Foodservice has been part of my life since age 12
Software and practical automation for the people who design, sell, install, and maintain commercial kitchen equipment — built from nearly five decades of lived connection to this industry.
Smarter Systems. Greater Freedom.
Where our software lives
Cook lines, walk-ins, dish rooms, and service calls — the equipment lifecycle our four products are built around.
The software portfolio
A kitchen gets designed, specified, quoted, surveyed, installed, and then run for a decade. Each of our products takes one of those jobs. Each one shows you exactly how far along it is.
Design & review
A kitchen is drawn, specified, and reviewed before anything is bought.
Sell & specify
Factories, reps, dealers, and consultants move one project through quoting and specification.
Survey & install
Someone has to confirm the equipment fits, gets in the door, and has the utilities it needs.
Operate & maintain
The kitchen runs for a decade or more, and uptime depends on knowing what is installed and what has been done to it.
Four separate applications, each aimed at one stage of the commercial kitchen lifecycle. They share a point of view about foodservice — not one database, and not a finished all-in-one suite.
What the software actually records
KitchenReady is in dealer testing. Equipment Guardian is in a private pilot. Below is the information each one is built to capture — shown as a labeled diagram, not a screenshot.
The site survey, captured once in the field so the project team, the install crew, and the customer are reading the same record.
Site survey record — illustrative
The uptime passport for commercial kitchens — a durable record per piece of equipment, so uptime does not depend on whoever happens to remember.
Equipment asset record — illustrative
Panels above are illustrative diagrams of the fields each product is built around. They are not screenshots, and they do not represent a specific customer, site, or result.
How AI Elevates helps
Buying an application is the easy part. Most of the value shows up when the workflow around it gets simpler and the team actually uses it.
Four applications built for specific jobs in the equipment lifecycle: design review, quoting and specification, site survey and installation, and ongoing maintenance.
See the software portfolioWe map how quotes, follow-ups, surveys, and service requests actually move through your business, then remove the steps that only exist because nobody had time to fix them.
See how we workSetup, rollout, and training for the people who have to use it — sales teams, project managers, and service coordinators. You don't have to become a tech person.
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Who builds this
Nearly five decades later, my experience spans early foodservice jobs, purchasing for a high-volume restaurant, dealer and distributor sales, manufacturer representation, and foodservice firm leadership.
I have quoted equipment, walked job sites, trained teams, managed vendor relationships, and chased the same paperwork my clients deal with every week. I started building these tools because the industry deserves software shaped around how the work is actually done.
Richmond, VirginiaFounder, AI ElevatesAI breakout speaker for PRIDE Centric Resources and MAFSIProfessional background
"I've taught a lot of senior leaders how to work with AI. Mike Colligon is one of the few who took the material and ran with it at full speed. He completed my 5-week AI executive education course and almost immediately started applying what he learned, building tools and launching a consulting practice to help his peers in the Food Service Equipment Industry innovate. His combination of industry knowledge and AI fluency makes him a rare find."
Danoosh KapadiaAI Educator & Strategist"Mike Colligon at AI Elevates gave an excellent presentation to PRIDE Centric Resources at our Dealer Workshop that brought AI into the real world… Mike's roadmap and immediate, executable uses will have a major, positive impact on our business."
Foodservice AI insights
Short, specific reads on getting reporting, purchase orders, and customer records out of the manual-work queue.
A practical look at turning call notes and activity into useful sales reporting without making reps reconstruct their day after hours.
Read the article (opens in a new tab)Where AI can reduce repetitive purchase-order entry while keeping the people who know the account in control of the workflow.
Read the article (opens in a new tab)How rep teams can protect customer context and follow-up time by making the CRM fit the work instead of adding another task list.
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What the software is, what it is not yet, and what happens if you get in touch.
Three things. Software built for specific jobs in the commercial kitchen equipment lifecycle, workflow consulting to simplify how quoting, surveys, and service follow-up move through your business, and implementation and training so your team can run what gets built.
No. Design Auditor, Elevate Rep CRM, KitchenReady, and Equipment Guardian are four separate applications at four different stages of maturity. They share a point of view about foodservice work, not a single unified database, and there is no finished all-in-one suite behind them.
KitchenReady is in dealer testing and can be looked at today. Equipment Guardian is in a private pilot, so access is by conversation. Elevate Rep CRM is in development and Design Auditor is in evidence validation — for those two we can show direction and take input, not hand you a login.
No. These tools are built for people who spend their day on job sites, in kitchens, and on the phone with customers — not for engineers. You don't have to become a tech person, and setup work stays on our side.
Commercial foodservice: operators and restaurant groups, equipment dealers, service agencies, manufacturer representatives, manufacturers, and consultants or designers. Foodservice has been part of Mike Colligon's life since age 12, and his professional experience spans restaurant purchasing, dealer and distributor sales, manufacturer representation, and foodservice firm leadership.
You bring one workflow that eats your week — quoting, site surveys, service follow-up, equipment records. We look at it together and tell you plainly whether software, a workflow change, or nothing at all is the right answer. No pitch deck.
It is our Skool community where owners and operators work through practical AI and automation at their own pace. Joining is free, and a premium tier is available at $49 per month or $490 per year for live build sessions and implementation support.
Bring one workflow that eats your week — quoting, site surveys, service follow-up, equipment records. We will look at it together and tell you plainly whether software, a workflow change, or nothing at all is the right answer.
Mike ColligonFounder, AI Elevates30 minutes
Bring a process that consumes time or creates handoff problems. We will review whether software, a workflow change, or a scoped implementation is appropriate.
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