Ironpeak AI Systems LLC
Independent pet retailers run on software built to ring up sales, not to run a business.
PawIQ is being built to be the system the business actually runs on — purchasing, inventory,
customer and pet records, staff and labor, marketing, storefront — with the intelligence
native to it instead of bolted on. It is delivered in stages, so adopting it costs a store
nothing on day one.
How a store gets there
- Phase one — run alongside. PawIQ reads the store's own data out of the point-of-sale already in place and returns what that system cannot: stalled special orders, margin leaks, dead stock, labor measured against sales. Nothing changes operationally.
- Phase two — run in parallel. Purchasing, financial visibility, loyalty and marketing move into PawIQ while the existing system still handles transactions, so every capability is proven in a working store before anything is committed to.
- Phase three — run on PawIQ. Storefront, appointments and checkout come across and the old system is retired. Migration is planned, tested alongside the operator, then cut over deliberately — never a leap.
Shipped and running today
- Special-order watchdog. Every special order with a stalled or aging status, and the deposit dollars sitting against them.
- Vendor cost and margin monitor. Margin by vendor and by item, cost increases that were never passed through, and retail prices that no longer match what the store pays.
- Dead stock and reorder points. What has stopped moving, and what the store's own sales velocity says a reorder point should be — not the POS default.
- Labor-cost monitor. Weekly sales per labor hour and labor as a share of sales, each measured against the store's own history.
- Customer and pet profiles. Purchase history assembled per pet rather than per transaction.
- Plain-language question bar. The owner asks a question about the store in ordinary English and gets an answer computed from the store's own data.
Two products, one core
PawIQ Pro
Specialty retail carrying inventory, purchasing and payroll complexity.
PawIQ Studio
Grooming and training operations, where clients, scheduling and payment finally live in one system.
Where it stands
Ironpeak AI Systems LLC was organized in Utah in March 2026 and operates from Frisco, Texas.
The first PawIQ release shipped in June 2026 and has been in continuous production use in an
independent specialty pet retailer since — built alongside its owner, a thirty-year pet retail
operator, rather than at her. The second release, labor-cost intelligence, shipped in August
2026. Studio opens in beta this September. Pro launches at Global Pet Expo in March 2027.
What it is not
Not a distributor or reseller — PawIQ holds no inventory and sells no pet products. And not an
industry benchmark report: every figure PawIQ puts in front of a store is computed from that
store's own transactions, never from a peer average.