For businesses working out which job to give AI first

Find the work AI should take off your plate.

AI Concierge: a guided, done-with-you way to find the opportunity worth pursuing, prove it and build it.

  1. You are here A business pain point
  2. Free · 15 minutes AI opportunity call
  3. Paid · required next step AI assessment
  4. Done with you Focused implementation
What the assessment delivers
The problem

The real cost is not just lost time. It is the valuable work you cannot get to.

  1. 01

    You remain the bottleneck

    Too many decisions, follow-ups and routine tasks still depend on your personal attention.

  2. 02

    Important work gets delayed

    Leads cool, customers wait and improvement work slips whenever the week becomes overloaded.

  3. 03

    More tools do not create clarity

    Software and AI subscriptions add little value when the process, ownership and desired result remain unclear.

Start with the bottleneck. Then decide whether AI, automation or better context is the right move.

Where this usually shows up

Most of the time, it's one of three things.

Not the only options. They're the patterns that come up most often once we start following the work. The free call and the paid assessment confirm which one, if any, applies to you.

Response systems

Turn a dropped enquiry into a handled one.

Give new enquiries and customer requests a reliable path (capture, response, qualification, follow-up) that runs whether or not you're free to chase it yourself.

Useful when

  • Enquiries wait too long for a reply
  • Follow-up depends on memory
  • Requests get missed when things get busy
Workflow automation

Turn a recurring time sink into a working system.

Improve a clearly defined workflow around the tools, information, approvals and people already involved in the work.

Useful when

  • The task repeats frequently
  • The desired result is understood
  • Manual coordination consumes capacity
Business second brain

Make hard-earned business knowledge easier to use.

Bring together customer history, decisions, working rules and source material when scattered context is the problem holding work back.

Useful when

  • A few people carry the answers
  • History gets reconstructed repeatedly
  • AI needs more trustworthy context
The assessment

What you leave the paid assessment with.

The free call confirms there is something worth assessing. The assessment is where it gets narrowed to one thing worth building, and it is the required step before any implementation starts.

How the work gets narrowed

Everything that hurts

You already know these

Time sinks, slow follow-up, dropped enquiries, scattered knowledge, the jobs only you can do.

Three to seven candidates

Researched and costed

Each one written up with what it would take, what it would return and whether your current tools can carry it.

One priority, scoped

Your 9-slide roadmap

A named workflow with a trigger, a defined result and an owner. Agreed before a single thing gets built.

One problem worth solving beats five half-built tools.

  1. 01

    Discovery, 45 minutes

    A working session through the tasks, the handoffs and the places the week gets stuck.

  2. 02

    Three to seven opportunities

    Named and scoped, not a generic list of things AI can theoretically do.

  3. 03

    Tools researched

    What would actually carry each one, checked against what you already pay for.

  4. 04

    A nine-slide roadmap

    Ordered by value and effort, yours to keep whether or not you continue.

  5. 05

    Review, 30 minutes

    Walking the findings together so the first move is a decision, not a guess.

The assessment defines the right path
AI Concierge · core engagement

Focused implementation

Two 45-minute working calls per month, in your own accounts, with async support between calls: the default recommendation the assessment leads to.

Expansion path

Managed AI service

Separately scoped build and operation, monitoring, support and continuous improvement, once a workflow has proved its value.

How the service works
Expansion path

Business second brain

A structured knowledge and database layer, grounded AI agent, team chat access, permissions, testing and maintenance, often the next step once earlier work has built the trust and context to justify it.

What it involves
Separate offering

Business systems redesign & build

A full rebuild of the systems a business runs on: website, CRM, community platform, lead generation. Built from scratch, not a working-call retainer.

See an example

Managed AI service is the ongoing tier, not the starting point. It suits a workflow that has already proved its value: a clear trigger and desired result, a trusted source of truth, defined action boundaries, human approval on consequential actions, a responsible owner and an escalation route, with monitoring and refinement once it's live.

Why Steve

Serious operational work benefits from someone who has built and led serious systems.

Global teams

Engineering leadership across distributed teams, delivery, performance and operational accountability.

Complex systems

Experience across SaaS, cloud, data, cybersecurity, IoT, embedded systems and technical operations.

Practical AI

Hands-on work with local LLMs, retrieval-augmented knowledge systems, AI coding agents, workflow improvement and internal market-intelligence dashboards.

Independent builds

Full delivery for independent ventures: a marketing website, a community platform and a complete Google Cloud application stack, front end to back end.

Selected work
Case studyTrading education

Assessing and building for Charlie Burton Trading

A live, AI-powered trading assessment. A brand skill built together with Charlie on working calls. The full website, CRM and community platform behind all of it. Real work, in progress, not a demo.

  • Vertex AI assessment
  • Brand skill
  • CRM & Google Cloud backend
  • Circle community
Read the case study
Useful starting points

Get clearer on the opportunity before committing to a project.

A useful first conversation

Find the work worth improving first.

Free 15-minute AI opportunity call

Find out whether there is a valuable first project.

This is a short fit conversation about the task consuming your time, the work being delayed and the outcome you want. If a deeper paid assessment is justified, I will explain what it would examine and deliver.

We will look at
Your biggest recurring time sink
Where you or the team become the bottleneck
What gets dropped or delayed
The outcome that would matter

You will leave with
A clearer view of the opportunity
An honest assessment of fit
The appropriate next step
No obligation to continue

Already sure this is the right move?

AI opportunity check

Where might the most valuable first opportunity be?

Which pattern is creating the most pressure?
Which outcome would matter most?

Workflow readiness check

Is a recurring workflow ready for managed support?

Does the work follow a recognisable pattern?
Are the sources, owner and approval points clear?