Evergreen Ahead, Studio for Small Business AI

Custom engineering solutions for your most complex problems.

Research, design and engineering under one roof, we build AI systems for a living.

Something in your operation taking too long, costing too much, or falling on one exhausted person?

Tell us what’s slow, expensive, or stuck. We’ll tell you honestly whether AI actually helps, and prove it in weeks, not quarters.

No forms about your forms, just tell us

Plain language is fine. You’ll hear back from a human, usually within a business day.

Who we are

A lean team of industry experts, working at the pace of a department.

Research, design, engineering and product sit in one room, no handoffs, no account managers, no discovery theatre. We use AI tooling on our own work the same way we build it for yours, so a small expert team ships what usually takes a department a quarter.

Evergreen Ahead builds AI where it earns its keep: the phone that rings after hours, the folder of PDFs nobody reads, the payroll spreadsheet with three versions. Everything we ship is used by real staff on a Tuesday morning. That’s the only test we care about.

What we take on

01

Voice agents

Calls answered, appointments booked, follow-ups sent, around the clock, in your voice, without a call centre.

02

Document efficiency

Intake, extraction, summarisation and search across the paperwork quietly eating your week.

03

HR & payroll

Onboarding, policy answers, timesheets and reconciliation, handled in the background and checked by people.

04

Custom tooling & content

Internal tools, dashboards and on-brand content pipelines built around how your business actually runs.

05

Connected systems & MCP servers

Your business apps consolidated and talking to each other, plus custom MCP servers so AI tools can work with your data, safely, with permissions your team controls.

How we work

01

Discover

We sit with your team, map the real workflow, and find where automation genuinely pays off.

02

Design & build

Research, design and engineering under one roof. You get working software, not a slide deck.

03

Launch & tend

We ship it, train your people on it, and keep improving it as the business changes.

Proof, not promises

12
Launches shipped
6 wks
Average to first release
100%
Still running in production

Questions, answered

What can AI actually automate in a small business?

The repetitive work that lives in email, PDFs, phone calls and spreadsheets. Phones answered after hours, invoices read and logged, onboarding paperwork handled, follow-ups sent, and the glue between apps that do not talk to each other. If a task happens the same way every week and nobody enjoys it, it is probably automatable.

How much does something like this cost?

It depends on the problem, so we scope a small first release rather than a year-long contract. The first conversation costs nothing, and if the honest answer is that AI will not pay for itself in your case, we tell you that for free and you keep your money.

How long until something is live?

As fast as 24 hours for something small, up to six weeks for a bigger build, depending on the scope of what you bring us. Either way we ship a working piece early, your staff uses it, and we improve it from there.

What if AI is not the right fix?

Then we say so. Sometimes the honest read is to fix the process first and automate later, and sometimes it is not worth building at all. Two of those three answers cost you nothing.

Do we need to be technical to work with you?

No. You describe the problem in plain language, we sit with your team, map how the work actually happens, and build around it. You get working software and training for your people, not a slide deck.

What is an MCP server and why would my business want one?

It is a safe bridge that lets AI tools work with your business data, your calendar, your invoices, your customer records, with permissions you control. It means the AI your team uses can actually see your business instead of guessing, without handing anyone the keys to everything.

Existing clients

Your projects live on one page. No status meeting required.

Every project, decision and open question, visible any time, updated as we work. Skip the Tuesday check-in call.

Open the client board