Oxford, Ohio · Independent AI consultant
I help small businesses
make sense of AI.
I’m Jake Boyles — an engineer of fifteen years, now working on my own. I’ll tell you plainly what AI can do for a business like yours, where it fits, and whether it is worth the money. Then I build the part that is.
- 15+ years
- an engineer, most of it around Cincinnati
- One person
- you talk to me, start to finish
- No resale
- I take no margin on anyone’s software
Three things, in order.
Most people arrive at the first one. You can stop there, and plenty do.
- 01
Explain it
What this technology actually does, in plain English. No deck, and nothing for me to sell you.
- 02
Find where it fits
A look at how your work really moves, and the one or two places worth handing over.
- 03
Build it
I build that part, wire it into the tools you already pay for, and hand it to your team.
Half of this is knowing when not to.
Anyone selling you AI will show you the first list. The second is why you should believe the first.
Worth doing
- Reading emails, PDFs, drawings and forms
- The same small task, many times a day
- First drafts that a person still checks
- Connecting systems that do not talk
- Finding things across your own files
Leave it alone
- Anything that must be right with nobody checking
- Judgement calls that are actually your business
- A process nobody has written down yet
- Work that comes round twice a year
- Replacing people you already need
How it goes.
Only the last step costs real money.
- 01
Talk
Fifteen minutes, free. Often it ends with me saying there is nothing here yet.
- 02
Look
A few hours inside how you work, and a written answer you keep either way.
- 03
Build
The one thing most worth doing. Working in weeks, owned by you.
Questions I get asked a lot.
- Most AI advice is written for companies nothing like yours
- What used to be a fifty thousand dollar project is closer to five
- Most businesses should buy the software. Some should not.
- AI receptionist, answering service, or an actual person
- Every quote priced by hand is an evening you do not get back
- You are paying $30 a seat for software nobody opens
Not sure any of this applies to you?
That is the most common reason people call, and it is a good one. Fifteen minutes usually settles it.
Fifteen years an engineer — part of Ahalogy before it sold to Quotient, taught at The Iron Yard, currently helping build Scout. More about me.