AI that shows up for work.
O'Donnell AI builds automations for your business, then runs them. Monitored, checked, reported, and improved every month. You own every piece of it. Finding out what AI could take off your plate costs $1,000 and takes two weeks.
Run by a licensed P.E. who operated real plants before operating AI.
Audit. Build. Operate.
Three steps, in order, each priced before it starts. Most clients begin with the audit and keep the operations retainer.
AI Ops Audit
Two weeks inside your business. You get a written map of what is automatable, what each item costs you today in hours and dollars, and one quick win implemented before the report lands.
About the auditAutomation Builds
Quoting, follow-up, reporting, pipeline hygiene, content operations. Fixed scope and fixed price, built on accounts you own, delivered working.
About buildsManaged Operations
We watch every run, validate every deliverable, ship one new improvement each month, and send a plain-English report of what your AI did. No contract holding you here.
About managed opsThe maintenance schedule
Automation that nobody watches fails silently, and you find out at the worst time. Ours runs on a schedule, like equipment should.
| Interval | What happens |
|---|---|
| EVERY RUN | Logged, timed, and validated against checks written for your business. A run that finishes with a bad deliverable counts as a failure, not a success. |
| EVERY MONTH | A plain-English report of what your AI did, what it caught, and what it saved. Plus one new automation or visible improvement, included in the fee. |
| ALWAYS | Your accounts, your keys, your data. Usage costs pass through at cost. Walk away any time and everything we built stays yours. |
Run by an engineer who has run real plants
I'm Jake O'Donnell, a licensed professional engineer. I spent my career building and operating industrial gas systems, including a commercial CO2 recovery plant, where equipment that fails quietly costs real money.
In February 2026 I started automating my own work with AI. About 135 days later my personal fleet runs 70 scheduled jobs with more than 10,000 logged runs, and I publish its telemetry, including the month I let the failure rate climb to 23.7% and the work it took to bring it to 2.0%. That discipline, watch everything, check everything, report everything, is what I install for clients.
PRINCIPAL · O'DONNELL AI
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
FLEET COMMISSIONED FEB 2026
INCIDENT RATE 23.7% → 2.0%
Built for businesses that run on real work
The best automations come from knowing where the hours actually go. We work with:
Straight answers
What does the AI Ops Audit cost and include?
The audit is $2,500 flat and takes about two weeks. The first three clients get it for $1,000 because we are building our public case-study bench, and we will say so in the report. You get a written map of every automatable headache in your business with the time savings put in dollars, plus one quick win implemented before the report lands.
Do I need to be technical, or buy new software?
No. We build on accounts you own, connect to the tools you already use, and hand you a plain-English report every month. If you can read email, you can run this.
What happens when an automation breaks?
Every run is logged and every deliverable is checked against validators written for your business, so failures get caught the day they happen instead of the week the invoice goes missing. Fixing them is what the monthly fee is for.
Who owns what you build?
You do. The automations run on your accounts with your keys, and every deliverable is yours. If we part ways, you keep all of it. AI usage costs are billed to you at cost, with no markup.
Do you work outside Charleston?
Yes. We are based in Charleston and work on-site across South Carolina and the Southeast. Plenty of the work runs remotely once it is set up, but we show up in person when it matters.
One email starts it
Tell us the most annoying repetitive job in your business. We will tell you, honestly, whether AI can take it and what that would cost.