You're great at your work. Running the business behind it is killing you.

Scheduling, follow-ups, invoicing, client intake. You’ve duct-taped together five different tools and it still falls on you to make it all work. We help service businesses like yours stop the manual chaos and build operations that actually run. Before anyone touches AI, we find out what’s actually broken and fix that first.

The honest reality

“Most business owners don't have an AI problem. They have a ‘doing everything twice’ problem.”

The honest reality

Is the thing slowing your growth a tech problem, or is it just that nothing in your business talks to anything else?

What we do: We figure that out with you. Then we fix it, the right way.
You're not imagining it

You've built something real. The back office hasn't kept up.

You’re booked out, your team is working hard, and somehow you’re still the one chasing down invoices, re-entering the same data in three places, and answering questions your tools should already know the answer to. You don’t need another app. You need someone to look at the whole picture and tell you the truth.

Your tools don't talk to each other

QuickBooks, your CRM, your scheduling software, your intake form. Everyone's doing their job. Nothing connects.

You're the system

When you're out sick or on vacation, things slip. Because the process only works when you're in the middle of it.

You've tried to fix it before

New software. A VA. Maybe an app someone recommended. It helped a little, then created three new problems.

You know AI is coming, but it feels like one more thing

Everyone's talking about it. You don't have time to figure out what's actually relevant to a business like yours.

Meet the founders

Two people who've seen what actually works, and what just sounds good in a sales pitch.

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Shawn Yates

Co-Founder

Shawn has spent 25 years helping organizations figure out why smart, hard-working teams still can't execute consistently. He's worked inside large, complex companies at Philips, Siemens, and Cox Automotive and seen the same pattern every time: it's rarely a people problem. It's almost always a process and clarity problem.

He brings that same diagnostic thinking to smaller businesses, where fixing the right thing makes an immediate, visible difference.

Steve

Steven Anderson

Co-Founder

Steven has spent nearly two decades helping businesses use technology in ways that actually stick. As President and CEO of TeamLogic IT in the Southeast, he's worked with hundreds of companies as a fractional CTO, and he's seen what happens when businesses bolt on technology before their operations are ready for it.

Before founding Automate AI, he worked with Xerox, Verizon, and T-Mobile. He started this company because he kept seeing the same gap: great tools, broken handoffs, frustrated owners.

They built Automate AI around one idea: technology is only 30% of the problem. Get the other 70% right first, and AI stops being a gamble and starts being an advantage.
How it works

Four steps from buried to running like it should.

This isn’t a generic consulting package. It’s a focused process for finding what’s actually costing you the most time and money, and fixing it before adding anything new.

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Step 01: Diagnose

We look at how your business actually runs today. Scheduling, client communication, billing, handoffs. We find where the real time and money is leaking. No assumptions, no pre-packaged answers.

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Step 02: Optimize

We fix the foundation first. That means cleaning up the handoffs, connecting the tools you already have, and making sure your team isn't dependent on you for things that should just happen.

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Step 03: Evaluate AI

Now we ask the honest question: where would AI actually save you time and money in your specific business? We build the case for it. Or we tell you it's not worth it yet and save you the investment.

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Step 04: Implement & Scale

We implement with your team, not around them. You'll know why every change was made, how to manage it, and what to do when things need to adjust.

Ready to stop duct-taping it together?

Let's figure out what's actually slowing you down.

Book a free 45-minute strategy session. We’ll look at your biggest operational headache, give you a clear outside perspective, and tell you honestly whether and how we can help. No pitch, no pressure, no homework required beforehand.