Fractional AI partner for $5M to $25M businesses

Hire your first AI employee.

We find the one constraint costing you the most money, build an AI agent trained on how your business actually runs, and teach your team to run it. It answers the phone, books the job, chases the estimate, whatever the bottleneck is. Your people stay on customers and craft.

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20+ years in enterprise technology consulting. Detroit built.

Kyle, Longtree Tree Service

$80K

booked by his AI agent in one storm weekend. Every call answered.

What hiring an AI employee actually looks like

Kyle was paying for every lead. He just couldn't book them.

Kyle runs Longtree, a tree service in Metro Detroit. When a storm hits, the phone doesn't stop. He was already paying for every one of those calls. The problem wasn't leads. The problem was nobody could book the appointment while the customer was on the phone. Calls rolled to voicemail. Five days later, his admin Jane was still digging out, calling back people who wanted service five days ago and were angry about it.

So we didn't buy him a tool. We pointed AI at that one constraint. We built Sam, a booking agent trained on how Longtree works: how to answer the phone, qualify the job, book the appointment, and handle the objections a real customer throws at you.

Now every call gets answered. The first storm, Sam booked about $60K in a weekend. That number has since climbed to $80K. And for the first time, Jane wasn't on the phone with angry customers on Wednesday. Kyle's problem today is a different one: he's so backlogged he's hiring two more people.

What we built

The constraint: Paid leads hitting voicemail during storms
The hire: Sam, an AI booking agent
Trained on: Longtree's context, how to answer, how to qualify, how to book, how to handle objections
The result: $80K booked in one weekend, every call answered, two new hires to keep up

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Different bottleneck, same approach.

Kyle couldn't answer the calls. John couldn't get found. The same approach unlocked both.

Get found

$12K to $450K

Nobody could find him. Now he ranks #1 and his pipeline went from $12K to $450K.

John Wood, Strike Force Striping

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20+ years in enterprise technology consulting. Built for $5M to $25M operators.

The AI fractional partner

Five things I do. Nothing else.

You don't need an AI department. You need someone who's done this in a Fortune 500 shop, sits at your leadership table twice a month, and builds with your people instead of around them.

Strategy

One page your leadership team ratifies: where we are, where we're going, how we decide, what we won't touch, the roadmap, and how we'll know it's working.

Creator cohorts

Hands-on sessions, department by department. Each one ends with a real tool in use, built by your people. Creators with AI, not consumers of it.

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Implementation

Something real ships into the operation. An agent, a workflow, a dashboard. Built with your team, documented, and owned by the company, so it keeps running when I'm not in the room.

Adoption

The message and the leadership behind it: this is here so people spend their time on customers and craft, not so there are fewer of them.

The foundation

One data layer. One place your pricing logic and your voice live. One pattern everything gets built on. So tool #6 doesn't undo tool #1.

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Why most AI projects die

Three mistakes turn AI from a profit lever into an expensive distraction.

They buy a tool without diagnosing the problem

The shiny software shows up before anyone has named the constraint it is supposed to fix. So it fixes nothing.

They automate the wrong thing first

Effort goes into the workflow that is easy to automate, not the one that is actually costing time and money.

Nobody on the team knows how to use it

The system gets built, the consultant leaves, and six months later the team is back to doing the work by hand.

Three hires, already built

Different job, same approach. Watch each one do the work.

Proposal Agent

Talk through the job. The proposal is done before you leave.

Your salesperson walks the job and talks it through out loud. Seconds later the customer has a clean proposal by text. They sign on their phone and pay the deposit before the truck leaves the driveway. You see every proposal move from sent, to opened, to signed, to paid.

Under the hood

Spoken notes become a written scope and price, using your pricing rules
E-signature that works on any phone
Deposit by card or bank transfer
Live status for every proposal: sent, opened, signed, deposit paid

Hiring Agent

Find and hire the best people, twice as fast.

You pick the traits that matter on your team: reliable, safety-minded, a team player. Candidates answer three short video questions from their phone. The agent reviews every answer, and only the strong fits get a link to book time with you. You stop reading resumes and start meeting the people worth meeting.

Under the hood

Interview questions written from the traits you choose
Candidates record 60 to 90 second video answers
Each answer is transcribed and scored 0 to 100 against your traits
Clear your bar and they get your booking link automatically
You see the score and their best lines before you ever meet

Dev Agent

Your developers ship twice as much, without cutting corners.

Your team's standards and hard-won lessons get written down once and built into an agent that works next to every developer. It checks the work as it is written and catches mistakes before anyone reviews it. More gets built, and less of it comes back broken.

Under the hood

Your engineering standards packaged as rules the agent follows in every project
Review agents check each change before a person does
Automatic checks run on every change, so problems surface early
Works inside the tools your developers already use

Which job would you hand off first?

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What it looks like when AI fits

Real workflows. Real results. Two minutes each.

Marketing intelligence

From $660K untracked marketing spend to clarity by channel

Every dollar now traced to the channel that earned it.

Quoting workflow

From 60-min quotes to 2-min quotes

A 30x faster path from request to sent estimate.

How it works

Four steps from problem to a system your team actually uses.

Step 1

Diagnose

Find the one constraint costing you the most.

Step 2

Design

Write the job description before you buy a single tool.

Step 3

Build

Hire the agent. Prove ROI on one workflow in 30 days.

Step 4

Train

Teach your team to run it so it sticks.

Matt, founder of Rivet Automation Services

About Matt

Enterprise-grade thinking, built for the business you actually run.

20 years of Fortune 500 technology consulting (Accenture, Slalom). 4 kids, outdoor enthusiast, Detroit native. Now helping $5M–$25M business owners figure out where AI actually fits, and building it with them.

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