Prepared for Angela Yochem, CIO Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation

A New Digital Partner for Krispy Kreme's
Customer Experience

For the same investment you're making today, one accountable team delivers managed services, a slate of revenue-driving features already on your list, and a roadmap to a modern, Krispy Kreme-controlled architecture — well beyond the break/fix support you get now.

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The Business Case

What This Unlocks

Performance & Core Web Vitals
$0M/yr

Site speed alone could be worth $1M–$2M a year.

Estimated 5–15% conversion lift from Core Web Vitals and performance optimization.

Future-Dated Ordering
$0M/yr

One feature alone is worth $1.3M a year.

One of twelve priority feature projects already identified internally as revenue-driving.

Redirected WWT Spend
$0M/yr

Same spend. Dramatically more delivered.

Today's $1M–$2M WWT spend covers break/fix tickets only. Redirected to Elevate, that same investment funds managed services, all twelve feature projects, ongoing CRO and marketing execution, and the CX modernization roadmap — together.

Additional Feature Wins Already Sized
Rewards Experience ~$1M/yr

Retention lift from a redesigned rewards user experience.

Fundraising Digitization ~$330K/yr

New-channel revenue from digitizing the fundraising program.

Website & Mobile Optimization $800K–$2M/yr

Broader conversion gains across the website and mobile app.

Estimates are based on current conversion and traffic patterns and will be refined with Krispy Kreme's own data. Four of the twelve priority feature projects are sized above; the remaining eight will be sized as usage and conversion data become available.

Where Things Stand Today

Eight Years of Point Solutions on the Same Foundation

Krispy Kreme's digital support today runs through WWT on a one-off ticket and break-fix model. Reported spend for support and continuous small iterations has run $1M–$2M annually, though the exact run-rate is hard to pin down since it varies between break-fix work and ad hoc projects — itself a symptom of not having one accountable partner. Redirected to Elevate, that same spend does far more than keep the lights on.

8 Years on the same core foundation.
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What You Have

Today

  • One-off tickets with WWT; no single accountable owner for outcomes.
  • NCR Aloha has become NCR Voyix — same vendor, same core POS and identity dependency, just rebranded.
  • The custom middleware layer connecting these systems is still the same hand-built system in place for years.
  • OLO has grown from a delivery add-on into the core ecommerce engine, and now handles payments too.
  • The CRM moved from BeanstalkData to Paytronix — a lateral move, not a modernization.
  • Revenue-driving feature requests, like future-dated ordering, sit in a backlog with no dedicated team to deliver them.
What You Get

Proposed

  • One accountable Elevate team across managed services, feature delivery, and architecture strategy — for the same spend, doing far more than break/fix alone.
  • Sanity CMS, already the most modern piece of the stack, put to full use for near-term feature delivery while Lane 3 evaluates the right long-term platform.
  • A structured, prioritized path through all twelve already-identified feature projects.
  • A full assessment of the CX architecture, including POS, loyalty, and middleware — not just the website and app.
  • A roadmap toward infrastructure Krispy Kreme owns and controls, reducing reliance on tightly-coupled third-party platforms over time.
  • Delivered by a team already proven on Krispy Kreme's Project Nexxus platform engagement.
The Approach

Four Lanes, One Partner

Rather than choosing between fixing what's broken today and investing in what's next, Elevate proposes running four lanes in parallel, delivered under a single managed-services relationship.

A single point of contact for all web, ecommerce, and mobile support, replacing WWT's one-off ticket model with SLA-driven, accountable coverage — the base layer the other two lanes build on, for the same spend Krispy Kreme directs to WWT today.

Single Point of Contact

One accountable team for ongoing web, ecommerce, and mobile support, replacing WWT's ticket queue.

Issue Intake & Bug-Fix Program

Audit known issues on Sanity and clear the existing backlog.

Technical SEO Audit

Full audit and remediation across the site.

Core Web Vitals & Performance

Site performance optimization, tied directly to the conversion lift in the business case above.

Outcome

Web and mobile stability and SLA-driven support from day one, plus an estimated 5–15% conversion lift ($1M–$2M annual impact) from performance work alone.

Krispy Kreme has already identified twelve feature projects as revenue-driving priorities. Elevate proposes scoping and delivering against all twelve as part of this lane.

01

Future-dated ordering for out-of-stock items

Revenue · ~$1.3M/yr
02

Rewards user experience

Retention · ~$1M/yr
03

Future checkout blockers

Revenue
04

Pickup in the drive-thru

Experience
05

Support for new payment types and stored value

Revenue
06

Favorites, reorder, and past orders

Retention
07

Persistent cart on screen

Revenue
08

Mobile app install prompt on the website

Retention
09

"Build your own" experience overhaul (bigger doughnuts?)

Experience
10

Fundraising digitization

New Channel · ~$330K/yr
11

Catering

New Channel
12

Website and mobile optimization

Revenue · $800K–$2M/yr
Outcome

Four of the twelve items already carry estimated annual impact: future-dated ordering (~$1.3M), rewards UX (~$1M), fundraising digitization (~$330K), and website/mobile optimization ($800K–$2M). The remaining items will be sized as usage and conversion data become available.

This lane is scoped to cover Krispy Kreme's full customer experience architecture, not just the website and app. Systems in scope for assessment and consolidation include:

Website & Ecommerce
Sanity CMS, OLO
Mobile Apps
iOS & Android
Kiosk Ordering
Digital Menu Boards
Point of Sale
NCR Aloha / Voyix
Loyalty & CRM
Paytronix
Custom Middleware
Connecting all of the above
Catering & Fundraising
Including ezCater
Inventory & Demand Planning
Where it intersects with ordering accuracy
Outcome

A credible, evolving roadmap and business case for consolidating this estate onto a modern, Krispy Kreme-controlled architecture — reducing reliance on tightly-coupled third-party platforms over time. This lane evaluates whether and how these systems should evolve; day-to-day use of these same systems to run marketing and loyalty activity is covered in Lane 4.

Where Lane 3 asks whether and how Krispy Kreme's systems should evolve, Lane 4 puts today's systems to work: an ongoing, embedded capability for day-to-day marketing execution and conversion rate optimization, run in close partnership with Krispy Kreme's Marketing team.

Personalization & A/B Testing

Ongoing experimentation across web, kiosk, and other ordering channels.

Offer & Reward Targeting

A natural-language campaign builder, built on Krispy Kreme's existing loyalty program mechanics.

Continuous CRO Backlog

A continuously prioritized backlog of low-hanging-fruit conversion tests and fixes.

Campaign & Design Support

Creative and design support for the front-end digital experience: landing pages, promotional creative, and seasonal campaign builds.

Outcome

Incremental conversion and engagement lift from continuous CRO experimentation and campaign execution, layered on top of the stability delivered in Lane 1 and the features delivered in Lane 2.

Commercial Approach

One Partner, Funded By What You're Already Spending

Lanes 1 through 4 are delivered under a single managed-services relationship, funded by redirecting the spend Krispy Kreme already directs to WWT rather than adding new budget.

Same Spend, More Scope

For the same spend as WWT's break/fix tickets alone, Krispy Kreme gets managed services, all twelve feature projects, ongoing CRO and marketing execution, and a CX modernization roadmap, together.

Scope Evolves With Results

As Lane 1 stabilizes operations and Lanes 2 and 4 deliver measurable outcomes, Lane 3 grows from a strategic assessment into an active modernization program.

Marketing-Led on Lane 4

Delivered in close partnership with Krispy Kreme's Marketing team, who continue to own campaign content, creative direction, and brand decisions.

Final pricing, payment schedule, service levels, and scope will be documented in a formal Statement of Work under the existing Master Services Agreement between SC Consulting Services, LLC dba Elevate Digital and Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation, dated March 31, 2021.

Why Elevate

IP-Led Services, Not Staff Augmentation

Elevate isn't proposing to staff-augment your team or replicate WWT's ticket model with a different vendor. The model is simple: a small, senior team works embedded, directly against your priorities, building on top of Elevate's own proprietary platforms, EXP and ELP, instead of starting from scratch on every request.

Every fix, feature, and integration is delivered in tight iteration cycles, then compounds back into the platform — so the next piece of work moves faster than the last. It's an outcomes-based model, accelerated by an AI-augmented delivery approach, built for organizations that need production-grade software delivered fast, without sacrificing the architectural rigor and financial-controls discipline a system of this scale requires.

Embedded Team
Core PlatformEXP & ELP
Compounding Speed

Already Your Partner

Elevate has worked with Krispy Kreme on and off over multiple years, in addition to the active Project Nexxus engagement, the SBT platform replacement now underway. That history gives the team established context across Finance, IT, and Operations, and a working model for delivering against financially material, audit-relevant systems.

Your Elevate Team

Who You'll Work With

Jared Bronz
Executive Sponsor
Adam Morgan
CEO
Brandon Fieger
VP Engineering
Andrew Monson
Director, Technical Delivery
Jane Edwards
Client Engagement Lead
Lindsay Ogden
Strategy Lead
Next Steps

Let's Finalize Scope Together

This is a living proposal. We're ready to align on scope, validate the data behind these estimates with your team, and move to a formal Statement of Work.