AI Consulting for Service-Based Businesses Ready to Scale
I work exclusively with ambitious small business owners in Collin and Denton counties—helping them automate operations, boost lead flow, and grow profitably with practical, easy-to-deploy AI systems.
I’m a former IT executive with 30+ years in systems software and enterprise consulting—now turned small business owner and AI strategist. After co-founding The Reading Ranch, I discovered firsthand how AI and automation can simplify operations and drive growth. Today, I help other local business owners do the same—without the complexity or tech-speak.
AI and Workflow Solutions Designed to Grow Small Service Businesses
🛠 Workflow Automation
We help you eliminate repetitive, manual tasks like scheduling, invoicing, data entry, client onboarding, and reporting. We create powerful automations that give you back hours every week—without hiring extra staff.
🚀 Lead Generation Systems
We design automated systems to capture website leads, instantly follow up via email or text, and nurture them until they convert. No more lost opportunities or cold leads—just a steady stream of prospects flowing into your pipeline.
🤖 Custom GPT Chatbots
We build and deploy private GPT-powered chatbots tailored to your business. These bots can handle FAQs, intake forms, appointment booking, or even internal processes—saving you time while enhancing your customer experience.
🔗 Systems Integration
If your tools aren’t talking to each other, we fix that. We integrate your CRM, forms, email marketing, payment processors, and scheduling systems—so you stop duplicating data and start running a seamless, scalable operation.
🧑🏫 Team AI Training & Onboarding
Real Results. Practical Wins.
Case Study: Automating Registration and Payment for a Tutoring Business
The Problem:
A small education business was manually handling online form submissions, payments, and QuickBooks updates—wasting hours per week and prone to errors.
The Solution:
We built a custom automation using Make, Gravity Forms, Stripe, and QuickBooks. The workflow instantly processed payments, logged them in QuickBooks, and notified staff—no manual steps required.
The Result:
“We were spending 4–6 hours per week processing enrollments. Now it takes zero. Everything flows automatically and we haven’t had a single missed payment or duplicate entry since.”
— Business Owner, Education Sector
Case Study: Turning Website Leads into Enrollments with CRM Automation
The Problem:
A tutoring business had web forms that collected leads—but nothing happened afterward. Leads were sitting idle, and staff had to manually follow up (if at all). As a result, interest dropped off and enrollment rates were low.
The Solution:
We integrated their WordPress website (using Gravity Forms) with ActiveCampaign, automating the entire lead-to-follow-up process. Every time a parent submitted a form, the system added them to a segmented list, triggered a custom email campaign, and notified staff.
The Result:
“We went from chasing leads to having them come to us. Within weeks, we saw a noticeable increase in responses and enrollments—plus we don’t have to remember to follow up anymore.”
— Director, Reading-Focused Learning Center
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