We make AI accessible to small businesses.

Most businesses know AI matters but have no idea where to start. We turn that into custom tools and automations that fit how you already work, shipped in weeks and yours to own.

Why work with us

  • 30+ Years combined experience
  • 2–8 Weeks to ship
  • 100% Client-owned code
  • $0 Per-seat license fees

Common problems

Sound familiar?

Every operator we talk to is losing hours to the same few things. Tools that almost work. Knowledge stuck in a couple of people's heads. The same information typed over and over. Here's what we hear most.

01

Software that almost fits.

Off-the-shelf gets you 80% of the way, then fights you on the rest. Your team builds workarounds, keeps the real numbers in spreadsheets, and trains every new hire on the tricks. That gap costs you hours every week, and it never goes away.

02

The business runs out of someone's head.

Pricing, customer history, how the work really gets done. It lives in a few people. One of them retires or quits, and it walks out the door with them.

03

The same job gets typed five times.

Phone call, calendar, dispatch, invoice, accounting. Every handoff is a chance to drop something, double something, or miss it. Your best people spend half their day doing data entry.

04

You're renting all of it, by the seat.

Every tool, every month, every user, and you own none of it. The price goes up, the features you'll never use pile on, and the day you stop paying you have nothing to show for it.

What we build

What we build.

Sometimes the answer is a full system. Sometimes it's just connecting the tools you already use so you stop doing the same work twice. We start from your problem, not from what we feel like building. Here's what that usually looks like.

01

Internal Knowledge Assistant

An AI assistant trained on your SOPs, pricing, customer history, and project files. Your team asks questions in plain English; it answers in plain English with source citations. Lives in Slack, Teams, web, or wherever your team works.

Includes

  • Training pipeline on your docs, spreadsheets, project files, and customer records
  • Plain-language Q&A with source citations, no hallucinations
  • Delivery in Slack, Teams, web, or mobile
  • Permissions layer so techs see techy info and the office sees office info
  • Feedback loop that improves answers over time
Talk to us Could we build this for you?
02

Workflow Automations

Multi-tool automations that move data between your systems and trigger tasks at the right moments. Connects your CRM, calendar, dispatch, invoicing, email, and accounting. Anything with an API or a stable export.

Includes

  • Connections between CRM, calendar, dispatch, invoicing, email, SMS, accounting
  • Triggers on form submissions, calendar events, status changes, schedules, manual buttons
  • Data transformations: formatting, lookups, conditional routing, bulk operations
  • Error notifications so you get alerted when something breaks, not your customer
  • Built on Make / n8n / Zapier where it fits, fully custom code when it doesn't
Talk to us Could we build this for you?
03

Custom Operations Apps

A custom-built web app designed for your specific workflow. Common builds: dispatch, scheduling, invoicing, lead management, internal portals. Ships in 4–8 weeks with full source code ownership and no per-seat fees.

Includes

  • Desktop and mobile-friendly web app tailored to your operation
  • Authentication, role-based access, and audit logs (the boring-but-important stuff)
  • Integrations with your existing data, calendars, and accounting
  • Owned outright: source code, data, and hosting are yours
  • Fixed price, fixed scope, 4–8 week typical build
Software build AAL Integrated CRM/Ops Platform
04

Smart Quoting & Estimates

An AI-assisted quoting tool that generates quotes in seconds from job specs. Pulls from your catalog, parts pricing, labor rates, and historical jobs. Sends, schedules followups, and books on accept.

Includes

  • Job intake form tuned to your service mix
  • Pricing engine pulling from catalog, parts pricing, labor rates, and historical data
  • AI assistance on unusual jobs that matches similar past quotes and flags edge cases
  • Send via email/SMS with electronic signing and deposit collection
  • Auto-followups on un-responded quotes; auto-booking on accept
Talk to us Could we build this for you?
05

Service Reports & Field Capture

Mobile field reporting that fills itself out. Techs record voice notes that become structured reports; photos auto-tag and attach to the right job. Everything syncs back to the customer record and the invoice.

Includes

  • Mobile capture app (web or native, offline-tolerant)
  • Voice-to-structured-report pipeline (parts used, time on site, exceptions)
  • Photo intake with auto-tagging and job/customer association
  • Auto-sync to your CRM, customer record, and invoice line items
  • Optional customer-facing summary email after the visit
Talk to us Could we build this for you?
06

Need something custom?

This list isn't exhaustive. If you've got a workflow that's killing your team and nothing here fits, talk to us. You'll get a scoped proposal (what we'd build, what it costs, how long it takes) within a week of the discovery call.

Book a Discovery Call
07

Dispatch & Routing

Smart dispatch that picks the right tech for the right job in the right order. Considers urgency, skill match, parts on truck, traffic, and where everyone already is, and re-plans on the fly when emergencies hit.

Includes

  • Daily route optimization across your fleet against priority and SLA
  • Real-time re-planning when emergencies hit the board mid-day
  • Dispatcher UI that shows options, not orders, so your dispatcher stays in control
  • Plugs into existing dispatch software, or stands on its own if you'd rather
  • Driver-side mobile app with turn-by-turn and job sequencing
Talk to us Could we build this for you?
08

Email & SMS Triage

An AI agent that reads your inbound messages, classifies them, drafts replies in your voice, and routes urgent items to whoever needs to see them. You approve and send, or set high-confidence categories to auto.

Includes

  • Inbox connection (Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, custom) and SMS provider
  • Classifier trained on your historical replies and team roles
  • Drafts in your business voice, citing the knowledge brain when relevant
  • Routing rules: urgent escalates, FYI is filed, spam is dropped
  • Approval queue or full autopilot per category, sender, or topic
Talk to us Could we build this for you?
09

Connected Sales & Marketing Stack

One platform that integrates content, campaigns, email, customer journeys, social, and CRM features into a single custom-built system. No more duct-taping six tools together to run go-to-market.

Includes

  • Unified contact and account model that spans marketing, sales, and service
  • Campaign builder with email, SMS, and social scheduling under one roof
  • Content library and journey orchestration tied to lifecycle stage
  • Built-in CRM features: pipeline, tasks, notes, attribution
  • Built around your funnel and pipeline, not duct-taped together from six tools
Software build Vantaic Sales & Marketing Platform
10

AI-Assisted Bid Tracking

Track government and enterprise bids in real time. AI sorts, filters, and scores incoming opportunities against your shop's fit, then sends a daily report of which ones are worth pursuing.

Includes

  • Real-time monitoring of SAM.gov, state portals, and enterprise procurement feeds
  • AI scoring against your service capabilities, geography, and past wins
  • Automatic filtering on NAICS codes, set-asides, contract size, and deadlines
  • Daily digest of qualified bids with summary, key dates, and links
  • One-click export of bids worth chasing into your sales pipeline
Talk to us Could we build this for you?
11

KPI & Analytics Dashboards

A single place to see how the business is actually doing. Pulls from accounting, CRM, dispatch, ops, and field tools so you stop opening five tabs to answer one question. Built around the numbers your business actually runs on.

Includes

  • Connections to QuickBooks, your CRM, dispatch, and any ops or field tools
  • Custom KPIs defined with you (revenue per tech, close rate, AR aging, jobs-per-day)
  • Owner dashboard, manager dashboard, and a daily / weekly digest
  • Trend lines, alerts on threshold breaches, and drill-downs to the underlying records
  • Hosted on infrastructure you own, exportable to CSV any time
Software build Techfive Dashboard Software
12

AI Voice Receptionist

A voice agent that answers your inbound phone line 24/7. It greets callers in your business's voice, qualifies the request, and books the job into your calendar or dispatch, without sending callers to voicemail.

Includes

  • Custom voice persona (or stock voice) matched to your brand
  • Phone provider integration: Twilio, Bandwidth, RingCentral, or your existing PBX
  • Booking flow into Jobber, ServiceTitan, Google Calendar, or your CRM
  • On-call routing rules with escalation logic
  • Web chat companion sharing the same trained knowledge
Talk to us Could we build this for you?
13

Need something custom?

This list isn't exhaustive. If you've got a workflow that's killing your team and nothing here fits, talk to us. You'll get a scoped proposal (what we'd build, what it costs, how long it takes) within a week of the discovery call.

Book a Discovery Call

How we work

From first call to live in weeks.

Five steps. Fixed scope. Fixed price. No six-month black boxes, no surprise bills.

  1. 30 min 01

    Discovery Call

    We find out where your team is drowning and what's worth building first. Free, no pressure, no pitch.

  2. 60 min 02

    Scoping Call

    We go deeper on the areas with the biggest payoff and agree on what success looks like before any code gets written.

  3. 1–2 weeks 03

    MVP Build & Proposal

    We build a working piece of the real thing to prove it out, then send a written plan with a fixed price, timeline, and scope. You approve before we go further.

  4. 2–8 weeks 04

    Complete Build

    We ship in pieces. You review, we adjust. Modern tools turn what used to take months into weeks.

  5. ongoing 05

    Launch & Maintain

    It goes live. You own the code, the data, and the system. Keep us on for support and the next round of work as you grow. Your software team, not your landlord.

Software we've built

Custom software platforms we've shipped.

A look at custom platforms we've shipped, built around how the teams using them actually run.

Who we serve

Built for small businesses doing real work.

We've built systems for trades, construction, manufacturing, healthcare, and field service. If your team runs on phones, calendars, and coffee, you're our people.

Tradesperson at a service truck on the job
01

Trades

For the people doing the work. Phones ringing, jobs to dispatch, customers expecting answers, while you're under a sink.

  • Plumbing
  • HVAC
  • Electrical
  • Roofing
See how we help trades
Construction worker on a jobsite
02

Construction

For builders and contractors. Quoting jobs, managing crews and subs, juggling RFIs, change orders, and inventory, without losing the project to admin.

  • General Contractors
  • Subcontractors
  • Builders
  • Specialty Trades
See how we help construction
Operator on a shop floor
03

Manufacturing

For shops, fabricators, and small-batch makers. Production schedules, parts inventory, custom orders, quality control, and the spreadsheets nobody trusts anymore.

  • Job Shops
  • Fabrication
  • Custom Manufacturing
  • Light Assembly
See how we help manufacturing
Dispatcher coordinating field service routes
04

Field Service

For service-on-site businesses. Routes, dispatches, recurring service calls, and parts you needed yesterday, with a customer waiting on the porch.

  • Pest Control
  • Landscaping
  • Cleaning
  • Garage Door & Locksmith
See how we help field service
Healthcare professional reviewing patient records
05

Healthcare

For practices, clinics, and home health. Booking, intake, eligibility, recall campaigns, and patient communications, with HIPAA-aware workflows from day one.

  • Dental & Medical Practices
  • Home Health
  • Specialty Clinics
  • Therapy & Wellness
See how we help healthcare
Owner working from a small business office
06

Specialty Small Businesses

When the categories above don't quite fit. Property management, facilities, specialty retail, professional services, and anyone whose workflows don't match off-the-shelf software.

  • Property Management
  • Facilities
  • Specialty Retail
  • Professional Services
See how we help specialty small businesses

FAQ

Common questions.

If something's missing, ask on the discovery call.

How much does this cost?
Most projects are a fixed setup fee plus a monthly fee for hosting, support, and ongoing work. We price every project before you commit. No hourly meter, no surprise invoices. You'll know the number before you say yes.
How long does it take?
A working piece in 1 to 2 weeks, a full build usually in 2 to 8. We ship in pieces, so you're never waiting months to see something real.
What if it breaks after launch? Who fixes it?
We do. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes, security updates, and small changes. We don't disappear once the invoice is paid.
What if I don't know what to build yet?
That's what the first call is for. We'll tell you straight what's worth building, what isn't, and where the fastest payoff is. Even if the answer is "not yet."
How much of my time will this take?
Most of the work is on us. We need you for the two early calls, a few reviews along the way, and the final sign-off. We work around how busy you are.
Do all your solutions use AI?
No. AI is a tool, not the product. Sometimes the right answer is a voice agent. Sometimes it's a plain workflow automation. Sometimes it's a custom app with no AI in it. We pick what fits the problem.

From the founders

The partner we wished existed.

We're Jason, Ben, and Max Pierce. Between us, we've spent decades running operations, shipping software, and getting paged at 2am about systems that broke in production. Jason built and exited multiple IT and cybersecurity companies, and ran the kinds of small businesses we now build for. Ben handles the engineering and security on every system we ship. Max runs growth and client delivery. Three Pierces, one playbook, one partner we wished existed back when we were the customers. Four things came out of that experience, and we don't move on them.

  • Operators, not just developers.

    Every system answers one question first: does this actually save you time and money?

  • Ship in weeks, not quarters.

    AI changed what custom software costs and takes. We move at the pace of a small business, not an enterprise consultancy.

  • Yours to own. Ours to maintain.

    Code, data, and system are yours outright, with no per-seat fees or annual escalators. But you're not on your own. Keep us on for maintenance, security, and the next iteration. Your software team, not your landlord.

  • Security in the bones.

    CySA+ and Security+ certified. Decades in cybersecurity across the team. Baked in by the same hands that ship the rest.

If any of that sounds like the partner you've been looking for, the discovery call is free.

Jason, Ben, & Max Pierce Co-founders, AAL Systems

Next step

Not sure how AI fits your business? Let's find out.

A 30-minute discovery call. We find out where your team is drowning, point you to the fastest payoff, and tell you straight what's worth building, and what isn't.

Free · No pitch · No pressure