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The AI business studio for small business
We rebuild the technical side of your business, then help it grow
If you’re running on software from 2009, or paying ten vendors whose tools don’t talk to each other, we can fix that. We work out what’s holding the business back and build around how you actually work. AI writes and tests the code. The software belongs to your business.
Hire us for a fee, or bring us in as a partner and tie part of our pay to the growth.
A call within 2 business days. A written plan and terms 2 business days after the call.
For people buying, selling, fixing, or starting a small business:
What we can build, one piece or all of it
Start with the piece that hurts most, or hand us the whole technical side. Either way you deal with one team instead of ten vendors, and everything works from the same customer records.
Sales
Checkout, booking, and quoting that feed straight into your records.
Customer and staff login
Customers see their orders. Staff see their work.
Payments
Cards, invoices, and subscriptions, switched on only when you approve.
Marketing
Receipts, reminders, follow-ups, and newsletters that go out on schedule.
Operations
Customer records, scheduling, billing, and AI that handles the first answer on calls and messages.
What the AI handles, and what waits for you
AI takes the repetitive work off your plate, day and night. Anything that matters still waits for your OK.
| Runs on its own | Waits for your approval |
|---|---|
| Runs on its ownThe first answer on calls and messages | Waits for your approvalAnything going live for the first time |
| Runs on its ownReceipts, reminders, and confirmations | Waits for your approvalPrices and offers |
| Runs on its ownMonitoring, backups, and security updates | Waits for your approvalRefunds and any movement of money |
| Runs on its ownDrafts of replies, posts, and reports | Waits for your approvalAny non-standard message sent under your name |
Behind it is a team in Omaha. We can host it, watch it and fix it, or hand it to your own people. Your call.
Where are you with the business?
Buying a business
We review how the business runs before you close, build the technology part of your first 100 days, and keep running it after.
Selling or passing it on
We move what lives in your head and your filing cabinet into systems a buyer or successor can see and run.
Fixing a business
Calls go unanswered, invoices go out late, and the software is from 2009. We rebuild how the business runs and can take part of our pay from what improves.
Starting a business
You have a market and a plan but no technology team. We build the whole operation and run it with you.
What custom looks like
For a dental lab, we built an operating system around exactly how that lab works. For a food maker, one system now handles label design, wholesale accounts, the website, production batches and lot tracing. Most owners don’t know software like that can be built for them. We also build companies of our own, like these.
ManageOS
We built it for service businesses. Booking, payments, staff, clients and marketing sit behind one login.
Shear Joy
Built for salons and barbers: online booking plus the business tools behind it.
Furlytic
The same kind of build for pet groomers, with booking and the business tools behind it.
Ways to work together
Fee
A fixed price to build and a monthly fee to run. Simple to budget and simple to show a lender.
Shared gain
A lower fee, plus a share of the improvement we produce, for a fixed term. Never a share of your total revenue.
Equity
We become your partner. We do the work for a stake in the company and help grow it.
Most clients start on a fee. Partnership comes up once we’ve seen the business up close.
Whatever the terms, you stay in charge of
- Control of the business.
- Your brand and your customers.
- The software, owned by your business and documented so it can move with it.
- The final say on anything that goes live, moves money, or carries your name.
Common questions
What does AltoSky do?
We fix the technical side of small businesses and help them grow. That might mean replacing old software in a business that’s slipping, or building everything for one that’s just starting.
What is a business studio?
It means the work is custom. We look at how your business runs and build what it needs. Then we stay on to run it with you, or as a partner.
What does the AI do?
AI writes and tests the code we build. In the running business it handles routine work such as the first answer on calls, reminders and draft replies. A person approves anything that goes live, moves money, or carries your name.
Do you buy businesses?
No. We partner with the person who owns or is buying the business. We invest our work, not cash, and we do not lend.
Do I have to give up equity?
No. Most clients pay a fee. Equity is one way to work together, when a partnership makes sense for both sides.
How is this different from hiring an agency?
An agency hands over a project and moves on. We can stay and run it, and tie part of our pay to how the business does. If you ever want to take it in-house, the code is documented and ready to move.
Can you work inside my 100-day plan?
Yes. We build the technology part of the plan with you and time the work to your milestones.
Who owns what you build?
Your business does. Rented software goes away when you stop paying, and you can’t change it. What we build stays. It’s documented, runs on our servers, yours or anywhere else, and goes with the business if you sell. When the way you work changes, we change the software in days, not months.
What happens after you contact us
- Day 0
You tell us about the business through a short form.
- By day 2
We call to talk it through.
- By day 4
You receive a written plan and terms.
- By day 14
You decide. There is no obligation.
- The week after
Work starts.