Thanks Anderson, Inc. — Custom AI Tools, Automation & Training for Business
Thanks Anderson, Inc.

Find the bottleneck
and fix it.

One firm, focused on making people better at the work they already do.

We build the AI and the systems that clear what's slowing your team down — less waste, fewer repetitive tasks, and more hours spent on the work that actually drives revenue. Custom AI tools for business, and practical AI for the public sector. Tell us where you're headed.

Free · Seven questions · About three minutes · No email, no signup

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Does your business have a bottleneck? Let’s find out.

Most owners know something’s slow. Far fewer can name exactly where the hours go, what that costs them, or what would actually fix it.

Seven questions, about three minutes. If you have a bottleneck, you’ll leave with the fix designed — what to build, what it costs, and a phased plan that starts free. If you don’t have one worth fixing, the brief will tell you that instead. The numbers come from your answers, not from a marketing template.

Small team
Sample brief
Bottleneck Brief
Prepared for: a 9-person service business
Your bottleneck
Quotes take 3 days to reach the customer
The layer it lives in
Wiring two systems together — not AI
What it’s costing you
≈ $2,300 / month (from your inputs)
The fix, in phases
1 Scoped build plan — free
2 Connect quoting to your inbox — fixed price
3 Only if it pays: automate follow-up
What I’d tell you not to buy
The $30K “AI transformation” someone else quoted you.
Mid-market
Sample brief
Bottleneck Brief
Prepared for: a 140-person distributor
Your bottleneck
Every branch onboards a new account differently. Nothing is repeatable.
The layer it lives in
Rules & a database — still not AI
What it’s costing you
≈ $19,400 / month (from your inputs)
The fix, in phases
1 Scoped build plan — free
2 One intake path, enforced in software — fixed price
3 Train the branch managers on it, then measure adoption
What I’d tell you not to buy
A second CRM. You don’t have a software problem, you have a process nobody wrote down.
Enterprise
Sample brief
Bottleneck Brief
Prepared for: a 1,500-person regulated enterprise
Your bottleneck
Specialists spend 90 minutes per file searching policy documents across systems
The layer it lives in
Grounded AI + a rules layer — accuracy is non-negotiable
What it’s costing you
≈ $2.4M / year (from your inputs)
The fix, in phases
1 Scoped build plan — free
2 Pilot with one team — grounded retrieval, deterministic rules on the math
3 Rollout + the adoption program that makes it stick
What I’d tell you not to buy
An enterprise-wide license before one team has proven the thing works.

Three shapes this takes, from a nine-person shop to a 1,500-person enterprise. Yours is built from your answers.

Here’s exactly what happens.

1
You answer 7 questions
3 minutes
Plain English. What your business does, where it slows down, how many people it touches. No signup, no credit card, no salesperson.
2
It diagnoses before it prescribes
Instant
Your problem gets sorted into the bucket it actually belongs in: ordinary software, a database, connecting two systems you already own, training your people, AI, a system we run for you — or nothing at all. A doctor doesn’t give everyone the same pill. Most AI firms do. This can’t — the decision is locked in code, so nobody can nudge it toward the expensive answer.
3
You get the blueprint
Yours to keep
A written plan: what to fix first, what it costs, what order to do it in, and what to skip. Take it to me, take it to your own team, or take it to another firm. It works either way.

Boutique firms bill $2,500–$7,500 for a scoped assessment like this. This one costs nothing, asks for no email, and you keep it whether we ever speak or not. The only thing it costs you is three minutes and the possibility that you find out you’re fine.

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42,000
Answer combinations stress-tested before this went live.
15
Industries run through it and read by hand, one at a time.
1 of 7
Verdicts is “don’t build anything yet.” A real, reachable outcome.
$0
No email, no signup, no follow-up sequence. You just get the brief.

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The AI doesn’t decide anything

A rules engine sorts your bottleneck into one of seven layers — ordinary software, a database, wiring two systems together, training your people, AI, a system we run for you, or nothing at all. The model writes the words. It can’t add a service or soften a no. That’s enforced in code, not asked for in a prompt.

Built by someone who ships

The same discipline is behind Max, a production AI assistant in daily use by about 20 licensed agents at roughly 85% active adoption — and its first working version stood up in under two weeks, not two quarters. This isn’t a lead form dressed up as a tool. It’s the same architecture, pointed at your business.

You keep the brief either way

No email wall, no drip sequence, no call unless you ask for one. If the honest answer is that you should buy an off-the-shelf tool for $50 a month instead of hiring me, the brief will tell you that.

Already know what you need?

Start with the problem, not the service — or jump straight to a practice below.

Problems & prices Browse the five problems we fix — with real price ranges. Hours lost to busywork · leads that slip · answers stuck in one head · software that doesn’t fit · systems nobody maintains
Practice / Applied AI

Custom AI Tools

For businesses & teams

Automation that clears the bottlenecks between your people and their best work — manual steps, stalled handoffs, tools nobody was taught to use. We built Max to prove it, and we'll build yours.

See what we build
Practice / Public Sector

AI for Agencies

For workforce boards, SBDCs & public programs

AI training and implementation built for public budgets — scoped to fit micro-purchase rules, no competitive bid required. Put this year's funds to work before they're gone.

Request a capability statement
Built in-house
Max — a production AI underwriting assistant, in daily use by licensed agents. The same engineering discipline is behind every tool we build, public or private.
Before you go

Three minutes now beats three months of guessing.

Run the diagnostic and you'll leave with a written brief on where your hours are going and what they're costing you — whether or not you ever hire me. If you'd rather just talk it through, the call is free too: thirty minutes, plain English, no pitch.

Thanks Anderson .

A firm built on applied AI — custom tools, sales training, and practical AI for businesses and public agencies.

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