Bringing enterprise-level efficiency to small and mid-sized businesses

Automate the work. Give your team their week back.

Simplifying AI for business owners who don't have time to figure it out.

30 minutes. You walk away with a written blueprint of what's worth automating, what isn't, and what to do next. No pitch.

Fixed scope · no retainers
Free 30-min blueprint call
Built into tools you already use
Portland-based · remote-capable

What we build

Give your team time back. Measured on outcomes, not hours.

The categories where automation gives people their time back.

The work that doesn't need a human

Handles data entry, approvals, and document generation — so your team does the work you actually hired them for.

Every new client, started faster

Intake, contracts, and onboarding run automatically — your team stays focused on the relationship, not the admin.

Numbers without the Monday morning scramble

Live metrics from your existing systems — no stale reports, no analyst spending half their week assembling them.

Sales. Marketing. Finance. HR. Operations.

Every department has the same problem: manual work that should have been automated years ago. We find it, build the fix, hand it off.

Recent work

Real businesses, specific outcomes.

All case studies →
Legal staffing

Weeks

to AI search visibility

Now they're getting found on ChatGPT

A Tampa Bay legal staffing firm was invisible on AI search and paying outside developers for changes that should have taken minutes. We rebuilt the site, restructured it for AI-powered search, and within weeks clients and candidates were citing them from ChatGPT and Perplexity.

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Legal staffing

10 hrs → 10 min

weekly job posting time

One click to post. Zero confidentiality incidents.

A legal staffing firm was posting every job manually across five platforms. We built an automated dispatch system with a Claude-powered review pass and a single-click approval gate. The operations lead now spends under 10 minutes per week on job posting — down from 10 hours.

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Professional services

4 platforms

from a single workflow

Nobody logs into four platforms anymore

A professional services firm was manually publishing the same content to four different platforms every week. We built a Google Sheets content calendar with an automated publishing pipeline. Scheduling and approval still happen in the sheet — distribution runs itself.

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Commercial real estate

12 min → 30 sec

Per-prospect research time

The AI foundation a tech-forward CRE firm now runs themselves

A tech-forward brokerage knew AI could change how they worked, but the volume of new tools and weekly feature drops kept them stuck at the starting line. We built the architecture, shipped the first production workflows, and handed over a foundation the team now extends on their own.

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How we work

Fixed scope. No retainer required.

Five steps from first call to running systems. See the full process →

1

Free call & Automation Blueprint

30 minutes to understand what's costing your team the most time. Then two weeks mapping your workflows and ranking them by impact. You get a written roadmap — yours to keep, whether you work with us or not.

2

Build and integrate

Fixed-scope delivery on the workflows your blueprint prioritized. Built into the systems your team already uses — no new software to learn. We don't declare anything done until it has run unattended for two weeks.

3

Handoff and operate

Full documentation and runbooks so your team can maintain what we built. Optional ongoing support as your AI operator — monitoring systems, fixing breakage fast, and surfacing new opportunities as your business changes.

Why us, not a big firm

A senior team that ships, not a large firm that meets.

Right-sized for your scope

Most small and mid-sized businesses are priced out of the big AI consultancies. The ones who aren't end up paying for partners, account managers, and slide decks before anyone touches the actual work. We're built for businesses that can't justify a six-figure engagement but deserve work that holds up.

Senior practitioners on every engagement

No discovery call followed by a handoff to a junior team. We design and build every engagement with a senior network behind the work. The relationship, the judgment, and the accountability stay with us.

Your business comes before any software

We're not here to push a platform you don't need or oversell scope. Sometimes the answer is custom-built. Sometimes it's something off-the-shelf. Sometimes it's "don't automate this yet." You get the recommendation that fits your business, even when that means less work for us.

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