I build the systems that leta business run without its owner

Scheduling, quoting, invoicing and follow-up — the work that currently lives in a group chat and your head. I'm JD Kemp, one senior engineer in the Lansing area, and I built this for my own business first.

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What I Do

Services That Drive Results

Four service areas. Start with the free Operations Audit — thirty minutes, no charge, and I will tell you when you do not need solutions that actually grow your business.

01

AI Reliability Audit

$2,500 flat. Your AI feature reviewed before it ships a wrong answer — eval harness, retrieval gates, a prioritised fix list. About a week.

Eval harnessRetrieval gatesPrioritised fix list
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02

LLM Integration Sprint

From $7,500. One production-ready AI feature built end to end on your stack, with the evaluation gates that keep it honest. Two to four weeks.

One feature, end to endYour stackDeployed and handed over
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03

Ops-Automation Build

From $6,000. One manual workflow automated — intake to ticketing to invoicing, OCR, accounting sync. The build I did for my own business first.

Intake to invoiceReceipt OCRAccounting sync
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04

Embedded Engineering

Monthly retainer. I join your team for a stretch, learn your domain, and ship on your real systems. Forward-deployed — and the free Operations Audit is how it starts.

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Industries I Work With

Built for Service Businesses

Different trades, same three problems: getting work in, running it, getting paid. The software changes shape; the problems do not.

Real Estate

Agents & Brokers

Trades

HVAC, Plumbing, Electric

Home Services

Cleaning, Landscaping

Professional

Consulting, Finance

Healthcare

Clinics, Wellness

Legal

Law Firms, Attorneys

Automotive

Dealers, Auto Shops

Restaurants

Food & Hospitality

And many more industries I help run without their owners

Why me, and not an agency

One senior engineer

Not a project manager and three juniors. The person you talk to is the person writing the code. Ask anyone else you are considering who is actually building it.

I did it to myself first

Haslett Handyman runs on a CRM I wrote — email in, tickets created, jobs scheduled, invoices out. I will show you the real system, not a slide about it.

Published pricing

Most builds land between $2,500 and $10,000. It is on the blog, in public, so you do not spend three calls finding out.

I will tell you to buy nothing

If your problem is a reminder and a template, you do not need a platform. Software should be the last resort, not the first. I have said this more than once.

Ready to Grow?

Let's Build Something Amazing Together

Whether you need a complete marketing overhaul or a custom application, I'll tell you what I'd fix and what I'd leave alone. Let's start with a conversation.

Schedule a Calljdakemp@gmail.com

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