We know AI matters and have no idea where to start.
You have read enough to know it matters, and nobody has shown you where it fits your business.
- One job to start, chosen from your actual week
- Set up on your machine, in your voice
- Your team trained on real work, plus a month of support
You are sure it matters. The question is where to begin.
Most owners we meet have already tried a chatbot, found it impressive and slightly useless, and put it down because nothing connected it to the actual business.
Almost everything published about this is written for companies with a department to spare. Scaled down to a business with nine people and no spare afternoons, most of it turns out to be advice about hiring.
The honest starting point is narrow: one job, done often, where being roughly right quickly beats being perfect slowly.
Start with one job, not a strategy
The businesses that get something out of AI did not buy a strategy. They picked one repetitive job, set it up properly, and used it on a normal day. The first one is almost always the same shape: writing produced from the same inputs every time.
- The repetitive writing Quotes, summaries, follow-ups, descriptions. Anything produced from the same inputs every time is where this pays first.
- Set up where the work is On your machine, under your account, taught your business and your voice. Not a demo on ours.
- Widen only after it works The second and third jobs are easier to pick, and easier to pick honestly, once one is running.
If nobody on your team will own it, we will say that first. AI that nobody is responsible for goes quiet in about two weeks.
The AI Quickstart, at Your DeskWhy most AI advice does not fit you
Most AI advice is written for companies with a department to spare. Scaled down to a business with no spare afternoons, most of it turns out to be advice about hiring.
Get one job running and the next ones pick themselves, which is easier and more honest to do once the first one is proven.
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The repetitive writing first
Quotes, summaries, follow-ups, descriptions. Anything made from the same inputs every time is where this pays first.
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Set up on your machine
On your own account, taught your business and your voice, working on your real files. Not a webinar.
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Your people run it
Hands on their own work while we are there. If they cannot run it in front of us, it is not finished.
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A month of support
Including a check-in the week after, because the first real question always arrives once we have left.
Want to know which job to start with?
Get a Free AnalysisWhat comes with the setup
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A straight answer
Where AI helps your business, and where it does not. Sometimes the honest answer is not yet, and we say so.
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Set up on your machine
Claude running on your own account, with instruction files built with you: who you are, your voice, your business.
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Your team trained on real work
So they can run it the next morning without us. Hands on their own files, not a demo on ours.
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A month of support
Including a check-in the week after, because the first real question always arrives once we have left.
How the day itself goes
Four steps, starting with a call and ending at your desk.
A call about your week
Where the time goes and what gets read, typed or chased. Sometimes that conversation ends in "you do not need us yet", which is a fine place for it to end.
One day at your desk
In person, on your machine, with your real files. That is the whole reason it is worth a day rather than a webinar.
Your people run it while we are there
Hands on their own work, not a demo on ours. If they cannot run it in front of us, it is not finished.
A month of support
Including a check-in the week after, because the first real question always arrives once we have left.
Why hand it to GeekThangs
One job, done well
We start where being roughly right quickly beats being perfect slowly.
In your voice, on your files
Set up on your own account with your real work, not a demo on ours.
Your team owns it the next morning
If they cannot run it in front of us while we are there, it is not finished.
We stay reachable after
A check-in the week after, because the first real question always arrives once we have left.
We tell you when to wait
If nobody on your team will own it, AI goes quiet in about two weeks, and we say so first.
Questions worth asking first
Where do we even start?
One job, done often, where roughly right quickly beats perfect slowly. It is usually the repetitive writing: quotes, summaries, follow-ups.
Is this a tool you install and leave?
No. It is a way of working we set up on your machine and teach your team, so they can run it the next morning without us.
What if my team will not use it?
Then we will say so before taking the day. AI that nobody is responsible for goes quiet in about two weeks, and we would rather be honest about that.
Do you use our own files?
Yes. The whole reason it is worth a day at your desk rather than a webinar is that we set it up on your real work, in your voice.
What happens after the day?
A month of support, including a check-in the week after, because the first real question always arrives once we have left.
Before you start with AI
What we would want to know before setting any of this up.
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Read it
Tell us where your week goes.
What gets typed twice, what gets read and summarized, what waits on one person. That is enough for us to say whether a day at your desk would move any of it.
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St. Clair Shores, working across Metro Detroit