AI Systems Consultant

Your Integrated AI Partner

I build custom AI systems that grow your revenue and cut your costs — designed around the way your business actually works, bringing AI automation expertise from top tech companies.

AI-workflow experience trusted at top tech companies.

Ethan Schneider
Education
AI and Industrial & Systems Engineering
Currently
Apple
AI solutions for iPhone Ops
Previously
10x Genomics
Product Manager Intern
What I actually do

Less manual work,
more useful systems

I don't sell a single product or one tool. I start by understanding how your business actually operates, find where AI and automation will create the most value, then build the right solution for it — a Claude agent, a custom app, a Python automation, or sometimes just a smarter process. You're hiring my judgment, not a package.

The work usually falls into one of these six areas

Revenue & lead capture

Most small businesses lose jobs they never knew they had: missed calls, slow replies, and quotes nobody followed up on. I build AI systems that answer every inquiry fast, keep following up, and put out the content that brings new leads in the first place.

Inbound
  • AI front desk: missed-call text-back and after-hours answering
  • Instant replies to web, email, and text inquiries
  • Appointment booking into your real calendar
  • Estimate and quote follow-up sequences
  • CRM setup and cleanup (HubSpot, GoHighLevel, and others)
  • Review requests and win-back for past customers
Outbound
  • AI-generated ads & social content (UGC-style)
  • SEO and blog content, written and published on a schedule
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Gmail Outlook Google Calendar Zapier
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Workflow automation

Repetitive work eats hours every week: retyping data, sorting email, chasing paperwork. I automate the glue work between your tools, so information moves on its own and your team stops being the integration.

  • Email sorting, routing, and drafted replies
  • Document and invoice data extraction
  • Data entry and reconciliation between systems
  • Compliance and deadline tracking with reminders
  • Approvals, handoffs, and notifications
  • Web and portal automation for sites with no other way in
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Outlook Excel QuickBooks Dropbox
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AI agents & assistants

Your team's knowledge lives in documents, inboxes, and a few people's heads. I build AI agents that know your business, answer questions with the source attached, review work against your standards, and carry out multi-step tasks across your tools.

  • Internal knowledge assistants over your SOPs and records
  • OpenClaw setup, tuned to your tools and workflows
  • Customer-facing chatbots trained on your business
  • AI document review against your checklists
  • Drafting from your templates: proposals, emails, reports
  • Multi-step agents with human approval built in
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OpenClaw Google Drive Notion Slack
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Reporting & insights

If someone rebuilds the same report every week, or nobody can quickly answer a question about the numbers, you're running the business on a delay. I automate the reporting, so the numbers arrive on time, match every time, and flag problems early.

  • Automated weekly and monthly reports
  • Live KPI dashboards from your real systems
  • Anomaly alerts when a number looks wrong
  • Owner, investor, and client updates drafted from data
  • Data consolidation across spreadsheets and software
  • Plain-English questions answered from your own data
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Excel QuickBooks Google Drive Slack
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Custom software

When off-the-shelf software doesn't fit, the workarounds become the job. I build the software that does fit, from a small internal tool to a full web app or website, designed, built, and hosted end to end.

  • Internal tools and operational apps
  • Customer-facing web apps and portals
  • Websites and landing pages
  • AI features built into your existing apps
  • Integrations between the systems you already use
  • Hosting, documentation, and handover
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React Supabase Vercel GitHub
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AI coaching & training

Most teams aren't short on AI tools, they're short on knowing how to actually use them. I teach you and your team the tools that matter — Claude for everyday work, NotebookLM for making sense of your own documents, Claude Code for teams ready to build — so you're not stuck depending on someone else every time you want AI to help.

  • Claude training for everyday work: chat, Projects, and getting good output
  • NotebookLM setup to turn your documents into something you can ask
  • Claude Code setup and training for teams ready to build
  • Prompt libraries and playbooks built for your workflows
  • Honest guidance on what AI is and isn't reliable for
  • Ongoing office hours as new questions come up
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Claude Notion Obsidian Slack
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How I work

A simple process,
built around your team

  1. 01

    Discover how the business runs

    I spend time with you and your team learning your real workflows, software stack, handoffs, and where the repetitive work and bottlenecks actually live — not how an org chart says it should work.

  2. 02

    Find the highest-ROI problem

    I pinpoint the work costing the most time, money, and effort, and estimate the return before we build anything — so the investment is clear up front and we fix the right thing first.

  3. 03

    Design the right solution

    Then I decide what actually solves it. Sometimes that's an AI agent or a Claude project; sometimes a custom app, an automation, or a redesigned workflow. The tool follows the problem — never the other way around.

  4. 04

    Build it

    This is where I'm different from most AI consultants: I actually build. Python, Swift, web apps, APIs, dashboards, integrations, and automations — wired into the tools you already use.

  5. 05

    Drive adoption

    A system only pays off if people actually use it. I handle onboarding, documentation, training, prompt libraries, and SOPs so it sticks. Often this is the most valuable part of the whole engagement.

  6. 06

    Become your long-term partner

    I don't disappear. I monitor your systems, maintain and improve them, and keep finding new opportunities — effectively your outsourced AI & operations partner as the business grows.

Tools & platforms I build with
OpenClaw
OpenClaw
Claude Code
Claude Code
Gemini
Gemini
n8n
n8n
Obsidian
Obsidian
Notion
Notion
Gmail
Gmail
Google Calendar
Google Calendar
Google Drive
Google Drive
Supabase
Supabase
Python
Python
React
React
GitHub
GitHub
Vercel
Vercel
Zapier
Zapier
Let's talk

Let's find what's slowing
your business down

Whether you already have a workflow in mind or just know something feels inefficient, tell me how your business actually runs — I'll learn how things work, find the highest-ROI problem, and give you an honest, free read on what's worth building. Start with one project, and if it works out, I'll become the AI guy who quietly runs your systems for the long haul.