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04 / AI · NEW PRACTICE 2026

AI for the
not-yet-an-AI-company.

The hype is exhausting. The opportunity is real. We help small businesses find the one or two AI workflows that pay for themselves — and ship them in weeks, not quarters.

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OUR POSITION

The opportunity is small,
specific, and shippable.

Most small businesses don't need an "AI strategy." They need one or two automations that quietly save five hours a week, every week. Quote generation, intake summarization, support triage, doc search, photo classification.

The trap is buying an enterprise platform to solve a five-person problem. The shortcut is starting with the work, not the tool — finding the highest-friction recurring task and aiming a tightly-scoped model at it.

That's where we come in. We've been writing software for 25 years. We know what to automate, what to leave alone, and how to ship it without betting the company on a vendor.

WHERE WE START

Five high-leverage starting points.

01

Document search

RAG over your contracts, SOPs, and quote history. Ask in English, get cited answers.

02

Intake → quote

Customer email becomes a draft quote, sized and ready for your review in 30 seconds.

03

Support triage

Inbound tickets routed, summarized, and pre-answered with the relevant playbook.

04

Vision QA

Photos of parts, jobsites, or shelves classified for issues. Runs on edge devices.

05

Voice → notes

Sales calls and field visits transcribed and summarized into your CRM automatically.

A six-week first engagement.

Week 1–2

Audit

We sit with your team. List the recurring frictions. Pick the one with the best ROI and lowest deployment risk.

Week 3–4

Prototype

A working tool, in your hands, on real data. Iterated three times in two weeks. No PowerPoint.

Week 5–6

Ship

Production deploy. Two of your people trained on it. A monitoring plan that doesn't require a data scientist.

SIX WEEKS · REAL DATA · NO POWERPOINT

Ready to find your
one useful AI workflow?

We start with an audit of your real friction points — not a feature wishlist. If there's a workflow worth automating, we'll find it and ship it.

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