My portfolio: a brick-and-mortar food service business that grew into multiple food trucks, a sports retail store that expanded online, and property management. AI has taken over most of my busywork: leads answered in under a minute, invoices written from one text message, bookkeeping that does itself. That freed me up to actually build, and to make the same tools for other business owners. Point at what's draining you, and I'll build the thing that makes it stop.
You're responding to inquiries hours or days later. By then, they've already called your competitor.
An AI agent monitors my inbox. When a lead comes in, it drafts a personalized reply, checks the calendar, and logs everything to the CRM, then waits for one tap of approval from my phone. Every reply I approve or edit gets fed back in, so it learns my voice and my calls as we go. Quiet leads get a friendly nudge without me remembering to send it.
Responding in 5 minutes makes you 8x more likely to convert vs. waiting just 6 minutes.
Cold email is easy to send and easy to get wrong. Blast a list and you burn the domain your real email runs on.
We send an AI agent out to scrape the web for B2B leads in whatever industry or area we point it at, and it verifies every email address it finds. No email? It looks for a contact form on their website. No form? It finds their social media pages so we can reach them there. It drafts every message in our voice, personalized to that customer and industry, and everything logs to our CRM. The whole time, an AI agent monitors the health of our sending domain, so our emails land in inboxes instead of spam folders.
Most cold email gets a business blacklisted because it never knows when to quit. The guardrails keep the domain your real mail runs on healthy. Across our own campaigns, about 1 in 20 cold emails gets a human reply, and our best segment runs 1 in 14. The domain is still clean.
Your customer list already exists. It's just scattered across years of email, your calendar, your payment records, and messages sitting in your social inbox.
We sent an AI agent through years of our email, our calendar, our Facebook messages, and our Square invoices, and it came back with the customer list we never knew we had: who was a real booking, who paid us but never got logged, who went quiet, who never converted. It rebuilt our CRM from that. And it keeps itself current: a new inquiry files its own contact and deal, and the deal moves down the pipeline when you answer the customer.
A customer list is only an asset if it's current, and most owners are sitting on one they've never actually assembled. We woke ours up afterward with a personal note and got people back with zero ad spend.
A vendor invoice lands as a PDF, and turning it into live Shopify listings takes hours.
At my retail store, a custom AI agent turns one vendor invoice into finished Shopify listings. It writes researched descriptions, sets retail pricing, cleans the product images, and files the inventory transfer record. Every listing leaves search-ready: clean titles, unique meta descriptions, image alt text, and complete structured data. A hard review gate sits in front of anything irreversible.
Manual data entry runs a 2-4% error rate, and in a catalog those errors are wrong prices and dead listings. The way people find products is changing fast, so complete, structured listings win on Google today and in AI shopping tools tomorrow.
Every month somebody retypes bank and credit card activity into the accounting system, one line at a time.
We built this converter with AI. It takes the monthly downloads from our checking accounts and credit cards and turns them into files QuickBooks imports directly. It was built on our historic QuickBooks data, so it knows our chart of accounts and how we classify each vendor, and transactions arrive already categorized. Anything it doesn't recognize gets flagged for review instead of guessed. It remembers every transaction it has already handled, so nothing can be imported twice.
Bookkeeping mistakes are expensive to find and miserable to hunt. Take out the retyping and you take out most of them.
Your training lives in unstructured data: old PDFs, random emails, scribbled notes, and most of it in your head.
We took exactly that kind of mess from our own shops and fed it to AI, which turned it into two clean guides: structured training notes for onboarding new hires more efficiently, and a sales guide full of tips, tricks, and the right way to sell.
Now every new hire learns the job the same consistent way.
Event inquiries land while you're working, and answering one means checking a calendar you don't have in front of you.
An AI agent reads the inquiry, checks it against the live calendar so nothing can be double-booked, and answers with a reply drafted in our voice. The contact and the deal get logged, and the event goes on the calendar once it's confirmed. All of that happens without anybody touching it. The one step left is the send: I approve from my phone, on purpose, because the last word in a customer conversation should be a person's.
Answering fast wins the booking. A double-booked weekend costs more than a slow reply ever did. This gets both right.
The schedule lives in your head, goes out by text, and somebody always misses it.
We used AI to build our own replacement for the $50-a-month scheduling app at both of my shops, shaped to how we actually schedule instead of how a vendor thinks everybody does. The crew taps an invite link once and they're in.
A schedule nobody argues about is worth more than the software it runs on. This one bills nothing every month, and it belongs to the business.
Writing invoices at 10 PM after a long day. Or worse, forgetting to.
"Invoice Danielle at Irongate for 4 hours at $150." That one sentence becomes a complete Square invoice: an AI agent looks up the customer, calculates the taxes, and writes the thank-you note in our voice. I preview and approve from my phone. Ten seconds, done.
Same-day invoices get paid faster, and nothing leaks money like the invoice that never went out.
Your point-of-sale platform rents you a loyalty program and holds your customer list hostage.
A tap-to-earn rewards program we own outright. Customers tap their phone at the counter and they're in. The list belongs to the business, not a POS platform hiding it behind a paywall, and it's ours to use for any marketing campaign we run.
The customer list is the asset. Platforms know it, which is why they charge rent for it.
An organization that still runs on paper time cards, with hours written down by hand and retyped on payroll day.
Simple phone entry, supervisor approvals, payroll-ready exports, and automatic reminders for the people who forget to write their hours down. No more guessed times, deciphering handwriting, or retyping on payroll day.
We built one dietitian a tool that runs her whole month.
It pulls the census in from her facilities, works out who's due for what, builds the list for each facility, drafts the assignment emails to her own dietitians, and tracks their hours and mileage for payroll. She's run every month through it since spring. We're building the version other local dietitians can use.
Not every problem needs a build. Before we automate anything, we look at how the business actually runs and tell you what's worth fixing, what isn't, and what you're better off doing yourself. Some of it turns into systems. Some of it is just a better way to work. We run the same process on our own ideas, testing whether something has a real market before spending a dollar building it.
I'm not an agency. I run a concessions business and a sports retail store in Columbia, Missouri. I got tired of doing everything manually, so I fixed it with AI. These systems run my businesses every single day. Now I build them for other owners.Chris Bailey, Founder
No six-month rollout. No enterprise nonsense. We find the one thing bleeding the most time and fix that first. Quick wins, measurable results, then we expand.
We look at your workflows and find what's leaking time and money. Not what you think the problem is, what the actual bottleneck is. Here's the test we use on our own businesses: if 500 new customers showed up tomorrow, what breaks first? That's where we start.
We leverage AI to build custom automations, custom software, whatever your business actually needs, tailored to how you work. Not generic templates. Not tools you'll never log into. Systems that fit into what your team already does.
We launch it, test it, and make sure it runs. If something breaks, we fix it. And anything public leaves the shop search-ready, structured so Google and AI assistants can read it. This site is built the same way.
We'll look at how your business runs, show you where things can be automated or done more efficiently, and tell you how we can help.