We start with a conversation.
An hour, about your business. What your day looks like, what keeps breaking, where the time goes. No pitch, no slides.
Steubenville and Weirton area
AI for your business, explained by someone local who actually uses it.
No hype, no jargon, and nothing that reaches your customers without your say-so. Serving small businesses in the Steubenville and Weirton area, remote or in person.
Where to start
You already know AI matters.
What nobody's told you is where to start, which is a very different problem.
Most owners are stuck between two bad options. Ignore it and hope, or hand your business to a national platform that's never seen your work. There's a third option: sit down with someone local, look at the jobs actually eating your week, and pick the one worth handing over first.
That's the whole idea. Start with one thing. Get it right. Then decide what comes next.
What this is really about
Not trimming. Growing.
The point isn't to run your business with fewer people. It's to make the people you have go further.
A team of three that can take on the work of a much larger shop wins the jobs it used to turn down. That's where the value is. Not trimming, growing. Not surviving on less, reaching for more.
The wave of change coming to your industry is real. The businesses that come through it are the ones whose people got stronger, not smaller.
Let me be straight with you about the rest of it
You've read the headlines, and I'm not going to tell you they're wrong. AI is going to be hard on the job market. That's a real and unpleasant side effect, and anyone selling you AI while pretending otherwise isn't being honest with you.
Here's what I actually believe. The companies that move early, and the people inside them who learn to work this way, stand the very best chance as the world becomes AI-dominated. Not because AI will spare them. Because they'll be the ones who know how to use it.
That's the whole reason to learn this now rather than later. Not fear, and not hype. The businesses in this valley that start figuring it out this year are going to be in a very different position than the ones that wait to be forced.
I'd rather you be in the first group. That's the job.
How it works
One conversation. One plan. One follow-up.
That's the foundational engagement, start to finish.
You get a plan built for you.
Not a generic list of tools. The specific things worth trying in your business, in the order worth trying them, written so you can actually start.
We go through it together.
A follow-up session where we walk the plan, answer what came up, and get you moving on the first one.
If you have a team
There's a larger version for owners who want their managers and department leads involved.
A ninety-minute session across departments, a strategy guide specific to each one delivered within a few business days, and a follow-up workshop where the team sees the tools work and picks their own first wins. Department leads leave with something to do on Monday, not a document to file.
It starts the same way the one-on-one engagement does. Book the discovery call, say you have a team, and we scope it on that call.
What you get either way
- A discovery session, one on one or with your team
- A plan written for your business, not a template
- A follow-up session to get you actually started
- Access to two custom tools: one that turns a rough request into a well-structured prompt, and one that translates technical language into plain English for whoever needs to read it
- Someone local to call when you get stuck
The rules I work by
Three rules. Every engagement.
These are the same rules taught in the free 30-day series, and they're how every engagement runs.
AI drafts. You decide.
Nothing AI writes reaches a customer until a person has read it.
Start with one leak.
One specific problem you already know you have. Not "adopt AI."
Keep the worst case small.
Nothing touching money, deletions, private data, mass sends, or promises made on your behalf happens without a person in the loop.
Where to start for free
30 Days of AI for Your Business.
The 30-day series is free and always will be. One short episode a day, in plain English, covering what AI actually is, the first wins, how to use it safely, and how to make it stick without overspending.
Plenty of owners will work through it on their own and never need me. That's a good outcome.
If you'd rather have a partner for the first steps, that's what the consultation is for.
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Start with one thing.
Get it right.
Sessions are booked through the scheduling link. Remote or in person, whichever suits you. I aim to reply within one business day, and if something's urgent, text.
Book a free call
- Investment
- The foundational engagement is $750. The team version is $2,500.
Or reach me directly:
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone or text: (740) 632-1399
- Based in the Steubenville and Weirton area. Remote and in person both available.
FAQ
Questions owners ask.
Is this for my kind of business?
It's built for small, owner-operated businesses. If you're the person who'd have to make this work, you're who this is for.
Do I need to be technical?
No. If you can describe your business to a new employee, you can do this. The whole approach is plain English.
Will AI mess something up in front of a customer?
Not if the rule holds: nothing reaches a customer until a person has read it. That rule is the first thing set up and the last thing compromised.
Is it going to cost more than it saves?
Start with the simplest version of any tool and buy only what earns its keep. A good chunk of the first session is working out what you don't need.
I don't have time to learn something new.
The maintenance plan is about fifteen minutes a week once something's running. The series episodes are 60 to 90 seconds each. This is built around not having time.
Why you and not a big platform?
Because a platform's never seen your work. I sit down with your actual jobs, in your actual week, and start where it matters for you.
What if I just want to do it myself?
Then do it. The series is free and complete. Come back if and when you want a hand.
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