Managed AI automation that someone actually watches
A managed AI automation service builds your automations and then keeps running them, so a quote with a missing line item or a report with stale numbers gets caught before it reaches anyone. Ours is $1,500 to $2,000 per month, month to month, with no long-term contract. Every run is logged and checked against rules written for your business, you get a plain-English report of what got done each month, and one new automation or visible improvement ships every month.
What managed AI operations means
Most automation gets built once, demonstrated once, and then left alone. Managed AI operations means we keep running what we build. We watch the runs, catch the failures, fix what breaks, and keep improving the system month after month.
That is the difference between this service and a set-and-forget automation subscription. A subscription gives you a tool and wishes you luck. Managed operations gives you a working system with a person responsible for it. The person watching yours is a licensed professional engineer who built and operated industrial gas systems, including a commercial CO2 recovery plant, where an unwatched failure was never a small thing.
Unwatched automation fails silently
When an automation breaks, it rarely announces itself. The quote never goes out. The report ships with last month's numbers. The follow-up sequence stops mid-thread. Nobody notices until a customer does, and by then the damage is done quietly and at scale.
We learned that lesson on our own systems first. The fleet behind this firm started in February 2026, grew to about 70 scheduled jobs with more than 10,000 logged runs, and in May 2026 it was failing 23.7 percent of the time. By June 2026 that was down to 2.0 percent, and the telemetry that proves it is published publicly. The gap between those two numbers is monitoring and validation, which is exactly what the monthly fee pays for.
What $1,500 to $2,000 a month buys
Every run is logged and validated against checks written for your specific business, so a report with stale data or a quote with a missing line item gets caught before it reaches anyone. You get a plain-English monthly report of what the AI actually did, and one new automation or visible improvement each month is included in the fee. It is month to month with no long-term contract.
The kinds of systems we typically run under management:
- Quoting, so a request becomes a drafted quote waiting for approval
- Follow-up, so no lead or open invoice sits silent
- Reporting, so the Monday numbers assemble themselves
- CRM cleanup, so the numbers you decide on are real
- Content, so posts and updates go out on schedule instead of never
- Back-office paperwork, so forms and filings stop eating afternoons
You own everything, and it stays that way
Everything we build runs on accounts you own. Your keys, your data, your systems. AI usage costs pass through at cost with no markup, so there is no hidden margin buried in your usage bill.
If you leave, everything stays yours and keeps working. You lose the watching, the validation, the monthly report, and the monthly improvement, but you do not lose the automations. We think that is how it should work, and it keeps us honest, because the only reason to stay is that the service earns its fee.
We are a one-person firm in Charleston, SC, serving South Carolina and the Southeast, on site when the work calls for it. Small on purpose, and careful because of it.
Questions we hear
How much does managed AI automation cost?
Managed operations is $1,500 to $2,000 per month, month to month, with no long-term contract. AI usage costs pass through at cost, with no markup on top, so the monthly fee is the whole fee.
What do we actually get each month?
Every run of every automation is logged and validated against checks written for your business. You get a plain-English monthly report of what the AI did, and one new automation or visible improvement each month is included in the fee.
What happens if we cancel?
Everything stays yours and keeps working. The automations run on accounts you own, with your keys and your data, so canceling ends the monitoring, validation, reporting, and monthly improvements, not the systems themselves.
Do you build the automations, or only manage ones we already have?
Both. New systems are built at fixed scope and fixed price, $5,000 to $15,000 per system, and managed clients get one new automation or visible improvement each month as part of the fee. The best starting point is the AI Ops Audit, which maps the automatable work in dollars before we build anything.
How do we know the automations are actually running?
Every run is logged, so there is a record to check, and the monthly report tells you in plain English what ran and what it did. We hold our own systems to the same standard. The founder publishes telemetry from his personal fleet of about 70 scheduled jobs publicly, including the month it failed 23.7 percent of the time and the work that brought it to 2.0 percent.
Start with the audit, not the subscription
The AI Ops Audit is $2,500 flat and takes about two weeks, and the first three clients pay $1,000 because we are building our public case-study bench. If you are not ready for that, send a question instead and we will answer it, no charge.