AI Systems and Agents
AI Systems forIndustrial Companies.
I build working AI systems and agents for contractors, fabricators and manufacturers: the lead that gets answered at 9 pm, the quote that takes an hour instead of three days, the numbers you can read on the first of the month instead of the fifteenth.
This is for companies doing $2M to $50M a year who want to move quickly and have a process worth improving. Based in North Bay, working with companies across Ontario and the rest of Canada. It is not AI for its own sake. If a spreadsheet and a phone call already work, I will tell you that on the first call.
North Bay based · Canada-wide · Fixed quotes
The Problem
Three Places the Day Leaks.
Every industrial company I work with loses time in the same three places. None of them are a people problem.
Leads Arrive as a Name and a Number
The inquiry says almost nothing. Someone has to call back and ask what the buyer wants to build, how big, on whose land and when, before anyone knows whether it is a real project. Evening and weekend inquiries wait until morning, and by then a competitor has answered.
Quotes Take Days
The estimate sits behind one person who already has a full week. The buyer who wanted a number on Tuesday gets it on Friday, if they are still waiting. The work is not hard, it is just queued behind everything else.
Nobody Knows What the Numbers Mean Until Month End
Job data is in one system, leads in another, ad spend in a third. By the time anyone assembles a picture, the month is over and the decision it would have changed has already been made.
What I Build
Systems That Earn Their Keep.
Each one is built against a written scope and a fixed quote, around the software you already run. Most companies start with one and add the next when the first has paid for itself.
Lead Intake and Follow-Up
A website assistant that answers buyer questions and asks the qualifying ones back, writes the lead into your CRM with consent recorded, follows up by SMS, and texts back missed calls. The first conversation happens whether or not anyone is at a desk.
Quoting and Estimating Assistant
Specs or photos go in, a draft estimate comes out of your own price book. A person reviews and adjusts every quote before it goes to the customer. It removes the blank page, not the estimator.
Operating Dashboard with AI Summaries
Jobs, CRM, ad platforms and analytics in one place, with a monthly operating review written in plain language and alerts when a number moves in a way it should not. You stop waiting for month end to find out.
Back-Office Document Automation
Invoice and purchase order extraction, reports drafted from structured inputs, scheduling that stops living in one person’s head. The paperwork that eats an admin day a week.
Product Visualization
Configurator-to-render pipelines for manufacturers and builders, so a buyer sees their building, their layout or their finish instead of a generic photo of someone else’s job.
AI Agents for Repeat Work
An agent that owns one defined job end to end: working the inbox, chasing quotes that went quiet, booking site visits, pulling the weekly numbers. It runs on your rules, logs everything it does, and hands the exceptions to a person. What that does to your staffing is your decision.
Ideas
Where AI Usually Pays.
Not sure what you would even ask for? Start here. These are the jobs I look for first in a contractor, fabricator or manufacturer, grouped by where they sit in the business.
- A website assistant that answers buyer questions from your own content and asks the qualifying ones back
- Missed-call text-back, so the call you could not take still starts a conversation
- Follow-up by SMS or email on every quote that has gone quiet
- Call and meeting notes summarized straight into the CRM record
- Lead scoring and routing, so the serious inquiries reach a person first
- Draft estimates built from your own price book, checked by your estimator before they go out
- Photo and spec intake that turns a buyer’s rough description into a scoped request
- Tender and RFP packages summarized: scope, deadlines and the clauses that matter
- Proposal and scope-of-work drafts assembled from your templates and the job details
- One dashboard across jobs, CRM, ad platforms and analytics
- A monthly operating review written in plain language
- Alerts when a number moves in a way it should not
- Daily job-site logs written up from voice notes and photos
- Plain-language search across your manuals, procedures and past jobs
- Invoice and purchase order details pulled into your accounting system without retyping
- Inspection, appraisal and site-visit reports drafted from structured inputs
- Scheduling and dispatch suggestions that stop living in one person’s head
- Inbox triage: routine email sorted, with replies drafted for a person to send
- Forms and paperwork checked for what is missing before they get filed
- An agent that works the inbox, the follow-ups and the scheduling from your rules, and flags what it cannot handle
- Product renders generated from a configurator, so buyers see their own build
- FAQ and pricing-guide content drafted from recorded interviews with your own people
- Review requests sent at the right moment after a job closes
- A check on what AI assistants say about your business, and fixes for the gaps
Not on the List?
If someone on your team does the same thing on a screen every week, it is worth a conversation. Tell me what it is and I will tell you whether it is a good fit for AI or a bad one.
Book Free 20-Minute CallThese are ideas, not a menu. Nobody needs all of them. Scoping is how we work out which two or three are worth building for your business, and in what order.
The Process
From First Call to Handover.
Five steps, in this order. You know the price and the scope before anything gets built.
Fit Call
Twenty minutes, free. You tell me where the day leaks. I tell you whether AI is the answer and whether your data is ready for it. If the honest answer is "fix the website first", you get that answer.
Scoping
One to two weeks, priced as a small fixed engagement and credited against the build if you go ahead. I map how leads, quotes, scheduling and reporting actually move through your business, check what your data can support, and rank the use cases by payoff against effort. You get a short written plan and a fixed quote for the one that ranks first. The plan is yours to use with me or with anyone else.
Fixed Quote
A written quote with the scope, the price, the timeline and what is not included. No hourly billing and no open-ended retainers. You approve it before I start building, and the number does not move unless the scope does.
Build in Working Pieces
Small automations ship in a few weeks. Full systems take a few months. Nothing runs past six. Delivered in working pieces, not a reveal at the end. You see each part running as it goes in, and anything with judgment in it gets a human review before it goes live.
Handover and Training
Accounts in your name, documentation of what the system does and where the data goes, and a session with the people who use it daily. You own it. Keeping me on afterward is a separate decision.
Investment
What It Costs.
Every project is different, so here are the ranges and what moves the number. You get a written fixed quote before anything gets built. Third-party model and software costs pass through at cost, in your accounts, with no markup from me.
Scoping
Find out what is worth building
one to two weeks · credited against the build
Process map of sales, quoting, scheduling and reporting
Data readiness check: CRM, analytics, job data, price books
Use cases ranked by payoff against effort
A short written plan and a fixed quote for the first one
Single Automation or Agent
One job, done properly
two to six weeks · fixed quote
One of the systems above, or one agent with one job
Connected to the tool you already use for that job
Human review on anything with judgment in it
Documentation and handover, accounts in your name
Full System
Build the thing and put it to work
fixed quote · delivered in working pieces
One of the systems above, integrated across CRM, phone system and job data
Human review on anything your customer sees
Documentation of what the system does and where the data goes
Handover and training, with every account in your name
Not included: your model and software subscriptions, hardware, and anything outside the written scope. Those are quoted separately or billed at cost.
What Moves the Number
How many systems it touches. How clean your data is. How much needs a person’s review before it goes out. Whether it talks to your customer or only to your team.
Capacity: 2 concurrent implementation projects
How I Work With AI
Rules I Do Not Bend.
A Person Reviews Anything With Judgment in It
An agent can text back a missed call or confirm an appointment on its own. Quotes, estimates, commitments and anything that answers a real question from your customer get a person’s eyes before they go out. The system removes the blank page and the waiting. It does not get the last word.
You Own the System and the Data
Code, prompts, configuration and accounts are yours, in your name wherever the provider allows it. No licence fee to keep using what I built, no hostage situation if you want to take it elsewhere.
Model Costs Pass Through at Cost
Third-party model and software costs are billed to you at what they cost, on your own accounts where possible. You can see the meter. I do not resell tokens.
The Data Flow Is Written Down
What is collected, which provider processes it, where it is stored and how long it is kept, documented and handed over. I have written AI-use and data-flow documentation for software companies and I do the same on every implementation.
Honest Filter
Who This Is For, and Who It Is Not.
Good Fit
You Want to Move Quickly
A fit call this week, a plan inside two, working pieces inside a month. No discovery workshop, no six-week proposal cycle.
You Want to Talk to the Person Building It
No account manager, no handoffs. The person on the fit call is the person writing the code and the person doing the training.
You Have a Process Worth Improving and Some Data to Work With
Leads tracked somewhere, prices written down, a CRM or at least a spreadsheet that gets used.
Call Someone Else
The Job Needs a Big Team
If it needs a procurement process, a project office and an account manager, I am the wrong size. I work best with companies where the person who decides can talk directly to the person who builds.
You Have No Data and No Process Yet
AI needs something to work with. If leads are not tracked, prices are not written down and the website does not answer questions, start there. It is cheaper, it works, and it is the foundation the AI needs anyway.
You Are Shopping on Price
I quote fixed and I do not resell tokens, but I am not the cheapest way to bolt a chatbot onto a website. If the lowest number wins, it will not be mine.
Not sure which of these is you? Start with the website work and we will talk about AI when there is something to automate.
Common Questions
Straight Answers.
Is There Anything Here Worth Automating?
Twenty minutes on the phone is usually enough to know. I will tell you what I would build, and roughly what it costs. If the answer is nothing, you get that answer too.