Tampa, FL — AI automation

AI automation for Tampa small businesses that actually gets used

I build the parts of AI that earn their keep — chat that answers actual questions, documents that draft themselves, the handoffs between systems that used to depend on someone remembering. Everything below is running somewhere today, priced the same way as every other build on this site.

  • Fixed price before we start
  • Built with your real data, not a demo
  • A human fallback on every build
  • I’ll say so if AI isn’t the fix
Where AI actually earns its place

Five jobs AI is genuinely good at, for a business your size

My AI development services fall into five categories that keep proving useful for small businesses. Nothing here is speculative — each one is running in production somewhere already.

Website chat assistant

A scoped assistant on your own site, answering the questions people actually type — hours, pricing ranges, what you do — and stepping aside for a real conversation the moment that’s the better move. The chat widget on this page runs the same idea.

Lead qualification & intake

Before a form submission ever reaches your inbox, it’s already sorted: real inquiry versus tire-kicker, urgent versus can wait, with the basic facts pulled out so nobody’s retyping a name and phone number by hand.

Document generation & handling

Proposals, reports, and contracts assembled from your own templates and your own data in seconds instead of the hour you don’t have. DocSmith, further down this page, is the proof this isn’t theoretical.

Workflow automation

Intake to CRM, a follow-up email that actually sends itself, a booking that lands on the right calendar without a phone call — the small handoffs between systems that currently rely on someone remembering to do them by hand.

Reporting & insight

The numbers you’d normally assemble by hand on a Monday morning, pulled from the systems you already run and waiting in your inbox before you go looking for them.

Where it doesn’t

The honest version: when I’ll tell you not to buy this

AI automation isn’t the right fix for every business, and I’d rather say so up front than sell you something that sits unused.

Your volume doesn’t justify it yet

If ten people contact you a month, a scoped assistant is overhead, not leverage. A fast reply to a simple form usually beats an automation nobody built enough volume to earn.

The judgment call matters more than the speed

Diagnosing a problem, quoting a tricky job, calming down an upset customer — I won’t wire AI into the parts of your business where getting it right depends on someone who actually knows what they’re looking at.

You don’t have the data to feed it

Automation is only as good as what it reads. If your records live in someone’s head or a stack of paper, that’s the real first project — not a chatbot bolted onto a mess.

How an AI build gets done

Four steps, and the fallback ships with it

The same rule as a website or an app: you know the scope and the price before I write a line of anything.

  1. 01

    Map the process

    Walk me through what actually happens today, including the workaround you’re embarrassed to admit exists. Most AI projects fail because nobody agreed on the real steps first.

  2. 02

    Pick the one step to automate

    Not the whole workflow — the single piece that’s slow, repetitive, or getting missed. A narrow scope is also how you’ll actually be able to tell whether it worked.

  3. 03

    Build with your real data

    Built and tested against your own templates, your own records, and the questions your own customers actually ask — not a generic demo that answers nothing real.

  4. 04

    Launch with a human fallback

    Every build ships with an obvious way out to a real person, and I watch the first few weeks closely so a bad answer gets caught and fixed, not repeated for a month.

Two things running today

Proof, not a pitch

Product · desktop app with AI

DocSmith

My own product: customer and engagement records, templated document generation, and AI wired into the actual workflow instead of sitting beside it as a chat window. It’s also the clearest evidence of what I can build for someone else.

Read the DocSmith case study
Live on this site · Netlify function + OpenAI

This site’s chat assistant

The widget in the corner of every page here runs on a Netlify function calling OpenAI, scoped to Cybrid Software questions with hard limits on message length and count so a bad actor can’t run up the bill. Same pattern, scoped to your business instead of mine.

Pricing

Three ways to add AI, priced like everything else here

Every AI build gets a fixed price and a written scope before anything starts. Usage costs are separate and billed in your own accounts — ongoing upkeep afterward is covered under website support instead.

Basic chatbot

$750 / integration

Answer common questions and capture leads on your website.

+ $50/month for OpenAI API usage

AI automation

$2,500 / project

Automate email responses, form processing, data entry, and simple workflows.

+ $50–100/month for automation tools

See full AI & automation pricing
AI questions

The five things people ask before they start

Is AI worth it for a business my size?

Usually only for one or two specific jobs, not your whole operation. If your website gets real repeat questions, or you’re retyping the same intake information every week, a scoped build pays for itself fast. If neither is true yet, I’ll tell you to wait.

Will it replace my staff?

No. Every build I do automates a task, not a job — answering the same three questions, moving a form into your CRM, drafting a first version of a document someone still reviews. The goal is fewer repetitive tasks for the people you already have, not fewer people.

What happens to my data?

It stays yours, in your own accounts. I build against your real records during development, but nothing trains a public model and nothing leaves the systems we agree on up front. If a project needs stricter handling than the default, we scope that before I write anything.

What does it cost to run each month?

A basic chatbot runs about $50 a month in OpenAI API usage; a fuller automation is usually $50 to $100 for whatever tools it depends on. Those are usage-based costs in your own accounts, not a licence fee to me, so they scale with how much the thing actually gets used. Ongoing maintenance afterward, if you want it, is covered separately as website support.

Do you only work with Tampa businesses?

Tampa is where I’m based and where most of my clients are, so the examples on this page are local. The work itself travels fine — everything here is built and supported remotely for clients outside Florida too.

Ready to find out whether AI is worth it for your business?

Twenty minutes is usually enough for me to tell you what’s worth automating, what isn’t, and roughly what it would cost.

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