AI Technology Consulting in San Diego — What It Actually Looks Like
Not a slide deck. Not a six-month engagement. Real automations, built for North County businesses by someone who writes the code.
Short answer for San Diego business owners:
- $100/hr, no retainer, no monthly lock-in — you pay for hours worked and you keep every file, API key, and line of code when we're done.
- Based in Encinitas / Solana Beach — I work with La Jolla law offices, Carlsbad contractors, Del Mar real estate teams, and Downtown SaaS startups. On-site in North County, remote anywhere.
- Scoped to outcomes, not hours — "automate our intake form into HubSpot + text the owner," "build a GPT that drafts proposals from our Gmail history," "replace the VA who copies data from QuickBooks to Airtable."
- Built on tools you can maintain — OpenAI API, Claude, Zapier, Make, n8n, Supabase, Twilio. No proprietary black-box platform you'd need to pay me forever to run.
What San Diego businesses actually hire me for
Custom GPT assistants trained on your data
Feed it your SOPs, past proposals, client emails, product catalog. Your team asks it questions in Slack or a private web app instead of pinging the senior person.
- Proposal drafting from past wins
- Onboarding answers for new hires
- Internal research across PDFs + Drive
Workflow automation that replaces manual data entry
If someone on your team copies information from one tab to another, that's a two-hour build. I've eliminated VA roles that cost $2k/month with $600 worth of Make scenarios.
- Form → CRM → SMS → calendar in one flow
- QuickBooks ↔ Airtable ↔ client portal
- Email parsing into structured records
AI-powered lead response & qualification
Inbound lead hits your site at 9pm. GPT drafts a personalized reply, scores urgency, books the meeting if it's hot, tags it in your CRM if it's not. Median first-response drops from 4 hours to 90 seconds.
Strategy calls before you spend $50k
A lot of my consulting is telling San Diego owners what NOT to build. If an off-the-shelf tool does 80% of what you need, I'll say so. One hour on the phone has saved clients from full rebuilds more than once.
I've been building AI tools since before ChatGPT was public, and I do this work full-time out of North County. If you've got a messy process, text me a voice memo describing it — I'll tell you in an hour whether it's a weekend build or a real project.
How the engagement actually works
1. Free 20-min scoping call
Usually a text first, then a call. I ask what tools you already pay for, what the person doing the painful task costs you per month, and what "done" looks like. If I'm not the right fit, I say so.
2. Fixed estimate in writing
"8–14 hours, $800–$1,400, delivered by Friday." You approve, I build. If it runs over, that's on me unless scope changed.
3. Handoff with Loom walkthroughs
Everything lives in YOUR OpenAI account, YOUR Zapier, YOUR Supabase. I record a video walking through each piece so your team — or the next developer — can maintain it.
4. Hourly support only if you want it
No monthly minimum. Some clients text me once a quarter. Others have me in for a day a month. Your call.
Ready to see if AI actually helps your business?
Text me what's eating your time. I'll tell you if it's worth automating.
Text 858-461-8054