Effingham's AI expert,
and the developer
who builds it.
I help businesses around Effingham find the repetitive work AI can take over, then I build and connect the tools. I run my own company the same way.
Where AI actually pays off for a local business
Not in a strategy deck. In the four or five tasks somebody on your team does every single day.
The office that re-types the same thing
Quotes, invoices, intake forms, order confirmations. If the same information gets typed into two or three systems, that is the first thing I automate.
The owner answering the same 20 questions
Hours, pricing, "do you do X," "where is my order." An assistant on your site, text line, or inbox answers the routine ones and hands the rest to you.
The shop losing leads in the inbox
A form comes in Friday afternoon and gets a reply Tuesday. Automated sorting and a same-minute first response mean the lead hears from you before they call the next name on the list.
The team building reports by hand
Sales, ad spend, website traffic, Google reviews, pulled into one summary every Monday morning. Nobody opens a spreadsheet.
Automation for the work you already do
Manufacturers, trucking and ag businesses, clinics, trades, retail, and professional offices around Effingham all run on the same handful of repeated tasks. These are the ones I build most.
Workflow automation
Connect the tools you already pay for: QuickBooks, Google Workspace, your CRM, your website forms, your scheduling app. Work moves between them without anyone copying and pasting.
AI assistants for customers
A chat or text assistant that knows your hours, services, and pricing, answers the routine questions, captures the lead, and hands off to a person when it should.
Lead follow-up
A lead comes in, gets read and sorted, gets a first reply, lands in your CRM, and you get a text. Minutes, not days, and nothing slips.
Paperwork and documents
Quotes, proposals, intake summaries, and follow-up emails drafted from your own templates and price list. You review and send. It takes seconds instead of an afternoon.
Reporting that writes itself
The numbers you check every week, gathered from every system and summarized in plain English, delivered to your inbox or phone on a schedule.
Custom integrations
When two systems have no off-the-shelf connection, I write it. Hand-coded against their APIs, documented, and owned by you, not rented from a middleman.
Not on the list? If it repeats and has a clear "done," there is a good chance I can automate it.
Ask About Your TaskI don't just recommend AI.
I run my business on it.
DietzenDev is a one-person company that hosts 130+ sites and builds for clients across the region. The back office runs on AI systems I designed and coded, each with a human approval step. These are live today, not a demo.
Prospect research
An agent finds local businesses on overpriced rented websites, confirms who built the site from the source code, and ranks them. I start the week with a list, not a search.
Content and social, with an approval step
Blog posts get drafted, a branded image gets rendered, and the post waits for one tap from me. Then it publishes and shares itself. Nothing goes out unseen.
Client reports from live scans
Website reviews and accessibility reports are generated as branded PDFs from a real scan of the site. The free website review on this site runs on it.
Analytics, Search Console, and Business Profile by API
Traffic, rankings, and profile changes are pulled by code, not clicked through dashboards. Decisions on this site get made from that data, and the reasoning is logged.
From one annoying task to one less thing to do
Fixed price, written scope, and you own what gets built.
Free call
Thirty minutes. You describe the task that eats your week. I tell you whether AI fits it, what I would build first, and roughly what it costs.
Fixed quote
A written scope: what it connects to, what "done" looks like, and one price. No hourly meter, no retainer required.
Build and test
Built against your real data and your real edge cases, with a human approval step anywhere a mistake would reach a customer.
Handoff
A walkthrough, written documentation, and the accounts in your name. You can run it without me.
Support, if you want it
Most automations just run. When your business changes, the retainer keeps me on call to change them with it.
What Effingham business owners ask me about AI
Do I need to be technical to use this?
No. You need to know which task you are tired of doing. I handle the tools, the connections, and the testing, and I hand it back with a walkthrough written for the person who will actually use it.
What does AI consulting cost?
The first call is free. After that, every project gets a written scope and one fixed price before anything starts. Small automations are small projects. There is no retainer requirement and no hourly meter.
Will this replace my employees?
That is not what I build. The automations take the repetitive, low-judgment work off your people so the hours they have go to customers and decisions. Anywhere a mistake could reach a customer, a person approves first.
Is my business data safe?
I pick tools on their data terms, not their marketing. Your data is not used to train anyone's model, the accounts are in your name, and where privacy matters most I use options that run on hardware you control. You get a plain-English summary of where your data goes.
Which AI tools do you use?
Whatever the job needs: Claude, ChatGPT and the OpenAI models, Gemini, and automation platforms like n8n, Make, and Zapier for the plumbing. When those run out, I write the code myself. For businesses that want a private assistant on their own hardware, I set up open-source options like OpenClaw.
Do you work on-site in Effingham?
Yes. I am based in Effingham and meet in person across Effingham County and the surrounding area, including Teutopolis, Altamont, Mattoon, Charleston, Vandalia, and Shelbyville. Everything can also be done remotely.
Do I need a new website for this?
No. Most automation work connects to what you already have. If your website is part of the problem, the Website Subscription and custom builds are separate services, and the free website review will tell you honestly whether you need either.