You work two jobs. Let's shrink the second one.
I do the AI shopping for your business: current prices, which tools fit, and why. Start with a free 15-minute call and one practical idea to keep. If you want to go deeper, the $999 service includes a discovery call, written report, walkthrough, and your first hour of setup help after the report is delivered.
After you pick a time: your name, five quick yes/no questions, then your phone and email.Guaranteed in writing.
Five reclaimable hours a week, confirmed by you, or I refund the $999. You keep your written report either way. Read the exact wording.
$999, flat.
The interview, written report, walkthrough and your first hour of setup help. Stated up front because you'd find out anyway.
No long-term contracts.
One paid service. What happens after is entirely up to you.
You keep the report.
Every page, every tool, either way.
Three jobs from the second shift, and what can handle them
You close at six. Then you go home and start the second job. The second shift is the email, the scheduling, the quotes, the follow-up that waits for you after the trucks are parked.
The time-drain
The phone rings while you're on a roof or under a sink, and the caller tries the next company on the list.
What can handle it
Missed-call text-back. The caller gets a short text saying you got the call and when you'll call back.
The time-drain
Quotes that go out and then go quiet.
What can handle it
Quote follow-up. A polite check-in goes out a few days after the quote and stops the moment the customer answers.
The time-drain
Chasing payment on finished jobs.
What can handle it
Invoice reminders on a schedule you set, which stop as soon as the invoice is paid.
These are examples, not results. You approve the wording of every message before it runs. See examples for your trade →
Got a letter from me?
Then welcome. You've read my notes on your shop. The rest is here: what's free, what isn't, and the guarantee word for word. The free part is the 15-minute call from the letter. You tell me how your week runs, we put a rough number on your second shift, and I name the one fix I'd start with.
Book my free 15-minute call This page isn't going anywhere if you'd rather read first. Prefer to talk? Call (707) 940-1306.
The sign says welcome. I take it literally.
Nine pages. Every pick shows its price, when the maker publishes one, and why I chose it.
I'm not paid by any company I recommend. If that ever changes, your report will say so next to that pick, before you buy anything.
- Cover page: your business, your date, and the report's primary focus
- Executive summary: your top pain points, in your own words
- The effort-vs-impact grid: what to do now, later, and never
- Quick wins: each pain point a tool can fix, matched to the one I picked
- Every tool's one line of truth: cost (when published), setup time, hours returned
- The 4-day quick-start plan: ten minutes a day, in a set order
- The bigger opportunities, honestly parked for later
- The money math: your hours times your rate, minus tool costs
- Next steps: two of them, that's all
| The task | The tool I picked | Hours back/wk |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing estimates at the kitchen table, four nights | Tekmetric | up to 2.6 |
| Keying the pink copies into QuickBooks on Saturday | Accounting Link | 2.5 |
| The lead tech on hold with suppliers (the owner counted half) | Tekmetric | 1.5 |
The money math in the sample: 6.6 hours a week (the owner's 5.1 at $100 an hour, his lead tech's 1.5 at $40) is worth up to $570.00 a week. Over a month (4.33 weeks), less $199 for Tekmetric, that's up to an estimated $2,269.10 a month in recovered time once it's running. Accounting Link's price and setup fee aren't published, so they're not in that number. It's an estimate: the minutes and rates are the owner's, and how much each tool takes off is my reading. Three more jobs aren't counted yet, because the owner hasn't put minutes on the part a tool would take.
The shop, its people, hours and rates are made up. The tool prices are as read on October 6, 2026. Every real report is built from your discovery call, with your own numbers.
See the full sample report (fictional business) →How it works
Your time on calls: about ninety minutes across three calls (15, 45 and 30 minutes), plus your included hour of setup help. Your written report is checked over by a competent human in the loop, and it arrives before your walkthrough call, which is scheduled when you book the paid service. The quick-start plan asks for ten minutes a day for four days. A bigger switch, like moving off paper, happens on a day you pick.
The free 15-minute call
A short video call about how your week goes. I name the one fix I'd start with for your business. If that's all you want, keep it with my blessing.
15 min · $0 · book this one →The discovery call
A 45-minute interview. I count the hours with you: how often each task hits, how long it takes, what your hour is worth. Nothing goes on the list unless you hear the math and say yes out loud.
45 min · part of the $999Your written report
Nine pages. Every pain point a tool can fix, mapped to a specific tool with its price (when the maker publishes one), setup time, and hours returned, plus a 4-day quick-start plan: ten minutes a day, in a set order.
arrives before your walkthroughThe walkthrough
Your report is already in your inbox. We walk it together for 30 minutes, run the money math with your numbers, and flag the install-order traps before you spend a dollar on software.
30 min · includedYour first setup hour
Once your written report is delivered, your first hour of setup help on what it recommends is included. If you want more built after that, it's priced below.
1 hour · includedThe guarantee, in its exact wording.
Five hours found, or your $999 comes back. You keep the report either way.
"If, after your 45-minute conversation, we can't document at least five reclaimable hours a week in your business — honest, non-duplicative hours you confirm — you still receive your full Shift Sheet AND we refund the $999."
How we count, and the only conditions: the hours come from time estimates you confirm out loud on your discovery call, itemized per tool in your Shift Sheet, with no task counted twice. Claim window: 30 days from the day your Shift Sheet is delivered. Refunds go to your original payment method; we start the refund ourselves, and how quickly it posts depends on your card issuer.
Pricing
One honest constraint before the numbers: every discovery, walkthrough and setup call is run by me or someone trained in my method and process, which caps how many clients I can take in a week. The booking calendar shows exactly what's open. When it's full, it's full.
The paid service
- 45-minute discovery interview
- Your nine-page written report
- 4-day quick-start plan
- 30-minute walkthrough, math run live
- Your first hour of setup help, after your report is delivered
- Backed by the written guarantee above
If you hire me for the First Shift Build or an eligible custom build from your report, the full $999 credits toward it, as my terms page says. The paid service always starts with the free 15-minute call; you never pay before you've met me.
The First Shift Build
- The three tasks I name at your walkthrough, installed and configured for you
- Built in your accounts. You own every login, and every piece has an off switch you control
- Tested in front of you, then handed to whoever will run it
- Scoped from your report, never sold before it exists
- Your $999 fee credits toward it in full
Anything bigger than the first build is custom quoted in writing: one fixed quote, what's included, what's excluded, and how you test that it's done. Two businesses rarely need the same build, so I don't pretend they cost the same. Every tool in the report is something you can set up yourself without hiring me; the report gives you the first step for each one, who sets it up, and the order to do them in. This is only for owners who'd rather not.
AI Concierge
- Working sessions on your real workflows, on a cadence you and I set in writing
- Voice-message access between sessions, answered within one business day
- Built in your accounts. You own every login, and every piece has an off switch you control
- Capped at five businesses, so when you leave a message, you get a call back
Your seat is scoped and quoted to your workflows, in writing. Cancel any month.
Lucas Vegvary, founder.
I live and work in Napa County. My background is sales and technology: years selling internet and Ethernet connectivity, then Windows systems, then coaching. The common thread was sitting across from someone and working out what they actually needed.
I started The Local AI Shop because local owners kept getting sold "AI" they didn't need, by people who never asked how they actually work. So that's where my work starts: how your week actually runs, in your words. Sometimes the right answer is a plain piece of software. Sometimes it's "don't buy that." The report says so either way.
When I do recommend a company, I lean toward established, well-reviewed ones. I do the homework with AI research tools under my own rules, starting with how long a company has been around and what its customers say on independent review sites. I also keep a vetted list of tools I've researched ahead of time; for companies on it, a second, separate check looks for red flags like lawsuits, data breaches and billing complaints. That's due diligence with a human in the loop: AI does the searching, and a competent human checks over your report before you see it.
Every price in your report is checked on the tool's own pricing page the day the report ships, for the plan that fits a business your size. Next to each pick, you'll see why I chose it and what I passed on.
If someone shows up claiming to be me, tell me at lucas@localaishop.com or (707) 940-1306. Nobody knocks under my name but me.
Why trust me?
What you can check before you pay
You meet me first.
On a video call or in person, before a dollar moves. Every letter carries my name, and the number on this page rings through to me. Harder to disappear than an ad account.
You can check my judgment.
The sample report shows what I passed on, not just what I picked. The fictional shop had tried a system at $400-something a month on a year contract. I picked Tekmetric's $199 Start plan and passed on its $349 Grow plan, which adds a labor guide the owner already pays for (prices as read October 6, 2026). Your report shows the same reasoning for every pick. Read the sample
What holds me accountable
The refund is the review.
The guarantee above isn't marketing; it's the exact text on my terms page, in writing before you pay. If the honest count comes in under five hours, it costs me $999 and the afternoon it takes to say so.
Counted with you, out loud.
Every hour in your report starts from time you confirmed out loud on our discovery call. How much of each job a tool takes off is my reading of what you told me. If a tool only speeds up part of a job, it counts up to the minutes you gave for that part, and the report says "up to". A part you never put minutes on isn't counted yet. Hours round down, never up.
What you won't find here: stock testimonials or star ratings from reviewers who don't exist. I'm early, so if you book, you'll be one of my first clients, and I'll tell you exactly which number when you ask. When my first clients have results, you'll see them here, real names, shared with written permission.
Questions
Why did you mail me a letter?
Is the free 15 minutes a sales call?
We already use ChatGPT. Do we still need this?
What if you can't find 5 hours in my business?
When do I get my written report?
What happens after my report is delivered?
Aren't we too small for this?
Is there anyone you don't work with?
I don't really trust AI. Why should I do this?
Will AI end up running my business?
Do you record the calls? What happens to my information?
Which tools do you push? Are you selling software?
Put a rough number on your second shift. Free.
Your business, not a demo. Worst case, you leave with one idea to keep. Best case, it's where getting your evenings back starts.
Book my free 15-minute call After you pick a time: your name, five quick yes/no questions, then your phone and email. Or call (707) 940-1306. It rings through to me.