Sandcastle AI
Boulder, Colorado & Remote Nationwide

We find the 5–10 hours a week your business wastes on busywork.

One 45-minute audit. We watch how work moves through your business, then hand you the exact AI tools to automate the boring parts. No new software to learn. No IT guy required. Find 5 hours or it's free.

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  • 5–10 hrs/wk back
  • Money-back guarantee
  • Plan in 48 hours

Where time dies

Your week is leaking — three ways.

Trapped in Manual Chaos

You've typed "Thanks for reaching out!" more times than your own name. Copy from this app, paste into that one, re-enter the invoice — congratulations, you're the world's most expensive USB cable.

The AI Noise Trap

10,000 new AI tools this year, every one of them "a game-changer." Testing them all is a full-time job. You already have one of those — it's called running a business.

95% Are Doing It Wrong

Asked ChatGPT to "write an email" once, got something starting with "Dear Sir or Madam," closed the tab forever. Fair. But that's like test-driving a truck in the parking lot and concluding roads don't work.

What you get

Four things in your hands within 48 hours.

A short list of tools — picked for you

Not a 40-tab research project. Just 3–7 tools that already play nice with the software you have. Think pharmacy, not farmers market — you leave with exactly what you need.

A map of what to fix first

Every time-waster in your business on one page, sorted by "fix this tonight" versus "honestly, skip it." No more lying awake wondering where to start. Start at the star.

A 4-day setup plan, 10 minutes a day

Ten minutes a day, four days, done. Each step takes about as long as your coffee order. If you can set up a smart TV, you can do this — and unlike the TV, it won't ask you to update firmware mid-demo.

The math, in dollars

Hours saved × what your hour is actually worth = a number with a comma in it. It's the rare receipt you'll want to frame. Your accountant may ask for a copy.

How it works

Four simple steps. 45 minutes of your time.

  1. We talk. You vent.

    Fifteen minutes on your two biggest time-sinks. If we can't help, we'll tell you straight and you keep your money and your afternoon.

  2. We x-ray your week

    One conversation about how work actually moves — emails, calls, invoices, scheduling. No prep, no homework, no "please gather your documents."

  3. We do the nerd stuff

    Two days later: your tool list, your priority map, your 4-day setup plan, and the dollar math. You were busy running a business. We noticed.

  4. We hand you the keys

    A screen-share walkthrough of the whole plan. You leave knowing exactly what to click Monday morning — and what to never type again.

The Guarantee

Find 5 hours a week or pay nothing.

If our assessment does not uncover at least 5 hours per week of verifiable, reclaimable time in your business operations, you get an immediate 100% refund. No argument. No hassle. Your only investment is 45 minutes.

ROI calculator

What is your lost time worth?

$150/hr
$50$500
7 hrs
3 hrs25 hrs

Assessment cost: $999 one-time · Payback period: usually under 14 business days.

Value recovered

Weekly
$1,050
Monthly
$4,547
Annual
$54,558
$999 assessment55× return in year one

Simple pricing

Pick your lane. One price. Get your week back.

No open-ended hourly clock. No retainer you can't cancel. One flat number, one clear deliverable, and a guarantee that puts the risk on me — not on you.

Start here

The 15-Minute Scan

The no-risk "is there even money here?" call.

$0 free
  • 15 minutes, phone or Zoom — your office hours
  • I name the 2–3 chores most likely eating your week
  • You leave with a straight answer: worth it, or not
  • No pitch. If it's not a fit, I'll say so.
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The deep dive

The $999 Week-Reclaim Audit

45 minutes of digging. 48 hours later, a plan you can actually follow.

$999 one-time

Guarantee: find 5 hrs/wk or you pay $0

  • Every time-waster on one page — ranked "fix tonight" to "skip it"
  • The exact off-the-shelf tools — you own them, you don't rent them
  • A 4-day setup plan — 10 minutes a day, coffee-order length
  • The dollar math: what those leaked hours are worth in a year
  • Find under 5 hours? Full refund. No forms, no hard feelings.

Credits straight into the build if you hire me after.

The "just do it for me" option

Done-For-You Build

You run the business. I run the setup.

from $2,500
  • I install and wire every tool myself — nothing left for you to configure
  • A team walkthrough people will actually remember
  • 30 days of "hey, this broke" support after we go live
  • Your $999 deep-dive fee comes right off the top

Most builds land $2.5K–$8K. You approve the number before I touch anything.

Sandcastle

Fixed price. Fixed scope. 48-hour turnaround. Find 5 hours or it's free.

Typical consultant

$5K–$15K, billed hourly, weeks of discovery, ends in a custom-build quote.

FAQ

Fair questions.

Standard management and tech consultants charge $5,000–$15,000 with open-ended scopes. We deliver a fixed-price diagnostic with zero scope creep.

Prompting an LLM is 5% of AI. The real leverage is connective automation: AI sorting intake emails, transcribing customer calls into CRM entries, and generating first-draft invoices.

No. We only prescribe off-the-shelf tools that plug directly into what you already use (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, QuickBooks, standard CRMs).

Yes. Roughly half our clients implement the plan themselves; the other half hire us for hands-on setup. If you hire us for implementation, your $999 assessment fee credits directly toward the project.

90 minutes total: the 15-minute mini-audit, the 45-minute deep dive, and a 30-minute walkthrough of your finished roadmap. We do the analysis in between — no homework, no prep documents.

Owner-operated and small teams drowning in admin: professional services, legal, medical, commercial real estate, and trade firms. If your week includes repetitive intake, scheduling, or invoicing work, there is time to recover.

Ready to get 5–10 hours of your week back?

Book a free 15-minute operational scan. If there is an obvious fit, we schedule your full assessment.

Risk-free · 100% money-back guarantee · Boulder & remote