Start with one workflow, one department, or one painful admin bottleneck. You don’t have to understand servers or setups first. Every service comes at the right weight for the job: an off-the-shelf tool this week, a guided setup, a custom agent, or a build you own outright.
1Pick the bottleneck that eats the most hours: the phone, the inbox, the paperwork pile. If you’re not sure, that is literally what the free assessment is for.
2Check the weight tags on each card. A quick win is a tool you could run yourself this week. A guided setup means we configure it and train your people. A custom agent is built to your workflows. An owned build puts it on hardware you control.
3Mind the sensitivity chip. Routine work can use good cloud tools under business terms. Client, patient, legal, and financial records deserve the sensitive-data conversation before anything is signed up for.
Quick win
Try it this week with minimal setup
Guided setup
We configure it with you and train your team
Custom agent
Built around your actual workflow
Owned build
Runs on infrastructure you control
Quick tools first. Owned agents when the math earns it. You can stop after any step.
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The front door. Free, and most owners carry out half of it themselves.
Quick win
AI Tools Assessment & Prescription
Best for: Owners who know AI might help but don’t know where to start.
A 45-minute workflow interview: your week, walked like a jobsite
3–7 tools and workflows by name, with monthly costs and a four-day quick-start plan
The arithmetic: estimated monthly return, assumptions shown
Typical starting point: Free. This is the front door to everything else on this page.
Overwhelmed by the menu? That’s normal. It’s why the front door is free. Start with the free assessment and the prescription narrows this page to the two or three rows that matter for your shop.
The sensitivity chips, explained
■Routine
Schedules, general customer contact, public information. Good cloud tools under business terms are fine here. This is where the quick wins live.
■Commercially sensitive
Customer lists, pricing, financials. Usable with cloud tools under the right terms (retention off, no training on your data), and worth a conversation before anything is connected.
■Regulated / privileged
Patient records, client files, tax and legal matters. These get the sensitive-data conversation first, and usually a local-first or owned-infrastructure answer. We say “HIPAA-aware workflow review,” not “HIPAA compliant.” Certification claims are earned, not printed on a website.
Done with you
The AI Concierge
Most AI advice fails the same way: a report gets delivered, everyone nods, and nothing changes by March. The concierge is the opposite shape. A standing engagement where we build the workflows with you, on a rhythm, until they’re habits.
■Two 45-minute working sessions per month. Real screens, real workflows, not status calls.
■The audit → improve → automate cycle applied to one bottleneck at a time
■Claude / ChatGPT / tool setup and reusable workflow libraries for your roles
■Async questions between sessions with business-hour response expectations
■A living engagement hub documenting what was built, what changed, and what’s next
Quoted by scope. Early concierge engagements typically start around $1,200–$2,000/month depending on scope and response expectations.
Best after the free assessment or the blueprint, when we already know which workflows are worth improving. Sensitive workflows may call for owned or controlled infrastructure. The sensitivity flags in your assessment say which.
Want the full specifications for the custom agents, what each one does day to day, what it connects to, and exactly what stays on premises? The owned-agent catalog, in depth →
Not sure which service comes first?
That’s the free assessment’s job: 45 minutes, and the written prescription names the workflows with the clearest return, including the ones you can set up yourself.