$99 AI-readiness assessment

AI that earns its
place on the payroll.

Not "let's build a chatbot." Not "AI strategy workshops." Concrete deployments that save your team hours a week — customer support, document search, email drafting, lead qualification. Plus an honest answer to "should we even be doing this?"

Practical AI
for small business.

We build our own platform on Claude (Anthropic). We know what actually works and what's hype.

$99 AI-readiness assessment

2-hour walkthrough of your business. We identify the 2-3 places AI would actually help, and the places it'd be wasted spend.

Customer support automation

AI drafts first-pass replies to support email or web chat. Your team approves and sends. Cuts response time 60-80% on common questions.

Document search & extraction

5,000 PDFs no one can find anything in? AI-indexed search by meaning, not keyword. Extract data from contracts, invoices, forms.

Email triage & drafting

AI sorts your inbox, drafts replies to common questions, flags the ones that need you. You stay in control — AI does the typing.

Lead qualification

Web form leads scored and routed automatically. AI asks follow-up questions, flags hot leads, hands off to humans at the right moment.

Internal knowledge base

"How do we handle returns over $500?" Ask in plain English, get an answer pulled from your actual policies. End the Slack-search era.

Custom AI workflows

Connect AI to your CRM, your billing system, your spreadsheets, your tools. Automate the 20-step "every Tuesday" task that's killing your team.

Private & secure

We deploy with API keys you own, on infrastructure we audit. No "training on your data." No data leaking to third parties. Your data stays yours.

Real deployments
that paid for themselves.

If your team is doing the same 20-minute task 50 times a week, AI helps. If they're doing 50 different 20-minute tasks, AI helps less.

Customer support

"4 hours/day on email."

AI drafts the first reply for every support email using your past answers. Your rep edits and sends. 4 hours → 90 minutes, week one.

Document search

"Where's the 2019 ABC contract?"

AI-indexed search across 12,000 PDFs. Ask "what's our liability cap with ABC?" — get the clause and the file in 5 seconds.

Internal knowledge

"New hire asks the same 30 questions."

AI knowledge base trained on your SOPs, your Slack history, your docs. New hires self-serve. Existing staff stop being interrupted.

Sales follow-up

"We forget to follow up with leads."

AI drafts personalized follow-up emails 3, 7, and 14 days after a quote. Sales rep approves with one click. Close rate goes up.

Start with $99.

Most projects scope from the assessment. Custom builds are flat-rate after discovery.

Quick wins
$1,500–$5K
Single workflow · 1-3 weeks

Deploy one thing

Pick the highest-ROI use case from your assessment. Deploy it. Train your team. Measure results. Decide if there's a next one.

  • One workflow, scoped flat-rate
  • Trained on your data
  • Team training included
  • 30 days of refinement
Full deployment
$5K–$15K+
Multi-workflow · 4-12 weeks

Operational AI

Multiple workflows, custom integrations, knowledge base + automation + drafting. For businesses ready to let AI run real operations.

  • Multiple workflows
  • CRM / billing / docs integration
  • Team training & SOPs
  • 60-90 days of refinement

API costs (Anthropic / OpenAI) are passed through at cost. Most small business deployments cost $20–$200/mo to run.

AI built by people who
actually deploy AI.

We build production AI ourselves

Forge AI runs Claude in production for real customers. We know which prompts work, which models to use, and where AI fails.

Honest about limits

AI is a tool, not magic. If we don't think AI will help your specific problem, we'll tell you and save you the spend.

Your data, your keys

We deploy with API keys you own. Anthropic and OpenAI don't train on API traffic. Your data isn't a product.

Measurable

Every deployment ships with a "before vs after" metric: hours saved, response time, close rate. If it's not working, we adjust or refund.

Common questions.

Will AI hallucinate and embarrass us?

Yes — if you let it write to customers unsupervised. We design every deployment with human-in-the-loop on anything customer-facing until you trust it. Internal-only workflows (search, drafting) carry much less risk.

Is our data going to OpenAI / Anthropic for training?

No. API traffic from both Anthropic and OpenAI is not used for training by default. We can also deploy fully self-hosted models if you have stricter requirements, but for most SMBs the API path is sufficient.

Which AI model do you use?

Claude (Anthropic) by default — it's what we run in our own production. We'll use OpenAI's models, or open-source models on our infra, if a specific use case calls for it. Vendor-neutral.

How long until it pays for itself?

For high-volume repetitive workflows (support email, document search): 2-4 weeks. For lower-volume workflows: 2-6 months. We tell you the expected payback during the assessment.

What if my use case isn't a good fit?

Then we don't sell you the project. The $99 assessment is honest — we'd rather lose a sale than ship a deployment that doesn't work.

$99. 2 hours. Real answer.

We'll tell you where AI actually fits and where the hype is wasting your team's time.