South Bend & Michiana · AI business audit

You’re losing about five hours a week to busywork. Let’s go find them.

I’m Eric — a developer here in South Bend. We spend 45 minutes on the phone about how your week actually goes. No pitch, no jargon. A few days later you get a plain-English report: what’s quietly eating your time, what fixes it, and what it costs. If I can’t find you five hours a week, you don’t pay.

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Find 5 hours a week or your money back. Worst case, you’re out 45 minutes.
WORK ORDERNO. 0001
MICHIANA, IN
AUG 14, 2026
Where your week is going3–5 items
The fix for each onenamed + priced
Hours back per weekhonest number
GUARANTEED
OR REFUNDED
Sound familiar?

If your week looks like this, there's time hiding in it.

Most owners can't name what's costing them — they just feel it. Here's what it usually looks like from the inside.

You're first in and last out — every single day.
Nothing runs without you. A day off means the wheels come off.
The same customer info gets retyped into three places, every job.
There's a pile of paperwork you keep meaning to get to.
Revenue is up, but your take-home hasn't followed.
You know something's eating your week — you just can't point at it.
How it works

Three steps. Nothing to install first.

This isn't a sales call with a slide deck. It's a diagnosis — the recommendation comes after, in writing, not during.

STEP 1 — 45 MIN

We talk through your week

Walk me through yesterday. What do you dread? What would you delete if you had a magic wand? I'm listening for the repetitive, the manual, and the stuff you've just gotten used to putting up with.

STEP 2 — 2–3 DAYS

I go figure it out

I go back through the call, find the real time-sinks, and match each one to a tool or a small build. Everything gets sanity-checked against a business your size — no $2,000-a-month enterprise software for a four-person shop.

STEP 3 — REVIEW CALL

You get a report and a plan

A short, plain-English write-up: what's costing you time, what fixes it, what it runs, and a four-day quick-start. Then we decide together whether you run with it yourself or have me build it.

What's in the report

One document. Everything in plain English.

You could hand this to anyone in your business and they'd get it. That's the whole point.

What's actually costing you time3–5 items
The tool or fix for each onenamed + priced
What the fix costs per monthreal number
Hours saved per weekestimated, honest
A four-day quick-start planday by day
Build it yourself vs. have me build ityour call
Typical outcome

In audits like this, most owners get back around seven hours a week for roughly $60 a month in tools — before anything custom gets built.

~7 hrsrecovered per week, typical
A sample diagnosis

What this actually looks like

HVAC · 6 EMPLOYEES
“Every new job, someone retypes the same customer info into three places — the schedule, the invoice, and the supplier order. Nobody had ever added it up.”

→ One connected intake form, built once. ~6 hrs/week back. No new monthly subscription.

Pricing

The diagnostic is the whole ask. Everything after is optional.

Most people stop at the report and run with it themselves. If you'd rather I build the fix, here's roughly what that runs.

Start here

The Diagnostic

$999
  • 45-minute call + written report
  • 3–5 tools or fixes, named and priced
  • A four-day quick-start plan
  • Find 5 hours a week or full refund
If you want it built

One-Time Build

from $1,500
  • The fix from your report, built for real
  • Set up and tested in your own systems
  • Handoff notes, no lock-in
  • Scoped only after the diagnostic
Ongoing

The Concierge

$1.2k–2k/mo
  • Two 45-minute working calls a month
  • New automations as they come up
  • A direct line — no ticket queue
  • Cancel anytime
Book the audit — $999
Who's doing this

Not a consultant. A developer who can also build the fix.

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I’m Eric — a full-stack developer based in South Bend, working across Michiana. Most of what turns up on an audit call isn’t really a software problem — it’s a small build problem. And I’d rather just build it than hand you a list of apps to go wrestle with yourself.

This isn’t theory. I build these exact kinds of tools — scheduling, customer lookups, intake forms, the boring plumbing that eats a week — for client work all the time. The audit is just me pointing that at your business first.

Rails · Hotwire · PostgreSQLAutomation & internal toolsBased in South Bend, IN
Questions

Before you book

Is this a sales call?

No. The 45 minutes is just questions — nothing gets pitched on the call. The recommendation comes afterward, in writing, and you see it before you decide anything.

What if you don't find anything worth fixing?

Then you get the $999 back. The guarantee is five hours a week found — if the diagnosis comes up short, it's a full refund, no argument.

Do I have to buy the build?

No. Most reports include options you can hand to anyone — your own team, another freelancer, the nephew who's good with computers. The report is yours either way.

What kind of businesses is this for?

Anywhere with 2–30 people and enough manual process that nobody's had time to fix it — trades, HVAC, home services, small manufacturers, professional services. Not sure? The 45-minute call makes it obvious either way.

Where do you work?

South Bend, in person or by phone, and the wider Michiana region — Mishawaka, Elkhart, Niles, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor. Fully remote is fine too.

Ready when you are

45 minutes. Worst case, that’s all it costs you.

Book a time, tell me about your week, and get back a plan you can actually act on — whether or not you ever hire me again.

Book the audit — $999