AI made simple for small business

Your next hire doesn’t need a desk.

Put the repeat work — the phones, the quotes, the follow-ups, the re-typing — onto systems that handle it around the clock. Your team keeps the work that needs a human. Over 24 years of corporate and technology experience, on your business bench.

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The premise

Off-the-shelf software is generic. Our AI solutions are built for exactly how you work.

Generic tools make you bend your process to fit the software. Half the features go unused, and the half you actually need is somewhere on a roadmap.

AI is different in one specific way: it can be shaped around the way your business already runs, instead of the other way round.

That only works if someone understands the work first. Choosing what to build is the hard part. The building itself is usually straightforward.

How we engage

Four ways in. Most clients walk through them in order.

01 2 weeks · fixed fee

Operations deep dive

Two weeks inside the way your business actually runs. We sit with the people doing the work, follow the handoffs, and find where hours and margin disappear.

02 Deliverable · plain English

AI opportunity map

Every fix we found, ranked by payback and effort. No wishlist, no hype: a short list you could start on Monday, with the cost and the return written next to it.

03 4–8 weeks · scoped

Build and implement

We ship the top of the list. Tools chosen, systems wired together, workflows built around your process, your team trained on the parts they touch.

04 Monthly · month to month

Your strategist on call

A senior technologist in your corner without the headcount. We keep the map current, kill what is not working, and pick up the phone when something changes.

The toolkit

The best tool for the job — not the one we resell.

We are not a reseller and we are not tied to a vendor. Every build uses whatever actually fits the problem in front of us.

Frontier models

When a job genuinely needs the best reasoning available — messy documents, judgement calls, a conversation that will not fit a form — we use the frontier models, and you pay for exactly what you use.

Open models, run locally

Most jobs do not need the frontier. A small open-source model on your own hardware costs pennies per day, keeps working when the internet does not, and is often faster because it is sitting in the next room.

Your data stays where it should

Client files, patient notes, payroll. We host locally wherever it matters, and we show you exactly what leaves the building and what never does.

The plumbing, not just the model

A model on its own changes nothing. The value is in wiring it into your phone system, your calendar, your inventory — the unglamorous integration work that makes it actually run on a Tuesday.

Who we help

AI for your line of work.

Whatever you do, there is a job AI can take off your plate. Not listed? Tell us what eats your day and we will find the fit.

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01

Restaurants & cafés

AI answers the phone at the dinner rush — takes bookings, reads out today's specials, no call lost to voicemail. It also flags what to restock based on what is actually selling, so you cut waste and never 86 a bestseller.

Calls + smart restock

Shop owner at the counter of a small retail store

02

Shops & retail

Get a heads-up before your bestsellers sell out, with reorder amounts based on real demand. Product descriptions, sale emails and social posts get written for you in seconds — in your shop's voice.

Reorder + marketing

Stylist working with a client at a salon chair

03

Salons & spas

Clients book, reschedule and get reminders automatically — even while you are mid-appointment with someone else. Fewer no-shows, zero phone tag, and your chair stays full.

Self-serve booking

Plumber fitting copper pipework beside an open kitchen cabinet

04

Trades & contractors

Every after-hours call gets captured and turned into a quote by morning — so leads stop slipping to voicemail. Speak a voice note, get a tidy estimate the customer can approve on their phone.

Lead capture + quotes

Clinician reviewing notes on a tablet at a small modern practice

05

Clinics & practices

AI handles appointment reminders, intake forms and the routine "are you open / do you take my insurance" questions — so your front desk is free for the people in the room. Fewer missed slots, calmer days.

Front-desk relief

Two colleagues talking over a laptop in a modern corporate office

06

Offices & corporate teams

Proposals, meeting notes, status reports and the follow-ups nobody gets round to. Drafted from your own templates and your own past work, so the first version already sounds like your team.

Documents + client admin

In their words

Three owners, three things that stopped costing them.

Hospitality · café

The phone stopped costing us tables

"Their AI answers our phone during the dinner rush and tells regulars the specials. We stopped losing tables to voicemail — and stopped over-ordering produce."

Five out of five stars

Marisol P. · Café owner

Trades · plumbing

Every after-hours call became a quote by morning

"Every after-hours call now turns into a quote by morning. Last month I booked three jobs I'd have completely missed. Felt like hiring an assistant for pennies."

3 jobs

booked in one month

Solo · photography

The admin that was eating the evenings

"My invoices, follow-ups and newsletter basically write themselves now. They set the whole thing up and gave me my evenings back."

Five out of five stars

Dani O. · Freelance photographer

Who you get

You get the senior person. And the hands to build it.

Benny Pang, founder and principal strategist at Whutzthat Consulting

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Benny Pang

Founder & principal strategist

Over 24 years building and running technology inside large companies — the systems, the integrations, the operations work that keeps a business moving when nobody is watching it.

Large companies solved these problems a decade ago. The patterns are identical at your size; the budget is not. What you are buying is someone who already knows which of the fixes are real.

Benny leads every engagement himself, start to finish — the diagnosis, the recommendations, the handover. When a build needs more hands, he brings in specialists he has worked with before and stays accountable for the result.

Questions we get asked first.

Will I actually get your attention, or am I too small an account?

You work with the principal, start to finish. Engagements are deliberately limited in number so the person who mapped your business is the person building inside it.

Do we need to have any AI in place already?

No. Most clients start with a phone that rings too much and a spreadsheet holding the business together. That is a perfectly good starting point.

What does corporate technology experience have to do with my shop?

Large companies hit these problems first — the handoffs, the double entry, the phone tree nobody answers. Twenty-four years of watching which fixes actually held is mostly what you are paying for.

Is this only for small businesses?

It works from a four-person shop to a few hundred people. Below that the fixes are simpler; above that we bring in more hands for the build.

Who owns what we build?

You do. Accounts are created in your name, data stays in your systems, and documentation is handed over as part of every engagement.

What if the answer is that we do not need AI?

Then we say so. Some of the best engagements have ended with a process change and a much shorter software bill.

So — whutz actually eating your week?

Tell us how the business runs today. We will come back with where the hours are going and what it would take to get them back — no charge, no deck.