About Path to AI

Path to AI is Yves Schleich, plus a team of agents.

I’m Yves Schleich, an AI operator for e-com brands. I help growing shops scale with AI: more visibility in Google and AI search, more efficient paid search campaigns and more conversions. Delivered with Claude and specialized agents, guided by nearly 15 years of e-commerce experience.

Yves Schleich, AI operator for e-com brands
Yves Schleich · Path to AI

Who’s behind Path to AI

I’ve been in e-commerce for nearly 15 years. I was at ABOUT YOU, then spent eight years building Lyska, my own e-commerce software consultancy, where I helped several companies scale their tech and e-commerce operations. Most recently, I headed tech and e-commerce at KarlvonDrais and worked as Tech Lead Operations at Liebscher & Bracht.

At Path to AI, I help e-com brands scale with AI. In practice, I use AI to improve their visibility in Google and AI search, make their paid search campaigns more efficient and optimize their shops so more visitors become customers. I work with Claude and specialized agents, which lets me cover several disciplines that would otherwise each need a separate expert.

What an AI operator does

An AI operator is neither a general AI consultant nor someone who just runs tools. I put AI to work inside specific e-commerce processes, prioritize the most important levers and own the result. That way a brand covers several disciplines that would otherwise each need their own expert.

  • Identify and prioritize the levers that matter.
  • Define processes and quality standards.
  • Deploy specialized AI agents for clearly scoped tasks.
  • Review the results and roll them out in the live shop and in marketing.
  • Either take over execution entirely or set it up together with the existing team.

What you’re paying for isn’t the agent system itself. It’s getting more of the e-commerce work that matters done, without hiring an extra specialist for every discipline right away.

How I work

Two ways, one goal. In both cases, accountability stays with me: one point of contact and a specialized AI team that does the work. We’ll figure out what fits your brand on the intro call.

Done-for-you: I handle it.

You still set the direction and make the big decisions. I come in as extra capacity and take on the full operational scope of a Head of E-Commerce myself: shop relaunch, SEO, GEO, conversion. Fast, without fuss, and without you having to hire anyone.

Done-with-you: Your team learns along the way.

I build the setup and hand it over to your team. At Original Veddel, that means the managing director now works directly in Claude instead of jumping between interfaces, from product enrichment to the finished collection page.

“Working with Yves has completely changed the way I work. I now run most of my operational tasks through Claude, all from one place: I adjust prices, create products in Shopify, connect them to our ERP and make theme changes myself. That lets me get things done on my own and at a speed that wasn’t possible before. Yves doesn’t just build individual automations. Together with us, he builds a way of working that actually holds up day to day.”
Ole Markscheffel, COO, TeamTex and Original Veddel Ole Markscheffel COO, TeamTex · Original Veddel · Translated from German

Brands I work with.

Intro call

Where is your shop’s biggest untapped potential?

On an intro call, we’ll look at where your shop stands today on visibility, paid search and conversion, and what your next three steps should be. Done-for-you or together with your team.