For small businesses, not software companies
Where is your business hemorrhaging time?
In twenty minutes, we find one real place AI could save you time — not a full strategy, just a concrete starting point. If there's something there, I'll prove it works before you spend a dime.
What this isn't
Not another "give me $1,000, I'll automate something"
Anyone can type a prompt into an AI model and hand you a workflow that looks impressive in a demo. That's not expertise — it's a commodity action, and it's exactly why a lot of small business owners have gotten burned by AI "automation agencies" that build something, cash the check, and disappear when it breaks.
Where it usually shows up
Three places AI value hides in a small business
Lens 01
Document-heavy work
Where does someone on your team spend real hours writing something up after the fact — a report, an estimate, a proposal, a daily log?
Lens 02
Continuous monitoring
Where do things slip because nobody's watching closely enough, often enough — a schedule drifting, a job falling behind, a detail getting missed?
Lens 03
Response time
Where does a customer, a lead, or a subcontractor wait too long to hear back from you?
All three are really the same question asked three ways: where is time — which is money — leaking out of your business right now?
How it works
One call, a straight answer
We talk for 20 minutes
I ask about your actual day-to-day — not a sales pitch, a working conversation about where things get slow or messy.
I point to one specific starting point — or tell you honestly there isn't one yet
This isn't a full AI strategy. It's identifying the single best place to start, if one exists — I won't manufacture a project that isn't there.
If there's something real, I build it — free
A small, bounded first step, so you see it actually work before deciding on anything bigger.
Why listen to me
Twenty-eight years making systems not fall over
I spent 28 years in tech, the last 18 running IT operations for systems that couldn't afford to go down — the kind of work where "it mostly works" isn't good enough. I left that world on my own terms, betting I could do more good showing up for businesses my size than staying inside a much bigger one.
I'm not a fractional CTO and I don't do strategy decks. I'm an operator — the person who actually gets things running, not the person who tells someone else to.
Twenty minutes. A straight answer.
No pitch deck, no pressure, no package to sign today. Just a real conversation about where your time is going.