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[ 001 ]AI FOR BUSINESS
BUSINESS-FIRST. NO JARGON. NO BLOAT.
Practical AI for businesses doing real work.
Whether you're a solo practitioner, a startup founder, or running an established business: if AI feels like a distraction instead of a tool, that's what we fix.
We build useful tools that fit your existing workflows. Hire us for one Audit, a single build, or as an ongoing partner running your stack. As involved as you need, for as long as it makes sense. Starts with a 1–2 week Audit. No commitment beyond.
REAL THINGS WE BUILD —
CRM Cleanup Daily Outreach Bots Document Parsing Voice-to-Notes Custom GPTs Workflow Automation Internal Search
Useful. Boring. Yours. [ 002 ]HOW WE WORK
Three engagements. No commitment until it works.
Every relationship starts with an Audit: a fixed-price, fixed-scope engagement that maps your top friction points. Build only what's worth building. Run it ongoing only if you want. We use the latest AI models and always recommend the most cost-efficient tool for each problem. Sometimes that's a custom build. Sometimes it's a $0 workflow you can configure yourself. We'll tell you which.
FOR CONTEXT —
FT engineer~$150k+/yr
FT ops hire~$80k+/yr
Boutique agency project$25k+/engagement
A scoped Build$3k+
The Audit$2.5k+
01 / ENTRY
The Audit
$2,500+· 1–2 weeksA focused, structured engagement to understand your business and ship a concrete roadmap. We sit with your team, watch the workflows, and identify where AI is actually worth the money.
- Stakeholder interviews: 3–6 conversations
- Workflow shadowing & pain mapping
- Quick wins for tools you already use
- Prioritized roadmap with priced next-step builds
- No retainer, no commitment, no upsell pressure
02 / BUILD
Workflows
$3,000+· per buildUseful tools built directly into how your business runs. Each one is a fixed-scope project: designed, built, and handed off. You own the result.
- Designed around your existing workflow, not against it
- Typical build: 1–3 weeks
- Custom GPTs, agents, automations, dashboards
- Integrated with your tools (HubSpot, Airtable, Sheets, etc.)
- 30 days of post-launch support included
03 / ONGOING
Operator
$1,500+/ monthWe run your AI tools so you don't have to. As hands-on or hands-off as you want. Monitoring, maintenance, model updates as new versions ship, and light new builds as you grow. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
- Tool monitoring & uptime checks
- Model updates as new versions ship
- Light new builds (counted toward monthly hours)
- Quarterly business review & roadmap refresh
- Cancel anytime with 30 days' notice
[ 003 ]THE AUDIT
Two weeks. Four phases. One real plan.
Most consultants charge $25k for a deck. We charge $2.5k+ for a working roadmap with priced builds you can act on, or take to another shop if you'd rather. Either way, you leave with a real plan.
01 / DAYS 1–2
Listen
Three to six interviews with you and the people doing the actual work. Goals, constraints, what's broken, what's working. We come prepared, you don't.
02 / DAYS 3–6
Watch
Shadow the workflows that came up. The CRM at 9am Monday. The reporting on Friday afternoon. The tool no one likes but everyone uses. We map it all.
03 / DAYS 7–10
Prescribe
Quick wins (no build needed) plus a prioritized list of small custom builds, each scoped, sized, and priced. Some you'll do. Some you won't. Some you'll punt for next year.
04 / DAYS 11–14
Hand off
A 60-minute walkthrough of the roadmap with you and your team. You leave with a working document you can implement yourself, hire someone else for, or hand back to us for the build phase.
[ 004 ]EXAMPLES
Real problems. Real builds. Real numbers.
Based on real engagements. Realistic timelines, deliberately boring. If something feels close to your situation, it probably is.
EX / 01
~$3,500
REAL ESTATE Solo broker, $4M GCI
Voice-to-text outreach capture during drive time. Daily morning "who to call today" tool that summarizes activity and surfaces stale contacts. CRM gets actually used.
AUDIT + BUILD~$3,500
EX / 02
~$8,000
ACCOUNTING Boutique firm, 8 staff
AI-assisted document intake: clients upload, the system parses, categorizes, and flags missing items before staff touches it. Saves ~6 hours per client at intake.
AUDIT + BUILD~$8,000
EX / 03
~$12,000
SPECIALTY CONTRACTOR $12M revenue, regional
Bid-generation tool that pulls from past projects, scopes labor and materials, and outputs a proposal in your template. Bid turnaround drops from 3 days to 4 hours.
AUDIT + BUILD~$12,000
EX / 04
~$10,000
DTC BRAND $6M/yr, lean ops team
Customer-support assistant trained on your help docs, return policy, and recent orders. Handles 60% of inbound; escalates the rest with full context. Cuts ticket volume by half.
AUDIT + BUILD~$10,000
EX / 05
~$9,000
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Consulting firm, 15 people
Internal knowledge search across past project briefs, contracts, and Slack history. Anyone can find "who did the last engagement like this and what did we learn" in seconds.
AUDIT + BUILD~$9,000
EX / 06
~$11,000
LAW FIRM Boutique practice, 6 attorneys
Discovery-document triage that ingests PDFs, summarizes by issue, and flags privilege risks for an attorney to confirm. Cuts initial review time from days to hours and keeps the billable judgment work with the lawyers.
AUDIT + BUILD~$11,000
EX / 07
~$7,500
SHOPIFY STORE DTC apparel, $3M/yr
Product-description generator trained on brand voice + current SEO data, plus a returns-classifier agent that auto-tags the reason and routes to the right inventory bucket. New SKUs go live in minutes, returns get processed with no human touch on 70% of cases.
AUDIT + BUILD~$7,500
[ 005 ]FIT
Who this is and isn't for.
From solo practitioners to growing SMBs — if you run a real business and want practical AI without a 6-month transformation project, you're in the right place.
FOR
- Solo practitioners — real estate agents, lawyers, accountants, consultants
- Startups and early-stage teams wearing too many hats
- Established SMBs with revenue, customers, and operational drag
- You've tried ChatGPT and seen the potential but can't get it to stick
- Your operations run on spreadsheets, email, and duct-taped SaaS
- You want small, useful tools — not a transformation project
NOT FOR
- Series B+ companies with a dedicated engineering team
- You want us to build your product or replatform a SaaS
- You expect AI to replace your team in 90 days
- Never used AI tools and not sure where to start? The Audit is still the right first step.
- You need a logo, website, or marketing campaign
- You want a 12-month contract before seeing any value
[ 006 ]FAQ
The questions that always come up.
An Audit is two weeks of senior attention on your business: interviews, workflow shadowing, written deliverables, a 60-minute hand-off. The output is a real document with priced builds you can act on. Cheaper than two days of a typical consulting firm. About a third of an entry-level engineering hire's monthly salary. The price is calibrated so the relationship starts honest: pay for the thinking, not for time.
That's a perfectly good Audit outcome and it happens. If the right answer is "you need a checklist, not an agent" or "fix your CRM hygiene before adding tooling," that's what the deliverable says. We'd rather lose the upsell and keep the trust than build something that won't move the business.
Sometimes. If the scope is genuinely tiny (under $5k) and the requirement is clear, we'll roll it directly into a build with a compressed Discover phase. Most of the time the Audit pays for itself by killing the wrong build before it starts. We've never regretted starting with one.
Yes. Every tool lives in your accounts (your Google Workspace, your Anthropic/OpenAI key, your Airtable, etc.) under your credentials. We don't put anything between you and the AI provider. If you decide to take it in-house or hire someone else, you keep running.
Honest answer: usually $50–$500/month per tool, depending on usage. A custom GPT or simple agent might be $30/month. A high-volume support assistant could be $300+. We'll give you cost estimates in the Audit before you commit to anything, and we use the cheapest model that gets the job done, not the most impressive one.
Always. We use the cheapest model that gets the job done, not the most impressive one, and we'll flag when a $0 native feature or a simple Zapier workflow solves the problem better than a custom build would. The Audit is specifically designed to surface these answers before you spend on the wrong thing. If the right move is "don't build anything yet," that's what the deliverable says.
The Audit includes hands-on time with anyone on your team who's already using AI — usually we leave them noticeably better at prompting and tool selection. If you want a deeper standalone training, we can scope that as a half-day workshop ($1,500–$3,000). It's not the main offering but it's something we do regularly.
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