Safe AI Automation for Growing Businesses
Less Busywork. Less Tedium. AI to help, not to replace.
I find the repetitive busywork eating your team's hours and safely automate it — so your people spend their time on customers, not tedium.
Six quick questions. About a minute.
AI done safely. A person stays in charge, nothing goes live until it's proven on your real work, and you can switch it off anytime.
20+ years in enterprise cloud and security.
Where to start
Three ways in
Each one stands on its own. Start with the first — it tells you whether the rest is worth doing.
The AI Sanity Check
$500, one week
A written one-pager on which AI tools are worth paying for and what's worth automating. Act on it with or without me.
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One Automation, Done Right
$1,500, two weeks
One automation, scoped and priced in writing before any work starts, and proven on your real work before it goes live.
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A free talk for your group
Free, 45 minutes
Run a chamber, association, office, or networking group? I'll give a 45-minute talk on which busywork can safely run on its own. No pitch, no cost.
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Not sure where to start?Start with a fit check
What I automate
Practical automations that take repetitive work off your team's plate, so they can spend the time on customers.
Stop Digging Through Inboxes
Every email with a lead or client lands in one shared view your whole team can see.
Stop Chasing Follow-Ups by Hand
Confirmations, reminders, review requests, and win-back nudges go out on time, on their own.
Get Off the Spreadsheet
Waitlists and trackers stuck in spreadsheets become a simple system that updates itself.
Turn Calls Into Done Tasks
Voicemails and consult notes get written up automatically and turned into clear next steps.
…and plenty more. Every business is different — a Sanity Check finds what's still on the table for yours.
How this works
I start by learning how your business actually runs. Everything after that is built around what I find.
Learn how you work
A short conversation about your day-to-day: how work comes in, who touches it, and where the time goes. No prep needed.
Find the time sinks
In a one-week Sanity Check I map the repetitive work and tell you which parts can safely run on their own, and which shouldn't.
Build it, then keep it running
One automation at a time, live in two weeks, proven before it touches anything real.
Your numbers
What is the busywork costing you now?
Three questions, no email required. Your own numbers, sizing what repetitive work costs your team right now.
Your assumption. A Sanity Check replaces it with a measured number.
Your estimates, your arithmetic — so you can size the problem before we talk. A Sanity Check replaces these figures with measured ones. Based on 48 working weeks a year.
Start with a fit checkBuilt and tested
One system, start to finish
Here's a system I designed, built, and tested end to end. It's the same method I use on every build.
Every client email in one place
- The problem
- An email with a client lived in whichever inbox it happened to land in. Anyone else who needed the history had to go ask.
- What I built
- A quiet connector that files every sent and received message against the right contact, in one shared record.
- What stays with a person
- Nothing sends on its own — it reads and files. Every reply is approved by a person before it goes out.
- How I proved it
- It shadowed a live test inbox for two weeks, filing into a copy, until the filing was correct every time.
- What it does
- Answering “what did we last tell them?” becomes a single search instead of asking two other people.
Your Sanity Check decides which of these is worth building for you, scoped and priced before any work starts.
See it work
Watch it read a voicemail
This is the automation behind “Turn Calls Into Done Tasks” above, running live. Pick a message and see exactly what gets filed — including the part it deliberately leaves to a person.
Choose a voicemail
What came in
Voicemail transcript
Hi, um, my name's Marcus Delgado — I got your number from a neighbour, Priya, she said you did some work for her back in the spring. So I'm after a quote for basically the same thing she had done, maybe a bit bigger. I'm not in a huge rush but I would like it sorted before the end of next month if that's doable. My number is 949-555-0184. Best time is probably after four. Thanks, bye.
What it filed
A recorded run — exactly what the automation produced for this message.
- Caller
- Marcus Delgado, callback 949-555-0184 (best after 4pm)
- What they want
- Wants a quote for similar work as done for his neighbour Priya in spring, possibly a bit bigger in scope
- How soon
- Routine
- Draft reply
- Hi Marcus, thanks for calling! We'll look into the work we did for Priya and follow up with you about a quote soon. Talk to you after 4pm sometime.
- Next action
- Look up Priya's spring job details, then call Marcus back after 4pm to discuss scope and provide a quote
- Left to a person
- Determining what "the same thing but a bit bigger" actually means in scope/price, and whether the end-of-next-month timeline is feasible
Nothing was sent. Every reply waits for a person to approve it.
Try it on your own voicemail
Paste a phone message and see what comes back. Use made-up details — nothing you type is stored, and a public page is no place for real customer information.
Who this is for
Who I work with
I keep a narrow focus on purpose. It's how the work stays fast, affordable, and genuinely tailored.
A good fit
- Local businesses in Orange County
- Fewer than 50 people
- Home services and trades, clinics and practices, salons and studios, restaurants, fitness, real estate, and local professional services
Not a fit
- Technology, software, SaaS, cloud, security, or AI companies
- Gaming and interactive entertainment
- Companies that resell, implement, or partner with major cloud providers
- Companies over 50 people, or venture-funded companies scaling up
Who you'd be working with
Why work with me
I'm Deep Trikannad. I've spent 20+ years in enterprise cloud and security, in product, solutions architecture, and go-to-market.
My work there was judging which technology actually holds up in production and what it really costs to run safely. That is the judgment I bring to your business. The building, I do myself.
- Enterprise judgment, small-team scale
- I have seen what breaks at scale and what it costs to put right. Your automation gets that same scrutiny, sized for a team like yours.
- Built for how you work
- Never a template. I fit proven, already-built components to your process, which keeps it both tailored and affordable.
- No lock-in, ever
- Once a build is paid for, you keep the code, the documentation, and the instructions. If you stop working with me, everything keeps running.
- One person, start to finish
- I build it and I maintain it. No handoff to someone who has never seen your setup, and no ticket queue. I take one build a month so each gets proper attention.
No surprises
What working together looks like
- Start with a Sanity Check
- $500, one week. A written one-pager on what's worth automating and which AI tools are worth paying for. Act on it with or without me.
- Builds are fixed scope, fixed price
- We agree exactly what gets built and what it costs before any work starts. Nothing is billed by the hour.
- Ongoing care is optional
- If you want me hosting it, watching it, and fixing it, that is a flat monthly fee. Cancel whenever you like.
- You own what I build
- Once a build is paid for, the code, documentation, and setup instructions are yours. Stopping the monthly fee doesn't switch anything off.
Safe by design
What "AI done safely" actually means
No hype, and nothing you cannot see into. Every automation is built so it helps your team without putting your business or your customers at risk.
A person stays in charge
Anything that reaches your customers either goes through a person or uses wording you approved in advance. Decisions about money, scope, or a customer's problem always stay with a person.
Proven before it goes live
Nothing is switched on until it has been tested and shown to work reliably on real-world cases.
Kept to low-risk work
I keep automations to scheduling, reminders, reviews, follow-ups, notes, and data entry. I don't touch patient records, payment card data, financial account data, or other sensitive records. If a task needs them, I'll tell you it's out of scope.
You stay in control
Every automation can be paused or switched off at any time, by you, without calling me first.
Straight answers
Questions owners actually ask
We already do most of this.
Then a Sanity Check will be short. Most teams I talk to still type confirmations by hand, ask for reviews one at a time, or enter the same details in two places. A Sanity Check finds what is left. If there is nothing worth automating, I will say so plainly — a straight answer to that question is worth knowing on its own.
What does it cost?
A Sanity Check is $500. A build is $1,500, fixed scope and fixed price: half to start, half when it goes live. Optional care is $300 a month, cancel anytime. Nothing is hourly, and nothing renews without you saying so.
Will this replace someone on my team?
No. It takes the repetitive part off their plate. Anything that reaches your customers either goes through a person or uses wording you approved in advance.
Do you need access to our sensitive records?
No. I keep automations in the low-risk zone: scheduling, reminders, reviews, follow-ups, notes, and data entry. Your systems of record stay out of scope. Access is through your own accounts, and you can revoke it anytime.
How long until it is running?
Two weeks from kickoff. It runs alongside your real work for at least five business days, sending nothing, before you approve it going live.
What happens if it breaks?
It pauses rather than carrying on wrongly, and fixing it is on me. On the care plan I respond within two business days, so nothing breaks loudly while you wait.
Why do you only work with certain kinds of businesses?
I have a day job in enterprise technology. Keeping Acceledgy to local, non-tech businesses avoids any overlap with it, and the narrow focus makes the work better. I've seen the same handful of time sinks enough times to fix them quickly.
Can you work with my business if we're outside Orange County?
Usually not. Being local is part of how this works. I'd rather sit in your shop for an hour than guess over a video call.
Have you done this for a lot of businesses?
I'm early, and I'd rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. It's why every build runs alongside your real work before it goes live, and why the first few builds are offered at a founding rate.
When do you work?
Mostly evenings and weekends, with some daytime visits planned ahead. Builds are scheduled around that, which is why the timeline is two weeks.
The next step
Start with a fit check.
Six quick questions so we both know whether I'm the right person for this. If it's a fit, I'll email you within one business day about a Sanity Check or a build. If it's not, I'll say so.
Start with a fit checkPrefer to talk first? Call or text +1 (949) 954-0033 text