The problem wasn’t effort, it was that the tools weren’t built for the complexity of the work.


Henry Ou (CTO & Co-founder) built and led applied ML teams at Apple and ByteDance, and ran an ERP integration business. His experience working across fragmented systems gave him deep insight into why most automation breaks down at the edges.


Together, Sean and Henry are the blend that hard operational problems require: someone who has lived on the ops side of the wall, and someone who has built the systems on the other side of it. BackOps is the product they each wished existed and couldn't find.


We're headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Insight Partners, Theory VC, Construct Capital, Gradient Ventures and 10VC.

BackOps was founded in 2024 by two builders who approached the same problem from opposite ends and realized they were describing the same gap.


Sean McCarthy (CEO & Co-founder), one of the earliest hires at Amazon Shipping, led global sales and saw firsthand how operators stitched together WMS portals, emails, carrier calls, and spreadsheets just to resolve a single issue. The problem wasn’t effort, it was that the tools weren’t built for the complexity of the work.


Henry Ou (CTO & Co-founder) built and led applied ML teams at Apple and ByteDance, and ran an ERP integration business. His experience working across fragmented systems gave him deep insight into why most automation breaks down at the edges.


Together, Sean and Henry are the blend that hard operational problems require: someone who has lived on the ops side of the wall, and someone who has built the systems on the other side of it. BackOps is the product they each wished existed and couldn't find.


We're headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Insight Partners, Theory VC, Construct Capital, Gradient Ventures and 10VC.

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BackOps AI is built to keep your data safe. We put privacy and security front and centre, so you don’t have to.

From Identified Need To Required Outcome.

© 2026 BackOps AI Inc. All rights reserved.

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BackOps AI is built to keep your data safe. We put privacy and security front and centre, so you don’t have to.

From Identified Need To Required Outcome.

© 2026 BackOps AI Inc. All rights reserved.

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BackOps AI is built to keep your data safe. We put privacy and security front and centre, so you don’t have to.

From Identified Need To Required Outcome.

© 2026 BackOps AI Inc. All rights reserved.

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