AI Consulting for Business
AI Multiplies You
You don't need more hours in the day. You need more of you. I set up the AI that handles everything around your expertise — so the expertise is all you have to show up for.
The idea
AI doesn't replace you. It clones the parts of the job that were never you.
Nobody got into their trade to write follow-up emails at 9pm. Or retype the same estimate for the fourth time. Or lose a lead because they were under a house with their phone in the truck.
That's the work AI takes. What's left is the part only you can do — the judgment, the relationship, the fifty years of knowing what's actually wrong. Same person. Five times the output.
Who this is for
Built for people who are the business
Not enterprises with an IT department. Operators — the ones whose name is on the truck, the sign, the license.
Realtors
Every listing, every follow-up, answered before the lead goes cold.
- Listing copy and descriptions in minutes, in your voice
- Instant, personal replies to every inquiry
- Follow-up that runs on its own for months
- Market summaries and CMA prep without the evening
Contractors
Bids, takeoffs and scheduling — off the truck and off your nights.
- Proposals and change orders drafted from your notes
- Missed calls captured and qualified while you're on a job
- Manuals, codes and specs answered on the spot
- Invoicing and job docs that stop piling up
Solo operators
One person running the workload of a full back office.
- Marketing that keeps posting when you're busy working
- Customer service that answers at 11pm
- Bookkeeping prep, quotes, and paperwork handled
- A second brain that remembers every client
What I do
Four things, done for you
No courses. No subscriptions to nowhere. I get in, build it, and make sure it runs after I leave.
The audit
I sit with you and map where the hours actually go. You'll leave that conversation knowing exactly which tasks AI can take and what they're costing you now.
The setup
The right tools for your business, configured and connected — not a list of apps to figure out on your own.
The build
Your quoting, your follow-up, your paperwork, your marketing — turned into workflows that run whether you're at a desk or on a roof.
The handoff
I train you and your people in plain language until it sticks. You own it. No dependency, no retainer you can't get out of.
How it starts
Three steps, first one is free
You call
Twenty minutes. Tell me what your week looks like and where it hurts. No pitch, no obligation.
I map it
I come back with the specific tasks worth handing to AI, what it takes to set up, and what it's worth to you.
We build it
I set it up, run it with you, and train your people. Then you're multiplied — and I'm a phone call, not a payment plan.
Who you're hiring
Fifty years on the tools. Now on the frontier.
I'm Ken Howard. I've been in the trades since 1976 — Master HVAC contractor, licensed across seven jurisdictions, retired Steamfitters Local 602. I've run the crews, carried the license, signed the permits, and eaten the cost of a bad estimate.
Then I spent the last stretch of my career learning AI the same way I learned the trade: hands on it every day until it did what I told it to. I've built my own products with it, published with it, and run my own businesses on it.
So when I tell a contractor what AI can do for his shop, I'm not guessing. I've stood where he's standing. That's the difference between me and the twenty-five-year-old selling you a course.
Start here
Let's find your five.
One call. Twenty minutes. Worst case you hang up knowing exactly what AI can and can't do for your business.
10337 Yosemite Street, White Plains, Maryland 20695
703-626-0690 · ken@kenhoward.us