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AI automation for small businesses: where to start
AI automation for small businesses: choose a first workflow, set review rules, and test failures before you trust the process with daily work.
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If a language model could take repetitive work off your team, I can connect it to WordPress, WooCommerce or the tools you already use. The model answers narrow questions or drafts text, your code decides what happens next, and anything the model is unsure about goes to a person.
Scope & Deliverables
Sort contact-form and chat enquiries, and send unclear ones to a person
Draft replies and product descriptions for someone to approve
FAQ assistants that answer from your own pages and hand off when unsure
Local models through Ollama when text should stay on your own machines
Prompt-injection tests, rate limits and a spending cap before launch
Logs and alerts for failed AI jobs, with a way to rerun missed work
Integration is everything around the model: what text it sees, which questions it answers, what your code does with each answer, when a person steps in, and what it costs each month. I build that part for WordPress sites, WooCommerce stores and small internal workflows, starting with one job your team already does by hand.
Two features of this site use Jev, TypeSafe AI's System One model, which answers typed questions (yes or no, one option from a list, a score) with probabilities instead of writing text. Answers like that are easy to check and to act on in code.
Update Forecast reads a plugin release's changelog and every support topic since, then says whether to update now or wait. A topic Jev is at least 70% sure about counts toward the verdict, and the rest are listed for you to read. Forum text goes only into the model's input, never into its instructions, and a topic written to steer AI readers is kept away from the model and flagged.
Sense Check applies the same split to accessibility: rules settle what is certain, Jev judges whether alt text, links and headings mean something, and anything Jev is unsure about goes to a person.
For text a model writes, HuiaHub puts five research engines behind a quality gate that rejects unsupported claims. The first run of every pipeline against live sources cost less than one cent in AI.
I have connected Google Gemini and xAI Grok to AutoHotkey v2 scripts that rephrase text and generate code, and I run local models with Ollama and Hugging Face transformers for private tasks that stay on the machine.
Before anything is connected, I write down which text leaves your site, which provider receives it, whether the provider keeps it, and who can read the logs. API keys stay on the server and never reach the browser. When text should not leave your infrastructure, a local model is an option, usually with some loss of accuracy and a hardware cost. Running costs depend on volume and on the model, so the estimate comes from your own examples.
If the logic can be written down (an order over a limit, an empty field, a date in the past), code is cheaper, faster and easier to test than a model. In that case I will say so and write the rule.
If you have a workflow in mind, tell me what it is, how often it happens and what a mistake would cost. I can tell you whether a model fits and what a first version would involve.
Featured Case Study · September 23, 2026 · one session
Judges whether the alt text, links, headings and labels on a page mean something, and sends the unclear ones to a person.
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WCAG success criteria it reads for
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certain problems settled by rules
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kinds of typed question Jev answers
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Track record
Coalition Technologies
I develop and maintain client WordPress sites at Coalition Technologies. My work includes custom plugins, ACF fields and front-end templates, alongside performance troubleshooting, malware cleanup, server hardening, and DNS and email delivery fixes.
STRABL
I built a custom WordPress plugin and WooCommerce payment gateway for STRABL’s “Try Now, Buy Later” service. The integration let shoppers try a product before paying, using PHP and the WordPress and WooCommerce APIs.
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AI automation for small businesses: choose a first workflow, set review rules, and test failures before you trust the process with daily work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Hosted models such as Google Gemini, xAI Grok and TypeSafe's Jev, and local models through Ollama or Hugging Face. I choose per task by testing a few on your own examples and comparing accuracy, speed, cost and where the data goes.
Yes, usually as a small plugin that calls the model from the server, so the API key never reaches the browser. Each result is stored with the request it came from, and an admin screen lets someone review or correct it. Work that can wait runs in the background through Action Scheduler, so checkout and page loads do not wait on a model.
The design assumes it will. The model suggests, code acts only above a confidence threshold, and a person approves anything that reaches a customer or changes data. Each answer is logged with its input, so a mistake can be traced and the threshold adjusted.
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