Hours returned
40
of staff time per month
AI modernization for established businesses · Chicago
We do not sell AI — we make the AI you buy pay off. Learn to use it, budget it, and meter it, whoever your provider is. Audited in three hours, remote, inside the tools you already run.
What the sand is costing you
None of these show up on a P&L line. All of them show up in the P&L.
Your competitor answered the same request in an afternoon. Speed is now a pricing advantage, and most of the delay is drafting, not deciding.
Four hours of a capable person's week spent assembling numbers that a system could deliver, finished, every morning.
Procedures, pricing logic, and customer history living in the heads of people close to retirement. AI is unusually good at capturing it while they are still on the floor.
The meter
Commercial AI is priced per unit of text processed. That means the cost of automating a workflow can be estimated up front and tracked to the dollar. Pick a workflow and see the arithmetic.
The model
Four of the five are priced on the page because that is how the whole engagement will feel. The full build is scoped to your operation, so it starts with a conversation. The whole path is spelled out below: what happens when you reach out.
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Start here
Four steps. You can stop after any of them, and the most common place to start costs $89.
Email, call, or hit any button on this page. One line about your business and the workflow that annoys you most is plenty — no forms, no qualification questions. A person replies within one business day.
Thirty minutes on the phone. You describe the work; we tell you whether AI can take it, roughly what it would cost to run, and what to try first. If the honest answer is "keep your money," you hear exactly that — the $89 buys the answer, not a pitch.
The three hour audit turns the conversation into a written plan: which workflows pay, what each one costs per month to run, and what to skip. Numbers specific enough to argue with, which is the point of writing them down.
If a build makes sense — a workflow, a spend dashboard, a full embedded engagement — we work inside the tools you already run and meter every AI dollar. It ends with documentation, training, and your team running the system without us.
UnOstrich U
A thirty minute working session on video: you bring your actual work, we set up the tools on your machine, and you leave using AI the way we do. Not a webinar. Not slides. Your screen, your files, your job.
How we work
Every workflow gets a cost estimate before it is built and a usage report after. You will always know what AI is costing you, per task, per month, to the dollar.
We make the model and vendor selection calls per task, and everything is built so the underlying AI provider can be swapped. Claude today, something else tomorrow if pricing or quality moves. You are never locked in.
We build inside what you already run: email, Excel, QuickBooks, your ERP, your practice management system. Nothing gets ripped out, and we have pulled clean data from systems with no modern connections at all.
AI output is verified before your business acts on it, and anything customer facing keeps a human review step. Automated work has to meet the same standard as human work.
Client and company information never trains public models. Where it matters, workflows can be set up so data stays entirely inside your walls.
Where this works
Legal
Deposition and document summaries, intake triage, first drafts of discovery responses, cleaner billing narratives.
Financial
Meeting prep and follow ups, client letters and reports, onboarding paperwork, compliance aware drafting.
Manufacturing
Same day quote turnaround, SOPs written from documents you already have, shift and production reporting.
Retail
Customer service drafts, product copy at scale, weekly sales and inventory reports that write themselves.
Energy
Field notes turned into finished reports, RFP first drafts, regulatory updates summarized into what changed for you.
IT services
Ticket triage and drafted responses, self generating documentation, plus an AI offering you can sell to clients.
Our credentials
No strategists with slide decks. UnOstrich is run by people who build and operate AI systems inside a regulated business every working day, with the receipts to prove it.
Straight answers