AI solutions for your
small business.
I help small business owners figure out where AI can save them time and money, build the solution with them, and train them to run it on their own.
"The deliverable is not just a tool. It is the understanding."
Small businesses are caught in an AI adoption gap.
of small businesses now use generative AI — but 51% are just experimenting without a clear path to real implementation.
of non-adopters cite lack of understanding as their primary barrier to using AI in their business.
of the smallest businesses (under 5 employees) believe AI simply doesn't apply to them.
The problem isn't a shortage of AI tools. It's a shortage of people who can explain those tools, implement them for a specific business context, and train the owner to maintain the result. Only 13% of AI projects make it from proof-of-concept to production. That gap is an education and implementation problem — and that's exactly what I solve.
Three phases, from confusion to capability.
A free 15-20 minute call to understand your business problem, assess whether AI is the right tool, and determine fit. This isn't a sales call — it's a teacher sitting down and asking, "Show me what's eating your time."
We build the AI-powered solution together. You provide the domain expertise, I handle design and implementation. The iterative loop — you describe, I build, you test, I adjust — ensures the output actually fits your business.
Training and documentation so you can maintain, adjust, and extend the tool independently. The goal is capability transfer, not recurring dependency. Every engagement ends with you understanding what was built and how to keep it running.
Three places automation pays for itself in 90 days.
Find new customers. Catch every inbound. Keep the ones you already won.
A self-running pipeline that finds local businesses matching your ideal customer, scores them, drafts the first outreach, and lands them in your queue every Monday morning. Built and used to fill our own pipeline — 60+ qualified Five Towns leads in 30 days.
Every call, voicemail, and missed text becomes a structured CRM record automatically — with the address, the job type, the price, and the follow-up time already captured. One contractor on this stack sees deals appear in his CRM 9 seconds after he hangs up.
Lapsed customers (60/90/180 days quiet) get the right offer at the right time, automatically. A 5% reactivation rate on a few hundred dormant customers is a meaningful month — and you don't have to remember anyone's name.
Real Work, Real Results
Three industries, three different end users, same throughline: understand the problem, build the solution, transfer the capability.
A pergola construction business owner was tracking leads on paper and in his head. I built a voice-to-CRM system where he speaks into his phone, AI transcribes and extracts structured data, matches it against existing customers, and saves it to a database.
"He talks into his phone and the AI handles the rest."
A financial aid counselor needed a tool to account for regional cost-of-living differences and K-12 tuition burden — blind spots in the federal FAFSA formula. I built a full-stack decision-support dashboard that adjusts the Student Aid Index using real economic data.
"Understand the problem, build the solution, transfer the capability."
A residential plumbing contractor was losing jobs to data-entry friction. Every inbound call now becomes a structured Pipedrive deal automatically — address, job type, urgency, quoted price, and follow-up time — in about 9 seconds. He didn’t change his number, his CRM, or his workflow.
"By the time he hangs up, the deal's already in his CRM."
Accessible pricing for small businesses.
- ✓ Assess fit
- ✓ Understand your pain
- ✓ Determine if AI can help
- ✓ Workflow audit
- ✓ Top 3-5 AI opportunities
- ✓ Prioritized action plan
- ✓ ROI estimates for each
- ✓ Custom AI solution
- ✓ Built collaboratively
- ✓ Full training & docs
- ✓ You own everything
- ✓ Ongoing optimization
- ✓ New use cases
- ✓ Training refreshers
- ✓ Priority support
What Clients Say
"I was spending hours every week just organizing new client information — pulling details out of emails, phone notes, and intake forms into our case management system. David built us an AI workflow that handles the extraction automatically. What used to take my paralegal half a day now takes minutes. But the best part is he actually showed us how it works so we're not dependent on him."
"I was keeping track of everything in my head — customer calls, job estimates, follow-ups. David built me a system where I just talk into my phone after a call and it does the rest. Names, addresses, job details — it all goes straight into the database. I'm not a tech guy at all, but he walked me through everything so I actually understand how it works."
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A teacher who builds, not an engineer who presents.
B.A. History, Baruch College
Eight years teaching World History and AP Economics. Three years in IT at a media publishing company. A Master's in Education from Pace University.
The teaching background isn't incidental to the consulting practice — it is the practice. The core professional skill is making complex, intimidating ideas accessible to people who don't yet understand them. Same skill whether the audience is a classroom of students or a small business owner trying to understand what AI can do.
Most AI consultants come from engineering or data science backgrounds and struggle to communicate with non-technical business owners. I come from the opposite direction: I start with understanding your problem, then apply the technology.
Ready to see what AI can do for your business?
Send a message or start with the free AI Readiness Scorecard. No sales pitch — just an honest conversation.