Salem & the Willamette Valley Practical business help Call Zach: 971-374-7357

AI help for small businesses

Let's solve how you implement AI.

I help you find where AI fits inside your business, so you become more available for your customers and team. I will show you what is possible with AI and give you practical implementation goals, so you can spend less time on repeated tasks and more time with your customers and team.

Talks · Seminars · Strategy

What could your team create with AI?

I show you possibilities that connect to the work you do. You leave with ideas worth exploring and a clearer sense of what you want to create.

For your group

Bring a talk to your team.

I show your audience what AI could make possible in a 45–60 minute talk with demonstrations and questions.

45–60 minutes · Demos & questions
$1,500 per talk
For your next business move

Turn your ideas into a plan.

I help you turn ideas into a practical AI plan in three 90-minute sessions for one team of up to six.

3 sessions · One team of up to 6
$3,500 three-session series

Each format stands on its own. I lead the discussion and demonstrations; you choose what to pursue. Travel beyond Salem or Keizer is quoted separately. Compare the formats and what you take home.

Work out where to start

AI Business Assessment

$750

One workflow. Written findings. A clear next step.

Are you copying the same details between tools? Chasing updates? Preparing a report by hand? I help you examine one process that is slowing your business down and decide what would make it work better.

01 · Trace it

Look at the real work.

One workflow, up to two existing tools, an owner interview, a staff interview, and up to 20 approved, redacted examples.

02 · Find the gap

Find what is worth changing.

I map your current process, check what your records show, and identify up to three improvements worth considering.

03 · Choose the fix

Leave with a written next step.

I walk you through the findings and compare changes your team can make, tools you already own, and work you might hire out.

Target: seven business days after records and interviews are ready. The review does not change your live systems. You can use the findings yourself or take them to another provider.

Help with the work you need done

Be found. Show your work.
Catch the next inquiry.

Web visibility, social content, and AI voicemail are available as their own services. Choose the help your business needs, with a clear scope and price before work starts.

01Web visibility

“People can’t find us.”

Accurate business listings. Clear website pages. A practical plan to help the right people find you and know what to do next.

Listings · Website fixes · Local search
$1,500 one time
02Social & content

“We have nothing to post.”

Turn the good work you already do into real photos, short videos, and useful posts. Then get them out of your camera roll and in front of people.

8 content pieces · 2 channels · Each month
$1,250 per month
03AI voicemail

“I can’t answer every call.”

Let callers explain what they need. Get a clear callback summary. Help your team pick up the conversation without starting over.

Call script · Intake · Routing · Tests
$2,500 one time

Defined scopes, with written pricing before work starts. Voicemail care and provider usage are separate. See the full costs and limits.

Social media with something to say

Your everyday work
is worth showing.

I help you show what you do, how you do it, and why someone should call you. Your own work gives us something useful to say.

See a month of content

Example content rhythm

01

Answer a buyer’s question.What affects the price? What happens first?

02

Show the work.A process, a setup, a detail people usually miss.

03

Let people meet you.A short owner video, in your own words.

04

Give them a next step.A real opening, offer, or reason to get in touch.

A practical use for AI

You’re doing the job.
The phone is ringing.

An AI voicemail system can gather the details while you’re busy and send your team a useful callback summary. A person picks up the conversation with the caller’s needs already in hand.

Walk through a call
Example callback summaryFictional

New service inquiry

Caller
Jamie, callback number captured
Needs
A quote for a business service
Where
South Salem
Next step
Owner callback tomorrow morning

Sent to the agreed team inbox

Illustrates the intended output. Not a live call or a tested client result.

Technical review · Custom builds · Care

Need a tool that fits
the way you work?

Have a problem that existing software has not solved? I help you define what a custom AI tool would need to do. Randy and his team can scope a review of your own build or a new solution for your business. You receive a bid and clear checks before work starts.

Business systems & custom projects
Zach Thomas, owner of Apogee Event Productions

One owner talking to another

Business tools should leave
more room for people.

I’m Zach Thomas, owner of Apogee Event Productions. I use AI in my own businesses, and I like working with people. My aim is to help you put repeated work in its place so your team has more room for customers and each other.

Meet Zach and see how the work is handled

Fair questions

Before we talk.

Let’s talk about your business

What would you like your team to spend less time doing?

Tell me about the task, the people involved, and what a better result would look like. We’ll choose a useful next step.

Call Zach: 971-374-7357