Plain answers about AI for small business, from the people who actually build it. Everything here comes out of systems we run inside real Austin companies — not a slide deck.
We publish what we learn running these systems inside real businesses. Read it, use it, ignore us.
If you run a business where people call you, the first useful thing AI can do has nothing to do with writing. It has to do with answering.
Read itThe subscription is the small part. Here is the whole bill, including the three lines nobody puts in the proposal.
Read itThe most valuable AI in a small business has no chat window, no name, and nobody talks to it. It just does one job every day without being asked.
Read itSix questions to ask before you put in a card. If a vendor cannot answer them plainly, that is the answer.
Read itThe jobs we build most often, written down so you can run them yourself. Free, no account, no email.
Texts back everyone who called while you were under a sink.
Watches for calls that did not get answered and sends one short message within a minute, day or night. It asks what they need and where they are. It does not quote, promise, or pretend to be a person. You pick the conversation back up whenever you are free.
Flags every quote that went out and never got an answer.
Keeps a list of what you sent and when, and nudges you -- or the customer, your call -- when one goes quiet past the number of days you set. This is usually the single most profitable thing on this page, because the work was already won and then it drifted.
Finds what is unpaid and sends the reminder you keep putting off.
Checks what is outstanding on a schedule you set, and sends a polite, specific reminder at thirty, forty-five and sixty days. Different wording each time, escalating the way a person would. You get told before anything goes to a customer you have flagged.
Every skill on this site is free to take. If you would rather we came and did it, that conversation is free too.