Gruntled SMB | AI that pays for itself

Sound familiar?

Quotes and estimates
Scheduling and rescheduling
Chasing invoices
Follow-ups that slip
Weekly reports
Typing the same thing into three systems

That's the kind of work AI can take off your plate.

How it works

Where we start

Strategy call

30 minutes · No charge

You tell me what's eating up your week. You leave with a straight answer on whether AI is worth pursuing, and what the path looks like if it is.

AI Opportunity Assessment

$1,000

I come to you. Two hours on site with you and the people who do the work day to day. Within a week, we sit down for 45 minutes and go through what I found:

Every opportunity I found, mapped by effort and return, so you can see what to do first
Up to five detailed recommendations, each with the fix, the tool, how long it takes, and what it's worth to you in dollars per year
Where you can grow revenue and strengthen the business, along with the time you'll save
A report that's yours to keep and act on, with me or without me

If we work together after the assessment, the $1,000 goes toward that work.

Time back

Priced off what it's worth to you

We build what's worth building, or I teach your team to do it themselves. Either way, the time goes back to the work that grows the business.

Every project meets the 5–10x standard below.

I hold every recommendation to one standard: it has to pay you back five to ten times what it costs.

Proof

What that looks like

A medspa in Greater Cincinnati

Live

40–502–3 staff hours a week

Weekly patient check-ins for their weight-loss program were eating 40 to 50 staff hours a week. I automated the workflow with AI. It now takes 2 to 3 hours and has been running smoothly for months. That's more than a full-time position's worth of work, without the hire.

A structural engineering firm

Underway

103 engineer hours a week on reports (estimated)

The firm turns out about 10 reports a week, and each one takes an engineer roughly an hour to write. With the AI system I'm installing now, engineers stop writing reports and start reviewing finished ones, in an estimated 15 to 20 minutes each.

Early testing.

Who you'll be talking to

You won't have to explain how business works.

Certified Business Coach ACC-certified executive coach

I spent 25 years in media, most of it running things. As a regional executive I oversaw about 2,000 people and roughly $500 million in revenue. I integrated six acquired stations in a single year and launched new businesses inside old ones.

Now I coach owners and leadership teams, and I spend my days putting AI to work inside real businesses.

I build, too, including the assessment platform I use with leadership teams.

Dave PetersonFounder, Gruntled SMB