AI consulting · Asheville, NC · Est. 2009
We make AI do the boring work.
We set up AI that answers your inquiries, books the jobs, chases the invoices, and asks for the reviews.
For small businesses in Asheville and Western North Carolina that want the boring work handled, not a lecture about the future.
What we do
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We automate.
Intake, scheduling, follow-up, invoicing, review requests, quoting, reporting. If your staff does it by hand every week, a machine can probably take it, with a person still in the loop where it matters.
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We integrate.
AI wired into the systems you already run: your CRM, your practice management software, your quoting tools, your accounting, the spreadsheet that secretly runs the company.
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We guide.
Straight answers for owners and CTOs. Readiness audits, tool selection, build or buy calls. Some audits end with "you don't need AI for this." We count that as a win.
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We rescue.
AI projects go sideways like any other project. Abandoned chatbots, automations nobody maintains, AI spend with nothing to show for it. Quick analysis, then focused fixes.
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We train.
Hands-on workshops that teach your staff to use AI on their actual work. Half-day or full-day, plus a monthly option to keep skills current as the tools change.
Since 2009
Big-league experience.
Main Street focus.
The first Aitako era built software for Fortune 500s and highly regulated clients in mining, banking, petrochemicals, logistics, and construction.
The second era brings that discipline home to Asheville: the same engineering standards, the same respect for compliance and risk, sized and priced for the businesses on Main Street. We live here. You can meet us for coffee before you sign anything.
Fixed price, fixed scope
Two low-risk ways to start.
Websites that book work
We don't sell websites. We sell a website that answers, books, and follows up while you're on a job. A small business site with booking built in, an AI-answered contact flow, and automatic follow-up.
Typically $4,000 to $7,000 to build, plus a modest monthly care plan. The small version of our automation work, not web design.
How it works →AI Roadmap
Two to three weeks. A plain-language report naming the three to five automations worth doing in your business, with an honest return estimate for each. Sometimes the honest conclusion is "don't bother yet." You get that in writing too.
Fixed fee, usually $1,500 to $2,500, done in two to three weeks. The low-risk way to find out where you stand.
What you get →Most AI pitches are noise.
Some of it works.
You've seen the demos. Our job is to figure out which parts of AI actually save your business time and money, build those, and skip the rest.
We've watched this industry chase fashion since 2009. We're not easily impressed, and that works in your favor.
Who we're not for.
- You want a full app built, and AI has nothing to do with it. That's not our lane anymore, and we'll point you to someone good. Small web apps and utilities are a different story: we build those all the time when they serve an automation.
- You want a chatbot because a competitor has one. Matching the competitor isn't a reason. If a chatbot would actually pay for itself in your business, we'll build you a good one. If it wouldn't, we'll show you what would.
- You want a yes-man. We don't bless decisions to be agreeable. Bring us the decision anyway: we'll pressure-test it, and if it's headed somewhere expensive, we'll help steer it somewhere better.
This has been the Aitako way since 2009. We'd rather have a happy acquaintance than an unhappy client. We value partnerships more than profit. Both of those sentences have cost us money, and we keep them anyway.
Talk to a person.
One call. You describe how the work actually gets done, we tell you what is worth automating and what is not. We bring opinions, not slides.
or call (828) 201-4226 / email hello@aitako.com