Working AI software • Built in Palm Desert, CA

We don’t just talk about AI. We build it and run it.

Most AI consultants hand you a slide deck. We hand you working software. Eighteen AI helpers that draft your emails and size up your competitors. A free audit that scores how your business shows up online. All of it built and run by our shop, on our own servers.

Use it today Plain English Local & in person

you’re asking:

“Who is going to write all this content?”

thinglet a.i. →

“Nobody on your payroll. Hire The Writer on fakeserver for $29 a month. It drafts blog posts, emails, and captions in your voice and delivers them to your inbox. You review and send.”

18 helpersfrom $29/mo14-day trial
18

AI helpers ready to hire, no setup project required

120+

AI tools tracked and rated so you don’t have to

2011

building software for small business since

What we built

Software you can start using today

No install, no integration project, no consultant required. Two of these are free to start. Pick the one that matches the problem you actually have.

fakeserver

fakeserver.net

Pre-built AI helpers that do real work. Hire The Writer to draft your blog posts and emails, The Researcher to size up a competitor, The Summarizer to turn a meeting transcript into decisions and owners. Eighteen of them, already set up. Chain a few together and a week of marketing gets done while you’re out on a job site.

  • Results land in your inbox, on your phone, or straight into your tools
  • Connect your own Gmail or Outlook so it sends as you, not as a robot
  • Team plans share one pool of work across five seats
  • Developer API if you’d rather wire it in yourself
$29

per month to start

14-day free trial. Pro and Business plans add workflows, teams, and the API.

Start free trial

Best if you’re doing work an assistant could do, and you don’t have an assistant.

Recon Report

social.pdgeeks.com

A free AI audit of how your business shows up online. It scores your site, your social presence, and your local listings, then tells you plainly what to fix first and what it costs you to leave it broken.

FreeAbout a minute
Run my audit

ForgeDaily AI

forgedailyai.com

There are thousands of AI tools and most of them are noise. Answer five questions and the Stack Architect builds you a shortlist that fits your work and your budget, instead of the same ten tools every listicle names.

Free to browse$19 playbook
Build my stack

Analytics Simplifier

board.pdgeeks.com

Upload the reports you already get from Google, Facebook, and Instagram. Get back one plain-English brief: what went up, what went down, and what to do about it. Written for an owner, not an analyst.

Free tierPaid upgrade
Try a report
Built in public

Where we find out what actually works

On afakeserver.com, three AI models run their own trading strategies against live market data, on identical rules and identical starting balances, with the scoreboard public. Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok, plus a purely mechanical strategy as a control. Some of them lose. That is the point of publishing it. Most of what we know about AI reliability, guardrails, and cost came out of experiments like this one.

Watch the contest

Research project. Not investment advice.

Still very much a thing

Rather have someone set it up for you?

The products above cover most of what a small business needs. When they don’t, or when you’d rather not be the one clicking the buttons, we do the hands-on work too. Same shop, same people, same plain language.

Setup and integration

Getting the tools above wired into how you already work.

Team training

Hands-on sessions so your people use AI confidently and safely.

Custom builds

When the thing you need doesn’t exist yet, we build it. Everything on this page started that way.

The book

The Small Business Owner’s AI Playbook

The hands-on, no-hype guide. 50+ ready-to-use prompts, a complete AI tool directory, a 30-day implementation workbook, and industry playbooks. Written by Patrick Albert for owners who want results, not theory.

The Small Business Owner’s AI Playbook

Second Edition • on Amazon

Elsewhere

Other things we run

Different audiences, different problems, same shop.

DebtFree Path

debtpivot.com

An independent comparison of every legitimate way out of unsecured debt, including the options that don’t pay us anything. Settlement, consolidation, counseling, balance transfers, DIY, and bankruptcy, with real fees and real trade-offs.

Visit DebtFree Path

Bitcoin for Charity

bitcoinforcharity.org

Donate Bitcoin directly to vetted non-profits, with no middleman taking a cut. We built it and we maintain it, because the technology ought to be useful for something besides speculation.

Visit the site

Not sure which one you need?

Run the free Recon Report and it will tell you where your biggest gap is. Or call and we’ll just tell you. No charge for the conversation.