Who builds this.
Main & Machine is an AI consulting and implementation firm for small and mid-size businesses, founded by Christopher Myers, with hubs in Denver and Phoenix and remote coverage across the US. It builds custom agents, workflow automations, and data integrations at fixed prices, delivered in about 90 days.
- Founder
- Christopher Myers
- Backing Main Street
- 26 years
- Hubs
- Denver & Phoenix
- Build team
- ~25 AI-native
Christopher Myers.
A professor, an entrepreneur, and an operator: 26 years in service of Main Street.
Read his essay Seventy Years of Overnight Success, or see how every build runs in the method. Skeptical of AI generally? Good — start here.
Christopher has spent 26 years backing Main Street, today as CEO of B:Side Capital and Fund, a professor of entrepreneurship at ASU’s W.P. Carey School, and the author of several books on small business. Main & Machine grew out of that same work: the conviction that you can build something durable without losing the part that made it worth building.
As chairman, he pairs his own senior judgment with a team of AI-native builders: digital natives who never had to unlearn the old way. One operator stays accountable for every build. The future doesn’t belong to the people who can do what AI does; it belongs to the people who can take what the machine produces and be accountable for it.
The build team is young on purpose.
Around twenty-five AI-native technologists, most of them students and recent graduates, who have never known work without these tools and have nothing to unlearn. Every build runs under one accountable operator with twenty-six years backing Main Street. That pairing is the whole company: fluency with the new, judgment from the old.
What makes us hard to copy.
Four things, none of which a competitor can bolt on next quarter.
No discovery call required to learn the cost.
The price list is published in plain numbers, because that is how you would want to be treated.
We make no money reselling anyone’s software.
We recommend what is right for you, including the free tool over the expensive one when the free one wins.
One name owns your build, start to finish.
Christopher Myers scopes the work, holds the judgment calls, and signs off, so you always know exactly who is accountable.
The people building your systems never had to unlearn the old way.
They did not learn AI in a weekend bootcamp. They grew up with it, building under one accountable operator.
Two words. One argument.
We put Main first on purpose. The order is the whole philosophy.
Main Street is the human part. The owner who knows which customer always pays late and which one is worth keeping anyway. The manager who can feel when a week is about to go sideways. The judgment that no model has, and no model will.
The Machine is the other part. It is patient in a way people cannot be. It reads every invoice, watches every queue, drafts the first version at three in the morning, and never gets tired or bored or careless on a Friday afternoon.
The ampersand is the whole company. The machine works for the person: it carries the load the person should not have to carry, and hands every judgment call back to them. The person stays in charge; the software stays in service. Build it in that order and you have built the right thing. That is the only thing we build.
Book a free 30-minute AI Opportunity Assessment. We will look at your business and tell you the truth, even when the truth is “wait a quarter” or “you do not need us for this.”
A fixed price, quoted in writing before we start. And a straight answer within 24 hours.
— Christopher Myers, Founder