# Nick George AI

> Nick George builds AI agents, workflow automation, and MCP servers for owner-run and mid-market businesses. Based in Charlotte, NC; works remote. Offers prebuilt AI agents run as a managed service, and custom builds whose code and infrastructure the client owns. Contact: nick@nickgeorgeai.com

## Pages
- [Home](https://nickgeorgeai.com): AI agents, automation, and MCP systems for trade businesses and growing teams
- [Prebuilt AI agents](https://nickgeorgeai.com/agents): one job each, a fixed monthly price, no setup fee (the first month is paid up front and is the setup), month to month
- [Web design for trade businesses](https://nickgeorgeai.com/web-design): $600/mo for the site, hosting, small updates (up to 2 hours a month) and one agent of the client's choice (Missed-Call Text Back or Support & FAQ Chat); bigger changes quoted separately; the client covers the agent's usage; setup quoted per project; month to month
- [Website blueprint](https://nickgeorgeai.com/web-design/blueprint): free contractor website planner: pages, the search each is written for, what goes on it, missed-call math; free, emailed to you at the end
- [Charlotte web design](https://nickgeorgeai.com/web-design/charlotte-nc): the same offer for Charlotte-area trade businesses, NC and SC, with a page-by-page site planner
- [Charlotte restaurant websites](https://nickgeorgeai.com/web-design/charlotte-nc/restaurants): the same offer for Charlotte restaurants: text menu, reserve and order buttons to the systems they already use, a missed-call text back demo with restaurant calls
- [Charlotte SEO expert](https://nickgeorgeai.com/seo/charlotte-nc): local SEO for Charlotte-area businesses (Google Business Profile, service and town pages, technical SEO, listings, reviews, AI search), from Nick George (SEO roles 2016–2023: Cotton Holdings, then his consultancy Nick George SEO); free SEO audit (website, email and phone); work after it quoted per project; the basics come with any site we build; no prices on the page; no ranking guarantees
- [Opening-Day Kit for Charlotte restaurants](https://nickgeorgeai.com/web-design/charlotte-nc/restaurants/opening-day-kit): for restaurants about to open or just opened: a phone-first site, a Google Business Profile with the opening date, Apple, Bing and Yelp listings, local search setup, menu QR codes, domain and email; $1,950 flat, paid once; 1 new kit a week; a proof within 2 business days of getting the menu, photos and logo, live the next business day after approval; listings then go through each platform's own review; 90 days of hosting included, then the restaurant plan keeps the site live (hosting and maintenance, $399/mo, no setup fee), or the client leaves with their domain, listings and content; a managed site, so the code can be bought, not handed over free
- [“Not Secure” warning fix](https://nickgeorgeai.com/web-design/not-secure-warning-fix): fixes an expired or wrong-name certificate, a missing HTTPS redirect or mixed content and turns on automatic renewal; $149 flat, fixed within 2 business days of getting access or no charge; never asks for passwords by email
- [Charlotte restaurant SEO](https://nickgeorgeai.com/seo/charlotte-nc/restaurants): local SEO for restaurants (Google Business Profile, menu markup, listings, reviews), included with the restaurant website; no ranking guarantees; bigger SEO projects quoted
- [Operations audit](https://nickgeorgeai.com/operations-audit): one week, flat $4,500, credited toward the build
- [Fractional AI partner](https://nickgeorgeai.com/fractional-ai-partner): ongoing AI engineering from $8,500/mo
- [AI agent development](https://nickgeorgeai.com/services/ai-agent-development): custom agents wired into the systems a business already runs
- [Workflow automation](https://nickgeorgeai.com/services/workflow-automation): fixed-scope builds the client owns
- [MCP server development](https://nickgeorgeai.com/services/mcp-server-development): production MCP servers with permission design and full handoff
- [What is an MCP server?](https://nickgeorgeai.com/mcp): a business owner's guide
- [fieldtwin](https://nickgeorgeai.com/fieldtwin): open-source (Apache 2.0) local twins of the Jobber, Housecall Pro and QuickBooks Online APIs for testing integrations and AI agents against a fake trades business, with failures on demand and an MCP server; on npm (npx fieldtwin); independent of Jobber, Intuit and Housecall Pro
- [mcp-gatehouse](https://nickgeorgeai.com/open-source/mcp-gatehouse): open-source (MIT) Python library for MCP servers: read/write/destructive permission tiers, a person's approval before the tiers you choose run (fails closed), secret masking, and an append-only audit log of every call; on PyPI and the official MCP Registry
- [Automation ROI calculator](https://nickgeorgeai.com/roi-calculator): free, no email gate
- [Free website check](https://nickgeorgeai.com/website-check): a business sends its web address; Nick emails back what ten checks found on its public pages (security, phone-readiness, tap to call, local search basics, accessibility, speed, Lighthouse), in plain language; free, no obligation
- [North Carolina](https://nickgeorgeai.com/north-carolina): AI automation for NC manufacturers, contractors, and practices
- [Manufacturing back-office automation](https://nickgeorgeai.com/north-carolina/manufacturing-automation): NC plants under 100 people
- [Construction back-office automation](https://nickgeorgeai.com/north-carolina/construction-automation): NC GCs and specialty trades
- [Medical practice workflow automation](https://nickgeorgeai.com/north-carolina/medical-practice-automation): independent practices
- [Resume](https://nickgeorgeai.com/resume): Nick George, Charlotte, NC
- [Now](https://nickgeorgeai.com/now): what Nick is focused on at the moment, dated
- [Uses](https://nickgeorgeai.com/uses): the languages, frameworks and services he builds with

## Agents
- [Missed-Call Text Back](https://nickgeorgeai.com/agents/missed-call-text-back): Every missed call gets a text back in seconds.
- [Support & FAQ Chat](https://nickgeorgeai.com/agents/support-faq-chat): A chat widget trained on your site that hands off to a person.
- [Instant Lead Response](https://nickgeorgeai.com/agents/lead-response): Every web-form lead gets a reply within minutes.

## Insights
- [Can a local AI edit another AI’s memory? Test 1: moving the Eiffel Tower to Rome](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/local-ai-weight-editing)
- [Five ways a Jobber and QuickBooks integration fails, and how to test each one](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/jobber-quickbooks-integration-failures)
- [Personal Agent Protocol: how a business goes from AI-searchable to AI-bookable](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/personal-agent-protocol)
- [Charlotte small business statistics (2026): how many, what kind, and where](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/charlotte-small-business-statistics)
- [How many service area pages should a contractor website have?](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/service-area-pages-for-contractors)
- [How to choose an AI agent development company: quotes, questions, and red flags](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/how-to-choose-an-ai-agent-development-company)
- [Zapier MCP vs. a custom MCP server: when Zapier is enough and when to build](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/zapier-mcp-vs-custom-mcp-server)
- [Order entry automation for manufacturers: how it works, and when to skip it](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/manufacturing-order-entry-automation)
- [Lead response time statistics: what the original studies actually measured](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/lead-response-time-statistics)
- [How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT: what’s documented and what isn’t](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/get-business-recommended-by-chatgpt)
- [What a marketing agency costs in Charlotte, and how to tell if it’s worth it](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/marketing-agency-cost-charlotte-nc)
- [How to follow up on an estimate: a cadence, seven templates, and when to stop](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/how-to-follow-up-on-an-estimate)
- [AI estimating for Charlotte contractors: what it does, and what it needs from you](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/ai-estimating-charlotte-contractors)
- [How to rank on Google Maps in Charlotte: what moves the map, and what doesn't](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/rank-on-google-maps-charlotte-nc)
- [What web design costs in Charlotte, NC, and what makes the phone ring](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/web-design-charlotte-nc)
- [QuickBooks MCP server: three ways to connect AI to your books](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/quickbooks-mcp-server)
- [AI for small business owners: what's real at your size](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/ai-for-small-business-owners)
- [How to find the bottlenecks in your business (follow the waiting)](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/how-to-find-business-bottlenecks)
- [How to automate lead follow-up (and when to do it by hand)](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/automate-lead-follow-up)
- [Do you need a fractional AI officer? An honest answer](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/do-i-need-a-fractional-ai-officer)
- [What to automate first (it's not what the demos show you)](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/what-to-automate-first)
- [What AI automation actually costs](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/cost-of-ai-automation)
- [AI agents vs. chatbots: one answers, one acts](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/ai-agents-vs-chatbots)
- [MCP vs. API: what's actually different?](https://nickgeorgeai.com/insights/mcp-vs-api)

## Case studies
- [An MCP server and AI agents that 50+ people now run their day on](https://nickgeorgeai.com/work/mcp-server-reverse-logistics-automation): A mid-market reverse logistics-tech company
- [Nine brands, one automation layer, 18 hours a week handed back](https://nickgeorgeai.com/work/multi-brand-salesforce-marketing-automation): Cotton Holdings
- [Making a bank's trade data trustworthy enough to act on](https://nickgeorgeai.com/work/financial-services-data-migration): Bank of America