AI & Operations Advisory

You don't have time to learn AI. I already have.

So I handle it, quietly building the right AI into how your business already runs, on the tools you already pay for, and taking the tedious work off your plate. Your hours go back to the work only you can do.

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What I believe
You're already paying for more than you use.

Most businesses already own more capability than they've switched on. The work isn't buying more AI. It's putting what you have to work, and knowing the difference between the AI that does real work and the AI that's just theater.

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What I do

Two halves of the same job.

Take the manual work off your people, and sharpen the go-to-market it frees them for.

01

Take the manual work away

Every business has a task someone does by hand, over and over: retyping the same details into three documents, building payroll line by line, keying receipts into a spreadsheet. I find that task, build the thing that does it, and hand it to the person who used to do it. They get the hours back.

02

Sharpen the go-to-market

Pricing, positioning, segments, local presence: the growth fundamentals, based on what your numbers and market actually show, not on a template.

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Before and after · Payroll

Payroll in 30 minutes, not half a day.

At an owner-run field-service company, payroll meant building every technician's pay by hand. I built one file that takes the two reports the office already had and does the arithmetic, leaving a short list for her judgment.

The person who runs payroll says it went from over half a day to about 30 minutes. The process is now so fast for her that it feels like cheating on a test.

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Before and after · ExcerptII / IV
Payroll

An owner-run field-service company.

BeforeOver half a day, every pay period
AfterAbout 30 minutes
New software bought$0
  • 01
    Two exports she already had. No new system to learn.
  • 02
    One file that does the arithmetic. Pay per technician, in her own layout.
  • 03
    A short list for her judgment. The rows a rule should not decide.
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Who I work with

Growth handled with rigor.

Founders & Owners Professional Practices Service & Local Businesses Growing Companies

From owner-run service businesses to law, accounting, and bookkeeping practices to growing companies, I work with the person who can say yes and who feels the hours personally.

If you hold client files, start here →

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Let's talk

Tell me about the task you'd like to stop doing.

Kirk Snider · Founder