The pitch

One idea underneath every version: proof over promises. Everyone selling AI shows a deck; we show a ledger.

Ten seconds

An AI runs business development for a working engineer, completely in public: every step logged, every letter human-signed, prices readable from the street. We are out to prove AI can be used for good at a reasonable price. Think of us as plumbers.

Thirty seconds

I am an engineer in Grand Rapids with fifteen years inside big, old, critical systems. I operate an AI that hunts for my work in the open: housecalls.bradley.io shows the map, the rules, and a ledger of every step including the misses. Nothing sends without my signature, one email per company forever, and a no means no. The same shop gives trade workers free field tools with no accounts and no catch, because a business that says technology costs should go down ought to hand you an example. If you have a system everyone tiptoes around, a cloud bill that makes less sense every month, or an AI project that died in the plumbing, that is exactly what we like.

Two minutes, by listener

To a prospect (the plumber pitch). You call when something is backed up. We show up, quote a price you can read from the street, fix it, and show you the work. The unusual parts: an AI drafts and a human signs everything, the whole operation is documented in public, and I publish my own AI usage and costs, because anyone selling AI should have to show you theirs working. First step on an old system is never a rewrite pitch: I learn it and write down what it actually does, then you choose with honest numbers in hand. And if AI is the wrong tool for your problem, I will say so in the first meeting; that sentence is the most valuable thing we sell.

To a tradesperson (the counter pitch). Free phone tools: quotes, signed change orders, stamped job photos, spoken material lists. No app store, no account, no catch, and nothing you type ever uploads. They work for the person holding the phone and report to no one, which you will appreciate if your shop just rolled out software that records your calls. If a tool saves you twenty minutes, the name on it is the whole transaction.

To a future operator (the franchise pitch). The machine that hunts for my work is a kit: the site, the pipeline, the rubric, the playbooks, the compliance rails baked into code, and an operating manual your own AI can execute. Mr. Rooter sold plumbers the machinery around the trade; this is that, for the AI trade, county by county. It is not for sale yet because it has not won yet, and the scoreboard saying so in public is the reason you could trust it when it does.

To a technologist (the harness pitch). Local-first done honestly: a Rust engine that runs the same money math, the same twelve-word seed, and the same encrypted envelope on the web, on the desktop, and in a ten-megabyte Android app; backups leave the phone as ciphertext to a stash that could not read them if it wanted to. No accounts anywhere in the stack, recovery is a code sequence, and the repo is public because cryptography deserves eyes.

The lines that survived contact

• Proof over promises: everyone else shows a deck, we show a ledger.
• Prices readable from the street.
• An AI drafts, a human signs, a no means no forever.
• Works for you, reports to no one.
• You do not need AI for this (said about our own tool).
• The scoreboard starts at zero and stays honest on the way up.