Everyone is selling me AI right now. Why are you different?
Because we build it and you never touch it. No tool to learn, no seat license, no project to manage. That is the entire difference and it is most of the reason people buy.
The rest of it: most people pitching you AI cannot describe what your business actually does. If we get on the Bus Test and cannot tell you something true about your operation in the first ten minutes, hang up on us.
I already tried writing SOPs. They sat in a folder.
They usually do. SOPs capture steps, and steps are not the bottleneck. Your people can follow steps. What they cannot do is make the call.
We do not document "how to handle a vendor delay." We work out how you decide which vendor delays matter, write that down as a rule, and then build the thing that applies it.
What does the Bus Test actually involve?
Twenty minutes on the phone. You name one decision that only you can make. We ask you enough questions to work out how you actually make it — not how you would describe it in a meeting.
Then we write it up as a one-page rule and send it to you. You keep it whether or not we ever speak again. No card. If we do not think we can help you, we will say so on that call rather than sell you something.
Why is this $8,500 when other people charge less?
Because five hundred dollar automations are why the category has a bad reputation. The professional floor for one properly built workflow with error handling and a handover is about five thousand dollars. Anyone quoting well under that is either doing something simpler than they implied or is about to disappear.
For context on the same problem: a fractional COO at your revenue runs six to ten thousand a month. A median ERP implementation is four hundred and fifty thousand dollars over fifteen months. This is a cheap answer to an expensive problem.
What is this going to cost me every month afterwards?
We will tell you in writing before you pay anything, which almost nobody in this category does.
Model usage and hosting are real recurring costs and they are the single most common complaint from people who bought AI work and felt misled. You will have the number up front. If it does not make sense against what the agent saves you, do not buy it.
My equipment is old and my data is a mess.
Usually true, and it does not matter as much as you would think. We are not plugging into a nineteen ninety machine controller. We are working on the decisions that happen around it — the quote, the RFQ that gets dropped, the order that came in over the phone, the PO that does not match the invoice.
If the honest answer for your shop is that this will not work, the Bus Test is where we find that out, and it costs you twenty minutes.
Why not just wait a year until this stuff is better?
Reasonable question and the honest answer is that the models will be better. But the thing we are actually building is the written record of how you make decisions, and that does not get cheaper or easier later. It gets harder, because there is more of it and you have less time.
The model is the easy part. Getting it out of your head is the work.
Who is this not for?
If you already have a general manager who can run the place for a week, you do not need us. If you are under about two million in revenue, the maths usually does not work. If you want to learn to build these yourself, buy a course, they are cheaper and they are fine.
We turn work down on the Bus Test call regularly. It is a twenty minute conversation, not a qualification hoop.
What if it does not work?
You take your five days at the end of thirty. Every day someone has to call you, you get half that day's share of the fee back. If all five are not clean, we keep working free until they are, capped at another thirty days so it is a real promise and not a vague one.
Half the fee is not due until after those five days anyway.
