AI Readiness Audit

You know AI could help your business. I'll show you where.

I build custom AI tools for small businesses, shaped around how you already work. First I spend a week learning your business, so we both know what's worth building before you spend money on it.

Book a 15-minute intro call It's just a conversation. If an audit doesn't make sense for you, I'll tell you.
Where most people get stuck

Everyone says "use AI," but nobody explains how

Too many options

There's a new AI tool every week. Most of them aren't built for a business your size, and it's hard to tell which ones are

Off-the-shelf doesn't fit

A generic tool doesn't know your customers or how your team does things. After a couple of weeks, nobody opens it

Worried about getting it wrong

Nobody wants to pay for something that doesn't stick, or put customer data somewhere it shouldn't go. So it gets pushed to next quarter

What the audit includes

Before I build anything, I figure out where AI fits in your business

I can't build something useful until I understand how your business runs. That's what the audit is for. At the end, you get a written plan, and it's yours whether or not we keep working together.

  1. 1
    How your business runs todayWhat tools you use, where your data lives, and how a job gets from one person to the next.
  2. 2
    AI opportunities, backed by dataWhere AI could save you time or money, with my best estimate in hours a week or dollars a month.
  3. 3
    A custom solution for each issueA plain-English description of what I'd build for each one. Sometimes the answer is a spreadsheet fix, not AI, and I'll say so.
  4. 4
    Data and risk checkWhat data each idea would touch and how to keep it private. This is the part I spent most of my career on.
  5. 5
    Prioritized roadmap with costsWhat to do first, what can wait, and what each piece costs and how long it takes, so you can budget before you commit.
Examples

The kinds of things I could build for you.

Every business is different, so the audit decides what's worth building. These are a few ideas to give you a sense of it. Nothing sends, books, or charges anything without you approving it first.

Contractors, agencies

Quote follow-ups

Check for quotes that never got a reply, draft a friendly follow-up for each one, and leave the drafts in Gmail for you to send.

Salons, clinics, studios

Booking inbox helper

When someone emails asking for an appointment, it checks your calendar, writes a reply with times that actually work, and holds the slot.

Anyone with a busy inbox

Morning inbox summary

One email each morning: who's waiting on you, what's urgent, and what can be ignored. It works across more than one account.

Service businesses

Unpaid invoice reminders

It reads your invoice spreadsheet, finds what's overdue, and writes reminders that get firmer the longer something sits unpaid.

Restaurants, retail

Review replies

New Google or Yelp reviews get a drafted reply in your voice. Bad reviews get flagged to you first so nothing goes out wrong.

Small teams

Weekly numbers report

It pulls from the spreadsheets you already keep, writes a one-page summary of the week, and drops it in a shared Google Doc every Monday.

How it works

Four steps, and you can stop after any of them.

  1. Intro call

    15 minutes, free. You tell me about the business and what's eating your time.

  2. The audit

    One week. I look at your tools and data and talk to the people doing the work.

  3. Plan + walkthrough

    I send the report, then we go through it together and pick what to build first.

  4. Custom build

    Optional.

    If you want, I build it, set it up with your team, and keep adjusting until people actually use it.

What I'm working on

Things I've built lately.

Most of these started as tools for myself. They're the same kind of work I'd do for your business.

Leads dashboard

A dashboard that sits on top of an outreach spreadsheet. For each contact, it pulls the last email from Gmail, flags whose turn it is to reply, and ranks who to follow up with. Claude can draft the follow-ups and save them as Gmail drafts. It never sends anything on its own.

  • Google Sheets
  • Gmail
  • Claude
  • SQLite

Google Workspace MCP servers

A set of connectors that let Claude work in Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides across several Google accounts at once. You sign in once. Anything that sends, shares or deletes shows a preview first, and every action is written to a log.

  • MCP
  • Node.js
  • Google OAuth
Sharlena, smiling, standing on a bridge over a river
About

I'm Sharlena

I've been a backend engineer for over eight years, mostly on identity systems at places like IBM, HashiCorp, and Optum. That means logins, permissions, and the parts of a system that hold sensitive customer data.

An AI tool is only useful once it's hooked up to your real email, calendar and files, and connecting things to sensitive data safely is what I've done my whole career.

I'm also not a consultant who hands you a slide deck and leaves. If you want the thing built, I'm the one who builds it.

I live in Orange County, California, and I'd love to work with businesses nearby, though I'm happy to work remotely too.

Get in touch

Start with a 15-minute call.

If you'd rather email, that works too. I usually reply within a day.