Discover the right AI tools to power your unique business
In one kickoff conversation, we'll look at how your business actually runs and where repetitive work is costing you time. From there, I'll research your industry, map your best automation opportunities, and recommend 3-7 practical AI tools matched to your specific needs.
You'll walk away with a clear path to save hours every week, simplify busywork, and start using AI with confidence.
The tools your business needs already exist.
My job is to help connect the dots.
Most businesses are still doing work that software could already handle, but finding and trusting the right AI tools takes time most owners don't have. I help identify simple, practical automations for your inbox, scheduling, follow-ups, reporting, and admin work, often using tools that cost only a few dollars per month. No hype, no massive rebuild, just useful systems that save time.
Let's get to work.
You give me 45 minutes on how your business actually works, and I come back with a short list of the tools worth your time.
4 steps, 1 week, no homework.
45 minutes of questions.
We get on a call and I interview you about how the business actually runs. Walk me through yesterday. Where does work pile up? What do you dread doing? If you could wave a wand and delete one process forever, which one goes? I'm not pitching anything on this call. I'm listening for the bottlenecks you've stopped noticing because you've lived with them so long.
I go find what fits.
This is where the real work happens. I've trained AI research agents on frontier models to dig through the tool landscape and the latest in your industry, and I run everything they surface through my own judgment. A 4-person landscaping crew doesn't need Salesforce, and I won't recommend it. Every tool that makes the list is off the shelf, affordable, and something you can start using the day you sign up.
A prescription, not a lecture.
All of that research lands in a short, plain-English report. Each recommendation names your pain point, the tool that solves it, what it costs per month, how long setup takes, and how many hours it gives you back. It closes with a 4-day quick start plan, about 10 minutes a day, so you're never staring at a list wondering where to begin.
We walk through it together.
A 30-minute call where we go through the report recommendation by recommendation. You leave knowing exactly what to set up first, what it will cost, and what it will save. If you'd rather have help implementing any of it, we can talk about that too, but the report is built so you can run it entirely on your own.
If I can't find at least 5 hours a week of reclaimable time in your business, you get a 100% refund.
What's in the report.
Executive summary
Your main pain points, the outcome to expect, and the hours you can reclaim each week, on one page.
Effort versus impact matrix
Every opportunity plotted by how much it moves the needle against how hard it is to set up. The report focuses on quick wins: high impact, low effort.
Tool-by-tool recommendations
3–7 tools, each mapped to a specific pain point with monthly cost, setup time, and hours saved.
4-day quick start plan
One small action per day, about 10 minutes each. Start it the morning after our review call and the biggest wins are running before the week is out.
The financial impact
Your hours returned, times what your time is worth, minus what the tools cost. Real numbers, not vibes. This page keeps working after the assessment: an automated report refreshes it every month, so you watch the value stack up over time.
This pays for itself
in the first month.
The tools I recommend typically total around $60 a month, all in. Set them against 5–10 hours of your week coming back, and price your time at whatever an hour of yours is honestly worth. For most owners that math clears four figures a month, every month, for as long as the tools keep running.
Who this is for.
✓ A good fit
You own or run a business with roughly 2 to 20 people. You're profitable and busy, probably too busy, and you know AI should be doing something for you by now but you haven't had the time to figure out what.
You want straight answers with names and prices attached, not a webinar about the future of work.
✕ Not a fit
You're looking for custom software development out of the gate, or you're a large company that needs an enterprise transformation roadmap and a steering committee.
This is a focused diagnostic for owner-led businesses. That focus is what makes it work.
If you want help going further.
The report is built to stand on its own. Some clients take it and run. Others find a bigger opportunity in it, the kind that needs more than an off-the-shelf tool, and ask me to help build it. That work is scoped per project and usually looks like one of these:
Automation builds
The repeatable, same-every-time processes in your business, wired up so they run themselves. New client comes in, the project gets created, the tasks get assigned, nobody touches a thing.
Knowledge systems
An AI assistant trained on your business materials that answers the questions you're tired of answering. One client-facing link can replace hundreds of near-identical emails.
Custom AI workflows
Your proprietary processes, the ones that make your business yours, turned into AI skills your team can run on demand. Built once, used every day, updated as the business changes.
AI concierge
Build it with me. 2 working sessions a month, 45 minutes each, where we build this stuff together on your screen, plus direct access to me in between. For owners who want a guide, not a vendor.
And if we keep working together, your $999 assessment fee gets credited toward the first project.
I've spent the last 2 years doing the homework.
I'm TJ Cichecki. I've spent 15 years as a designer and creative technologist helping organizations figure out what they stand for and make it stick, and the last 2 running real client work through AI workflows every single week. Not experimenting on the side. Running the actual business on them.
That's the difference in this assessment. I'm not reading you a list from a directory. I know which of these tools hold up in daily use because I live in them, and I know how to hear the real bottleneck underneath what a busy owner describes, because diagnosing organizations has been the job for a long time.
- Location
- Based in Washington, DC
- Background
- 15 years in brand strategy and creative technology. Founder of Workhorse. Previously PBS Digital, Edelman DC, Ketchum PR, APCO PR, David All Group.
- More
- tjcichecki.com
Book your discovery call.
I hold a small number of assessment slots each week alongside client work, so open times go quickly. Picking a time saves your spot for 24 hours, and your confirmation email carries the payment link.
Worst case, you're out 45 minutes.
Best case, you get 5–10 hours of your week back, permanently, for $999 and about $60 a month in tools. Grab one of the open times above, and if none of them work, email me and we'll find one that does.
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