We Turn AI Into Money-Saving Automation
Midnight Flow Consulting is a strategic AI automation agency built on a unique advantage: we own the platform we implement on. This means faster delivery, continuous improvement, and custom solutions that move your bottom line - not just impressive demos.
How Midnight Flow Consulting Began
Midnight Flow didn’t start as a business plan. It started with customer demand.
As the team behind FlowRunner, we built one of the most powerful automation platforms available – complete with AI agents, 400+ integrations, and intelligent workflow capabilities. But when businesses approached us for implementation help, we discovered something critical: having powerful technology isn’t enough. You need strategic expertise to identify which processes to automate first – and deep AI knowledge to apply it effectively.
Companies weren’t just asking us to build automations. They were asking fundamental questions: Which workflows would deliver the highest ROI? Which processes can AI handle well, versus where it creates more problems? How do you design AI agents that save money instead of just being impressive demos?
That demand created Midnight Flow, an automation agency combining platform ownership with strategic methodology and real AI expertise. We don’t just implement automation with our own technology. We help clients make smart decisions about what to automate, understand where AI genuinely fits, and build solutions that deliver measurable savings because we control the entire stack.
Our Background
Midnight Flow is led by Mark Piller, founder of Backendless and Midnight Coders – companies he built into major players in the automation and backend platform space without outside financing. Mark brings deep expertise in distributed computing, automation systems, and enterprise architecture.
This technical foundation matters because we understand automation at every level – from platform architecture to AI agent design to business process optimization. We’re not consultants who learned automation tools last year. We’re the people who built the platform, understand how AI agents actually work, and have been solving complex automation challenges for decades.
Our team combines product engineering expertise with strategic consulting experience. We know what’s technically possible, what’s practically achievable, and most importantly – what will actually save you money versus what just sounds impressive.
What Drives Us
We’re driven by a specific problem: businesses waste money automating the wrong things – or don’t automate at all because they don’t know where to start.
Most companies recognize they’re overspending on manual work. Invoice processing. Customer support tickets. Follow-up emails. Data entry. But when they try to automate, they either build what’s most annoying (not most valuable) or get overwhelmed by options and do nothing.
That’s what drives us: helping businesses make smart automation decisions first and then execute flawlessly. We want to change how companies think about AI, moving beyond “ChatGPT is cool” to “AI agents saved us $200K this year by handling invoice processing and lead qualification.”
Our goal is practical: make strategic automation accessible to mid-market companies, not just enterprises with massive IT budgets and armies of consultants. Every business should have access to intelligent automation that improves its bottom line.
The Product-Consulting Advantage
We don’t just use automation tools – we build and continuously improve our own platform, FlowRunner. This creates a unique advantage most agencies can’t offer.
How the Feedback Loop Works:
When we solve a challenge on your automation project, that solution gets built into FlowRunner. The next client who needs something similar gets it faster and cheaper. Common patterns we discover become reusable templates. What took 40 hours to build for one client might take 10 hours for the next.
This means you benefit from every project we’ve completed before yours. And future clients benefit from innovations we develop for you. The platform gets more powerful, our delivery gets more efficient, and our expertise compounds over time.
What This Means for You:
- Faster implementation – We’re not learning vendor tools or waiting on support tickets
- Custom solutions at template speed – Reusable components accelerate custom work
- Continuous improvement – Your challenges directly influence what features we build next
- No vendor lock-in – You’re not dependent on a third-party platform we don’t control
This isn’t just about owning technology. It’s about a self-reinforcing improvement cycle that makes us systematically better at solving your problems. The longer you work with us, the more efficient we become.
Small Enough to Be Agile, Big Enough to Deliver
We’re intentionally sized to balance agility with capability. Small enough to move fast, make decisions quickly, and give every project direct attention from experienced team members – not junior consultants learning on your dime. Big enough to handle automations of any complexity, from straightforward invoice processing to multi-department enterprise workflow systems.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, we’re an American company with a global footprint. We take on projects regardless of geography, delivering the same strategic expertise and platform advantages whether you’re in New York, London, or Singapore.
Where We're Going
We envision a world where AI-powered automation is standard practice, not cutting-edge luxury. Where mid-market companies have the same automation capabilities as Fortune 500 enterprises. Where business owners focus on strategy and growth instead of drowning in operational tasks.
Every automation we build, every process we optimize, every dollar we save – it all moves toward that vision. We’re not just consulting on automation. We’re building the future of business operations, one intelligent workflow at a time.
Ready to see how we can help your business? Let’s talk about your automation opportunities and identify your Quick Wins.