AI is cheap. Bad decisions are not.

Employees that don't forget.

Every assistant we sell runs on our own business first.

Nothing slips when nobody forgets. One named employee, one job: catching what falls through your business, the phone, the quotes, the inquiry inbox, and reporting weekly on what it caught and what it was worth. First month free. Then one flat fee if it earns its place. You approve every step.

How it works

One workflow, one month, one report a week.

STEP 1 · FREE

The Catch pilot

One month, one real workflow

We put a named assistant on one thing that slips in your business: the phone, the quotes, the inquiry inbox. You get one short report a week on what got caught and what it was worth.

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STEP 2 · FLAT FEE

Keep it running

One flat monthly fee, all assistants

If the month proves it caught money, a flat fee keeps it on and turns on the others: lead radar, missed-call rescue, quote chaser. One setup fee, no per-tool pricing, cancel anytime.

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STEP 3 · WHEN YOU'RE READY

The Workbench Session

One call, one real task

One person, one live call. We build your first AI setup together, on a real task from your week. Running before we hang up.

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STEP 4 · THE DEEP DIVE

The Role Audit

The full map

Every role, broken into tasks. Every task scored. The engagement that tells you where AI belongs, in what order, and what to cancel. Most clients get here after the assistants prove the value.

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The real problem

Most AI advice tells you what to buy. Nobody asks what you actually do all week.

Every owner has the same short list of things that keep slipping. A call that rang out while you were on a job. A quote you meant to follow up on. An inquiry that sat until it went cold.

None of that is a software problem. It is a job nobody is doing. We find the jobs worth handing over, start with one, and show you what it caught. If it catches nothing, it comes off.

AI is cheap. Bad decisions are not.

Cooperage Assistants

Assistants with a name, a job, and a report card.

LEAD FOUNDRY · ONE REAL RUN

156 companies researched overnight

Contacts verified, zero guessed email addresses, loaded clean into the CRM. We run it on our own pipeline every week.

CRM GROUNDSKEEPER · ONE REAL RUN

Caught a lead marked "contacted" that never was

11 duplicates safely merged, stages kept honest, checked against the actual mailbox, not the note.

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Why Cooperage

Small steps on purpose. You shouldn't have to bet the business on this.

The first month is free because that is the honest way to start. If it catches nothing worth having, you pay nothing and it comes off. After that it is month to month. Cancel any time, and you keep every account and every login.

We don't sell software

No vendor deals, no referral fees. The only thing we can sell you is the straight answer, including when the answer is to do nothing.

Boring beats impressive

A plain thing that saves you money beats a clever thing that saves nothing. We would rather build the boring one.

The promise: a person stays in the loop

Every engagement is run by the same small team, start to finish. No junior staff, no subcontractors. The people who scope the work are the ones who deliver it.

Straight answers

Things people ask before they book.

What does the free month include?

One named assistant on one real workflow that is already slipping: the phone, the quotes, or the inquiry inbox. We set it up, it runs for a month, and you get a short report each week on what it caught and what that was worth. Nothing goes out without your approval. If the month proves nothing, you pay nothing and it comes off.

What does it cost after the free month?

One flat monthly fee that covers every assistant you turn on, no matter how many. There is a one-time setup fee, and the free month waives it. No per-seat pricing, no usage meter, no invoice surprises, and you can cancel any time. The number is quoted on your call, and it does not climb the more you use it.

What happens on the 30 minute call?

You talk, mostly. We ask what eats your week, look at where things actually stop moving, and pick one workflow worth putting an assistant on. If nothing is worth it, we say so and that is the end of it. You leave with a decision either way, not a pitch deck.

What kind of business is this for, and who is it not for?

For owner-led businesses, roughly five to seventy-five people, with repeatable work moving through them: quotes, follow-ups, an inbox that decides your day. Not for anyone who wants a fully autonomous system on day one, free custom software, or AI to replace staff instead of clarifying their work.

Do I need to know anything about AI first?

No. If you can describe how your week goes, you know enough. You bring the context about how the business runs, we bring the part about what AI can and cannot do, and you approve every step.

What can AI actually do well, and what should stay human?

It is good at boring, repeatable work with a clear right answer: watching for the quote nobody followed up on, drafting the reply in your voice, keeping a list honest. It is bad at anything where one wrong number costs money or trust: high-consequence calls, pricing decisions, anything legal or HR. Our rule is that the first versions draft, summarize, and recommend. A person approves everything that leaves the building.

Will it sound like a robot to my customers?

It drafts in your voice, from your own past writing, and nothing goes out until you approve it. Nobody on the other end deals with a machine on a first pass. If a draft does not sound like you, it gets fixed before it is ever used.

Where does my data live, and who can see it?

In your own accounts, on a machine we manage for you, or inside the tools you already pay for. You keep every login and credential. Spending, payroll, legal, and HR decisions are outside its reach entirely. The permissions we ask for are deliberately narrow: read and draft, never send.

Does this replace anyone on my team?

No. It takes the repeatable part of a role, not the person in it. It has one job, it drafts and recommends, and a human approves anything that leaves the building. That is the whole design, and it is why a first version can be trusted at all.

We already use AI, or a pile of tools. Can you still help?

Yes, and that is usually where the fastest wins are. A stack you already pay for is where the waste hides. We map what you have, keep what earns its place, cut or combine what does not, and add only where the return is obvious. Sometimes the answer is less, not more.

How is this different from hiring a consultant or an agency?

We sell no software and take no referral fees, so we have nothing to sell you except the verdict. We are not a marketing agency and we do not sell visibility. The work is fixed scope at a fixed fee, the same team from the first email to the last build, and the findings are yours whether you continue with us or not.

What if it doesn't work out?

The free month is the whole test. If it catches nothing worth having, you pay nothing and it comes off. After that it is month to month: cancel any time, and you keep every account, workflow, and credential. We would rather lose the fee than keep an assistant that is not earning its place.

See what your business is slipping through.

30 minutes. No pitch, and no audition. You bring the thing that keeps slipping, missed calls, quiet quotes, or the inquiry inbox, and we put an assistant on it for a free month. You get a weekly report of what it caught. If the month proves nothing, you pay nothing.

Or email us directly: hi@cooperage.works

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