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Plain English version. No jargon. We can break it down all the way.
AI is everywhere right now and a lot of it sounds scary. We get it. Most "AI" people are talking about today is actually pretty simple: it's software that can read English and write English back. That's it. No robots. No takeover. No replacing your team.
We use that to build small computer programs we call "agents." An agent is just a tool that does one specific repeating task for a small business. Like:
That's all an "AI agent" is. A computer doing one boring task, well, every time, without you having to remember.
We build them custom for small businesses. Seven days. Fixed price. You own the software at the end so you're not stuck paying us forever. If your business has any boring repetitive computer work, we probably have a build that fits.
What this looks like in practice
Sarah's dental practice
The pain
4-person dental office. The phone rings 40 times a day. After 5pm it goes to voicemail. Sarah figured 3 after-hours calls a day were people trying to schedule a cleaning who booked with the office down the street instead.
The fix
When the phone rings outside business hours, the agent picks up, asks 3 questions, checks her practice software, and books the appointment. Anything unusual, it texts Sarah: "this one needs you."
The math
$4,995 to build. $497/month to run. Three months in, she'd booked 27 appointments she would have lost. Each cleaning is $200. The math works.
Mike's sales team
The pain
12-person software company. Reps spend an hour or two every day typing notes from sales calls into the customer database. They hate it. The best rep, Karen, was talking about quitting over the data entry.
The fix
After every sales call, the agent listens to the recording, finds the important parts (budget, decision maker, blocker, next steps), and writes them into the customer record. Karen gets her two hours back.
The math
$4,995 once. About $30/month to run. Karen didn't quit.
A 6-person marketing agency
The pain
Spending 6 hours per proposal. 8 proposals a month. That's more than a full week of one person's time, every month, writing the same shape of proposal over and over.
The fix
We trained an agent on their last 12 proposals: their voice, their pricing, their scope language. A new client comes in, the agent reads the discovery notes and drafts a proposal in 90 seconds. The team edits in 15 minutes.
The math
$3,995 to build. They went from 48 hours to 2 hours a month on proposals. The build paid for itself in 8 days.
Names changed. The numbers and patterns are real, pulled from the consulting work that informed how Alchmy was built.
Is this for me?
Typing notes from meetings into a customer database
Meeting Notes → CRM →Sorting and replying to a flood of emails
Inbox Triage →Writing the same kind of proposal over and over
Proposal Drafter →Cleaning up duplicate or wrong contact info in your database
CRM Hygiene Sprint →Picking up the phone after hours, or losing leads to faster competitors
AI Receptionist →You don't know where AI would even help
AI Opportunity Audit →Don't see your pain on this list? We do custom builds too. Email hello@alchmyai.com and tell us what's eating your week.
Some terms you might run into
AI agent
A piece of software that does one specific repeating task on its own. Not a robot. Not a person. A small program that runs in the background.
CRM
Short for "Customer Relationship Management." Where a business keeps track of customer info, sales conversations, and deals. HubSpot and Salesforce are the two most popular ones.
Workflow
A series of steps you do regularly to get something done. "Read email, check if it's urgent, reply or archive" is a workflow.
Automation
Letting a computer do the steps of a workflow so you don't have to.
Productized service
When a service is sold like a product (fixed scope, fixed price, fixed time) instead of "let's negotiate and bill by the hour." That's how we sell.
API / webhook
Ways for two pieces of software to talk to each other. You'll probably never touch one directly. We use them to wire your tools together behind the scenes.
The catch
Will this replace my employees?
No. None of our customers have laid anyone off because of an Alchmy agent. The agents do boring repetitive work. Your team does the work that needs judgment, relationships, and care. The agent stops your senior person from quitting because they're sick of data entry.
What if it breaks?
Every build comes with 30 days of bug-fix support included. After that you can pay us a small monthly fee to keep an eye on it, or pay any reasonably technical person to maintain it, because you own the code. Nothing about this locks you to us.
$5,000 sounds like a lot.
Compare it to what a senior employee costs per month, or what a virtual assistant costs per year. Most of our agents pay back inside 90 days. If yours doesn't make the math work, the AI Opportunity Audit Pro ($1,495) is a research-only product that tells you whether a build is even worth it, refunded as credit if you decide to buy.
What if I don't trust the AI to be right?
Every agent we ship has a confidence threshold. If it's not 80%+ sure of an answer, it asks you instead of writing a wrong answer to your database. Bad data is worse than no data, so the agent doesn't make calls it isn't sure about.
Do I need to be technical?
No. We do all the technical setup. You spend about 90 minutes total: one async kickoff form, one mid-build feedback note, one handoff. After that the agent just runs in the background. You only hear from it when it's not sure about something.
Here's the menu. Or have us tell you what to build.