AI & Automation — COROS · 10+ Years Operations Leadership

Mike Box

I identify competitive threats and build working solutions — without waiting for budget approval or a formal mandate.

$630K+
Annual Value Created
32
Global Team Members
95%+
Customer Satisfaction
$130K+
Vendor Costs Eliminated
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Background

Operator first. AI builder second.

I bring 10+ years at Apple — starting in support in 2014, advancing through Special Projects by improving agent workflows and support metrics, and ultimately serving as Team Lead Admin on the AMR Commitments Team. That experience building toward Apple's gold standard of customer experience is the foundation I bring to everything I do at COROS, where I now lead AI & Automation and manage a 32-person global support team across the US, Europe, China, and the Philippines.

The AI work at COROS wasn't assigned to me. I saw the competitive gap — Garmin was outpacing us on content, Aissist was costing us $43K a year and producing mediocre results, Zendesk was a $75K annual dependency we didn't need. So I taught myself what I needed, invested my own time, and built working systems that proved their value before they were ever official.

CARA, our AI customer service system, now handles the equivalent workload of 8–12 full-time employees while maintaining 95%+ customer satisfaction. RELAY, the custom support platform I designed from scratch, is built and deployed — a complete replacement for Zendesk. Neither had a formal budget when they started.

That's the pattern I bring to every challenge: find the real problem, build the thing that solves it, measure everything, and move on to the next one.

Experience

AI & Automation COROS — GPS Sports Watch Managing 32 globally across US, EU/UK, CN, PH
Team Lead Admin — AMR Commitments Apple 10+ Years · Support → Special Projects → Team Lead
Founder Infinitus Digital LLC Strategic consulting & platform development
Washington State • Remote

How I Work

The convictions behind the work

These aren't talking points. Each one is baked into every system I've shipped — and the results are documented.

Conviction 01

Prove it before you pitch it

I don't build business cases for AI — I build the AI, measure the results, then present a business case with real data. Proposals are cheap. Working systems with numbers are not. Executives can act on evidence; they can only hope on proposals.

CARA launched without a formal budget. RELAY shipped before it was ever a line item.

Conviction 02

AI amplifies people. It doesn't replace them.

Every system I build is designed to free humans for the work that actually requires humans: judgment, relationships, strategic thinking. CARA handles the volume so my team can handle the complexity. That distinction matters.

95%+ CSAT through a full automation rollout. The team got sharper, not smaller.

Conviction 03

Vendor dependency is a strategic risk

Every external platform you depend on is a cost you can't control, a feature roadmap that isn't yours, and a ceiling on what your team can do. Eliminating that dependency is a competitive advantage. RELAY exists because Zendesk couldn't do what we needed.

$130K in annual vendor costs gone. No external dependencies on critical support infrastructure.

Demonstrations

See the work in action

Not mockups. Not slides. Live, interactive systems with real data behind every number.

8hrs → 30min

Customer Intelligence

AI Feedback Analysis

12,617 support tickets turned into a real-time intelligence feed — categorized, trended, and surfaced to the team in a coffee break instead of a full business day.

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$630K value

Business Case

Transformation ROI Dashboard

Before/after view of the operational shift at COROS — what support looked like before CARA and RELAY, what it looks like now, and the documented numbers behind every claim.

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12+ systems

Full Portfolio

All Projects, All Outcomes

Every system built — operational, competitive, revenue intelligence, and leadership impact — with status, outcomes, and the specific problem each one was built to solve.

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Results

What the work has produced

$630K+
Annual Value Created
$500K capacity creation + $130K vendor elimination — no formal budget, no dedicated headcount
8–12 FTE
CARA Capacity Equivalent
AI handling full workload of 8–12 employees at 95%+ CSAT, 24/7
$130K+
Vendor Costs Eliminated
Zendesk, Aissist, and other dependencies replaced with custom platform
8hrs → 30min
Reporting Automation
96% efficiency gain — weekly reporting time from full business day to coffee break
5+ Departments
Cross-Functional Impact
Product, Marketing, Distribution, Operations, and Engineering — without formal authority over any of them
32 Globally
Team Under Management
US, Europe/UK, China, Philippines — transformed from reactive support to proactive customer success

Let's talk

I'm looking at VP and Director-level roles at companies serious about AI-driven transformation. If that's your team, I'd like to hear about it.