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.
45 minutes. We look at your actual week. No slide deck.
Delegate the life-sucking work to agents so you have more life to live.
7pm. Living room couch.
AI stopped working when you left work, but your brain didn't.
The quote you owe. Two follow-ups. The invoice you meant to send. None of it stayed at the office. The AI you're paying for didn't pick it up, either. It only works while you're sitting there typing at it. So it waits for you. And you'll do it at 9pm, from this couch.
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It's a chat box, not a coworker. It wrote a decent email once. Then it made something up, and fixing it took longer than doing it yourself. Nobody had time to teach it your work, so it never got past the demo.
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Everything still runs through you. Quotes, invoices, follow-ups, "can you look at this?" That's why it follows you home. The business moves as fast as your inbox.
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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 of you.
- Follow-ups AI drafts you approve
- Quotes AI drafts you approve
- Proposals AI drafts you approve
- Invoices AI drafts you approve
- First drafts AI drafts you approve
- Research runs overnight
Do the math on one task. Say a follow-up email takes you minutes and you send a week.
That's , every week, on something AI can draft and you can approve in five minutes. That's about a year. That's one task. Most owners we talk to have a handful like it.
None of that is a crisis. It's a slow leak.
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.
How it works
The reclaim-your-sanity AI plan
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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.
- Workflow map: what repeats every week, on one page.
- Pick by payoff: most hours saved, least risk, first.
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Build
We work inside your real business, with your people at the keyboard. One workflow goes live. Not a demo.
- Built in your tools: your email, CRM, spreadsheets, and the AI you already pay for.
- A person signs off before anything goes out.
- Tested on real cases first.
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Delegate
You hand it the work. It runs on your expertise; you sign off on what goes out.
- Training in the work, not a webinar.
- Your data stays yours: your accounts, your logins, the least access we need.
- One-page runbook: what it does, what to check, who to call.
Say a customer asks for a quote. Before: you open the last one like it, copy, adjust, send, at 9pm. After: the draft is waiting in your inbox, built from your past quotes and your prices. You read it, fix one line, hit send. Your name on it.
What changes
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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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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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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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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."
Don't take our word for it.
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“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.
Brian Ashbusiness owner -
“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.
Amritpreet (Preet) Singhsoftware developer -
“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.
Jali Purcelldeveloper
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
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, including helping a Springfield software team get everyone onto Claude Code.
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.
Pick your size
Every size starts with the free strategy session and an honest read on whether it's worth your money.
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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
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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
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Start here
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
- your team trained to delegate to it and sign off on what comes out
- 30-day check-in
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Let's chat
I Got You
Need more?
For: a longer run, a bigger team, or a problem that doesn't fit a box.
Questions owners ask
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I'm not technical. Does this work for me?
Yes — that's most of the people we work with. You know your business; we know the tools. You never have to write code, but you do have to sit with us for the training part.
Yes — that's most of the people we work with. You know your business; we know the tools. You never have to write code, but you do have to sit with us for the training part.
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Which AI tools do you use?
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.
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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What happens with our data?
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.
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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Will we depend on you afterward?
No. The point is you delegate to the AI, not to us: you get a one-page runbook, training inside your own work, and, with FOR REAL, a 30-day check-in. If you'd rather we keep managing it for you, that's the I GOT YOU conversation.
No. The point is you delegate to the AI, not to us: you get a one-page runbook, training inside your own work, and, with FOR REAL, 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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What can ten days actually get done?
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.
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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Remote or on-site?
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.
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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What if it's not a fit?
We'll say so in the free strategy session — before you pay anything.
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 tell you what AI can take off your week, and what it can't.
No slide deck. No pressure.