๐Ÿ“ Serving the GTA and Simcoe County

AI Automation for Local Businesses,
Built by Someone Nearby

We build the automations that text back missed callers, answer the phone and book jobs, chase unpaid invoices and move data between your apps. For small businesses from Toronto to Barrie, built by one local person who explains it in plain English.

Built with tools you may already use

n8nZapierRetell AITwilioClaudeQuickBooksJobber
Free working prototype

AI coding tools now do the build work about 5x faster. Are those savings being passed on to you?

I'll build you a working prototype in 5 business days, free, no obligation.

Scott Holmes, founder

The speed-up is in the mechanical build work: scaffolding, connecting your apps, wiring the steps and testing them. Understanding how your business runs still takes a real conversation, so we start with the free audit. Then you see your own job automated before you pay anything.

The key terms

  • One job: one workflow or one agent, agreed on the free 30-minute audit call
  • Safe to try: built on your real tools in a test setup, or on sample data you provide, never on live customers
  • Working in 5 business days: from the day we have sample data and test access, shown on a video call or in person, free across the GTA and Simcoe County
  • No obligation: walk away owing nothing, with a written summary of what it does and what the full build would cost
  • 4 a month: first come, first served, and if the month is full you get the next start date

Does any of this sound like your week?

Most small businesses don't need a big AI project. They need a few annoying jobs to stop landing on the owner.

The phone rings while your hands are full

You're on a ladder, at the till or with a client. The caller doesn't leave a voicemail. They try the next business on Google, and you never find out what the job was.

Fix: missed-call text-back or an AI phone receptionist

Quotes go out and nothing comes back

Chasing a quote feels pushy and there's never a quiet hour to do it. A week later the customer has hired someone who called them back.

Fix: automatic quote follow-up

Evenings go to invoices and retyping

Orders copied into QuickBooks by hand. Payment reminders written one at a time. The same customer's name and address typed into three different apps.

Fix: invoice chasing and app-to-app automation

You want help from someone you can reach

Plenty of AI products come as an app, a sales demo and a support ticket. You'd rather sit down with someone local who builds the thing, answers your questions and is still around next month.

Fix: a free local audit with the person who builds it

What can a local AI automation company build for you?

These eight jobs come up again and again with small businesses. The full list of ten, with who each suits and when to skip it, is on the What We Automate page.

Missed-call text-back

When you can't pick up, the caller gets a text right away asking what they need. Their reply reaches you, so you call back knowing what the job is.

AI phone receptionist

Answers in your business's name, handles common questions, takes the caller's details and books the job into your calendar or Jobber. Built on Retell AI or Vapi.

Online booking and reminders

Customers pick a time online and get text and email reminders. If they cancel, the slot opens up again and they get a link to rebook.

Quote follow-up

A quote sent on Monday gets a polite check-in a few days later and another the next week. It stops as soon as the customer answers.

Review requests

When a job is marked done, the customer gets a short thank-you with a direct link to your Google review page. Every customer, every time.

Invoice and payment chasing

Overdue QuickBooks invoices get friendly reminders on a schedule you choose, with the payment link included. Paid invoices drop off the list by themselves.

Moving data between apps

A web form creates the contact in your CRM, the customer in QuickBooks and the job in your calendar. Nobody retypes anything.

Inbox sorting and drafted replies

Incoming email is labelled and routed. Routine questions get a drafted answer in your own words, ready for you to check and send.

How does it work?

Two free steps come first, so you see your own job automated before you spend anything.

Free 30-minute audit

By phone or video. We look at where your hours go, name 3 jobs worth automating and pick one to prototype.

Free prototype in 5 business days

I build that one job on your real tools in a test setup, or on sample data, and show it working on video or in person.

A fixed price in writing

If you want it, you get a written scope and a fixed price for the production build. The prototype isn't charged on top.

Production build

Connected to your live tools and tested with you before any customer sees it. Typically live in about 2 weeks.

Go-live and handover

Documentation, a walkthrough and 2 weeks of support. You own the workflows, prompts and documentation.

Optional support

from $99/month, month to month, cancel anytime. Or skip it and ask for help only when you need it.

What does AI automation cost?

Our starting prices are published. Every job gets a fixed quote after the free audit, so you know the cost before anything starts.

Starting prices

  • A working prototype: free. One job, working in 5 business days, no obligation. See the terms.
  • Single automation: from $499. For example, missed-call text-back, quote follow-up or invoice chasing.
  • AI agent build: from $995. For bigger jobs such as an AI phone receptionist that books work.
  • Monthly support: from $99/month. Optional and month to month, after the 2 weeks of support that come with every build.
  • The audit: free, 30 minutes, no obligation.

What every build includes

  • A written scope and fixed price before work starts
  • A test version for you to try before it goes live
  • Documentation in plain English
  • A walkthrough so you know how it works
  • 2 weeks of support after launch

See full pricing

112 systems built. 69 running today. Ask to see any of them.

Most of what you need is already built, tested and running somewhere in our portfolio, alongside 130 n8n workflows. That's why we publish fixed prices instead of quoting from scratch. Here are three that are live right now.

Customer payment email capture into a loan system's daily workbook

Live in production

Built for a Canadian consumer lender

Every minute, picks up customer payment notification emails (e-transfer and pay-by-bank), extracts the payer, amount and reference, matches pay-by-bank emails to the payment provider's API to fill in the contract number, skips anything already posted and appends new rows to a daily Excel workbook for the loan-management system, rolling over at a 5 PM business-day cutoff.

How it's built →

Field-services back office: purchase-order parsing, hours roll-up and billing prep

Live in production

Built for a wireless and telecom engineering firm

Every hour, reads incoming purchase-order emails, takes the PO and tracking numbers from the attached PDF or the email body, finds the matching completed job on the company's Monday.com board and writes the PO number. Each email is then filed as processed or failed, replacing manual lookup and typing.

How it's built →

AI Receptionist Call Workflows

Deployed

Post-call automations for AI phone agents: when a voice agent finishes a call, the caller is captured as a lead and a call summary is sent, plus demo flows covering both sides of a sample call.

How it's built →
Ontario-based

One local builder, start to finish

AI Automation Near Me was founded by Scott Holmes, an Ontario-based AI automation builder. He builds n8n workflow automations, AI voice agents on Retell AI and Vapi, and AI agents with the Claude API, and has built AI systems for clients ranging from local trades businesses to technology companies.

The person on your audit call is the person who builds your automation and walks you through it. Calls are by phone or video, and if you'd rather sit down together, in-person visits are free anywhere in the GTA and Simcoe County.

About us
Free
30-minute local audit
5 days
To a free working prototype
~2 wks
Typical production build, once approved
2 wks
Support included after launch

Common questions

More answers, including privacy and texting rules, are on the FAQ page.

What does an AI automation company near me actually do?

We connect the software you already use and add AI where it helps, so routine jobs happen without you. Typical examples are texting back missed callers, answering the phone and booking jobs, following up quotes, asking for reviews, chasing overdue invoices, and copying form entries into your CRM and QuickBooks. We build it, test it with you and hand it over with documentation.

Which areas do you serve?

Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham and Oakville in the GTA, and Barrie with the surrounding Simcoe County towns of Innisfil, Orillia, Midland, Collingwood, Alliston and Wasaga Beach.

How much does it cost?

The audit is free, and so is a working prototype of one job, built in 5 business days. After that, the production build gets a fixed price before any work starts. Starting prices for a single automation, an AI agent build and optional month-to-month support are published on our pricing page.

How long until something is running?

Your free prototype is working within 5 business days of us having sample data and test access. Once you approve the fixed price, the production build is typically live in about 2 weeks. Nothing reaches a real customer until you've tested it.

Do I need to be technical?

No. We explain everything in plain English, build inside the tools you already use, and give you a walkthrough and written notes. If you can use email and a calendar, you can run it.

Find out what you could hand off first

Book a free 30-minute local audit by phone or video. We name 3 jobs worth automating, then I build a working prototype of the best one in 5 business days, free.

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