I build automations, AI dashboards, and simple AI web apps for local businesses: follow-up, booking, reminders, and reporting that happen on their own, so you get your evenings back. You have one conversation with me about how your week actually goes. I build it, and you approve it.
If you answer the same questions, chase the same quotes, and copy the same details between apps every week, a system can usually take it over.
Where I do most of my work
Not on the list? If admin is eating your week, take the audit and I'll tell you honestly whether automation would help.
Owners don't give up on automation because the tools are bad. They give up because nobody has time to map the work, connect the apps, and keep it running. That's the part I take on.
Doing it yourself
With Tanoak Systems
Most clients start with one automation. Dashboards and apps come when the business is ready for them. Full pricing
from$1,000
Follow-up, reminders, routing, and paperwork that run on their own.
One workflow from $1,000. Connected systems from $2,500.
See automation examplesfrom$2,500
Your leads, jobs, revenue, and reviews on one page, refreshed on their own, with a plain-English summary.
from$3,500
Small, focused tools your customers or your team actually use.
Real local businesses. Each case study shows the problem, the system, and what changed.
Two San Francisco bars fielding party inquiries from forms, email, and TagVenue. One n8n system logs each one and drafts a reply in the owner's inbox.
A skincare practice scheduling every client by text and DM. Self-service booking with intake forms and a rewards integration, so appointments happen without a message thread.
A nonprofit agency losing prospects to slow follow-up. A Zapier intake workflow: instant team alert, automatic reply, and a scheduling link.
Two of the systems I build most often, step by step.
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The right person is notified in seconds, not the next morning.
Quotes that go quiet get a nudge. It stops the moment they reply.
You're on a roof. Most people who hit voicemail call the next company.
An automatic text goes out within seconds, so the lead stays with you.
You call back when you're off the ladder, with the details already in hand.
These are examples. Every project starts by mapping how inquiries reach you today, and if a phone that gets answered is all you need, I'll say so.
You show up for one conversation and the review. I do the rest.
Two minutes of questions about your business and the work you do by hand each week. You see the hours you could hand off and where to start.
Your part: 2 minutes
One focused, recorded conversation about how work moves through your business: where inquiries come from, what you repeat, and which tools you already pay for.
Your part: 30 minutes
I build the automation, dashboard, or app on the tools you already use, with every message written in your voice and tested end to end.
Your part: nothing
You see every message and every step before anything goes live, and tell me what to change. Nothing reaches a customer without your approval.
Your part: a list of changes
It goes live, and you get a short video showing what it handles. If a tool changes or something breaks, I fix it.
Your part: the go-ahead
A single automation is usually live within one to two weeks of the mapping call. Connected systems, dashboards, and apps take longer, and the date goes in the proposal before any work starts.
Usually not. I start with the tools you already pay for. When something new genuinely helps, the proposal says what it costs, and the account is in your name.
Only if you want it to, and only the way you approve. Most automations send messages you've written and signed off on. Where AI drafts something, a person approves it before it goes out.
Apps update and connections expire, so it will happen eventually. Care plans cover monitoring and fixes, so you're never stuck with a workflow that quietly stopped.
Yes. Your data stays in your accounts, and if we ever part ways I export your workflows and hand everything over.