Business automation, built and run for you · Charleston, SC

Quotes out the same day. Invoices chased. Reports that build themselves.

That is what our systems do. We build them on accounts you own, then we watch them every day, report in plain English every month, and ship one improvement a month. Finding out what this would save your business takes two weeks and costs $1,000 for the first three clients, $2,500 after.

AI that shows up for work, run by a licensed P.E. who operated real plants first.

Run your own number

What is the repetitive work costing you?

Your inputs, your math. Nothing is sent anywhere.

At those numbers that work costs about $17,500 a year (50 working weeks). Finding out how much of it can be handed to software costs $1,000 for the first three clients. The rest of the pricing is here.
The systems we install most

Pick the hours you want back

Every system is built for how your shop already works, delivered working, and watched after it ships.

The Quote Desk

An inbound request becomes a drafted quote waiting for your approval, the same day.

Reads the inquiry, pulls from your price list and past jobs, drafts the quote in your format. A missing line item gets caught by checks written for your business before it reaches anyone.

The Chaser

No lead, open quote, or unpaid invoice sits silent again.

Watches sent quotes, open invoices, and quiet leads, drafts the follow-up on your cadence, and queues each one for your approval. Every touch logged, so you can see what got chased and what got paid.

The Monday Report

The numbers you run the week on assemble themselves before you sit down.

Pulls from the tools you already use and builds the recurring report on schedule in plain English. Stale or missing numbers get flagged instead of shipped.

The Intake Desk

Every new inquiry gets answered, qualified, and filed the same day it arrives.

Drafts the first reply minutes after an inquiry lands, asks the qualifying questions you always ask, and files the record so the pipeline you decide on is real. You approve every reply.

How it works

Find the wasted hours. Hand them to software. Keep them off your desk.

Three steps, in order, each priced before it starts. All pricing lives on one page.

Step 1 · AUD-100

The Audit

$2,500 flat · $1,000 for the first three clients

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 audit See a sample report
Step 2 · BLD-200

The Build

$5,000 to $15,000 per system

An inbound request becomes a drafted quote waiting for your approval. A quiet lead gets its follow-up. The Monday report shows up already built. The Quote Desk, The Chaser, The Monday Report, The Intake Desk. Fixed scope and fixed price, on accounts you own, delivered working.

About builds
Step 3 · OPS-300

The Operations Watch

$1,500 to $2,000 a month · month to month

Breaks get caught the day they happen, not the week a customer notices. We watch every run, send a plain-English report of what got done, and ship one new improvement every month. No contract holding you here.

About the watch

How the four paths compare

Do it yourselfThe Audit, $2,500A Build, $5,000 to $15,000The Watch, $1,500 to $2,000/mo
WHAT YOU GETFree tools and your eveningsA dollarized map of your automatable work plus one quick win runningOne system delivered working on accounts you ownEverything watched, repaired, reported, one improvement every month
TIME TO VALUEWeeks of tinkering, maybeTwo weeksWeeks, scoped in writing before work startsContinuous
WHO MAINTAINS ITYou do, foreverYou decide after the mapYou, with a plain-English cheat sheetWe do, and you see the log
BIGGEST RISKSilent failure nobody noticesNone. Worst case is a written "do not automate this"Scope creep, capped by fixed priceNone held over you. Month to month, everything stays yours
How it runs

The maintenance schedule

Automation that nobody watches fails silently, and you find out at the worst time. Ours runs on a schedule, like equipment should.

IntervalWhat happens
EVERY RUNLogged, timed, and checked against rules written for your business. A run that finishes with a bad deliverable counts as a failure, not a success.
EVERY MONTHA plain-English report of what got done, what got caught, and what it saved. Plus one new automation or visible improvement, included in the fee.
ALWAYSYour accounts, your keys, your data. Usage costs pass through at cost. Walk away any time and everything we built stays yours, still working.
Proof

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.

I started automating my own work in February 2026. By June the fleet had grown to about 70 scheduled jobs and passed 10,000 logged runs, and I publish its telemetry, including the month I let the failure rate climb to 23.7% and the work that brought it to 2.0%. That discipline is what I install for clients.

Watch the fleet run, live More about Jake

Nameplate
JAKE O'DONNELL, P.E.
PRINCIPAL · O'DONNELL AI
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
FLEET COMMISSIONED FEB 2026
FAILURE RATE 23.7% → 2.0%
Industries

Built for businesses that run on real work

The best systems come from knowing where the hours actually go. We work with:

FAQ

Questions we hear

What does the audit cost and include?

The audit is $2,500 flat and takes about two weeks. The first three clients get it for $1,000 while we build our case-study bench, and the report says which client number you are. 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 something breaks?

Failures get caught the day they happen, not the week the invoice goes missing. Every run is logged and checked against rules written for your business, and fixing what breaks is what the monthly fee is for.

Who owns what you build?

You do. The systems run on your accounts with your keys, and every deliverable is yours. If we part ways, you keep all of it, still working. 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.

What happens when you reach out

Four steps, no surprises

  1. Send the one job you dread, through the form or by email.
  2. You get a straight answer within one business day, including that it is not worth automating when that is true.
  3. If an audit makes sense, we schedule the two weeks.
  4. The report and one working automation land. You decide what happens next.
Get started

One message starts it

Tell us the most annoying repetitive job in your business. We will tell you whether it can be handed to software and what that would cost.

Goes straight to Jake, nobody else. How your info is handled.

hello@odonnellai.com 781.534.0355 Charleston, SC · on-site across the Southeast