AI and Automation
Practical AI and automation for repetitive business tasks, built around the tools, inputs, and review steps your work actually requires.
Good fit for
- Small businesses repeating the same digital task every week
- Teams moving information by hand between tools
- Owners with a useful process that has become too time-consuming
- People who need a focused internal tool, not a vague AI strategy
Deliverables
- A map of the current task and its failure points
- A scoped automation or small internal tool
- Review points for work that should stay human-controlled
- Setup notes and a direct handoff
- Clear limits, dependencies, and running costs
Automate the task you actually do, not the demo version
Every AI pitch starts with what the technology can do. That’s backwards. It starts with the work already happening in your week.
Where does the information show up. Which decisions do you make the same way every time. What exceptions blow up the process. Who has to look at the result before it goes anywhere that matters.
The build comes out of those answers. Sometimes it’s a small internal screen, sometimes a script, sometimes a document pipeline, sometimes a connection between two tools you’re currently copying and pasting between.
The human checkpoint stays
Some steps shouldn’t run unattended. Money, sensitive messages, anything destructive, anything that needs a judgment call. Those get a deliberate stop where a person looks at it.
You should always know what the system did, where the output came from, and what it does when an input doesn’t fit the normal path.
Bring the current process
The useful discovery material is concrete:
- Three to ten real examples of the input
- One result you’d accept and one you wouldn’t
- A screen recording of how you do it now
- The tools and accounts involved
- The exceptions that eat the most time
- What a finished build should remove or improve, in plain words
If the task isn’t ready to automate, I’ll tell you. A smaller fix usually beats an elaborate system nobody trusts.
How the work runs
- Step 1 Show me the task
We walk through the real inputs, decisions, exceptions, and outputs. A recording or a few live examples is usually more useful than a polished requirements document.
- Step 2 Choose the right boundary
I identify what can be automated safely, what still needs judgment, and whether a simpler non-AI solution would do the job better.
- Step 3 Build and test
The system is tested against representative examples, including the messy cases that tend to break an otherwise convincing demo.
- Step 4 Hand off the system
You get the working build, setup notes, known limits, and a clear explanation of any services or accounts it depends on.
Common questions
What kinds of tasks can you automate?
Good candidates are repetitive, rules-based tasks with consistent inputs and a clear useful output. Triage, cleanup, document handling, lead research, content preparation, and moving information between tools are common examples.
Does every automation need AI?
No. If a script, form, or ordinary integration is more reliable, that's the better answer. AI is useful when the task involves messy language or classification, not as decoration.
What does a project cost?
Focused builds start at $800. Price and timeline depend on the number of systems involved, the quality of the inputs, security requirements, and how much review the output needs.
Will there be ongoing software costs?
Sometimes. Model APIs and third-party tools may charge by usage or subscription. You see every required service and its expected running cost before you approve the build.
Can you work with tools we already use?
Often, yes. Bring the current process and account constraints to the discovery call. I'll verify the available integrations before promising a connection.
What do you need from us?
Representative inputs, examples of a correct output, access to the relevant systems, and someone who understands the exceptions. The automation can only be as good as the process I can see.
Have a project that fits this service?
Send the brief, or look through the work before you decide.