Each service below has an everyday-language explanation of what it does, a step-by-step of how it works, and a deeper technical note for whoever on your team wants to see under the hood. Every one of these already runs in our own companies.
When the person leading the business can see the whole map, every AI decision after this one gets clearer and faster. The AI Intensive is six private one-on-one sessions over about six weeks, built entirely around your business, your industry, and your real work. You finish with a working roadmap and the judgment to weigh any tool or vendor on the merits, including us. This year we taught 71 owners with no technical background to run AI in their own businesses.
| Opportunity | Worth / yr | Effort | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front-desk intake & reminders | $18,000 | Low | 1 |
| Insurance claim drafting | $12,000 | Med | 2 |
| Review requests & follow-up | $7,000 | Low | 3 |
This is usually the first step. We meet for about 75 minutes and walk through your business: what you have already tried, what is working and what is not, and where AI would genuinely move the needle. Afterward you get a written report and a roadmap ranked to your goals, with a recommendation on where to start. Most businesses already use AI in some form; far fewer have turned it into results. 76% of small businesses report using AI, and only 14% have built it into how they actually run (Goldman Sachs, 2026). The Diagnostic is what closes that gap.
Your business runs on repeated processes, and some of them live only in one person's head. AI is very good at the repeated part. We turn those processes into written, tested steps, with AI drafting the first pass and a human reviewing where judgment matters. Once a step is clear and proven, it becomes a reliable agent that frees staff time for the human side of the work. Your documented procedure is the essential ingredient: AI can only automate what you already repeat consistently, and safety and guardrails are set from day one.
This service grows the revenue side of your business: your customer list, your relationships, and your sales. One recorded video becomes a week or a month of content across your platforms. New leads get a reply in seconds. Proposals draft themselves from meeting notes and a template. Small-business marketers using AI report saving about 13 hours a week (ActiveCampaign, via Forbes, 2025), and a five-minute reply makes a lead about 21 times more likely to qualify than a 30-minute one (MIT / InsideSales, 2011). Everything is trained on your real voice, so it sounds like you, not a bot.
This is the engineering side, and it is where 20 years of building software shows. Scoped to one job, a custom build is something we can finish in a month or two, and it is the piece most providers cannot do. A mockup takes an hour or two, and a working prototype a few days once requirements are clear. Modern AI systems connect to your backend cleanly, which removes most of the brittle Zapier and API glue that used to make integrations painful. This service makes what your team already does much easier.
One screen for the whole operation, and the numbers that matter there before the day starts, pulled and written by AI overnight from all of your sources. These dashboards are fast to build and iterate on, and they improve over time so you get current data at the right level of detail. From the dashboard you can ask an agent to work on any part of the business. It is the closest thing to a chief of staff who never clocks out, and yes, we can build a voice-driven version you reach from your phone at any hour.
Two parts: training your people to use the right AI on real work, and a written policy so they use it safely. 73% of small businesses that use AI say they want more training and support (Goldman Sachs, 2026), and a written policy is what turns risky use into something you can see and grow into with confidence. There are more than 500 major AI systems now, and using the right tool at the right time is what separates real results from wasted hours. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini do not do everything, and specialty tools often make the difference.
This is the service behind our teaching case study. This year Christopher trained 71 non-technical business owners to use AI on real work, in their own ChatGPT or Claude, taking them from a first prompt to a result they could run themselves. He hands over a repeatable structure and the actual prompts, including the COSTAR framework (Context, Objective, Style, Tone, Audience, Response), and teaches the guardrails alongside the power.
AI has a risk profile equal to its benefits. The same tools that help you help attackers too, and your sites and accounts are being probed harder than a year ago. We check the basics that stop most of it: multi-factor authentication on the accounts that matter, an honest look at who can reach what, and the AI-specific exposures most small businesses have not thought about yet. Shadow AI, staff pasting sensitive data into free tools, is now behind roughly one in five data breaches and adds an average of $670,000 to the cost when it goes wrong (IBM, 2025). Backed by 20 years of running and defending real systems.
One accountable person from our team who directs AI for your business. The eight services are what the role is made of. Most clients start with one service and grow into the seat once they see the value.
A Chief AI Officer is expensive to hire and hard to find. The fractional version gives you the same accountable leadership at a fraction of the cost: someone who owns the roadmap, sequences the work in the right order, keeps a person on the decisions that matter, and answers for the results. Because this role touches the whole business, we hold 3 client slots at a time.
No pressure and no pitch, just a conversation about your business. From there, the AI Readiness Diagnostic is $250 with a written report and a plan, credited to your first month of any service. Already a GORGES client? The Diagnostic is on us.