Maai® Services

the small business guide to ai.

We do the research so you do not have to. What works, what does not, and what it costs.

  • How to think about it
  • Where it applies in your business
  • What it costs to run
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Maai® Week in AI

one email a week.
no pitch.

Every week: what to take advantage of, what to avoid, what to look out for, and the traps that are easy to fall into. Research worth reading, videos worth watching, and what other owners are figuring out, shared with their permission. First issue in October.

Before you spend a dollar

three questions to ask.

  1. Ask what it will do for your business this month, not next year.

  2. Ask who owns it when the person who set it up leaves.

  3. Ask what it costs against what you pay now, not against zero.

Why this exists

why we did the research.

I spent four years learning how AI actually lands in a business. At an AI startup in 2021, I built the relationship with Microsoft that led to the company becoming a Microsoft Copilot Development Partner and putting GPT-3 into Teams, which means putting a working assistant inside the software a company already uses. Then I moved to Savannah, worked with small business owners for a year, and watched how one really runs from the inside of my fiancée's family business.

Owners kept saying the same thing. They could not justify AI without knowing what it would do for them. They were not going to be the ones who tested it. And they had no hours to spare. Meanwhile plenty of them were paying more every month for a website nobody had touched in years and marketing that was half finished.

So we built the thing they kept describing.

We learned that the difference is not the tool, it is how often someone is actually on your business. Most agencies look at your account a few times a month. MOCO™ is on it every day, for less than any hire, and that is why it exists. No long contracts, no setup fee, nothing new stacked on the bill every quarter, and you own your site, your domain, your content, and your Google Business Profile, in writing.

see how MOCO™ works

Where this is going

Lead generation, industry analysis tailored to your business, help built around your industry, and support for owners who want to run it on a machine they own. Targets we are building toward, not things we do today.

Concept rendering of a corner table set for two, Maai® Savannah studio

Coffee hours

coffee hours.

One Friday morning a month, I sit down with owners around Savannah and talk through whatever you are trying to figure out with AI. One-on-one, or a small group if you would rather hear other people's questions. An hour, a coffee, no pitch. Usually downtown; I will confirm the spot when I confirm your time.

Preference
Times that work

Mornings run 8 to noon. I will reply by email with your time and place. Privacy policy.

Ask us anything

what are you stuck on.

Send the question you would ask if you had a technical person on staff. We answer directly, and the ones that come up repeatedly become research pieces everyone can read.

Subscribers get first word on coffee hours dates each month.

One system, several doors

what we do.

Maai® ServicesYou are hereDesignswebsites that earn trust, built and maintainedLeadswho to reach, and why themAgentsagents built and run for youMachineslocal ai on hardware you ownMOCO™the marketing operation, monthly2555 Ventureswhere this is going
  • I need a website that works: Designs.
  • I want the marketing handled, every day, without hiring: MOCO™.
  • I want it running on a machine I own, in my building: Machines.
  • I do not know yet: book a call and we will tell you, including if the answer is nothing.

Designs

Websites that earn trust, built and maintained

maaidesigns.com

Leads

Who to reach, and why them

maaileads.com

Agents

Agents built and run for you

maaiagents.com

Machines

Local AI on hardware you own

maaimachines.com

MOCO™

The marketing operation, monthly

askmoco.com

2555 Ventures

Where this is going

2555ventures.com

Who we are

Built by a small business owner, for small business owners. We run every one of these on our own businesses first, in Savannah, and we only write about what we have tried.

About 2555 Ventures

Or just talk to someone

not sure which door is yours.

Book a call. We will work out where you actually are and what makes sense next, including the answer that you do not need to build anything yet.

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