Practical AI for Montecito businesses.

No catch. The AI audit runs automatically against your website and gives you a real scored report with specific findings. We follow up because some percentage of people want help acting on it, and that's how we get clients. But the report is yours either way, and the follow-up conversation costs you nothing.

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.

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.

Usually $50–$500/month per tool, depending on usage. 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.

Often yes, just not as a monthly retainer for an early team. If you're an early-stage startup or a lean firm that wants someone senior to own part of your technical roadmap, the most efficient way to work together is a scoped build: we define the outcome, agree on a fixed price, ship it, and hand it off. You get the senior judgment without paying for embedded hours you can't fully use yet. If you're past roughly $10M in revenue and genuinely need an embedded technical leader several days a week, that's a different engagement. Tell us and we'll talk through whether a fractional CTO arrangement fits.