Folio 008 · The other listKept on principle

What we won’t automate

Most AI pitches promise everything. Here’s the list we lead with instead — the things we’ll tell you not to buy from us, because being right about what you need is worth more to us than a build fee.

Your pricing and your bids.

Math can assist. The call stays human. Anyone selling you AI that “does your bids” is selling you liability with a dashboard on it.

Anything that lives on paper and photos.

That’s a capture problem before it’s an AI problem. We’ll build you the field app when it’s worth building — or name the off-the-shelf one that fits and tell you to buy that instead. What we won’t do is pitch AI at paper.

Bookkeeping itself.

Solved category. QuickBooks and a good bookkeeper beat anything we’d build you. We automate what happens after the books are right.

One-person judgment calls.

Collections escalations. Anything HR. We’ll draft so it’s ready when you are — but a human decides, every time.

A chatbot for your website.

For a $5M service company it’s almost never the first dollar. You’ve probably been pitched one this month. Say no.

Why publish this?

Because we’d rather lose a build than be wrong about what you need. It’s also why the first thing we do automate comes with a guarantee: your first report lands correct within 14 days of kickoff, or month one is free.

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