I find the one workflow AI can fix, build it into the tools you already use, and train your team to run it without me. No lock-in. No 12-month roadmaps. Working system in under 6 weeks.
See the full case study“Eric was able to reduce our weekly reporting timeline by 75% and improve our internal communication methods greatly.”
Most AI consultants stop at slideware. I write the integration, deploy it into the tools you already use, train your people, and stay on the hook for the outcome — measured against the metric we picked together on day one.
Every engagement starts with a paid audit and ends with something measurable running in your business. No retainers without a deliverable. No “digital transformations” without a real number that moved.
One to two weeks inside your business. I shadow your team, look at the tools you already use, and leave you with a short list of fixes ranked by what each one is actually worth — and what isn't worth touching.
I act as your fractional AI engineer. I ship one working system at a time — built into the tools you already use, measured against a number we pick together, and handed off so your team can run it without me.
Once the first system is in, the work is keeping pace. Monthly working sessions, vendor review, hiring help, and a private channel where your team can sanity-check anything from a pricing email to a software contract.
Four ways to work together that don’t require a 6-week commitment. Good if you want to test the relationship before scoping a build — or if you just need a senior engineer’s view on a specific decision.
You’ve got one specific workflow in mind and want a real engineer’s view on whether it’s worth building, what it would cost, and the failure modes you’ll hit. No slides. No pitch.
A monthly working session for owners who don’t need a build yet but want to keep a senior engineer on speed-dial. Vendor decisions, hiring help, sanity-checking a contract, planning next quarter.
A half-day with your leadership team plus the 3–5 people who actually use AI day-to-day. We map your real workflows, identify the 3 worst time sinks, and leave you with a ranked list of what to build first.
Productized prompt packs and templates for specific workflows. Built from real client engagements, sold as-is. Not custom work — but a good starting point if you want to try before you hire.
Not sure which fits? Book a free 30-min call → and I’ll point you to the right one — even if that’s “none of these.”
No “contact us for pricing.” The actual numbers below. If something here looks too high or too low for what you need, the diagnostic call is $300 and tells you the right number for your specific build.
| Engagement | Price | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Diagnostic call | $300 | 60-min session + 1-page write-up |
| Template packs | $200 – $500 | Productized, same-day delivery |
| AI Readiness Audit | From $1,800 | 1–2 weeks · refundable if AI doesn’t fit |
| AI Office Hours | $900 / month | Monthly working session · cancel anytime |
| Team workshop | $3,500 | Half-day · in-person or Zoom |
| Workflow build | $3K – $12K | 3–6 weeks · per workflow |
One thing not on this list: retainers without a deliverable. I won’t do them. Every engagement has a written outcome and an end date.
Talk through pricing for your specific build → ↗A predictable, week-by-week cadence. You'll know what we're shipping, what it costs, and what number we expect it to move every Monday, without fail.
I shadow your team, look at the tools you already use, and map every workflow that's eating time or money. We start by understanding your business — not the AI.
Score every fix by dollar impact, effort, and risk. You leave with a short ranked list — not a wishlist — and an aligned team.
One working system, built into the tools you already use, with the metric tracked from day one. Your team trains alongside me so they own it the day I leave.
Monthly working session keeps the stack honest, the team sharp, and the next workflow scoped before the last one cools off.
One live case study below, then four patterns I build often. The first call is about figuring out which one — or which custom variant — fits your business.
“Eric was able to reduce our weekly reporting timeline by 75% and improve our internal communication methods greatly.”
Route incoming support tickets and order-status questions through an AI workflow connected to your existing helpdesk. The boring half of the inbox handles itself; your team spends time on the messages that actually need a human.
Generate first-draft proposals from a short intake form plus your past wins. Your team edits instead of writing from scratch. Win rate usually goes up too because proposals are sharper, not just faster.
Pull data off intake forms and faxes, normalize it, and push it into your EHR or practice management software. HIPAA-aware architecture; data stays inside your accounts.
Personalize the post-signup flow based on what a new customer browsed and how they answered two questions. Activation rates climb, which usually shows up as cleaner cohort retention 30 days later.
Triage new client intakes against your conflict rules and matter types, draft engagement letters from approved templates, and surface fee/scope estimates from past matters. Paralegal reviews instead of drafting from scratch.
AI ingests POS data, food cost reports, and labor sheets; auto-builds the weekly P&L narrative per location, flags margin slippage, and drafts the next week’s schedule against historical demand. GM reviews exceptions instead of building from scratch.
AI handles inbound lead SMS + email within 60 seconds, qualifies on budget/area/timeline, and books showings directly into agent calendars. Cold leads get a smart nurture sequence based on what they actually searched.
Customer texts photos + a short description. AI drafts a structured estimate using your past jobs as price reference. You review for 10 minutes and send same-day. Win rate climbs on speed-bid jobs because you’re not coming in three days late.
No new platform to migrate to. No subscriptions you didn’t ask for. Whatever your team is already in — Slack, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Notion — that’s where the AI workflows live. Here’s a sample of what I work with.
Some people read the page. Some people want to see the human before booking. This is for the second group.
Most consultants tell you what they’ll do for you. Here’s what I won’t. If any of these feel like dealbreakers, we’re probably not a fit — and that’s fine, it just means we both save a call.
If there’s a $30/month SaaS that solves your problem 80% as well, I’ll tell you about it and walk away. I’d rather lose a build than waste your money.
Everything I build lives in tools you already use, in repos you own, with written runbooks and recorded walkthroughs. You can fire me Tuesday and your team runs the system Wednesday. That’s the design.
No "AI transformation roadmaps." No monthly fees for a Slack channel. Every engagement has a written outcome attached — and you can leave when it’s done.
Every system runs in shadow mode for 1–2 weeks before it touches anything real. Customer-facing AI requires a human approval gate until you tell me it doesn’t. I’d rather ship late than wake you up to "the bot just told a customer X."
If a workflow can be done by a person at $25/hr more reliably than by AI, I’ll say it on the first call. Most of what I build augments your team, not replaces it. The honest exceptions get framed honestly.
About 1 in 4 first calls end with me saying "this isn’t an AI problem, this is a hiring problem" or "this is a software problem, not an AI one." I refund the diagnostic if I’m the wrong person for the job.
I'm not a McKinsey alum reading about AI on the weekends. I'm an engineer who has been shipping software for a decade and spent the last three going deep on what applied AI can and can't actually do in a working business.
I started this practice because the gap between what AI vendors sell and what small business owners actually need had become a chasm. Most teams don't need a model, they need an honest read on which one or two workflows to fix first, and someone who'll show up on a Tuesday to fix them.
I take a small number of clients per quarter so I can stay close to the work. Every engagement is scoped against a number we pick together — hours saved, revenue unlocked, errors avoided — and reported on weekly until that number moves. Currently working with GhostGrowth, where the first system cut their weekly reporting from 12 hours to about 3.
If I don't think AI is the right tool for your problem, I'll tell you on the first call and refund your deposit. I'd rather lose a client than waste their year.
Straight answers to what business owners actually ask on the first call. If yours isn't here, ask it on the call. I'd rather have the conversation than dodge it.
No pitch deck. No funnel. Just a working session where we look at what you're doing today, where AI realistically fits, and what it would take to ship one workflow in the next 6 weeks. If AI isn't the right tool for your problem, I'll tell you straight.