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AI agents and AI adoption
AI agents for farms and food makers
AI is useful to a two-person food business in specific places: product descriptions from your notes, customer questions overnight, invoices into the books, the newsletter draft, the weekly numbers. We set up the ones that earn their keep.
Built for farmers and makers. Set up for you, on the tools you already use.
Audit
Where AI earns its keep, and where it does not
A short list of tasks worth automating for your business, and the ones to leave alone.
| Task | Hours a week | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Answering order questions | 4 | Automate |
| Entering supplier invoices | 2 | Automate |
| Writing the newsletter | 2 | Draft, you approve |
| Replying to a complaint | 1 | Keep it human |
Your voice
Product pages from your notes, not invented
Agents write from what you give them: your maker notes, your rules, your tone. They do not add claims you did not make.
Works with what you already run
Already on one of these? We work with what you have before suggesting a switch.
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Gemini
- Microsoft Copilot
- Shopify Magic
- Shopify Sidekick
- Klaviyo AI
- Notion AI
What is included
An AI audit: a short list of tasks worth automating for your business and the ones to leave alone
A shopping and support agent on your site that answers from your real catalog and policies
Agents for the recurring work: newsletter drafts, product copy, invoice capture, weekly reports, daily Pinterest posting
Training for you and your staff on using AI tools well, with your brand voice and rules loaded in
See what this looks like for your business
Tell us what you make. We send back a short plan and a price.
How it works
Tell us what you make
What you make and what you use now. A spreadsheet and a Square account is a fine answer.
Get a short plan
Keep this, replace that, connect these, and the cost.
We set it up
Setup and migration done for you. You approve before anything goes live.
Run it or hand it off
Take it from there yourself or keep us on for the upkeep.
A good fit if
- You have tried ChatGPT and it wrote marketing fluff
- You want product pages written from your maker notes, not invented
- You want a weekly report to appear without doing it
Questions
How can a small food business use AI?
For the recurring work that follows a pattern: answering order questions, entering invoices, drafting the newsletter, pulling weekly numbers and writing product copy from your own notes.
Is it safe to let an agent act on its own?
It depends on the task. Reports can run alone. Anything a customer reads or that moves money gets an approval step, and complaints go to a person.
Which AI tools do you use?
Agents are built on models from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google, and on the AI already inside tools like Shopify and Klaviyo. We choose by the job.
Get a plan and a price
Tell us what you make and what you use today. A spreadsheet and a Square account is a fine answer. We reply by email with what we would keep, what we would change and what it costs.
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