TAMPA, Fla., June 12, 2026 (Globe Newswire) — Ops+AI, an operations and AI agency that helps founders build more intelligent companies, and Arrowhead Strategy Group, a financial accounting advisory firm serving growth-stage companies, today announced a strategic partnership designed to help founders build the internal systems, financial foundations, and operational clarity they need to scale with confidence.
Arrowhead Strategy Group Founder Jarome McKenzie x Ops+AI Founder Brian Lofrumento
This partnership reflects the companies’ shared belief that companies cannot win the future of business by simply adding tools, dashboards, and AI to already fragile operations. Founders who start by building a strong foundation and intelligently layer systems, automation, financial visibility, and strategic decision-making on top of it will win.
For Ops+AI founder Brian Lofulment and Arrowhead Strategy Group founder Jarome McKenzie, this partnership is a natural extension of two companies that have been building toward the same future from different but deeply complementary angles.
Ops+AI combines strategy, systems, automation, AI, telemetry, and enablement into a practical infrastructure for growing companies, helping founders run their businesses through the OPERATE framework. Arrowhead Strategy Group helps founders build the financial and accounting backbone they need to understand their business, manage their finances, prepare for growth, and make more informed decisions.
Together, the companies are building a more complete layer of support for founders who are no longer satisfied with piecemeal advice, disconnected software, or one-size-fits-all service providers.
“Jalome and I see business the same way,” says Ops+AI founder Brian Lofrument. “We both believe that the best systems are built around results, not checklists. We believe that AI should amplify human judgment, not replace it. And we both believe that founders need more than a vendor…We both believe that they need a strategic partner who understands how every part of their business is connected.”
The collaboration between the two companies is particularly clear in their common approach to process design and automation. Both companies reject the idea of simply layering technology on top of existing workflows. Instead, start by considering truly desired outcomes, removing unnecessary complexity, and building lean, intelligent systems that scale.
This approach is becoming increasingly important as founders face a growing wave of AI tools that promise instant efficiencies. While many companies compete to brand themselves as “AI-powered,” Ops+AI and Arrowhead Strategy Group are taking a more down-to-earth approach. This means leveraging AI to create impact while retaining the strategic talent pool that early-stage and growth-stage companies still desperately need.
“Every business has its nuances,” said Jarome McKenzie, founder of Arrowhead Strategy Group. “There is no easy way to build a strong financial or accounting system. Tools are important, but they only work if they are built around the goals of the founders, the stage of the company, and the direction the business is actually going.”
This philosophy is especially true for companies with sales before and in the $25 million range, where fundamental decisions about financial systems, inventory, cash visibility, reporting, accounts payable, payroll, and operational workflows can have long-term impacts.
Arrowhead Strategy Group brings extensive experience supporting start-ups, consumer products companies, and growth-stage businesses with month-end closes, bookkeeping, financial reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, strategic finance, sell-side M&A preparation, and more. The company works with founders who need not just a pretty book, but a financial system to support their next stage of growth.
Ops+AI brings complementary operational and technology layers that enable companies to design better internal systems, reduce manual drag, improve visibility, automate the right workflows, and implement AI in ways that serve the business rather than hinder it.
The two companies will collaborate across client opportunities at the intersection of financial infrastructure, operational design, and AI-enabled systems. This may include helping founders move beyond spreadsheets, improve reporting visibility, build better internal workflows, automate repetitive operational tasks, or prepare the business for a more scalable growth phase.
This partnership is not about replacing people with software. It’s about giving founders better systems, clearer insights, and more strategic capabilities.
“Founders don’t need any more noise,” Lofulment said. “They need clarity. They need infrastructure. They need people who can look at the business holistically and say, ‘Here’s what actually needs to be true for this company to scale.'” That’s why this partnership makes so much sense. ”
As AI continues to reshape the way companies operate, both companies believe that businesses that combine automation and judgment, speed and discipline, technology and strong fundamental thinking will win.
For founders, this means the old divides between finance, operations, technology, and strategy are starting to disappear. Companies that scale well will be those that connect the pieces early, before complexity, bad data, and inefficient workflows become costly problems.
Ops+AI and Arrowhead Strategy Group have partnered to help founders do just that.
About Ops+AI
Ops+AI is an operations and AI agency that helps founders build more intelligent and scalable companies. Through the OPERATE framework, Ops+AI helps enterprises improve outreach, pipeline, execution, retention, automation, telemetry, and enablement by combining a strategic operating system with practical AI implementation.
About Arrowhead Strategic Group
Arrowhead Strategy Group is a financial and accounting advisory firm founded by Jarome McKenzie. The company supports start-up and growth-stage companies with bookkeeping, month-end close, financial reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, strategic financial advisory, and financial systems designed to support scale.
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