TANNER SCHNICKE
AI systems · Orange County
949-690-5227 — call or text
For: Owner-operated businesses, OC & LA
By: Tanner Schnicke
Rev: Aug 2026

I build AI systems for your
business — or train your
team to run them.
Usually both.

I'm Tanner Schnicke. I work with local businesses across Orange County and LA County — trades, clinics, offices, shops, agencies. I find the work your team repeats every week and get AI doing it: quotes and estimates, client intake, follow-up, reporting, the same email you retype forty times a month.

No agency. No account manager. You get me.

Taking 3 new clients this month. First conversation is 20 minutes and free. I'll tell you straight if AI isn't the answer.

Put a real photo of yourself here — somewhere that looks like you actually work
Tanner Schnicke · Irvine, CA
What I do

Three things. Prices up front.

I'd rather you know the number now than sit through a discovery call to find out.

001

AI Working Session

Half a day, on site, with your actual team and your actual files. We take the jobs they do every week — quotes, emails, client updates, reports, proposals, scheduling — and build the exact prompts and shortcuts that do them. They leave using it, not nodding along to a slideshow.

Up to 12 people4 hoursWritten playbook after2 weeks of questions answered
$2,500
flat · half of it up front
002

Lead Response System

Someone fills out your form or calls while you're busy. Within 60 seconds they get a text, get asked the three questions you actually need answered, and land on your calendar. You get a summary on your phone. It runs at 9pm on a Saturday when your competitor's voicemail doesn't.

Missed-call text-backWeb forms & chatAutomatic follow-upBooking
$2,500
setup, then $500/mo · cancel anytime
003

Back-Office Cleanup

The recurring pile nobody wants to touch. Intake forms, quotes and estimates, invoices, client reports, records that live in six places, the same email you retype forty times a month. I map how it works now, then rebuild it so most of it happens without anyone doing it.

Quotes & invoicesClient reportingRecords & documentsRecurring email
from $1,500
scoped after a 20-min call

Not sure which one? Call me and describe your week. I'll tell you which one pays for itself first — or that none of them do.

Who you're hiring

It's me. That's the whole company.

I'm not an agency and I'm not going to pretend to be one. When you hire me, I'm the one who shows up, I'm the one building it, and I'm the one who answers when something breaks.

I've been around computers for seventeen years. I've also spent a decade doing field operations and compliance for construction companies across Southern California — driving job sites, writing reports, and untangling paperwork for people who had better things to do.

That combination is the whole reason this works. Most people who can build this stuff have never worked a job where bad software cost them their afternoon. Most people who've lived that have to hire someone to fix it. I've done both, in white collar offices and blue collar operations, and I can talk to either without a translator.

A dental office and a concrete contractor use completely different vocabularies and have nearly identical problems — the same intake forms, the same follow-ups nobody makes, the same email retyped forty times a month. When AI got good enough to erase that work, I already knew exactly where to point it.

If AI genuinely won't help you, I'll say so on the first call. I'd rather lose the sale than sell you something that sits there unused.

Based
Irvine — serving Orange County & LA County
Background
17 years in tech · 10 years field operations
Who I work with
Trades, clinics, offices, shops, agencies — any local business with repetitive work
Team size
One. Me.
Typical turnaround
Workshop within 2 weeks · systems live in 7–14 days
How it goes

Three steps, start to finish.

First — 20 minutes

You tell me about your week

What eats your time, what your team repeats, what falls through the cracks. Phone call. No slides, no proposal deck, no follow-up sequence.

Then — same week

I show you the thing working

I build a rough version using your business, not a generic demo, and send you a short video of it running. You'll know in 90 seconds whether you want it.

Then — 7 to 14 days

It's live and your people use it

I set it up, train whoever needs training, and stay reachable while everyone gets used to it. If it doesn't do what I said it would, I fix it or you don't pay the balance.

Straight talk

Things I'd want to know before hiring someone like me.

I'm early in this.

I'm building a client list right now, which is exactly why my prices are what they are and why you'll get more of my attention than you would from a firm with forty accounts.

AI isn't magic.

It's very good at repetitive writing, sorting, summarizing and answering. It's bad at judgment. I only point it at the first kind of work.

No long contracts.

Monthly things are month-to-month. If you want to stop, you email me and it stops.

Your data stays yours.

I'll walk you through exactly what goes where before anything gets connected to your systems.

Next step

Tell me what's eating your week.

Twenty minutes on the phone. I'll tell you what I'd automate first, roughly what it costs, and whether it's worth doing at all. No charge and no pitch deck.

Tanner Schnicke
Irvine, CA
Usually replies same day
Mon–Sat