AI Automation & Agent Systems

Chatting with AI isn't the same as automating your work.

ChatGPT and Claude are brilliant at answering questions. They weren't built to run your process the same way, every time. I build the automations and AI agents that actually do — quietly, reliably, in the background, without you touching a prompt window.

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The Problem

Why prompting alone falls short

A chat window is a great assistant. It's a poor employee. Here's the gap that shows up the moment you try to depend on it.

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Inconsistent output

Same prompt, different day, different result. A chat has no memory of your rules, and no obligation to follow them twice in a row.

2

No error handling

When a conversation goes sideways, a person has to notice and fix it. A real system catches the failure and knows what to do next.

3

Nothing talks to anything

Your inbox, your spreadsheet, your CRM, your calendar — a chat window can't reach into any of them on its own.

4

You're still the bottleneck

If you have to open the tab, write the prompt, and copy the result, you haven't automated the work. You've just gotten faster at doing it by hand.

Ray Garrett, founder of Garrett Business Systems
Who's Behind This

I used to be the guy staying late to keep up.

I've worked as an individual contributor, a middle manager, and a Senior Director inside a Fortune 500 — and at every level, the repetitive parts of the job ate the hours I didn't have. So I started building small, unglamorous automations to claw them back. Then coworkers started asking me to build theirs.

That's the whole business, really: I build the systems that quietly do the boring parts of your job so you don't have to stay late for them.

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Proof, Not Promises

Two real problems these systems actually caught

These are from automations I built and run myself — not demos.

25+ → 0
Duplicate cards eliminated

An inbox-triage agent that stopped flooding the board

One recurring email topic had quietly generated more than 25 duplicate Trello cards before I added a dedup check — the automation was doing exactly what it was told, it just wasn't told to check its own work first.

12x
Reporting error caught

A reporting build that caught its own bad math

A wrong "created" field was inflating an average cycle-time metric roughly 12x — 49 reported days versus 4 actual. Building the checks in from the start is what surfaced it before anyone made a decision off the bad number.

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How To Work With Me

Start free. Go as far as you need to.

Most people start with the free toolkit. Some stop there. Others eventually want it built, taught live, or maintained for them — that's fine too.

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Free — AIVA Toolkit

A real skill file plus setup instructions, free for anyone who signs up for the newsletter.

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2

$129 — Build-Along Cohort

A small live group builds a real automation together in three hours, start to finish.

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3

From $250 — Build-It-With-You

I build it for you, scoped to a fixed tier so you always know the price before we start.

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Already running several automations and want ongoing maintenance? See the Fractional AI Ops Retainer →

Who This Is For

Built for people carrying real workloads, not hobby projects

Employees drowning in repetitive tasks Managers who've asked for tools and gotten nowhere Senior leaders whose time is worth more than the task Anyone told "just use ChatGPT" by someone who's never tried it on real work People with a clear idea and no time to build it themselves
Ready When You Are

Take the free toolkit, or skip straight to a build.

No pressure either way — the free AIVA toolkit is genuinely useful on its own. If you already know what you want built, I'm happy to just quote it.

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