The machine belongs to Main Street.
Other AI firms hand you a deck. We build the working systems that run inside your business. Fixed price, quoted in writing. Live in about 90 days — or we keep building at no charge until it is.
30 minutes with a senior advisor. Free. A straight answer.
Most AI projects fail. The ones that “work” can cost you something worse.
Most companies that spend on AI see almost nothing change. We exist to fix that.
built AI capability that made it past proof of concept.
spent the money and have yet to show tangible value.
We exist for the 26%.
Source: Boston Consulting Group, Where’s the Value in AI?, October 2024 — a survey of 1,000 executives across 59 countries.
There is a second failure nobody mentions: AI that technically works but buries why decisions get made and turns your best people into ticket-closers.
We build the other kind. Every system we ship can be explained, questioned, and overruled by a person who owns it.
The machine is never the answer to “why did this happen.” A person is.
We implement. That is the whole difference.
Plenty of AI experts have a framework and a workshop. We go into your business, find the three workflows costing you the most, and build the fix. Fixed price before we start.
Software that drafts the repetitive decisions.
It clears the routine work and drafts the hard calls, then routes the final judgment to a person who owns it.
Work moves between your tools on its own.
It connects the systems you already use, so nothing waits on a person to copy and paste it.
One source of truth you can trust.
We make your data do something instead of sitting in five systems that do not talk to each other.
- 24/7 AI receptionist
- Instant lead response
- Business system connectors
- Company knowledge base
Three ways in. Priced in plain numbers.
You will not have to sit through three discovery calls to learn what something costs. Here is the short version. The price list has every line item.
AI Readiness Audit
We map your workflows, find where AI actually pays, and hand you a plan you own, whether or not you build it with us.
100% of the fee credits toward a sprint signed within 60 days.
Read the full spec →AI Implementation Sprint
Agents, automations, and integrations, all tested inside your real operation, with your team trained to run them.
Exact price quoted in writing before work begins. It does not move after we start.
Guaranteed live in 90 days, or we keep building at no charge.
Read the full spec →Managed Services
We keep what we built healthy, watch what changes, and evolve the systems as your business does.
Read the full spec →Every path here starts with the same free 30-minute assessment. We take a fixed number of builds each quarter. The free assessment is how we choose them, and how you check us before spending a dollar.
The ceiling: when a business wants the whole back office carried rather than one workflow, that is a MARCUS-class build — From $95,000, four per year. Everything above is where most businesses start.
What would this cost for us?
Two inputs. A real range, built from the same price list published on this site, not a teaser that ends in “call us.”
Law, accounting, insurance, consulting, financial advisory.
a year, net of run costs — stress-tested low end to full-recovery high end
- Total opportunity$150,000
- Run costs / year-$1,737
- Sprint investment (one-time)-$18,000
- Payback on that build1–13 months
One build we can name, and the numbers it returned.
MARCUS runs 14 AI agents across 7 departments for B:Side Capital, a regulated SBA & CDFI lender — entirely in-house, with no borrower file leaving the building. The first 90 days of full-fleet operation, measured off the audit log:
Christopher Myers.
A professor, an entrepreneur, and an operator: 20 years in service of Main Street.
He’s CEO of B:Side Capital and Fund, a professor at ASU’s W.P. Carey School, and an author with 20 years backing Main Street. He pairs that judgment with a team of AI-native builders who never had to unlearn the old way. One name owns every build.
Who builds this, and why the name matters →
Pick the door that fits you today.
Three doors. No wrong answer.
I want to see where AI pays in my business.
Book the free 30-minute assessment. A senior advisor walks your workflows and tells you what is worth automating, and what is not. No obligation, no pitch.
Book a free assessment →Skip the audit — scope a sprint.
You already know what you want built. Book a scoping call and we quote a fixed-price Implementation Sprint in writing — no audit in between.
Scope a sprintI’d rather see where I stand first.
Take the AI-Ready Score. Fourteen questions, seven minutes, and a straight answer about whether your company is ready — before you talk to anyone.
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