Custom AI for Small Business · Murray, Kentucky

AI agents that answer, look things up, and hand off to a person

Not a generic chatbot widget. We build custom AI agents that know your business, search your real inventory and records, capture leads, and transfer to your staff live. They are already running on the platforms in our portfolio.

  • Website chat agents and AI phone agents
  • Live lookups in your inventory, orders, or work orders
  • Lead capture with instant alerts to your phone
  • Live human handoff during business hours

Where AI actually pays for itself

Questions after hours

Visitors arrive at 9pm with a real question. With nobody to answer, they go to the next search result.

The phone interrupts real work

"Is my order ready?" "Are you open Saturday?" Every call pulls someone off the job for an answer the system already knows.

Leads that never get qualified

A dozen form fills a day, half of them spam, and no quick way to see which ones are worth calling first.

Paperwork re-typed by hand

Invoices, rebate forms, and supplier PDFs keyed in line by line, with the errors that come with it.

Generic chatbots that guess

Off-the-shelf bots make things up because they cannot see your actual data. Customers notice.

No idea what customers are asking

The questions people ask before they buy are pure market research, and most businesses never see them.

AI we build for businesses

Every agent is grounded in your own information and given only the actions you approve, so it helps customers without making things up or overstepping.

Website chat agents

An assistant trained on your services, products, hours, and policies that answers questions accurately and captures the lead.

AI phone agents

A natural-sounding voice agent that answers the phone, handles common questions, looks up status, and takes messages or transfers.

Agents with real tools

Agents that search live inventory, check work order status, submit leads, and update records through tools we build into your systems.

Live human handoff

Staff can take over a conversation from an admin console in real time, with a push alert the moment a customer asks for a person.

Document AI

Extract line items from invoices, rebate forms, and receipts and post them into your system, with math checks before anything goes out.

AI lead scoring and triage

Every incoming lead scored for spam and priority so the big jobs get a call first and the junk never hits your inbox.

Proof, Not Promises

AI agents already working in production

A sod advisor that answers questions around the clock, a marine shopping agent that searches live inventory, an AI that answers a boat shop phone, document AI that reads invoices, and AI that transcribes a county’s scanner traffic.

Tri-Turf Sod Farms homepage designed by Hughes Technology, with free estimate and yard measuring calls to actionClient project

Website + lead system + AI agent

Tri-Turf Sod Farms

Full website design and hosting for a Tennessee sod farm, plus a lead management dashboard, a satellite yard estimator, and a custom AI "Sod Advisor" agent with live human handoff.

  • Website design
  • Lead management system
  • Custom AI sod agent
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Hitec Marine homepage designed by Hughes Technology featuring outboard motors from Mercury, Yamaha, and SuzukiClient project

Website + e-commerce + AI agent

Hitec Marine

Custom website, hosting, phone system, and back office for a Kentucky Lake marine electronics shop and boat dealer, with HelmDMS inventory sync, an AI shopping agent, and a full online store launching soon.

  • Website design
  • E-commerce shop
  • Custom AI agent
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HelmDMS marine dealer management software homepage showing the dealer dashboard and live supplier searchOur product

Marine dealer SaaS

HelmDMS

POS, service work orders, scheduling, parts, boat sales, texting, and an AI agent that answers the phone, in one multi-tenant platform we designed, built, and run.

  • SaaS product
  • AI phone agent
  • POS & payments
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ExoInvoice AI invoice processing homepage with ROI calculatorOur product

AI document SaaS

ExoInvoice

An AI invoice-processing platform that reads supplier invoices, matches the customer, applies markup, and produces a branded bill. Built from our own contracting experience.

  • SaaS product
  • AI document extraction
  • Public API
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Murray Scanner homepage with the live Calloway County scanner stream and local weatherOur product

Local media platform + iOS app

Murray Scanner

Live scanner audio for Murray and Calloway County, with AI transcripts and summaries, a live callout map, and alerts near your address. On the web and the App Store.

  • Streaming platform
  • AI transcription
  • iOS app
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How we build an AI agent

  1. 1

    Pick the job

    We start with one specific job worth automating, such as after-hours questions or order-status calls, and define what success looks like.

  2. 2

    Ground it in your data

    We build a knowledge base from your real information and connect the tools the agent is allowed to use, nothing more.

  3. 3

    Test it hard

    We try to break it: edge cases, off-topic questions, prices it should not quote, and abuse. Then we tune until it behaves.

  4. 4

    Launch and review

    It goes live with handoff and alerts wired in, and we review real conversations to keep improving answers.

Why our AI agents behave

Guardrails by design

Agents only get the actions you approve. Our sod advisor, for example, deliberately never quotes prices and routes pricing questions to a person.

Built on leading models

We work with several leading AI models, choosing the right one for the job and the budget rather than one-size-fits-all.

It is part of your system, not a widget

Leads land in your dashboard, conversations are saved, and alerts reach your phone. The AI is wired into the business, not floating on top of it.

We run AI in our own products

Our own SaaS products use AI every day for document extraction and transcription. We know the costs, the failure modes, and how to monitor it.

What an AI agent costs

A focused website chat agent grounded in your business information is a modest project. Agents that connect to live inventory, scheduling, or phone systems are larger because we are building the integrations too. Every project gets a written estimate first.

Running costs are usage-based AI fees plus hosting and support. We will estimate the monthly AI cost from your real traffic before you commit, and set limits so a busy month never becomes a surprise bill.

  • Free consultation and written estimate
  • Monthly AI usage estimated up front
  • Rate limits and spending caps built in
  • Ongoing tuning from real conversations
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AI for western Kentucky businesses

We are a Murray, Kentucky company building AI for businesses across Calloway County, Paducah, Mayfield, Benton, Hopkinsville, Clarksville, and Paris, Tennessee, as well as clients nationwide.

If you want to understand what AI can realistically do for your business before spending anything, we are happy to sit down, walk through your day, and point out the two or three places it would genuinely help.

Murray · Calloway County · Paducah · Mayfield · Benton · Hopkinsville · Clarksville, TN · Paris, TN · and clients nationwide

Frequently asked questions

Generic chatbots can, because they are guessing. We ground every agent in your own information and give it tools to look up real data, so it answers from facts. We also set rules about what it must never do, such as quoting prices or promising dates, and have it hand off to a person when it is unsure.

Yes. During business hours, staff get an alert and can take over the conversation live from an admin console. After hours, the agent collects the customer’s details and question so your team can follow up first thing.

Yes. We build voice agents that answer calls, handle common questions, look up information such as order or repair status, take messages, and transfer calls. HelmDMS, our marine dealer software, includes one.

AI models are billed by usage, so it depends on how many conversations you have. For most small businesses it is modest. We estimate it from your real traffic before you commit and build in rate limits and spending caps.

We work with several leading AI providers and pick the model that fits each job on accuracy, speed, and cost. Agents are built so the underlying model can be swapped without rebuilding the system, so you are never locked in to one vendor.

Conversations and leads are stored in your own system on infrastructure we host, not in a third-party chatbot vendor’s dashboard. We send AI providers only what is needed to answer the question and use providers whose business terms do not train on your data.

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See what AI could take off your plate

Tell us what eats your team’s time: phone calls, after-hours questions, paperwork. We will tell you honestly whether AI can help and what it would take.

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