You tried ChatGPT.
It wrote a lovely poem about your Q3. The invoices are still late.
Everybody is doing AI. Most of them are doing a demo.
SimplyLean AI helps businesses and nonprofits figure out where AI actually saves time, builds the tools to do it, and teaches the team to use them. No forty-page strategy. No sparkle icons.
Sound familiar
You're not behind. The goalposts are on wheels.
Every week there's a new tool, a new model, and a new guy on LinkedIn who automated his whole business over a weekend. Meanwhile, you have payroll on Friday.
Somebody on your team uses six AI tools.
Nobody knows which ones, what they cost, or where the customer data went.
You got quoted $60,000 for an AI transformation.
You have nine employees. One of them is your cousin.
What we do
Find the time sink. Fix it. Teach it. Repeat.
Three things, in the order most people need them. The first one is cheap on purpose.
See every service- Intake form
- Copy to sheet
- Email Sam
- Check calendar
- Draft quote
- Approve
- Paste into CRM
- Send
- Follow up
The AI audit
Two weeks, one short report. What to automate first, what to leave alone, and what it would cost. Fixed price.
- Dana M.Can you quote 200 units by Friday?Quotehandled
- AccountsInvoice 4471 is 30 days outInvoicehandled
- Priya K.Need to move Tuesday to ThursdaySchedulinghandled
- UnknownCongratulations, you've been selectedSpamhandled
- Omar R.Same order as last month pleaseReorderhandled
- Lena S.The login page isn't loadingSupporthandled
Workflow optimization
We rebuild the one process that eats your Tuesdays, with AI doing the boring middle and a person signing off.
| Month | Revenue | Leads | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 18,240 | 1,120 | 6.1% |
| Feb | 19,860 | 1,310 | 6.6% |
| Mar | 22,410 | 1,590 | 7.1% |
| Apr | 24,030 | 1,880 | 7.8% |
| May | 27,560 | 2,240 | 8.1% |
Custom tools
When the off-the-shelf thing almost works, we build the thing that does. Small, boring, yours.
How it works
Boring on purpose. The exciting part is the Tuesday you get back.
- 1
Audit
We watch how the work actually gets done. Not the org chart, the inbox.
- 2
Plan
A short list, in order, with a price on each line. You pick.
- 3
Build
We set it up, connect it to what you already pay for, and test it with your real mess.
- 4
Train
Your team learns it in an afternoon. Then we stick around until nobody needs us.
The AI audit
Start with the $495 audit. It's the cheapest way to find out what you actually need.
Two weeks. We look at how the work really gets done, then tell you plainly where AI helps, where it doesn't, and what it would cost. If the honest answer is that you don't need us, we'll say so and you're out a few hundred dollars instead of sixty thousand.
Who we work with
People with a real business and no time for a pilot program.
We've done this inside a multi-million-dollar nonprofit, for a booking startup we built ourselves, and for owners who run everything from their phone.
Small and mid-size businesses
Distribution, trades, services, retail. Anyone who runs on email and a spreadsheet named FINAL_v7.
Nonprofits
Where we started. Donor data, grant reports, and a team that does three jobs each.
Professional practices
Clinics, firms, and agencies drowning in intake forms and follow-ups.
Teams that were just told to do something with AI
Usually by someone who won't be in the meeting.
Questions people ask before they email
And a few they ask after.
Do we have to buy new software?
Usually not. Most of what we build sits on top of the tools you already pay for. If a thirty-dollar-a-month tool solves it, we'll tell you the name and let you go.
Is our data going to end up training some model?
No. We use business-tier AI services with data-retention turned off, and we put that in writing. Anything sensitive stays where it already lives.
We're a nonprofit. Is this for us?
It's where we started. Haris leads AI implementation and marketing for a multi-million-dollar humanitarian nonprofit, so we know what a grant report at 11 p.m. feels like.
What if our team hates it?
Then we built the wrong thing. Training is part of every project, and we design for the least patient person in the room, not the most technical one.
Put AI to work. Keep your Tuesday.
Start with the audit, or just tell us what's eating your week.
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