Put AI to work in your business.
I find the expensive, repetitive work slowing your business down, and build the custom AI tools that do it for you. Lower costs, fewer manual hours, and your team freed up to focus on growth. Built by someone who's shipped real AI in production, not slideware.
You know AI could help. Getting it built is the hard part.
Scarce and expensive
AI engineers are rare and cost a fortune, and you still need product sense to know what's even worth building. That's months of recruiting before anything ships.
Pricey and generic
You pay for a brand and a slide deck, and the senior people who pitch you aren't the ones who build. They don't know your business the way you need them to.
A demo, not a system
Plenty can wire up a chatbot that dazzles in a demo and falls over in production. Impressive, right up until you actually have to depend on it.
From "what could AI do here?" to AI in production.
The whole path, handled by one person: find the opportunity, build the AI, wire it into how you work, and prove the payoff. No hand-offs, no telephone game, no assembling a team.
Find the opportunity
Spot where AI and automation save the most time and money in how you run today.
Build the AI
Custom AI tools and agents made for your workflow, not a generic wrapper around someone else's.
Automate the work
Wire it into your systems and data so the busywork just happens, reliably, in the background.
Prove & scale
Measure the hours and cost saved, then expand it to the next workflow.
Things I can build for you.
A few of the most common. If your bottleneck isn't on this list, it's probably still a fit, just ask.
Document & data processing
Pull data from PDFs, emails, and forms automatically. No more manual entry.
Internal tools & dashboards
Custom apps and dashboards built for how your team actually works.
AI support & triage
Draft replies, route tickets, and answer common questions automatically.
Automated reporting
Reports and summaries generated and sent on schedule, from your own data.
Workflow automation
Connect your tools so repetitive, multi-step tasks run themselves.
Custom AI agents
Agents that handle a real job end to end, built around your process.
Cheaper than a hire. Sharper than a consultancy.
The same output as an AI engineer plus a product lead, minus the headcount, the recruiting, and the overhead.
Low friction, start to finish.
Talk it through
A call where you describe the bottleneck. I spot where AI can take it off your plate.
FreeGet a written plan
A short, honest snapshot: what to automate, what to build, and the scope and price.
FreeI build it
Custom AI, wired into your workflow. Fast, with regular check-ins along the way.
Handoff & beyond
Working software, docs, and support, plus the option to keep me on to build the next one.
Real AI, shipped in production.
Not demos. AI and data systems running in real businesses, including a company I built end to end.
An AI engine, built solo
Built a 0→1 SaaS with an AI pipeline that turns messy government data into verified, cited answers, plus an AI system that auto-files license renewals. 850+ US markets, end to end.
AI that cut manual work 80%
Shipped an AI automation inside a two-sided marketplace that reduced manual review by 80% and sped up activation, and launched a new 0→1 services vertical alongside it.
Data systems that drove revenue
Led product and a team of PMs, building data and ML-driven systems that quantified revenue impact and turned complex datasets into tools operators relied on.
Not an agency. The expert who builds it.
Productsmith is a one-person studio, and I'm the one. Over 10+ years I've built products at Expedia, CoStar, and AirDNA, and most recently a SaaS company of my own, powered end to end by AI I designed and shipped.
I'm not an AI tourist. I've put real AI into production: pipelines that replace manual research, systems that file paperwork on their own, automations that cut review work by 80%. I find where AI actually pays off in your business, build it, and make it reliable, and I bring in trusted specialists when a project calls for it.
If there's a manual process eating your team's week, a cost you know AI could cut, or a tool you need but can't get built, that's exactly the work I take on.
Simple, fixed-scope ways to work together.
Every engagement starts with the free call and written plan, so you know the scope and price before anything begins.
Automation Sprint
- One expensive, manual workflow, automated with AI
- Wired into your existing tools and data
- Working software at the end, not a demo
- Handoff, docs, and support included
AI Build
- A full AI-powered product or tool, end to end
- Discovery, build, and integration into your ops
- The expert-in-one-person engagement
- Phased so you see value early and often
AI Partner
- Your ongoing AI and product partner
- New automations, iteration, and roadmap
- Expert judgment plus hands-on building
- Priced to the work, month to month
Questions people usually ask.
Got a costly, manual process? Let's automate it.
The first call is free. You'll leave knowing exactly where AI could save you time and money, whether or not we end up working together.