Gold Key Solutions

Bespoke AI augmentation

Chicago & everywhere

Your work.
Only lighter.

You didn’t start a business to chase invoices. Let’s fit AI to the work that gets in your way — and give the good part more room.

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An illustration of a better working week.

Human ambition. Carefully fitted technology.The work behind the words

A little less on your plate

The work piles up.
Let’s move it along.

Less chasing. Less switching. More room for the work only you can do.

Move your pointer or touch the particles to stir them.

Find the fit for my work
An illustration of work finding its place.

02 / The right fit

First, your Tuesday.
Then, the technology.

Every AI course teaches the tool.
I start with the person using it.

The invoice you chase. The notes you retype. The same five questions you answer by hand. That’s where the hours go — and where we start.

Our working principle

The parts are ordinary.
The fit is the work.

Hands sketching a workflow in pencil on paper, with small brass fittings connecting the steps.
Field notes / No. 01Your week, drawn out on paper.

03 / From possibility to practice

A little structure. A lot more possibility.

A brass key mechanism connecting paper task cards on a dark workbench.
The workshop / 02Fitted, not off the shelf.
01Free · 3 min

The audit

Seven questions, three minutes.

You tell me what you do and what eats your week. Before you give me an email, you see a preliminary read on screen: the two or three places AI most likely fits your answers, and a rough number of hours at stake.

02Fixed scope

The plan

A written map of where AI fits your week.

Not a tool list. A short document: which tasks, in what order, with what, and what each one saves. Scoped and priced before anything starts. If the honest answer is 'AI won't help much here', that's what the plan says.

03Chicago or remote

Build it together

You at the keyboard, me beside you.

We set up the first two or three, in person in Chicago or over a screen. You'll understand every piece that's running and why. Nothing is a black box, and nothing depends on me being around.

04No retainer

You own it

Documented, yours, done.

Everything is written down in plain language. If you want more later, we scope more. If you don't, you don't hear from me again — there's no subscription, no dependency, no upsell.

Questions

What people ask first.

Straight answers. If yours isn’t here, the audit ends with a place to ask it.

Do I need to be technical?

No. You need to know your own work — what you do every week and which parts you'd hand off tomorrow. The technical part is mine. You'll be at the keyboard when we set things up so you understand what's running, but you won't be writing code.

What does it cost?

The audit is free and stays free. Everything after it is scoped per engagement — a fixed price for a defined plan, agreed before any work starts. No retainers, no subscriptions, nothing that renews without you noticing.

What tools will I end up using?

Whatever actually fits. Usually a mix: an assistant like Claude or ChatGPT set up around your specific work, a couple of small automations for the repetitive handoffs, and occasionally something purpose-built. I don't sell software, so there's no incentive to push a tool you don't need.

Is my client data safe?

We decide together what goes where before anything is set up. Anything sensitive stays in tools with the right privacy terms, or stays out of AI entirely. You'll know exactly what data touches which system, in plain language.

Do you work in person in Chicago?

Yes. I'm based in Chicago and happy to sit down with you. Most work also runs perfectly well remotely, so location isn't a constraint either way.

How soon do I actually get time back?

Usually the first session. The audit tells us which task to take off your plate first, and that one is almost always something we can set up together in a single sitting.

Your next chapter

Make room
for your work.

Seven questions. A first look at where AI fits your actual week. You see the possibilities before sharing an email.

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