AI & Automation · North Carolina Mid-Market

Big tech builds AI for the Fortune 500. I build it for the companies that run North Carolina.

AI agents and automation systems for mid-market manufacturers, contractors, and independent medical practices — built in Charlotte, deployed inside real operations. Not a strategy deck. Working systems your team actually uses.

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Charlotte, NC  ·  On-site across the state or remote

Why these three markets

The AI wave is skipping the businesses doing the actual work. That gap is your opening.

Manufacturers, contractors, and independent practices share the same shape: real volume, thin margins, and workflows held together by re-keyed data and one person who "just knows." The vendors aren't building for you — the tools assume an IT department you don't have. That's the work I do.

540K+

North Carolinians work in manufacturing — the state's largest industrial sector is food processing.

#1

Raleigh ranks among the top U.S. metros for new home construction; Charlotte's pipeline is just as full.

2–3 hrs

of admin work for every hour of patient care in independent practices — before anyone sees a patient.

01 · Manufacturing & food processing

The AI vendors are building for plants with an IT department. Yours runs on a plant manager and a spreadsheet.

9 in 10of North Carolina's 8,000+ manufacturers run on fewer than 100 people

Where it leaks

  • Quoting lives in one estimator's head — when they're out, quotes wait
  • Production scheduling happens on a whiteboard that's wrong by 10am
  • Food-safety and compliance paperwork eats hours that should run the line
  • What's on the floor never matches what the system says

What I build

Quote-to-cash automation, scheduling assistants wired into your ERP, paperwork agents that fill the compliance forms from data you already have, and inventory reconciliation that closes the floor-to-system gap.

MCP server + AI agent tooling in production at a Cornelius logistics company — used daily by internal teams for inventory workflows.

02 · Construction & specialty trades

Wake and Mecklenburg added ~194,000 people since 2020. The work isn't slowing down. Your back office is the constraint.

19%of contractors have actually changed a workflow with AI — 87% say it will reshape the work

Where it leaks

  • Estimating eats your most senior people's evenings
  • Submittals, RFIs, and change orders get re-keyed at every hop
  • Field data — photos, T&M tickets, daily logs — dies in text threads
  • AR follow-up happens when someone remembers

What I build

Estimating assistants that draft takeoffs from plans, agents that route submittals and RFIs instead of letting them age, field-capture that lands in your office systems without re-typing, and AR chasers that never forget.

14 field and back-office applications built at Cotton Holdings — finance automation alone recovered 18 hrs/week.

03 · Independent healthcare practices

Two hours of paperwork for every hour of care. The hospital systems have armies for this. Your practice has a front desk.

12 hrsof staff time per physician, per week, on prior authorization alone

Where it leaks

  • Prior auth is a part-time job stapled to every clinical role
  • Intake and scheduling run on phone tag and voicemail
  • Documentation and coding pile up after close
  • Five point-solution tools, and staff still carry the workflow between them

What I build

Prior-auth orchestration that drafts, submits, and tracks instead of just templating, intake automation that fills the schedule without the phone tag, and document agents built around your compliance requirements — one system, not a sixth tool.

Forensic data-quality and integrity work at Bank of America scale; agent systems serving daily production use at Registix.

Where it starts

One week. Fixed price. Your three biggest leaks, quantified.

Every engagement starts the same way regardless of industry: a one-week, $4,500 operations audit. I sit with your team, map where time and money leak out of the workflow, and hand you a build roadmap ranked by ROI. The fee is credited toward the first build — and if the audit doesn't surface savings worth more than its cost, you don't pay.

Run freight, distribution, or a warehouse instead? There's a version of the audit built for logistics operators.

Is this for you?

Built for mid-market operators — not the Fortune 500, not a two-person shop.

A fit if you're…

  • A North Carolina manufacturer, contractor, or practice doing $3M–$50M
  • Running real volume on manual or spreadsheet-driven workflows
  • More orders, projects, or patients than headcount — and no room to hire
  • An owner, ops lead, or practice manager who can act on a plan

Not a fit if…

  • You already have an internal engineering team solving this
  • You want a tool recommendation, not a look at your actual process
  • You're pre-revenue or just exploring “AI” with no real bottleneck yet
  • You need a vendor of record for a 200-page RFP — I'm one engineer, on purpose

Your competitors aren't ahead because they're smarter. They started.

No pitch, no hype. A short conversation about your operation — plant, project office, or practice — to see if there's a bottleneck worth a week of work.

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