For Small Business
Your team is too small for a marketing department.
That is the point.
AI engineering for small businesses with 5–20 people. Enterprise-level operations without the enterprise-level headcount. Built around the tools you already use.
The problem
Everyone wears multiple hats. Nobody wears them all well.
You have 5 to 20 people. Maybe fewer. Everyone does their job plus two other things. Marketing falls to whoever has time that week. Content is inconsistent. Follow-ups slip. Good leads go cold because nobody had the bandwidth to respond on Tuesday.
You know what needs to happen. Blog posts should go out weekly. Leads should get follow-ups within 24 hours. Reports should compile themselves. Social media should actually exist. But the team is already stretched, and hiring another person is a $60K+ commitment before they produce anything.
The gap is not talent. It is capacity. Your team knows what to do. They just cannot do everything at once.
What we automate
The work AI does best for small business.
Content Pipeline
Consistent blog posts, social content, and email newsletters — without a content team. AI researches, drafts, and formats. Your team reviews and approves before anything goes live.
Operations
Intake forms, scheduling, follow-ups, weekly reporting. The repetitive operational work that eats your team's hours gets systematized and automated with human checkpoints where they matter.
Lead Nurture
Prospects get timely, personalized follow-ups. Drip sequences, check-ins, and re-engagement happen on schedule. No more leads going cold because nobody had time to reply.
Internal Workflows
Data entry, status updates, report generation, cross-platform sync. The tasks your team does manually every week — automated, with the results waiting for review each morning.
How we work
Shadow. Systematize. Ship.
We use AI to find the bottlenecks in your business, then build custom systems that unlock its potential.
Shadow
We embed in your business and put Claude Code, Cowork, and ChatGPT to work on your real workflows. We watch what's manual, what's repetitive, and where time is actually leaking.
Systematize
We map every workflow AI can take over and design the seams — what runs on its own, and where a human stays in the loop. The judgment calls stay with you; the busywork doesn't.
Ship
We build, test, and deploy. You approve. The system runs in production while we monitor and sharpen. The more we free you up, the more you'll want to automate.
Pricing
Audit. Build. Run.
Most clients start with the audit. About half move to a build. About a third stay on retainer.
AI Audit
We embed for a week, observe your operation, and deliver a blueprint of every workflow AI can do better — ranked by ROI.
- 5-day shadow engagement
- Workflow mapping & gap analysis
- Tool stack recommendations
- Prioritized automation roadmap
- Cost-savings projection
Custom Build
End-to-end build of one or more custom AI systems. Content pipelines, dashboards, integrations, internal tools — whatever the audit prioritized.
- Custom AI workflows in your tools
- Integration with existing systems
- Approval queue & dashboard
- Documentation & team training
- 30 days of post-launch support
Retainer
Ongoing AI engineering. We maintain what we built, optimize what's running, and ship the next automation in your queue every month.
- Monthly automation additions
- Maintenance & optimization
- New integrations as needed
- Quarterly strategy review
- Slack channel for fast turnaround
Small business is the sweet spot. Big enough to feel the cost of the work that doesn’t grow you. Small enough that one well-built system changes the math.
Who this isn't for
If you have an internal automation team or a 50-person ops department, you're past us. This is for businesses where ops happens between everything else.
Where to next
Pick your next step.
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