Send me your worst workflow.

Every business has one workflow that eats the week. The invoices that wait on three people. The intake that gets typed twice. The overnight calls nobody gets to until nine. Tell me yours and you'll get a written plan: what a first build would do, what stays with your people, what it plugs into, what it would cost, and whether it's worth doing at all.

Sometimes the answer is fix it without AI first. Sometimes it's a feature in software you already pay for. You get that answer too, and you keep the plan either way.

What I need from you.

About three minutes, your words.

Or email me at cmyers@mainandmachine.com.

What comes back.

One page. Your workflow in your words. A verdict on the first line: build it; fix it without AI first; not yet; or bigger than one workflow. What a first build would gather, check, draft, and hold for a person's approval. The systems it touches and the one thing to fix first. Where it goes wrong in a business like yours. The price range from our price list, with the 90-day guarantee and what "live" would mean for you. The route without us, always. One thing you can do this week for free. And what would change my answer.

When.

Send now and it's due by Sunday, September 6, 12:21 pm Denver time. If I need one thing from you, I'll ask once, and the clock restarts when you answer. If I miss the hour, you'll hear why before you ask, and you get 30 minutes of my time at an hour you pick.

How it's made.

Drafted with the same tools we build for clients, then read, rewritten where it needs it, and signed by me. The verdict, where the friction is, where it goes wrong, and what would change my answer are mine, by hand. I sign four a day.

Why free.

I sell the build, so I can afford to give away the plan. I built this inside my own company first: B:Side Capital, an SBA lender, where the systems my team and I built handle fourteen jobs with a person approving everything that goes out. Reading real workflows in owners' own words teaches me more than any survey, and I'd rather pay for that by doing real work for you than by buying an ad you'd scroll past. And it saves us both a bad meeting. If you take the plan and never call, that's a fair trade.

Money, up front.

Builds run $18,000 to $60,000, fixed in writing after scoping. The Blueprint, a map of your whole operation with every workflow costed and ranked, runs $3,500 to $8,500 and credits 100% toward a build. The plan will say if your problem is the wrong size for either.

The rules.

One plan per business per quarter. No call attached. You'll hear from me once a week later to ask if I got it right, once more at 30 days if the verdict was fix it first or not yet, then nothing unless you write. What you send is read by a person; names are replaced with placeholders before the drafting tool sees it, and the tool runs under an agreement that it keeps nothing; it's stored on systems we run and deleted when you ask. What we keep after that is the pattern of which workflows come up, with nothing that identifies you. Main & Machine is a separate company from B:Side Capital. Nothing you tell me here is seen by anyone at B:Side or touches any credit file.

Five questions to ask any vendor, including us

What does a person approve before anything goes out?

Every send, file, post, or payment. Nothing sends, files, posts, or pays until a person approves it, and the plan names who that person is by role.

What system does it write to, and can we turn it off?

The plan lists each system by name and says whether the build reads from it or writes to it. Anything that writes can be switched off by your people without calling us.

Where does our customer information go, and who can see it?

The plan names every system it touches, read versus write. If data would have to leave systems you control, the plan says so and the price reflects keeping it inside.

What happens the first time it is wrong?

For the first two weeks it drafts and sends nothing. A person sees every draft, and section 5 names the failures we plan for.

What does it cost, in writing, before you start?

A range now from the public price list, a fixed number in writing after scoping, and scoping happens before you sign anything.