Human-powered AI · Fractional AI lead · Springfield, MO and remote
AI does the grunt work.
You stay in charge.
True Frontier is a fractional AI lead for small businesses and small teams. We sit inside your real work and build AI that runs on your team's expertise — in days, not quarters. It takes the follow-ups, quotes, proposals, invoices, first drafts, and research. You delegate. You sign off.
AI does what anyone could. You do what only you can.
45 minutes. We look at your actual week. No slide deck.
You bought the AI. You're still doing the work by hand.
Most owners we talk to have tried it. It wrote a decent email once. Then it made something up, or fixing the answer took longer than doing it yourself. So the seats sit there, and the follow-ups still happen at 9pm.
→The tools get used for one thing.
Nobody had time to learn them inside real work, so they never got past the demo.
→You're the bottleneck.
Quotes, invoices, follow-ups, "can you look at this?" — all of it runs through you. The business moves as fast as your inbox.
→Hiring for it is a bet.
A full-time AI hire is a big salary for a job you can't describe yet. So you wait. And the work only you can do — leading, deciding, being there for people — gets what's left over.
True Frontier fixes this from inside your work. We find the work that sucks the life out of your week, build AI around your expertise — in the tools you already have — and teach you to delegate to it. You keep the final say. Ten days is usually enough to prove it.
Chat. Build. Delegate.
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Chat
A free 45-minute strategy session. What's eating your week, and what changes if it's gone. If it's not a fit, we'll say so.
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Build
We work inside your real business, with your people at the keyboard. One workflow goes live. Not a demo.
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Delegate
You hand it the work. It runs on your expertise; you sign off on what goes out.
What changes
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1.The grunt work stops landing on you.
Follow-ups, quotes, proposals, invoices, first drafts, the research you keep meaning to do — handled, then checked by a person before anything goes out.
Before: you, at 9pm. After: you approve it in five minutes.
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2.You decide on evidence, not a hunch.
Research runs overnight. You read the summary with your coffee.
Before: a gut call. After: a gut call with the numbers in front of you.
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3.You catch what you'd have missed.
A simple, regular scan of your market, your competitors, and your own customer list.
Before: you found out late. After: you found out first.
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4.You manage it. You don't babysit it.
No black box. You learn to hand it a job, check its work, and add the next one — without calling us.
Before: "ask Kevin." After: "hand it to the AI, check it Friday."
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5.More of you for the work only you can do.
Leading. Deciding. Being present for the people who need you. That's the point. The AI is just how.
Don't take our word for it.
"Now I feel confident about where to go."
One of the biggest takeaways has been taking away the paralyzing overwhelm from knowing where to start with AI. Now I feel confident about where to go when I need to work on something with AI.
"Made me smoother with all the AI tools at work."
Thank you so much for the class. Have learnt a lot… how to use skills, plugins, and context files to improve the model, how the context window affects the output. Has made me smoother with all the AI tools at work.
"Helping me run more efficiently."
Using plan mode with AI models is helping me… managing the context window, providing context in docs about my work, and for new projects, thinking about the deployment goal first.
Built for owners since 2018 →
Taught →
- A six-week live AI Masterclass for working developers
- 1:1 AI coaching for business owners
- Tech lead for Vibeathon, four AI build events across Missouri, 141 builders checked in
What's inside the work
Finding the work
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Workflow map. We sit with you and list what you do every week that repeats — same email, same quote, same report.
→You see on one page what to hand off first.
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Pick by payoff. Most hours saved, least risk, first.
→The first win lands in days, not after a "phase one."
Building it
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Built in your tools. Your email, your CRM, your spreadsheets, and whatever AI you already pay for — Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot.
→Nothing new to log into. Nothing to migrate.
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A person signs off. Every AI draft, quote, or message waits for a human yes before it goes out.
→Your name stays on your work. No surprise emails to customers.
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Tested on real cases first. We run it against real past work before you rely on it for this week's.
→You know it works before it matters.
Handing it over
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Training in the work, not a webinar. You delegate the second job to it while we watch.
→It keeps running after we leave.
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Your data stays yours. Your accounts, your logins, the least access we need. Nothing you share trains a public model.
→No new risk to explain to customers.
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One-page runbook. What it does, what to check, who to call.
→Anyone on the team can check on it.
Hi, I'm Kevin.
I've built software for small business owners in Springfield, MO since 2018 — Teepster, JukeJuke, ONE Audiobooks, Visual Quote PRO. Same pattern every time: solve one owner's real problem, then make it good enough that others in the industry want it too.
Around 2024 I went AI-first. Since then I've spent most of my time inside other people's work. I designed and taught a six-week live AI Masterclass for working developers. I coached business owners one-on-one until they could drive the tools themselves. I helped a Springfield software team get everyone onto Claude Code. And I ran the tech for Vibeathon — four AI build events across Missouri, 141 builders checked in.
Here's what I learned: the tool was never the problem. Confidence was. The best AI in a business runs on what the owner knows. It doesn't run the owner. So my line is Building AI-Confident Humans, and this company is how I do that for businesses.
Dad of four. I care a lot about owners getting their evenings back — for the people who need them, not for a faster inbox.
What waiting costs
Do the math on one task. Say a follow-up email takes you ten minutes and you send fifteen a week. That's two and a half hours, every week, on something AI can draft and you can approve in five minutes. That's one task. Most owners we talk to have a handful like it.
If nothing changes
→You keep paying for seats nobody uses.
The tools don't get cheaper because you ignore them.
→The bottleneck stays you.
Every new customer adds to your inbox, not your team's.
→The work only you can do keeps getting the leftovers.
Kids, leadership, the decision you've been putting off — those are the ones that don't fit in the margins.
None of that is a crisis. It's a slow leak. Ten days fixes the first one.
Pick your size
Every one starts the same way — a free 45-minute strategy session and an honest read on whether it's worth your money.
Solo
$300 / hour
For: one owner or lead, one stuck thing, right now.
- →one hour, 1:1, on your real work — screen share, or in person in Springfield
- →leave with the thing done, or a plan you can finish this week
- →notes after the call
Pro
$2,000
half-day workshop
For: a team of ten or fewer that bought AI and isn't using it.
- →half a day, on-site or remote
- →hands on their own work — not slides
- →each person leaves with one job handed off to AI — set up by them, checked by them
- →a short list of what to hand to AI next
For Real
$10,000
ten days · fractional AI lead
For: a business that needs an AI lead, not an AI hire.
- →AI jumpstart: where AI pays off in your business — and where it doesn't
- →a strategy you can act on: a ranked list of workflows and what each is worth
- →one integration live in your real tools, tested, with a person signing off
- →your team trained to delegate to it and sign off on what comes out
- →30-day check-in
I Got You
Need more?
For: a longer run, a bigger team, or a problem that doesn't fit a box.
More than ten days, more than ten people, or something that isn't on this page — let's talk about it.
Let's chatQuestions owners ask
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Yes — that's most of the people we work with. You know your business; we know the tools. You never have to write code. You do have to sit with us for the training part.
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The ones you already pay for, when we can — Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and the AI inside your CRM or accounting tool. Kevin knows Claude best. We'll tell you when a tool isn't worth it.
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It stays in your accounts, under your logins, with the least access we need. Nothing you share is used to train a public model. If a customer asks, you'll have a plain answer.
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No. The point is you delegate to the AI, not to us. You get a one-page runbook and training inside your own work, and FOR REAL includes a 30-day check-in. If you'd rather we keep managing it for you, that's the I GOT YOU conversation.
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One workflow live and tested, your team trained on it, and a ranked list of what's next. Not a rebuild of your business. One real thing that works, plus the map.
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Both. True Frontier is in Springfield, MO. We work remote anywhere in the US and are happy to come on-site about a day a week.
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We'll say so in the free strategy session — before you pay anything.
More of you for the work only you can do.
Start with a free 45-minute strategy session. We'll look at your actual week and tell you what AI can take off it — and what it can't.
No slide deck. No pressure. If it's not a fit, we'll say so.