Orbwell · automation & applied AI · small business, anywhere
So that is the conversation we have, and it is free. You walk us through how the work actually gets done — the quoting, the chasing, the spreadsheet only one person understands. We tell you plainly which parts a machine could take, which parts it could not, and what each one would be worth.
Q. Would AI even help a business my size?
It is almost never the flashy thing. It is the two hours every Tuesday that nobody counts, the report that gets rebuilt by hand, the follow-up that never gets sent.
Q. Where would I even start?
You do not need a strategy or a budget to have this conversation. You need one process that runs badly and forty-five minutes to describe it.
Q. What is this going to cost me?
You only pay if you ask for something built. No retainer, no discovery fee, no funnel at the end of this page.
The same handful of opportunities keep turning up, in businesses that look nothing like each other. If one of these sounds like your week, that is the place to start.
Your own past quotes become a priced first draft in minutes — you correct it instead of building it.
The report writes itself overnight and tells you what moved and why, before you open it.
That logic moves somewhere it runs on schedule and explains itself — and survives them taking a holiday.
Something checks it every hour and messages you first, including when it is not sure.
Drafted for you in your own words, sitting in a queue and waiting on a yes. Nothing sends itself.
One screen, current, on the wall and on your phone — and it says so when the count is stale.
The reminders get written, tuned to the customer, and queued. You press send, or you do not.
Numbers you already collect, on a dashboard you would actually look at — not a login you forget.
CAD to a printed part to a working sensor on a live graph — in a day. There is a case file for exactly this.
And the honest half of the list
none of these quite fit? that is still a conversation worth having — see how it works →
Our business model in one line: the advice is free, and you only ever pay for a build.
Forty-five minutes, no prep, no slides. Bring a process that runs badly, a product you want built, or a thing you wish you could see on one screen.
Written back to you: what we would automate first and roughly what it is worth, what you should just buy off the shelf, and what we would leave alone entirely. In plain words, with the reasoning attached.
Do it yourself, take the list to someone else, or have us build the first one — small, fixed scope, working inside a week, handed over with the source. Nothing recurring until something is actually running.
Write to Andrew · replies within one business day, from the engineer
hello@orbwell.caOrbwell consults on computer automation and applied artificial intelligence — and builds, when building turns out to be the right answer.
The work your team does by hand, done by machines that log what they did.
Scheduled agents doing real work, with a run recorder that proves what ran.
Standups, desk reports, night audits — from your real data, on schedule.
Dashboards on the screens you actually look at — TVs, tablets, kiosks, phones.
Watchdogs that compare what fired against what actually got written.
Parametric CAD to firmware to a live dashboard, in a day. The case files hold the receipt.
Catalogs and reports that rebuild themselves from approved source data only.
Home Assistant done properly, with power budgets sized for December.
Nothing here is a mockup. These are the boards this practice actually runs on. Yours would show your business instead.
four case files, with the numbers and what went wrong → read the case files
One email address. No forms, no chatbot, no scheduling link that asks your company size. Tell Andrew what runs badly and you get a straight answer on what we would build first — even if the answer is nothing.
hello@orbwell.ca