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AI & Automation

AI that knows your business —
not the internet’s.

Most AI on small-business sites is a generic chatbot that guesses. We build assistants grounded in your actual services, pricing and policies — and told, explicitly, never to invent an answer.

What we actually build

Not a widget you paste in. An assistant that runs on your own infrastructure, knows your business because we gave it your business, and hands off to a human the moment it should.

  • Quote & estimate assistants — guided questions that return a real range instead of "call for pricing", so the visitors who would have bounced get an answer. Live on SHIFT Design and Legacy Graphic Solutions.
  • Grounded FAQ & support assistants — answering from your content, around the clock. Live on Rescue Network.
  • Purpose-built tools — the thing only your industry needs. For LockLeed that meant a military-occupation skills translator and a resume builder alongside the assistant.
  • Phone answering — Sona, an AI receptionist that picks up when you can’t and gets the details down.
  • Process automation — the repetitive internal work between your website, your inbox and your other systems.

Why grounded matters more than clever

An assistant that invents a price, a policy or a lead time does real damage — it answers confidently and wrongly, in your name. Everything we build is constrained to your own material and instructed to say "I don’t know, here’s who to ask" rather than fill a gap. That constraint is the product.

It runs server-side on Cloudflare’s edge with your API key never exposed to the browser, so there is no key to leak and no third-party script watching your visitors. The same way we build everything else.

How an engagement runs

We start with a scoping call to find the one process where an assistant actually pays for itself — usually quoting, intake, or answering the same question forty times a week. From there we build it, ground it in your content, test it against real questions, and put it live behind your domain.

Builds start at $6,500 and are scoped per engagement, because a quote assistant on an existing site and an automation wired into three internal systems are not the same job. Keeping it running afterwards — monitoring, model and content updates, and the API usage — is quoted with the build, so you see the whole cost before you commit to any of it.

What's included

What you get

Grounded in your content

It answers from your services, pricing and policies — and is told never to invent one.

On your own infrastructure

Server-side on Cloudflare's edge. Your key never reaches the browser.

Built and kept

The same studio that builds it keeps it current — this is not a hand-off-and-vanish project.

Questions

Good to
know.

Is this just ChatGPT on my website?

No. A general chatbot answers from the internet and will happily guess at your prices. What we build is constrained to your own content and instructed to hand off rather than invent — which is the difference between a useful assistant and a liability.

What if it gives a customer wrong information?

That is the risk we design against first. The assistant is grounded in material you approve, told explicitly not to answer beyond it, and points people to a human when it reaches the edge of what it knows. We test it against real questions before it goes live.

Do I need a new website for this?

No. We have added assistants to sites we built and can look at an existing site too — the assistant runs alongside it. If the site itself is the bottleneck we will say so rather than bolt AI onto a problem it can't fix.

What does it cost to run?

That's quoted alongside the build rather than published, because it depends on how much traffic the assistant actually handles — the API usage for a quiet brochure site and a busy quoting tool are not comparable. You'll see the running cost before you commit, not after.

Can you automate something that isn't on the website?

Often, yes — the work between your site, your inbox and your other systems is usually where the time goes. Bring us the process and we'll tell you honestly whether it's worth automating yet.

Let's build something lasting

Let’s build something that lasts.

Tell us what you need and we'll map out the right approach on a free discovery call.

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ServingTwin Cities west metro