Retail & e-commerce
You run the register by day and the books by night. Each sale entered once and kept in step across shop, website and books, shopper questions answered from your catalog, and reorders flagged before a shelf runs bare.
The right first step with AI is not a strategy deck. It is one workflow that gives your people real time back, at a fixed cost you see upfront, and yours to own when I hand you the keys.
Practical AI for nonprofits, small businesses and solopreneurs.
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Only 14% of small businesses are fully integrating AI into core operations, though 76% use it.
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices, Mar 2026 (opens in a new tab)
53% of small businesses spend at least $100 a month on AI tools, yet 70% say they need more training to use them well.
33.5% of daily AI users saved 4+ hours a week, versus 11.5% who used it one day a week.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Feb 2025 (opens in a new tab)
78% of small business owners still don’t trust AI with basic tasks, though it already saves nearly half of small businesses more than 4 hours a week.
Only 21% of companies using gen AI have redesigned workflows, the step most tied to profit.
It is more important for your first few AI projects to succeed rather than be the most valuable AI projects.
Andrew Ng, founder of Google Brain, Chairman and CEO of Landing AI 43% of U.S. businesses say AI has raised their revenue. Only 2% say it fell.
Intuit QuickBooks 2026 AI Impact Report, May 2026 (opens in a new tab)
One person with AI could match what previously required two-person collaboration.
Ethan Mollick, Wharton professor and study co-author Only 8% of nonprofit leaders and staff report an AI roadmap, though 70% see missed opportunities.
Nonprofits shouldn’t have to choose between doing their mission and keeping up with the world.
Cat Ward, CEO, Taproot Foundation
What the research says
Small teams don’t need fewer people; they need time for what matters. Automate the mundane tasks you have no one to delegate to, and get your nights and weekends back.
gnomai noun, Greek, plural of gnome. Short maxims. Practical knowledge compressed into a line anyone could carry and use.
Different work. The same busywork.
Every business loses hours to the same few chores: typing the same details twice, chasing follow-ups, answering the question you answered yesterday, paperwork after hours. That work falls on you or your best people, and it's usually the first thing worth fixing. Those everyday wins come quickly, and I'm good at them. The real work, and the biggest wins, are in what makes your business different: your industry's rules and the way you run things. No AI company is going to solve that for you. I've worked across enough industries to know each one has to be learned, and I care enough to learn yours.
Professional offices
Your day is billed by the hour; the paperwork around it isn't. New-client forms gathered into one file, a 200-page document summarized before the meeting, and routine letters drafted for you to approve, every line traced to its source.
Home services, trades & HVAC
You're up a ladder when the phone rings, and the caller moves down the list. So missed calls get a text back right away, open quotes get followed up until they're a yes or a no, and your next customer hears you're running late before they have to ask.
Nonprofits
Your mission runs on the same three people, and they also keep the lights on. Grant research matched to your programs and deadlines, donor thank-yous out while the gift is fresh, and quarterly packets for the board and funders, from someone who has sat on one.
The Everyperson
You have a project you shelved because it needed skills you didn't have. For your kids, an app that keeps their week straight; for your mom's 70th, a film of her life; for your community, the food drive nobody else would run; and for yourself, the business you know you have in you.
Healthcare & dental practices
Your front desk checks patients in while the voicemail fills up. After-hours messages looked after, the things patients ask ten times a day handled (hours, directions, which plans you take), and reschedules lined up for staff to confirm. Nothing touches patient records.
Restaurants, cafes & bakeries
You're working the floor, the pass and the host stand at once. Party and catering requests confirmed, menu changes and holiday closures posted everywhere you're listed, and supplier invoices checked against what arrived.
Salons, barbers & tattoo studios
Your hands are busy all day, so bookings slip through the gaps. Appointments and deposits taken while you work, cancelled slots offered to your waitlist, and aftercare and rebooking reminders out after each visit.
Consultants, coaches & freelancers
You're the expert, the sales team and the back office, and only one of those gets paid. Proposals built from your past wins, bills out on time and late payers nudged, and session notes turned into recaps and next steps.
You can start without knowing what you want from AI, or with a problem you already know. Step one is where we find what's worth changing first. You see the whole path, and the price, before you spend a dollar.
01
Free
Consult
Bring a question about AI, a task that eats your evenings, or a project that stalled. You leave knowing your first project, and what isn't worth doing.
02
Map · fixed fee
Discover
I map where you lose the most time and what you already pay for, match those hours to workflows we can hand off, and quote one fixed fee.
03
Weeks, not quarters
Build
You show me the task as you do it now, and I build the first workflow on your own files and records.
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Yours to run
Adopt
We fit it into your team's routine, and they learn it on real tasks until they can run it on their own.
05
Until it holds
Iterate
We put it through your everyday work and tune it until it's reliable. Once it runs without me, I step back.
Who you'd be working with
Hi, I'm Kyle: a longtime Wall Street analyst turned AI consultant and forward deployed engineer, and an avid science geek and outdoor enthusiast. For fifteen years in equity research and portfolio management, with over a billion dollars under coverage, I was paid to tell the difference between a real signal and an expensive story. Now I have built Gnomai to help nonprofits, small businesses and solopreneurs see through the expensive stories told about AI.
What I noticed as an analyst is that Wall Street does not win because it is smarter. It wins because it has better information and can act on it first. Two people read the same filing. One also has a call with management they have known for a decade, a team of junior analysts and a model that updates the moment the numbers change. Same public information, completely different picture.
I joined the board of Learning Empowered, a St. Petersburg nonprofit, to make a real impact closer to the people in my own community. I have always believed education is the answer, and they were actually doing the thing, for kids and their families. I've served there for more than six years and was recently re-elected treasurer. It has spent fifty years helping families overcome trauma and poverty through education, and the people running it get more done with less than almost anyone I worked with in the corporate sector. I see the same resourcefulness in small businesses and individual practices, and I built Gnomai for anyone who sees themselves in that.
The irony of running an AI business is that the AI is what lets me focus on your actual problem, instead of billing you for all my time researching or for work that doesn't get you closer to your goals.
When you need three more people than you have, I start with the most tedious hours of your week and find the few places AI actually saves you time, in a form you can understand and control. The free 20-minute discovery call is where we look. If you're not ready for AI yet, I'll say so.
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Ask what you want to know about AI, or tell me what's taking too long or isn't working. We can start there.
Got it. I read every one myself and I'll reply with what I'd actually do about it.