AI work that pays for itself.
I build and integrate AI systems for small and mid-sized businesses — automation, infrastructure, integration. Scope-first engagements, no platform upsell, no six-month strategy phase.
What I do
I build and integrate AI systems for real businesses. That usually means automating the work that's eating your team's calendar, wiring AI into the tools you already use, or standing up the infrastructure that turns a one-off experiment into something you can ship to customers.
What it doesn't mean: slide decks about AI's transformative potential, six-month strategy engagements, or recommending a $50k platform when a small script and the right API would do the job.
Common projects
- Turn scattered email, forms, and PDFs into routed workflows. Less time copy-pasting between systems, fewer dropped handoffs.
- Wire AI into the tools you already use: CRM, docs, email, support, spreadsheets, internal databases. Your team keeps their workflow; the AI does the busywork.
- Build internal agents and automations with audit trails and human review. Production-grade, not a Zapier prototype that breaks the first edge case.
- Replace manual reporting, research, and admin loops with small reliable systems. Hours back per week, measurable before and after.
- Help technical teams ship AI features without buying a bloated platform. Direct API integration, owned by you, no vendor lock-in.
Who I work with
Small and mid-sized businesses in Michigan and Texas — typically the owner-operator or technical lead who knows their business has AI-shaped problems but doesn't want to hand them to a generic agency. I'm based in Northern Michigan, in Central Texas regularly, and most work happens remotely either way.
If you've tried ChatGPT on your data and thought "there's something here, but I don't know how to ship it," that's probably worth a 20-minute call.
Why your project won't blow up
AI projects fail in predictable ways: hallucinated outputs sent without review, brittle prompts that break on real data, no way to tell whether the system is getting better or worse over time. I design around those failure modes from the start.
Claims get checked, not trusted. Outputs that affect customers or money go through human review until the audit trail says they don't have to. Baseline metrics get captured before the work starts so the win is measurable, not a vibe.
How engagements work
Scope-first. We start with a 20-minute call to see if there's a concrete workflow worth improving. If there is, I write up a scoped proposal with a fixed price, a defined deliverable, and a baseline metric to measure against.
Pricing: $5k fixed-price floor on scoped projects, $250/hr hourly when a project doesn't fit a clean scope. Flex on scope, not on rate.
No pitch deck. We'll figure out whether there's a concrete workflow worth improving — and if there isn't, I'll tell you.
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