For service businesses · 5–100 staff

AI for the businesses that actually do the work .

You’re running a clinic, a contracting shop, a firm. Your team doesn’t need another SaaS subscription — they need the boring half of the day to disappear. I build AI into the tools you already use (your phone system, your CRM, your QuickBooks) so the front desk can stop being the bottleneck.

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We were losing $8K a month in jobs because we couldn’t call leads back in under an hour. Adding more staff wasn’t the answer — being faster was.

— Owner of a 12-person HVAC shop, scoping a build with me Q2 2026

Workflows I’d ship for you

The four workflows I’d
ship for your business.

You don’t need all four. You need the one that’s actually costing you money this month. The first call narrows that down to one with a real price next to it.

Inbound lead capture & callback

PainA web form, two voicemails, and a missed-call list nobody owns. New leads wait 6 hours for a callback. You watch your CAC climb and don’t know it’s because half the leads ghosted before you reached them.

FixAI answers the form / SMS / voicemail within 60 seconds, qualifies fit (zip code, job type, urgency), books or schedules a callback in your real calendar, and pings the on-call tech in Slack or SMS. Conversion on inbound goes up because speed-to-lead is fixed.

Build cost$3K–$6K

Timeline2–3 weeks

Quote & estimate generation

PainEstimates take 2 days because they’re built in Excel from scratch every time. By the time you send, the customer has 2 other bids. You hire the wrong people because you’re always behind on quoting.

FixIntake form + photos → AI drafts a structured estimate using your past jobs as pricing reference. You review for 10 minutes, send same-day. Win rate on speed-bid jobs goes up.

Build cost$4K–$7K

Timeline3–4 weeks

Bookkeeping & invoice automation

PainBookkeeper bills $1,800/month and is still 3 weeks behind. Receipts pile up in the truck. Your QuickBooks doesn’t match reality. End of quarter is a fire drill.

FixPhoto of receipt → AI extracts vendor, amount, job code → pushes to QuickBooks with proposed coding. Bookkeeper reviews exceptions only. Bookkeeping bill drops 30–50%. Books stay current.

Build cost$3K–$6K

Timeline2–4 weeks

No-show prevention & rescheduling

PainFront desk spends 2 hours/day calling reminders, rescheduling cancellations, and re-filling open slots. No-show rate is 22% and growing.

FixTwo-way SMS reminders that actually have a conversation. AI handles confirmations, reschedules into open slots, and texts the waitlist when a cancellation happens. Front desk handles the 10% that need a human.

Build cost$2K–$5K

Timeline2–3 weeks

< 60 sec

Lead response time after build

30 –50%

Typical bookkeeping cost cut

6 weeks

From first call to live system

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Pattern · Service businesses 5–100 staff

What the first 6 months usually look like.

I don\u2019t have a publishable case study from a service business yet — most of my work is under NDA, and this part of the business is newer. So instead of fabricating one, here\u2019s the pattern I see in scoping calls.

Month 1: we audit your funnel, your phone system, and your books. I write a 1-page diagnostic — what\u2019s costing you the most, what AI can fix, what it can\u2019t.

Months 2–3: we ship the highest-ROI workflow first. For most service businesses, that\u2019s lead capture and callback — because losing 50% of inbound to slow follow-up is the most expensive problem you have. For others it\u2019s bookkeeping. We pick on the first call.

Months 4–6: the second workflow goes in. By month 6 your team has run the system for 90 days, the SOPs are written, and you can fire me without anything breaking. That\u2019s the model.

What you’re probably thinking

The real questions.

These are the objections I get on the first call. Same answers I’d give you on a Zoom.

We’re not a tech company. Is this for us?

Especially yes. The agencies and SaaS companies already have someone on staff who can wire this up. Owner-operated service businesses don’t — which is exactly why the ROI is highest here. I build everything into tools your team already uses (your phone system, QuickBooks, your calendar, SMS). Nobody has to log into a new portal.

Won’t this make us feel like a robot to our customers?

Only if it’s built badly. The good version: a customer texts at 9pm asking for a quote, gets a same-night response that books a real estimate slot, and a human shows up at 9am the next day. They’d call that <b>great service</b>, not a robot. Every customer-facing message has your voice, your tone, your business rules. AI is the engine, not the face.

What if it answers a customer wrong?

Every system I build has guardrails. Pricing is never set by AI. Anything ambiguous (a complaint, an urgent issue, anything outside the normal flow) gets routed to a human. The first 2 weeks run in shadow mode — every AI response is reviewed before send — so you see exactly what it would have said before it actually says it.

How much does it cost to keep running?

API costs for a service business at your scale typically run <b>$50–$200/month</b>. The systems are designed to be cheap to operate — most of them only fire when there’s a real lead, booking, or invoice to process. You’ll see the running cost in week 1 of the build and decide if it’s worth it before we ship.

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30 minutes.
We'll find the one thing AI can fix in your business.

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.

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Response time

Usually under 24 hours