Fit call
$0 · 15 min
- bring the app, the repo, or the process you want automated
- I tell you whether I am the right person for it
- you leave with the first three things I would look at
- a slide deck
Automate the part of your businessyou are tired of doing by hand.
AI receptionists, phone and chat agents, and production engineering for small businesses, by a small senior team. Two doors: get the phone answered, or make an AI-built app production-ready.
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The phone gets answered, even when you are with a customer.
A voice agent picks up in two rings, checks your real calendar, books the slot, and texts the customer to confirm. A chat agent does the same job on your website, and it knows your products well enough to answer the question that is stopping someone from buying.
It hands off to a person when it is unsure. Anything that costs you money waits for your approval. The old way of answering keeps working the whole time, so nothing breaks while the agent learns your business.
At handoff you own all of it: the phone number, the calendar, the transcripts, and the off switch. If I disappeared tomorrow it would keep running, and the next engineer could read my notes and pick it up.
Price band
One workflow or agent
One production chatbot, voice agent, or back-office workflow connected to the tools you already pay for, with a human approval step. A voice receptionist for a 2 to 9 person shop starts at $700 to $1,000 setup plus $150 to $375 per month.
Month one of the monthly fee is refunded if it does not land.
$2,500 to $5,000 setup, plus $300 to $1,500 per month
Back-office automationadmin workflows
The admin work finishes itself. You approve, and nobody copies data between tabs.
Invoices matched to payments. A new customer record filled in from the form they already sent you. The weekly numbers pulled together and emailed before you open your laptop. If a job means copying the same data from one screen into another, I can take it off your plate.
Every workflow has a human approval step where it matters. The system drafts, you approve, it sends. It connects to the tools you already pay for, and the spreadsheet you use today keeps working until you decide to retire it.
You own the workflow, the logins, and the off switch, and every choice about how it works is written down in plain words. Nothing is locked inside a tool you have to keep paying me for.
Price band
One workflow or agent
One production chatbot, voice agent, or back-office workflow connected to the tools you already pay for, with a human approval step. A voice receptionist for a 2 to 9 person shop starts at $700 to $1,000 setup plus $150 to $375 per month.
Month one of the monthly fee is refunded if it does not land.
$2,500 to $5,000 setup, plus $300 to $1,500 per month
Integrationsthe systems you already run
The new tools talk to the old ones. Nothing gets ripped out.
Most shops run on a few systems that do not know about each other: the booking tool, the point of sale, the accounting file, a spreadsheet or two. I connect the new agent or workflow to those systems so the work lands where it needs to land.
The old system keeps running the whole time. I build alongside it, test with real records, and switch over only when you are ready. If something looks wrong, the switch goes back the same day.
When the connection is really a new application, that is a custom build, and it is priced in phases. How that works is just below.
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Price band
Custom build
A multi-system integration or a full application, delivered in fixed-price phases with a go or no-go at each, behind a prototype phase sized at 5 to 10% of the build ($1,500 to $5,000).
Single workflows from $2,500; most engagements land between $2,500 and $15,000; larger builds are phased at $10,000-$25,000 per phase.
The prototype phase is credited 50% into the first build phase.
$10,000 to $25,000 per phase
Custom buildafter a plan
When you truly need something built from scratch.
Sometimes the honest answer is that no tool on the market does what you need. Then I build it, in fixed-price phases with a go or no-go decision at each one. Single workflows from $2,500; most engagements land between $2,500 and $15,000; larger builds are phased at $10,000-$25,000 per phase.
Price band
Custom build
A multi-system integration or a full application, delivered in fixed-price phases with a go or no-go at each, behind a prototype phase sized at 5 to 10% of the build ($1,500 to $5,000).
The prototype phase is credited 50% into the first build phase.
$10,000 to $25,000 per phase
How it startsthree steps, in order
Nobody quotes your project before seeing how your business runs.
Three separate steps, and you can stop after any of them. Step 1 is a free 15-minute call to find out if I am the right person. Step 2 is a paid discovery session, $500, that ends in a written plan. Step 3 is a fixed quote for the work, or you take the plan and build it yourself.
Discovery + plan
$500
- 60 to 90 minute working session on your real system
- written plan within 48 hours: what is broken, what is risky, what to do first, what it costs
- paid when you book the session, refundable for 7 days after the plan lands
- proposals written before anyone read your code
Build or harden
fixed quote
- take the plan and do it yourself, or
- I take it to production at a fixed price and timeline
- every architectural decision logged and explained
- bench developers you never met
The $500 is paid when you book the session. Cancel at least 24 hours before and I refund it in full.
Fifteen minutes to find out if I am the right person.
Bring the process you want off your plate. I will tell you what I would automate first, and whether a $500 discovery session is worth your money.
Book a 15-minute fit call
or email david@nexaiadvisors.com with two lines about the process