Put AI to work in your business.
My team and I help business owners set up AI agents that handle the daily work: answering email, following up on leads, and keeping projects moving. You still make the calls that matter.
- TriggerQuote sent Monday. No reply after 3 days.Working
- AgentWrites a follow-up in your voice from the quote detailsUp next
- YouRead it over. Send it or change it.Up next
- DoneSent and logged on the customer recordUp next
To: the customer on the quote
Writing…
Pick a job and watch an agent run it. When it gets to something that goes out under your name, it stops and waits for you.
You've heard the hype and you've heard the doom. You just want to know what to actually do with this stuff on Monday morning.
Department by department
Most of the daily work in a small business ends up in one of these four places. We usually start with whichever one takes up most of your time.
- 01The owner's deskMorning briefingCalendarMeeting notesResearchWeekly review
- 02Sales and marketingAnswering every lead fastQuotes and proposalsReviewsThe newsletter
- 03OperationsSchedulingClient onboardingProject updatesChecking the work before the customer does
- 04Finance and adminCategorizing the booksInvoices and collectionsCash snapshotsPaperwork
How we build your AI team
More on how we workDecide
Settle what AI is allowed to do
Before an agent touches anything, we write down what it can do on its own, what has to come to you, and what's off limits. It's short, and it saves a lot of trouble later.
Offload
Run your week through three questions
Does this need to be done at all? Can an agent or a person do it? If you have to keep it, how do we make it smaller? It's called Trash, Transfer, Trim, and it's how we find the first jobs to hand off.
Hire
Start with one agent, a chief of staff
Your first agent works across your email, calendar, and task list, and it gets a written job description. We add the second agent once the first one is running well.
Trust
Build the systems that let you trust the work
A task board with a Needs Human column, so you can see what's waiting on you at a glance. And one rule for every agent: nothing is done until there's proof.
Multiply
Put the time you get back to work
Find the biggest bottleneck in your business and fix it, then find the next one. Sometimes that means handing off more work. But sometimes it means hiring a person you couldn't afford before!
I run my own business this way.
For about the last year, I've been rebuilding my company on AI. Today a team of agents handles a huge share of the daily work: email, project management, research, first drafts, building software, and watching over client websites.
It hasn't all gone smoothly. Agents break things and misunderstand instructions, and I've had to roll back whole setups and start over. But that's how I learned what to set up for you (and what to watch out for). I share a lot of it on my YouTube channel.
- SitesChecked every client website overnight and reported anything that looked offDone
- InboxSorted the overnight email and wrote replies for me to readNeeds Human
- ProjectsUpdated the task board with where each client project standsDone
- ContentTurned a video transcript into a first draft of a blog postNeeds Human
- DevFixed a bug in an order form and attached a screenshot as proofDone
What clients say
Schramm AI is new. These come from clients of NorthMac Services, the company I've run for years and rebuilt on AI.
I started working with Steve and his team at NorthMac Services about six months ago. They are very responsive. More importantly, once I identify an outcome, they keep me on track to get it done. When I hit a roadblock they help me figure a way around it. Working with them is a pleasure.
Steve and NorthMac Services have been an invaluable asset to the MGMA. They clarified and improved our vision and molded it into a wonderful experience for our members. They were extremely flexible and responsive throughout.
Don't wait until you feel ready.
Book a short call and tell me about your business. We'll figure out where an agent can help first.
Book a discovery callNot ready to talk yet?
Start with the free AI Team Starter Kit: eight pages of worksheets and checklists for getting your first agent working in your business, plus a short email each day for a week to walk you through it.