First BellEric Bakken · Denver area

For owners of family and small businesses

The tools change every month. Your business doesn't. I translate.

I run a family business, and I taught school before that, so I've spent my working life turning complicated things into plain language. I do the same for AI: what's worth your time, what's worth your money, and what you can safely ignore.

Consulting AI training
Eric Bakken
Former teacher · owner · builder

Two ways to work with me

Consulting A five-hour half day at your place.

I watch how work actually gets done, you talk me through what slows you down, and you leave with a report and a proposal for what to build.

$2,000 · see how it works → Training One-on-one, or your whole team.

Like I did in the classroom, I assume nothing and go at your pace. You learn to use AI with your own data, not just a chat box.

Example sessions →

What changed

Stop bending your business to fit the software.

The old way
  1. Know your industry
  2. Buy software built for the industry
  3. Pay for integrations to make it talk to everything else
  4. Retrain your people to work the way the software does
  5. People making spreadsheets for other people to read
The new way
  1. Know your business: your process, your day, your judgment calls
  2. Say it once, out loud
  3. Build software that fits how you already work
  4. Far less integration and onboarding, because it starts from you

The network effect

Your data is worth more when it's together.

If your sales are in one app, your schedules in another, your recipes in a notebook and your bookings somewhere else, each one only knows its own corner. Put them in one place and they start answering questions none of them could answer alone.

Sales Schedules Recipes Bookings Apart: four answers One place Sales Schedules Recipes Bookings Together: answers none could give alone

Two languages, one business

You already know how your business works. You just use different words.

What an owner saysWhat a builder calls it
"I'm the only one who knows if a booking is really confirmed."status · single source of truth
"When the order comes in, somebody has to tell the kitchen."trigger · handoff
"Unless it's a Saturday and the truck's in the shop."exception · edge case
"I keep typing the same thing into three screens."integration · API

Why now

Building keeps getting cheaper. Explaining doesn't.

Software gets cheaper every month. Knowing what to build doesn't. That's where I come in.

Knowing what to build Effort to build it Then Now
An idea, drawn to explain. Not measured data.

How consulting works

Five steps, and you can stop after any of them.

Step 1 · Free

A short form

Five minutes. Only your name and email are needed.

Step 2 · Free

A 15-minute call

At the end I'll tell you honestly whether I think I can help.

Step 4 · Quoted

Building

If you want it built, I'll quote it first.

Step 5 · Handoff

Yours to run

You get the code and a plan to keep it up: a freelance developer, or an AI assistant set up to do most of it.

From the case studies
CaféLabor that follows sales CaféOrdering by par level Tour companyThe truck checks out first LearnWhat is an AI agent?