Unlocking AI Free readiness check
AI systems for small business owners

Win back the hours you lose to busywork.

You spend ~17 hours a week on repeatable work — follow-ups, prep, scheduling, content, admin. We build the AI systems that take it off your plate, wired into the software you already run on. It isn't the work that makes the money; it's the work that stops you.

Free readiness check · ~7 minutes · completely customized to you · no card
hrs / week
The hidden cost

Seventeen hours a week, gone to work a machine could do.

That's two full workdays — every week — spent on repeatable tasks instead of the conversations, decisions, and relationships only you can do. Most owners never get them back. The ones who do don't work harder; they hand the rest to a system.

Two kinds of work

There are tasks that make you money. Everything else is delegable.

You stay on the work only you can do. A fleet of AI handles the rest — drafting, scheduling, formatting, following up — in the background, all at once.

You — the owner
You — the owner
Your Million Dollar Tasks
  • Win the listing
  • Negotiate the deal
  • Work the sphere & referrals
  • Price & offer strategy
  • Hold the deal together
  • Land new clients
  • Advise on strategy
  • Deepen existing relationships
  • Build your reputation
  • Lead the team
  • Win the bid
  • Build referral partnerships
  • Train & retain your crew
  • Expand service territory
  • Negotiate vendor pricing
  • See patients
  • Build referral networks
  • Improve clinical quality
  • Grow the practice
  • Lead the team
  • Create the guest experience
  • Build community presence
  • Develop the menu & product
  • Manage vendor relationships
  • Train & retain staff
  • Win the pitch
  • Direct creative strategy
  • Build client relationships
  • Spot market opportunities
  • Grow the team
Follow-up sequences
drafting
Social posts & content
scheduling
Reports & proposals
formatting
Cold-lead follow-up
sending
CRM notes & tagging
syncing
Scheduling & admin
organizing
Email recaps & blasts
queuing
Everything else, handled →
Follow-up sequencesSocial posts & captionsReports & proposalsSchedulingCold-lead follow-upClient Q&AEmail blastsContent repurposingMeeting recapsCRM notesInvoice prepReview requestsStatus updatesData entryIntake formsLead sortingPast-client check-insOnboarding docsTask assignmentsCompliance checks Follow-up sequencesSocial posts & captionsReports & proposalsSchedulingCold-lead follow-upClient Q&AEmail blastsContent repurposingMeeting recapsCRM notesInvoice prepReview requestsStatus updatesData entryIntake formsLead sortingPast-client check-insOnboarding docsTask assignmentsCompliance checks
Projects · The memory

A new assistant on day one — versus one who already knows you.

Without a project

Raw chat. Every conversation from scratch.

  • Doesn't know your business or your clients
  • Doesn't know your writing voice
  • Doesn't know how you run things
  • You re-explain everything, every single time
With a project

The AI shows up already trained.

  • Knows your business, your clients, your history
  • Writes in your voice automatically
  • Follows your process by default
  • Starts every task 80% ahead
Skills · The plays

Teach it once. Run it forever.

A Skill is the difference between re-explaining a task every time and having a perfect playbook the AI runs on command. You build it once. It runs whenever you call its name.

AI Assistant · Listing WriterAI Assistant · Engagement DrafterAI Assistant · Estimate BuilderAI Assistant · Chart PrepAI Assistant · Menu WriterAI Assistant · Brief Builder
write the listing for 14 Lakeshore Drive
Triggering skill: listing-writer
Loading your voice, the comps, the photos…
Pulling MLS details, scoping the highlights…
Drafting your branded listing
draft the engagement letter for Henderson Corp
Triggering skill: engagement-drafter
Loading firm templates, scope notes, fee schedule…
Matching terms to engagement type…
Drafting your branded letter
build the estimate for the Johnson HVAC install
Triggering skill: estimate-builder
Loading your pricing, labor rates, parts catalog…
Calculating materials, scheduling crew…
Drafting your branded estimate
prep the chart for tomorrow's 9am with Sarah Chen
Triggering skill: chart-prep
Pulling recent labs, visit history, medications…
Flagging overdue screenings…
Building your pre-visit summary
write tonight's special — the prix fixe
Triggering skill: menu-writer
Loading your brand voice, seasonal ingredients…
Matching tone to the dining experience…
Drafting the description and social post
build the brief for the Acme Q3 campaign
Triggering skill: brief-builder
Loading brand guidelines, past performance, KPIs…
Scoping deliverables, aligning to objectives…
Drafting the creative brief
Automations · The autonomy

When the tool becomes an employee.

6:00
Trigger firesRuns on schedule. No app to open. Nothing to click.
6:01
Pulls the dataOvernight leads, new messages, and updates from the tools you already use.
6:03
Runs the playRanks your follow-ups, scores what's urgent, and drafts what needs sending.
6:05
Delivers the briefA ranked to-do list waiting in your inbox before you've poured the coffee.
Automation · Live06:00 · Trigger fired
Trigger fired · 6:00 AM
Pulling overnight data
  • Cross-reference leads
  • Score what's urgent
  • Draft what needs sending
Running the play
  • 1 · Call A. Reyes
  • 2 · Follow up — Tan
  • 3 · Re-engage Ortiz
Brief delivered to inbox
Connections · The reach

AI that can actually touch the systems you run on.

AI that can't see your systems is a brilliant stranger with no access. It doesn't know what's in your CRM, your calendar, your inbox, your books, or your job board. So you become the middleman: export, copy, paste, prompt, copy the answer back out. That copy-paste tax is why most people's AI habit dies in about three weeks. Not because the AI was bad — because feeding it was a job.

MCP — Model Context Protocol — is the open standard for connecting AI to the software you already use. It gives Claude a door into a system: it can read what's in there, and when you allow it, act in there. Anthropic published the standard and opened it; it's now how AI and business software talk to each other.

If Skills are the plays, MCP is the field access. Without it, the AI is drawing plays it can never run.

Without a connection

  1. Open the CRM
  2. Filter for stale leads
  3. Export to CSV
  4. Paste into a chat
  5. Describe what you want
  6. Read the output
  7. Copy each message
  8. Paste back into the CRM
  9. Send
~40 minutes. And you'll skip it next Tuesday.

With a connection

  1. "Who's gone quiet this month, and draft the follow-ups."
  2. It reads the CRM itself
  3. Ranks by who's closest to closing
  4. Drafts in your voice
  5. Queues them for your approval
~90 seconds. And an Automation runs it Tuesday whether or not you remember.

Without a connection

  1. Open the billing system
  2. Pull this month's time entries
  3. Cross-reference with engagements
  4. Paste into a doc
  5. Write each narrative by hand
  6. Format the invoices
  7. Send
~2 hours every billing cycle.

With a connection

  1. "Draft this month's invoices with narratives."
  2. It reads your time entries and engagement terms
  3. Writes each narrative in your voice
  4. Formats for review
  5. Queues for your approval
~10 minutes. Review and send.

Without a connection

  1. Check the job board
  2. Look at tech availability
  3. Text each tech individually
  4. Confirm with the customer
  5. Update the schedule
  6. Send confirmation email
~30 minutes per dispatch cycle.

With a connection

  1. "Schedule tomorrow's installs and confirm the customers."
  2. It reads the job board and tech calendars
  3. Assigns by skill and proximity
  4. Sends customer confirmations
~2 minutes. You review and approve.

Without a connection

  1. Run a report for overdue checkups
  2. Export the patient list
  3. Draft each outreach message
  4. Log the attempt
  5. Track responses
~1 hour per recall batch.

With a connection

  1. "Who's overdue for their annual, and reach out."
  2. It checks the EMR directly
  3. Drafts personalized messages
  4. Queues them for review
~3 minutes. Responses tracked automatically.

Without a connection

  1. Check review platforms
  2. Read each new review
  3. Draft a response
  4. Post it
  5. Flag any issues internally
~45 minutes, three times a week.

With a connection

  1. "Respond to this week's reviews and flag anything I need to see."
  2. It reads the reviews
  3. Drafts responses in your voice
  4. Flags service issues for your attention
~2 minutes. You approve and post.

Without a connection

  1. Log into each ad platform
  2. Pull campaign metrics
  3. Export to sheets
  4. Build the report deck
  5. Write the summary
  6. Send to client
~3 hours per client, per month.

With a connection

  1. "Build this month's performance report for Acme."
  2. It pulls the numbers directly
  3. Assembles the deck in your template
  4. Writes the narrative
~5 minutes. You review, add color, send.

Why connections are the multiplier.

Without connections, AI is a very good writer. With them, it's a very good employee.

Honest note 1

Some platforms have ready-made connections. Some don't yet, and get a custom build against their API. Some can't connect at all right now. Part of the work is telling you honestly which bucket yours is in — that determination is a Blueprint deliverable.

Honest note 2

You control the door. Read-only or read-and-act, scoped to the systems you choose, with approval before anything sends. Your account, your data, your permissions.

Proof · A real build

A custom CRM nobody thought could connect.

Quilia runs on a custom, in-house CRM — not Salesforce, not HubSpot, nothing with an off-the-shelf integration. That's the whole point: it's the situation most people assume disqualifies them.

We built an MCP server connecting Claude directly to it, with full read and write access. Their leadership and sales team now work the CRM by asking for what they need instead of clicking through it.

What that unlocked:

  • Ask the pipeline questions in plain language — pipeline health, what's hot right now, ranked triage of which accounts need a touch today. No building a report first.
  • Pull a full account picture in one move — history, notes, contacts, deals, objections, past demo transcripts — assembled for prep instead of hunted across tabs.
  • Write back to the system of record — log notes, create contacts, advance deal stages, set follow-up dates, update quoted amounts. No tab-switching.
  • Run ad-hoc analysis across the whole book without waiting on anyone to build a query.
  • Close the loop on revenue — generate the payment link for a priced offer and save it to the deal.

The CRM stopped being a place they had to go, and became something they could just ask.

Their CRM was custom-built, which is the hardest case there is. If we can connect that, the odds are good we can connect whatever you're running.

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What you could build · Reactivation

The Past-Client Reactivation Engine.

Your past-client database is a goldmine sitting in a spreadsheet. Most business owners touch it twice a year. Yours touches it every month — automatically, with the right message already drafted.

01
The anniversary window
Past clients hit a natural check-in point. AI knows the timing and drafts the message: personalized, relevant, and ready for your approval.
02
The re-engagement cycle
The average client relationship has natural touchpoints. AI watches for the moment and prompts a thoughtful reach-out exactly when it matters.
03
Life events — the public triggers
A milestone. A change. A signal. AI watches for the moment and drafts something genuine — not a template — timed to when it'll land.
You
Right person · right moment · drafted for you
What you could build · Daily briefing

The Daily Briefing.

Every morning, AI reads your CRM and hands you a ranked action list — who's gone quiet, who's got a deadline, who's due — with the talking points already drafted. You just start working.

Priority Actions · Wednesday, 27 May
01
Sarah Kim — no contact in 14 days · stage: Hot · "rates eased this week"
02
Patel Group — proposal expires Friday · urgency play
03
Marcus Chen — task due today: follow up on deliverable
04
The Hendersons — tagged "closing soon" · 5-day check-in due
05
Jordan Lee — in nurture 90 days · quarterly touch
Built on what your CRM already knows — last contact, stage, tags, tasks, notes — connected through tools like Follow Up Boss, HubSpot, or your own system.
What it looks like

Work that used to take hours, done in minutes.

A few of the systems we build. Some you run on command; some run on their own — all built around how you actually work.

Skill · Listings

Listing Description Writer

Hand it the address and a few photos; get a polished, on-brand listing description and the social captions to match.

Automation · Leads

The Lead Chaser

Watches new leads and drafts the first follow-up the moment one comes in — ranked by likelihood to close. You approve before it sends.

Skill · Pricing

The CMA Builder

Turn comps into a clean, client-ready CMA in minutes — instead of an evening at the kitchen table.

Automation · Open houses

Open House Follow-up

Every visitor gets a same-day, personal follow-up automatically — no more sign-in sheets going cold.

Skill · Showings

The Showing Recap

Voice-note your thoughts after a showing; get a polished client recap email before you leave the driveway.

Automation · Database

Sphere Reactivation

Quietly works your past clients and old leads, surfacing who to call this week — and the reason to call them.

Automation · Intake

Client Intake Processor

New inquiry comes in; AI pre-qualifies, gathers key details, and assembles a conflict-checked intake summary before you ever pick up the phone.

Skill · Engagements

Engagement Letter Drafter

Give it the scope and client; get a polished engagement letter in your firm's template, ready for review.

Skill · Meetings

Meeting Prep Builder

Before every client meeting: a one-pager with recent activity, open items, and talking points — assembled, not hunted.

Skill · Billing

Billing Narrative Writer

Turns time entries into client-ready invoice narratives — clear, defensible, and in your voice.

Automation · Clients

Client Status Update

Weekly: AI assembles a status update for each active engagement and sends it for your review. Clients feel informed without you writing a thing.

Automation · Retention

Renewal & Retention Alert

Watches for upcoming contract renewals and engagement anniversaries, then drafts the reach-out before it's overdue.

Skill · Estimates

Estimate & Quote Builder

Give it the job details; get a professional estimate with materials, labor, and your markup — ready to send.

Automation · Follow-up

Job Follow-up Sequencer

After every job: a thank-you, a satisfaction check, and a review request — timed and personalized, no clicks from you.

Skill · Materials

Parts & Materials Calculator

Describe the job; get a materials list with quantities, supplier pricing, and total cost — before you quote.

Automation · Reviews

Review Request Sequencer

Asks happy customers for a review at the right moment, in your words, pointed at the right page.

Skill · Marketing

Seasonal Campaign Drafter

Furnace tune-up season? AC check time? AI drafts the campaign — emails, door hangers, social — in your voice.

Automation · Dispatch

Dispatch & Scheduling Aid

Reads the job board and tech availability, suggests optimal assignments by skill and geography, and drafts customer confirmations.

Automation · Patients

Patient Recall Sequencer

Checks who's overdue for their annual or follow-up, then drafts personalized outreach — one approval, batch sent.

Skill · Referrals

Referral Letter Drafter

Give it the patient and the specialist; get a complete referral letter with relevant history pulled and formatted.

Automation · Chart prep

Pre-Visit Chart Prep

Before tomorrow's first appointment: recent labs, meds, visit history, and flagged screenings — assembled, not hunted.

Skill · Documentation

Post-Visit Summary Generator

Voice-note your assessment after a visit; get a structured summary with follow-up instructions ready for the patient portal.

Automation · Insurance

Insurance Pre-Auth Tracker

Watches pending authorizations, flags delays, and drafts follow-up faxes to the payer — before the patient's appointment.

Skill · Operations

Staff Schedule Planner

Give it the constraints; get a draft schedule that balances coverage, preferences, and compliance requirements.

Automation · Guest experience

Guest Follow-up & Review Requester

After every stay or visit: a personalized thank-you and a well-timed review request — timed, not templated.

Skill · Menu & Product

Menu & Product Description Writer

New special? Seasonal menu? Give it the details; get descriptions that sell — website, social, and print-ready.

Skill · Operations

Shift Scheduling Assistant

Give it your constraints and preferences; get a draft schedule that balances coverage and availability.

Automation · Inventory

Inventory Reorder Alert

Watches stock levels and flags what's running low — with the reorder drafted before you notice the shortage.

Automation · Marketing

Loyalty Campaign Drafter

Regulars, lapsed visitors, birthday month — AI segments and drafts the right message for each group, every month.

Skill · Content

Social Content from Ops

Turns today's kitchen prep, a beautiful plate, or a packed house into posts in your voice — without sitting down to write.

Skill · Strategy

Creative Brief Generator

Give it the client, the objective, and the audience; get a structured brief your team can actually execute against.

Automation · Reporting

Client Report Builder

Pulls campaign metrics, assembles the deck in your template, and writes the executive summary — every month, without the scramble.

Skill · Scoping

SOW & Scope Drafter

Describe the engagement; get a structured scope of work with deliverables, timeline, and pricing — in your firm's format.

Automation · Performance

Campaign Performance Summary

Weekly: AI scans active campaigns, flags what's working and what's not, and drafts the client-facing update.

Skill · Content

Content Repurposer

One long-form piece becomes a blog post, three social cuts, an email, and a thread — in the client's voice, not yours.

Skill · Pipeline

Pipeline & Pitch Prep

Before every new-business meeting: a one-pager on the prospect, their pain points, and how your work maps to them.

How to work with us

Three steps. Start free. Go as far as you need.

Start here · free

The Readiness Check

Free

A 7-minute assessment built completely around your business: where your hours go, what AI can take off your plate, and what those reclaimed hours could be worth.

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The real entry point · recommended

The Blueprint

$2,500

A 90-minute working session + full analysis. You leave with a workflow map, a stack & connection audit, a prioritized build roadmap, and one working system built live in your account. Yours to keep.

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Done for you · scoped from the Blueprint

The Build

$6,500–$12,000

The full system built for you, in your account, connections wired, automations running. Scoped from the Blueprint — a real number in writing, not a range.

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What's in the Blueprint:

  1. Intake — a short questionnaire before the session, so we hit the ground running.
  2. A 90-minute working session, live. Not a pitch. We map the repeatable work week and quantify where the hours leak.
  3. The workflow map — every repeatable process, hours attached, a dollar figure on the waste.
  4. The stack & connection audit — every platform sorted into three buckets: connects today, needs a custom build, can't connect yet. The hardest thing on the list to get anywhere else.
  5. The prioritized build roadmap — what to build, in what order, ranked by hours returned per unit of effort. Executable by anyone: you, us, or a future hire.
  6. One working system, built live in your account during the session. Yours to keep regardless of what happens next.
  7. The honest read — including, when true, "AI isn't worth it for this part of your business yet."
  8. A scoped build quote — a real number in writing, not a range.
Written deliverables within 5 business days.
Straight talk

Most "AI for your business" pitches won't tell you this: doing it yourself is real work, and most people quit. So we'll either teach you properly, or build it for you. Either way you leave with something that actually runs — not another tool you forget by Friday.

The reason the Blueprint costs money is that the diagnosis is the expertise. Anyone giving it away is selling you something else.

You built the business. Now reclaim your hours.

The free readiness check takes about 7 minutes, is built completely around your business, and shows you what those reclaimed hours could be worth. No card.

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