Services
The tool doesn't solve the problem or win the adoption. People do, once they know why.
That's where we come in: training for your team, an embedded partnership, or a one-off build. All of it grounded in your actual day-to-day reality.
What we do
Hire us to train your team, build the system, or both.
AI means nothing if you don't start somewhere.
Hands-on sessions where you and your partners find the 3-5 problems worth solving this quarter. Leave with a plan your team can run.
If you are stuck on what to do about AI (and keep putting it off).
Talk to us about your team →Take one team from curious to building.
One team, trained on their real work inside the systems you already pay for. They keep the prompts, templates and checklists, plus a week of office hours.
Whole company or one team. In the room or on Zoom.
Talk to us about your team →An embedded team to get you moving fast
An ops and engineering partner working with your team on the workflows with the greatest ROI. Weekly sessions, a monthly review, first build live in 2 weeks.
Scoped before any work begins. Priced monthly once scoped.
Open a seat →One workflow at a time, on the stack you already run.
Fix one thing, or build the operating system that connects your tools on one screen. Fixed scope, fixed price, live in 3-6 weeks. You own it.
Fixed scope, fixed price. No hourly rates.
Start a build →Why us
TL;DR: We're translators.
What happens
You leave knowing your next step.
Who does what, which tools you pay for, where the hours go.
And where they'd just add noise. Honest on both counts.
Working with us, working with someone else, or one thing to fix in the next 90 days.
The newsletter · Weekly · Free
Weekly field notes from inside $3M+ businesses with complex operations, messy physical realities, and the operators trying to modernize it all. Fast.
FAQ
Straight answers to what owners ask us first. The full list is on the FAQ page.
Who this is for
Yes, if your business runs on people in the field. We have shipped work for drywall contractors, general contractors, stove and hearth companies, and restaurant groups. We are not the right fit for software companies, agencies, or businesses that run entirely on screens.
Our workshops and custom builds are built for operators doing $3M+ a year, because that is where a crew, a schedule, and a customer list are big enough for systems to pay for themselves. Under that, start with the AI for Messy Jobs newsletter or a public workshop.
Nationally. We are based in the Tahoe and Reno area and work with operators across the United States. Workshops run in person at your shop or job site, or remotely. Builds run remotely, with on-site time when the work calls for it.
The offers
It depends on whether we are building something to solve a single workflow or a full operating system that integrates 3-5 of your existing tools. Generally, we can get something live in 3-6 weeks.
That depends on the complexity and how many systems the build is touching. We are upfront about the costs from the beginning. It is always a fixed, agreed price. No hourly rates. Partner work is priced monthly once scoped. Workshops are priced by length and by how many teams are in the room.
Your embedded operations partner runs weekly working sessions with your team and leads adoption. Our build team handles the engineering. Once a month, we hold a leadership review with you to check progress, clear blockers, and choose what gets built next.
Book a call if you are curious and want a read on where AI fits, or if you already know the job and want it scoped. That call is where your price and timeline come from.
The doubts
Most of what we build is plain automation: reminders, routing, scheduling, data moving between tools without a person retyping it. AI comes in where judgment is needed, like reading a message and deciding what it means. We say which is which, because calling everything AI is how operators pay for the wrong thing.
Your people are the strategy, so we build with them, on their real work, from the first week. If a crew will not use something, that is the design failing, and we change the design. Adoption is checked before we leave, not promised.
You do. Everything we build runs in your accounts, on tools you pay for. We teach your team to run it, then hand it off with the documentation and the logins. You can stop working with us whenever you want.
We document everything, train your team, and name an internal owner with you before we leave. If you want us on call after that, there is an access plan: a Slack line to us for questions and fixes.
Fifteen minutes on your bottlenecks and where AI actually fits. No pitch.
