Two hours. One clear map of where AI actually fits your business — and, just as honestly, where it doesn’t.
Most businesses that “tried AI” didn’t fail at it. They bought a subscription, poked at a chatbot, never wired it into the actual work, and quietly decided it wasn’t for them.
Meanwhile they’re paying for tools nobody uses, and missing the two or three places it would genuinely save hours every week. The audit finds both — the waste and the gaps — and tells you straight where AI earns its keep and where it’s just noise.
I go through your tools, your subscriptions, and the work your people actually do — then hand you a clear read in language that isn’t trying to sell you the future.
Every AI and software subscription you’re paying for, and an honest call on what’s earning and what’s dead weight.
The two or three highest-value places AI actually belongs in your workflow — and what putting it there would take.
The parts of the hype that don’t apply to you. Knowing where not to spend is half the value.
Find the waste and the gaps. You walk away with a clear picture whether or not we ever work together again.
Actually wire it in — the tools, the automations, the workflow rebuilds the audit pointed at. Scoped tight, no open-ended retainer.
For when you’ve got data you don’t want sent off to someone else’s servers: a local setup that stays yours. The longest payoff, and the one most people don’t know is on the table.
I’m Ryan McIntosh — Red Seal millwright, thirty years on the tools, and the author of 30 Years on the Tools: A Millwright’s Real-World Field Guide.
My whole career has been walking into a plant where something expensive isn’t doing what it’s supposed to, finding the actual cause instead of the convenient one, and fixing it. That’s the same job here.
The difference between me and an agency: I don’t sell you the dream. I find what’s real, tell you straight, and — if it’s worth it — I implement it.
Even this brand came from asking the AI I work with what it actually looks like — then building from its answer. That’s the difference between using these tools and just talking about them.
I’m taking my first few clients at a reduced rate in exchange for an honest write-up of the results. If that’s you, let’s talk.
Vancouver Island & remote across BC.