My name is Noah Bulbring. I founded Bulbring AI, a workflow automation consultancy for businesses that run on manual work, and before that I founded Quitslip, an NFC-based digital receipt platform. This note explains how those two things connect, because the connection is the whole thesis of this firm.
Receipts first
Quitslip started with an observation at the point of sale: every day, businesses print millions of paper receipts that customers lose, crumple, or refuse, and that businesses then have no structured record of. We built Quitslip to replace that paper with a tap. A customer touches their phone to an NFC point, and the receipt lands as structured data instead of thermal paper. We raised our first capital, joined NORCAT's mentorship program, and confirmed our first merchant launches.
Building Quitslip taught me something that had nothing to do with receipts: the gap between what technology can already do and what small businesses actually use is enormous. Merchants were not resisting digital receipts because the technology was hard. They simply had no one whose job it was to look at the process and fix it.
Then documents
Working as a sales engineer for Virtual Postman, an enterprise document management platform, I saw the same gap from the other side. I sat with operations teams, mapped their document flows, and deployed automation into businesses that ran on paper and email. Companies were paying staff to move information between systems that could have been connected years earlier. Nobody had added up the hours.
Then the accounting file room
The third angle came from inside public accounting, at MNP, while studying Business Accounting at Cambrian College. Living inside a firm's workflows, I built internal tooling to automate my own repetitive work: parsing bank statements, organizing transaction data, producing clean, review-ready workpapers. The hours those tools returned to my own week are the reason Bulbring AI exists. If the automation was worth building for one junior accountant, it was worth building properly, for every business that runs this way.
The thesis
Three vantage points, one conclusion. Whether it is receipts at a cash register, documents in an operations department, or workpapers in an accounting firm, businesses lose their hours the same way: many small manual steps, each too minor to fix on its own, that nobody ever totals. Bulbring AI is the firm whose job is to total them, and then remove the worst of them.
That is why every engagement starts with an audit rather than a pitch. The measurement comes first. The build only happens where the numbers justify it.
If that approach suits how you think about your own business, write to me directly. You will get an answer from me, not a pipeline.
— Noah Bulbring, founder of Bulbring AI and Quitslip