QUOTINGDEGRADED
Two days to turn around an estimate. Jobs go to whoever answers first — and lately that isn't you.
For businesses running on spreadsheets & willpower
AI that actually ships.
We document how your business really runs, find where the hours leak out — quoting, scheduling, invoicing, the phone — and build automation that takes the busywork off your team. A plan in two weeks. Working software in six.
FROM AI-CURIOUS／TO AI-RUNNING／NO TECH TEAM REQUIRED
OUTERAGENT· OPS FEEDWHAT WE BUILD
● SIMULATED FEED6 WORKFLOW PATTERNSTHE BUSYWORK, HANDLED
Roadmap intake openTarget reclaimed 10–15 hrs/wkPayback bar < 6 monthsBuilt for owner-run businesses · 5–50 peopleFounder-led no juniors
System diagnostics
You don't have an AI problem. You have a Tuesday problem.
The business works. That's why it's growing. But growth is exposing every process that depends on someone remembering to do it.
PHONESMISSED
Calls after 5pm go to voicemail. Voicemail goes nowhere. Each missed call is a job you never knew you lost.
INVOICINGBACKLOG
The work is done; the money isn't in. Chasing payments is a part-time job nobody was hired for.
DATA ENTRYMANUAL
The CRM, the job software, and QuickBooks don't talk. So a person retypes everything — and the owner is the integration layer.
Most AI pitches are vapor. Here's the part that isn't: this work is repetitive, rule-based, and already documented in your inbox.
That is exactly the work automation is good at. Not strategy. Not judgment. The Tuesday stuff. We find it, price it, and build it.
Deployment pipeline
One low-risk path from curious to running.
No big-bang projects. No open-ended retainers up front. Each stage earns the next, and you can stop at any of them.
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● START HERE — FREE
Score
The AI Readiness Scorecard. Nine questions, two minutes, instant score. See where the hours are leaking before anyone gets paid.
$02 MIN
02
● FLAT FEE — CREDITED
Roadmap
Two weeks inside your operation. A prioritized plan with cost and payback estimates for every opportunity, ranked by return.
$2,5002 WEEKS
03
● SCOPED & FIXED
Build
Custom agents and workflow automation, built alongside your current process. Weekly check-ins. Switched on when the numbers check out.
$10K–25K+4–6 WEEKS
04
● ONGOING
Care
Monitoring, fixes, iteration, and support — plus Team Training so your staff actually use what's built. We don't disappear after launch.
MONTHLYCONTINUOUS
Service monitors
What we build — described as outcomes, not features.
Four offers. Each one exists to make a specific kind of busywork stop being your problem.
SVC / 01 — THE AI ROADMAPINTAKE OPEN
Know exactly what to automate — and what to skip.
Two weeks documenting how your business actually runs. You get a prioritized plan: every automation opportunity, what it costs, what it returns, and which one to do first. If AI isn't the answer for your business, the Roadmap will say so.
$2,500 FLAT2 WEEKS · 100% CREDITED TO BUILD
SVC / 02 — BUILDRUNNING
Custom agents and automation that do real work.
Built for your processes, not someone else's template. What that looks like, in plain terms:
→ an assistant that answers every call and books jobs — even at 2am→ quotes drafted in 20 minutes instead of 2 days→ invoices that chase themselves→ the CRM and job software finally talking to each other→ Monday reports that write themselves
$10,000–$25,000+4–6 WEEKS · WEEKLY CHECK-INS
SVC / 03 — TEAM TRAININGSCHEDULED
So your staff actually use what's built.
Half-day, hands-on workshops with your real workflows — not slideware. The front desk, the office manager, the estimator: everyone leaves knowing exactly which buttons are theirs. Adoption is the whole game; this is how we win it.
FROM $1,500HALF-DAY · ON-SITE OR REMOTE
SVC / 04 — CARE PLANMONITORING
We don't disappear after launch.
A monthly retainer for monitoring, fixes, iteration, and support. When your phone provider changes something at 6am, we know before you do. Software that's watched stays useful; software that isn't, rots.
FROM $750/MOMONITORING · FIXES · ITERATION
The first call, de-risked
The AI Roadmap.
$2,500FLAT · 2 WEEKS · NO SURPRISES
100% CREDITED TOWARD YOUR FIRST BUILD
Two weeks inside your operation. We sit with the people who do the work, document the processes, and find the automation opportunities with the highest return and the shortest payback. You get a plan you could hand to any builder — including not us.
Honest by design: if AI isn't the answer for your business, the Roadmap will say so — in writing, with the math. You'll have paid $2,500 to not waste $25,000.
ROADMAP / DELIVERABLES — WEEK 2
- [✓]Process map of how your business actually runsQuoting, scheduling, invoicing, calls — documented from the people who do it.
- [✓]Ranked automation opportunitiesEach one scored on hours saved, cost to build, and time to payback.
- [✓]Cost & payback estimate per buildReal numbers. "14 hours a week back," not "dramatic efficiency gains."
- [✓]A do-this-first build planScope, timeline, and price for the single highest-return project.
- [✓]The honest verdictIncluding "don't automate this" and "buy the $40/month tool instead" where true.
Worked examples
The numbers a build has to clear.
Three worked scenarios from the operations we know best — and the math we hold every build to.
~0hrs/wk
Owner time reclaimed
$0k
Won jobs in 6 months
+0%
Consultations booked
0/7
Calls answered & triaged
SCENARIO / 01 — TRADES
A regional HVAC contractor · 23 people
Quote turnaround
2 days→20 min−98%
Owner hours reclaimed
~14 hrs/week+14 H/WK
Extra won jobs · 6 months
$150–200kTHE PRIZE
Quotes drafted from site notes and photos, priced from their own book, reviewed by a human before sending.
SCENARIO / 02 — LOGISTICS
A freight brokerage · 41 people
Dispatch → QuickBooks entry
By hand→AutomatedAUTO
Staff time on re-keying
~3 days/week→~0−3 DAYS/WK
Entry error rate
Near zero≈0%
Every load, invoice, and settlement now moves between dispatch software and QuickBooks on its own.
SCENARIO / 03 — LEGAL
A law firm · 12 people
Intake coverage
9–5, weekdays→24/7ALWAYS ON
Consultations booked
+25–35%TARGET
Calls answered & triaged
Every one100%
Urgent matters routed to the on-call attorney. Everything else booked, summarized, and waiting at 8am.
WORKED EXAMPLES · YOUR NUMBERS COME FROM YOUR ROADMAP
Run the diagnostic
How automation-ready is your business?
Nine questions about how the work actually gets done — quoting, scheduling, invoicing, the phone. Two minutes. Your score shows instantly, free, no email required to see it.
- [✓]Your readiness score, 0–100, on the spot
- [✓]Your top 3 automation opportunities, as outcomes
- [✓]Estimated hours you could reclaim each week
Transparent ranges
Pricing you can repeat to your accountant.
No "contact us for pricing." You'll know the number before the first call, and the exact scope before any build starts.
Scorecard
Free
2-minute diagnostic. Score, stage, and your top 3 opportunities — instantly.
NO EMAIL NEEDED FOR THE SCORE
The AI Roadmap
$2,500 flat
2 weeks. Process documentation, ranked opportunities, cost & payback per build.
100% CREDITED TOWARD YOUR BUILD
Build
$10K–$25K +
Custom agents & workflow automation. 4–6 weeks, weekly check-ins, fixed scope.
PRICED IN YOUR ROADMAP — BEFORE YOU COMMIT
Training & Care
From $750 /mo
Half-day team workshops from $1,500. Care Plan: monitoring, fixes, iteration, support.
CANCEL ANY MONTH · YOU OWN EVERYTHING
Every engagement starts with the Roadmap, and the Roadmap fee comes off your first build. Translation: if we end up working together, the diagnosis was free. Full pricing detail →
Straight answers
The questions owners actually ask.
The same answers you'd get if you asked us on a call.
We're not technical — is that a problem?
No — it's the assumption we start from. The owners we build for run crews, studios, clinics, and caseloads — not servers. We talk in your processes: quoting, scheduling, invoicing, answering the phone. Your team's job is to tell us how the work actually happens. Ours is everything after that.
What if AI doesn't actually fit our business?
Then the Roadmap will say so — in writing, with the math. Some Roadmaps end with "fix the process first" or "a $40/month off-the-shelf tool already does this; buy it." You'll have paid $2,500 to not waste $25,000. We think that's a good trade, and it's why people trust the ones that say "build."
Who owns what you build?
You do. The accounts, the automations, the documentation — all in your name from day one. If we vanished tomorrow, everything keeps running and any competent shop could pick it up from our docs. No lock-in, no hostage situations.
How disruptive is the build to daily operations?
About an hour a week. We need one point person for a 30-minute weekly check-in and the occasional question. We build alongside your current process, run both in parallel until the numbers check out, then switch over. Nobody stops quoting jobs because we're in the building.
Why is the Roadmap paid?
Because free assessments are sales pitches wearing a costume. The Roadmap is two weeks of real diagnostic work, and the plan is yours to take to any builder — including not us. And since the full $2,500 is credited toward your build, it costs nothing if we work together.
What happens after launch?
We don't disappear. Every build includes 30 days of support, and the Care Plan is there after that: we monitor the workflows, fix what breaks, and keep improving what's running. Software that's watched stays useful. Software that isn't, rots.
SYSTEM READY · AWAITING INPUT
Your competitors are still reading AI thinkpieces.
You could be running.
Two minutes to your score. Two weeks to your plan. Six weeks to working software. Stop at any point — but start.
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