Personal automation from Charleston, SC

Make the task you dread disappear

You have a task you dread every week. Tell us what it is, and within one business day you get a free written plan showing exactly how it becomes automatic, what it would cost, and a flat no if it is not worth doing. Jake built and ran industrial plants before he pointed the same discipline at his own mornings, meals, and tee times.

Run by a licensed P.E. who automated his own life first. 152 jobs ran in the last 30 days, 1,327 runs logged, telemetry public.

The Teardown, free

Send us the task you dread

The teardown is a short written plan for your specific task, free, back to you within one business day. It shows exactly how the thing you keep putting off becomes something that just happens, and it says when the answer is don't bother.

  1. Tell us the task you keep putting off, in your own words. A short description is plenty.
  2. Within one business day you get back a short written plan for that exact task. It covers what watches for the trigger, what gets drafted or done, what stays in your control, and what it would cost.
  3. If the task is not worth automating, the plan says so and explains why. That answer is just as free.
  4. Take the plan and build it yourself, or ask us to build it with you. No obligation either way.
Work order · Teardown requestNo. ______

Free, no obligation. If the task is not worth automating, the plan says so and shows the math.

The mundane, made to disappear

Pick a card. This is what gone looks like.

The morning scramble

You wake up and spend the first stretch of your morning piecing together your calendar, the weather, and whatever happened overnight before you can think straight.

Automated

A briefing built from your calendar and the news is waiting before your alarm goes off, and you read it with your coffee instead of assembling it.

The Sunday meal panic

Every week you stare into the fridge, ask everyone what they want, hear nothing useful, and end up cooking the same few dinners.

Automated

A week of dinners drafted around your actual schedule shows up for a quick yes or a swap, grocery list included.

The tee time race

Booking windows open early, you forget until Friday night, and the good Saturday slots are long gone.

Automated

The slot gets booked the moment it opens, at a course on your list, under a budget the automation cannot raise, with a log of exactly what it did.

Date night

You both agree you should go out more, and then weeks pass because nobody wants to do the planning.

Automated

A plan lands on your phone with the where and when handled, and the only thing left to do is show up.

The school-pickup shuffle

The pickup change, the permission slip, the practice that moved. Something slips through every single week.

Automated

The reminders arrive before the deadline instead of after, checked against the family calendar so tomorrow's conflict gets flagged today.

The follow-up you keep not sending

The email or invoice sits half-written in your head for weeks while the guilt compounds daily.

Automated

The draft is queued and waiting for your approval, so the hard part left is clicking send.

What a Teardown looks like

Two real ones, from Jake's own life

“I want a Saturday tee time at a decent course, but booking windows open early and I always forget until the good slots are gone.”
Watches
A scheduled job wakes up on booking-release mornings and checks your preferred courses for Saturday openings.
Does
It books the best available slot from your course tier list, inside a hard spending cap, skipping any Saturdays you've blocked, and writes every action to a log you can read.
You keep
The spending limit, the tier list, and the skip dates are rules the automation cannot override, and the log shows exactly what it booked and why. Jake runs this exact setup for his own Saturdays.
Cost
This fits inside a Personal Fleet setup, from $1,500 on accounts you own. A simpler version is a realistic Sit-Down project at $250 for two hours.

Worth automating, because it recurs every single week and the hard guardrails make it safe to run without you watching.

“Every Sunday I burn a chunk of my afternoon planning the week's dinners, and we still end up eating the same few things.”
Watches
A weekly job runs before your planning day, checks your calendar for busy nights, and looks at what you've cooked recently.
Does
It drafts a week of dinners that fit your actual schedule, keeps quick meals on the packed nights, builds the grocery list, and sends both to you for a fast yes or a swap.
You keep
Nothing gets bought or ordered without you. You approve or edit the plan with a quick look, and your family's preferences live in a file you can change anytime.
Cost
A classic Sit-Down build. $250, two hours hands-on, and you leave with it running plus a plain-English cheat sheet.

Worth automating, because the thinking is the chore here, and this takes the thinking off your Sunday for good.

Get yours, free

If you want it built

Three sizes, no subscriptions you forget about

PER-100

The Sit-Down

$250 · two hours, hands-on

Bring your phone and the thing that annoys you most. You leave with your first automation working and a plain-English cheat sheet.

PER-200

The Personal Fleet

From $1,500 · scoped to your life

A real setup on accounts you own. The briefing, the meal plan, the logistics, the bookings inside guardrails you set.

PER-300

The Personal Watch

$150 a month · optional

Runs checked, breaks fixed, one improvement a month. Cancel any time and everything keeps working.

The full personal offer lives on the personal page. Every number is on one pricing page.

Why trust this

Built by someone who runs it on his own life

I'm Jake O'Donnell, a licensed professional engineer. I spent my career operating industrial plants, where quiet failures cost real money. In February 2026 I pointed that discipline at my own week: booking my golf inside hard money limits, planning our meals, briefing my mornings.

As of 2026-08-27, 152 of my jobs ran in the last 30 days with a 4.4% failure rate, and 1,327 runs are logged all time. Those numbers are computed from the fleet's own log every time this site builds, and the telemetry is public, bad months included. Everything I set up for you gets the same watching, on accounts you own.

More about Jake

Nameplate
JAKE O'DONNELL, P.E.
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
FLEET COMMISSIONED FEB 2026
152 JOBS (30D) · 1,327 RUNS
FAIL RATE 4.4% · AS OF 2026-08-27
Fair questions

Questions we hear

Who sees my accounts and my data?

Everything runs on accounts you own. Your passwords stay yours, nothing external ever sends without your approval, and the automations live in your accounts, not ours. If you walk away, it all keeps working without us.

My task feels too small or too weird to bother with.

Small and weird is the sweet spot. The tee time, the meal plan, the reminder you keep missing. Send it anyway. The teardown is free, and if it is not worth automating, we'll tell you that in writing instead of selling you something.

What does this cost?

The teardown is free, no obligation. If you want to build, The Sit-Down is $250 for two hours hands-on, where you leave with your first automation working. A full Personal Fleet starts at $1,500 on accounts you own. The Personal Watch is an optional $150 a month, month to month, with runs checked, breaks fixed, and one improvement a month. Details on pricing.

I'm not technical at all.

You don't need to be. The Sit-Down is two hours side by side, and you walk out with your first automation actually running plus a plain-English cheat sheet for keeping it alive. If you can describe the chore, you're technical enough.

Can an automation touch my money safely?

Only inside rules you set. Jake's own tee-time booker runs under a spending cap it cannot raise, a course tier list it cannot override, skip dates it must respect, and a log of every action it takes. That's the pattern for anything involving money. Hard limits you own, and a record you can audit.

What happens if I stop paying?

Everything keeps working. You own the accounts and the automations live in them, so nothing shuts off when you stop. The Personal Watch is month to month and purely optional. Cancel it and your fleet keeps running; you just handle the fixes yourself with the cheat sheet.

For business

Run a business too?

The same discipline that books a tee time under a hard budget and logs every move also runs audits, builds, and managed operations for companies. If the mundane work you want gone belongs to your team instead of your Saturday, start at our business page.

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