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What we build

We build one system at a time, scoped in writing before any work starts. Each build is priced between $5,000 and $15,000 depending on how many moving parts it has, and the price does not move once we agree on it.

The systems that come up most often:

• Quoting, so an inbound request becomes a drafted quote waiting for a human to approve
• Follow-up, so no lead or open invoice sits silent because someone got busy
• Reporting, so the numbers you check every Monday assemble themselves
• Pipeline hygiene, so your CRM reflects reality without anyone nagging
• Content operations, so drafts, posts, and updates keep moving on a schedule
• Back-office paperwork, so intake forms, invoices, and routine documents stop eating afternoons

Why fixed price beats hourly

Hourly billing puts the risk on you. If the build takes longer than expected, you pay for the overrun, and the person billing has no particular reason to hurry. A fixed price flips that. We name the number up front, and slow work becomes our problem instead of yours.

Fixed scope matters just as much as fixed price. Before we write anything, you get a written description of what the system will do, what it will not do, and what done looks like. You can hold us to it.

That habit comes from engineering, not agency work. Jake O'Donnell is a licensed professional engineer who built and operated industrial gas systems, including a commercial CO2 recovery plant. Scope documents and acceptance checks are how that world runs, and we kept the habit.

Everything runs on accounts you own

Every build runs on your accounts, your keys, and your data. We do not host your automation on our infrastructure and rent it back to you. If you stop working with us, everything stays yours and keeps working.

AI usage costs pass through at cost, with no markup. The bills are yours, so you see exactly what the system costs to run, and no part of our income depends on hiding that from you.

After the build

Every system we build can hand off into managed operations at $1,500 to $2,000 per month, month to month, no long-term contract. That covers logging and validating every run against checks specific to your business, a plain-English monthly report of what the AI actually did, and one new automation or visible improvement each month.

You can also just take the keys. Because everything lives on your accounts, running it yourself is a real option, not a threat we hold over you.

We run our own operation the same way we would run yours. The founder's personal automation fleet, started in February 2026, runs 70 scheduled jobs with more than 10,000 logged runs, and its failure rate came down from 23.7% in May 2026 to 2.0% in June 2026. The telemetry is published publicly, because watching every run is what keeps automation honest.

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