Most small businesses use AI.Very few run on it.

There's a wide gap between someone in your office trying a chatbot and AI actually built into how the work gets done. Tellico closes that gap — we find the process that's costing you hours, then build and install the system that handles it.

Book a 20-minute call No pitch. Bring one process that's eating your week.

Small businesses across the Midwest and Southeast · Based in Knoxville, Tennessee

The problem

The costs that never make it onto anyone's list

Almost every business we look at has two or three of these. They rarely get named as problems — some because they've always just been how the work gets done, and some because there's nothing there to point at.

01

Your people in the field know things nobody writes down — and months later you can't produce the one fact that would settle an argument or justify an invoice.

02

The same information gets keyed into two systems, because the two systems don't talk.

03

Work gets done that nobody bills for, because the request came verbally on site and nothing captured it.

04

Reports get assembled by hand, late, from memory and a stack of notes.

What we do

We don't hand you a tool. We build the system.

The deliverable is a working system wired into the software you already run, doing a specific job you'd otherwise pay a person to do by hand. Not a subscription. Not another login. Not a slide deck.

Large consultancies don't work at your size

Their engagements start well above what a 20-person company can justify, and their AI practices are built for the Fortune 500.

Generic AI tools hand you the hard part

Buying the tool is easy. Wiring it into your phones, your scheduling, and your ERP — and keeping it working — is the actual job.

We're independent, and paid only by you

No software resale, no vendor referral fees, no kickbacks. If the right answer is a tool you already own, that's the recommendation you'll get.

Case study — Roberts Glass & Service

The first thing they automated wasn't the office. It was the job site.

Roberts Glass & Service put an automated voice system in front of fourteen lead glaziers. No app, no tablet, no new login — it calls them, and they answer. What comes out is a dated, attributed record of every job, every day.

95%
of extra work directed in the field is documented the same day
0
new apps, tablets or logins for the crews who use it
< 3 wks
from first prototype to running in production
Scheduled call Out to each lead glazier, on time They answer By voice or text — whatever works Written down Dated, attributed, kept Put to work Reporting, change orders, safety, ERP Runs every working day. The crews' only job is to pick up.
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How it works

Three stages, in order. You can stop after any one.

01

Readiness audit

One to two weeks. We map how the business actually runs and identify the two or three places AI pays for itself fastest. You finish with a prioritized roadmap you own outright — including what we'd recommend you not automate.

02

Implementation

Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed before anything starts. We build the system, test it against real work, and put it into production alongside your team.

03

Ongoing support

Monitoring, tuning, and iteration as the business changes. Month to month — kept only as long as it's earning its keep.

Scope and price are set after we talk, because they depend entirely on what we find. No packages, no per-seat pricing, no surprise line items. See how each stage works →

Fit

Who this works for

A good fit

  • Roughly 5–50 employees, with no in-house IT or AI capability
  • The owner or a small leadership team makes the call directly
  • At least one process you can name that eats hours every week
  • Enough revenue that giving a person their week back matters

Probably not

  • Enterprises with an internal engineering team already on this
  • Pre-revenue businesses looking for a technical co-founder
  • Anyone wanting AI added because it should be there somewhere

Start with twenty minutes.

Bring the thing that costs you the most — the hours, or the argument you keep losing. We'll tell you straight whether it's worth solving, and if it isn't, we'll say so.

Book a 20-minute call