Production AI & Automation, Running Today

AI & Automation
Built For Small Businesses

Real AI agents and cross-tool automation that handle real work. One agent I built handles 68% of customer service cases end-to-end for under $5/month. Not slide decks. Not chatbots that hallucinate. Production systems your team can run.

Currently accepting new projects

What I've Built

Production AI systems I've shipped, with real numbers from real production data.

Featured Build AI Customer Service Agent

The AI Agent That Pays For Itself in 30 Minutes a Month

A production AI Agent that classifies inbound cases, validates receipts using vision AI, drafts responses from approved templates, and closes routine cases without any human touch. It runs around the clock and only escalates what genuinely needs human judgment.

Volume
1,516 cases / 5wk
Operating Cost
~$4/month
Cost Per Case
$0.003
Capabilities
Text + Vision + Routing

You read that right. Less than five dollars a month replaces hours of repetitive customer service work. Per case it costs about a third of a cent.

Headline Result
68%
Cases Auto-Handled
end-to-end, no human review
5 weeks of stable production data

Want similar economics for your business? Whatever platform you use, I can build, deploy, and train your team to run it.

What I Build

Six categories of AI work, all platform-agnostic.

AI Customer Service Agents

Deploy an AI Agent that classifies, responds to, and resolves inbound emails, tickets, or chats. Lives in your existing tools (Salesforce, Zendesk, Help Scout, email). Phased rollout with full audit trails.

AI Lead Qualification & Routing

AI agents that score, qualify, and route inbound leads automatically. Works with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, or any CRM. Confidence-based escalation keeps humans in the loop where it matters.

Document & Email Automation

Auto-summarize, draft, and route emails and documents. Vision-powered processing for receipts, invoices, and forms. Pulls data from PDFs into your systems, no manual entry.

Internal AI Assistants

Custom "ask my data" assistants trained on your company knowledge: SOPs, customer history, product docs, internal wikis. Your team gets answers in seconds instead of hunting through folders.

Custom AI Integrations

Connect AI to the tools you already use. Smart Zapier replacements, custom API workflows, AI-powered triggers in Make, n8n, Power Automate. The kind of automation Zapier alone cannot do.

AI Strategy & Audit

Not sure where to start? I audit your current operations, identify the highest-ROI AI opportunities, and deliver a prioritized roadmap with cost estimates, no commitment.

Every AI Project Includes

Phased Rollout

Shadow mode first so you can watch the agent work before it goes autonomous. No surprises.

Cost Transparency

I show you the per-call cost upfront and design within your operating budget. No surprises on the bill.

Audit Trails

Every decision the agent makes is logged. You see what it did and why. Refine prompts, escalate edge cases, expand confidently.

Why Work With Me

Enterprise AI patterns at small business prices.

The same AI work I deliver at $5K–$15K is what big consultancies bill at $50K–$200K+. Same patterns, same production rigor, same outcomes. The difference is overhead, not capability.

Big Consultancy

$80K–$200K+

  • • 12-person delivery team
  • • 6–9 month timeline
  • • Account managers and PMs you'll rarely talk to
  • • Heavy retainers

Mid-Market Boutique

$30K–$75K

  • • 3–5 person team
  • • 3–4 month timeline
  • • Senior on the sales call, juniors on the build
  • • Templated solutions
Mau Consulting

Solo + AI-Native

$5K–$15K

  • • You work directly with me, every call
  • • 3–6 week timeline
  • • Production AI patterns from day one
  • • No bloat. No retainers required.

Numbers based on typical published rates for AI agent and Salesforce automation builds in the U.S. market.

Pricing

These reflect typical scope. Smaller business, smaller budget, or different needs? We sort that out on the call — nothing’s locked in before we’ve talked.

AI Opportunity Audit

$3,500
Delivered in ~2 weeks

Productized audit of your operations. About 15–25 hours of my time across two calendar weeks. Identify the 3 highest-ROI AI opportunities and hand you a prioritized roadmap.

  • Process review with documented current state
  • Cost-benefit analysis for each opportunity
  • Tool and platform recommendations
  • Implementation roadmap with budget ranges
  • 60-minute findings presentation
  • No commitment to build with me

AI Agent Build

Starting at $5,000
3–6 weeks

Build a production AI Agent for one specific workflow (customer service, lead qualification, document processing). Most projects $5K–15K depending on scope.

  • Custom AI Agent with phased rollout
  • Integration with your existing tools
  • Confidence scoring & audit trails
  • Shadow mode testing before autonomy
  • Operating cost transparency
  • Team training & documentation
  • 30 days of post-launch support

AI Operations Partner

From $2,500/month
Monthly retainer

Ongoing AI operations: monitor agents, refine prompts, expand capabilities, and add new agents as you find more places to apply them. Typically 5–10 hours per month.

  • Priority support and incident response
  • Monthly performance reviews
  • Prompt engineering & model tuning
  • New agent builds (scoped per project)
  • Cost optimization across providers
  • Documentation kept current
  • Strategic AI roadmap planning

How We Work Together

01

Free Audit Call

30-minute call to understand your operations and find the highest-ROI AI opportunity

02

Scoped Proposal

Fixed-price proposal with operating cost estimates within 48 hours

03

Build in Shadow

Agent is built and runs in shadow mode while we tune prompts and confidence thresholds

04

Go Live & Train

Flip to autonomy, train your team to monitor and maintain, 30 days post-launch support

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to use Salesforce to work with you?

No. I build AI Agents on whatever platform makes sense for your business. HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zendesk, Help Scout, Zapier, Make, custom APIs, or just plain email. Salesforce is one option, not the requirement.

What AI models do you use?

GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI/Azure OpenAI) for most production work, Claude for content and reasoning-heavy tasks. I select the cheapest model that meets your accuracy bar, not the flashiest one.

How much does an AI Agent actually cost to run?

Less than you think. The customer service agent I built handles 1,500+ cases per month for under $5/month in API costs. That is roughly $0.003 per case. Most small business agents run $5–50/month in operating costs.

How do I trust an AI to run autonomously?

You don't, at first. Every agent I build starts in shadow mode where it shows what it would do but doesn't act. You watch it work, review the decisions, and only flip to autonomy when you trust the output. Confidence scoring lets you set thresholds so the agent escalates anything uncertain to a human.

Can AI replace my customer service team?

Probably not entirely, and you don't want it to. Good AI agents handle the repetitive 60-80% so your team can focus on the complex 20-40% that needs judgment, empathy, or relationship work. The economics still work overwhelmingly in your favor.

What if the AI makes a mistake?

That's why every system has audit trails, confidence thresholds, and human review queues. I treat AI like a junior employee that needs supervision, not magic. Mistakes get caught, the prompt gets refined, and the system gets smarter.

Ready to Find Your AI Opportunity?

30-minute audit call, no obligation. I'll tell you what's worth automating, what isn't, and roughly what it'll cost.