Ask an automation agency what it costs to put AI to work in your business and you'll get a discovery call, a proposal, and a number that changes depending on how you sounded on the phone. We publish ours. Here's the full menu — what each AI worker does, what the packages cost, and where most owners should actually start.

First, what an AI worker is — and isn't

An AI worker is not a chatbot subscription. The $99-a-month widgets stay cheap because nobody customizes them, tests them, or watches them — they guess, and a guessing machine wearing your company's name is a liability.

An AI worker, the way we build them, only knows the truth: a verified file of facts the owner approved — real services, real prices, real history. Ask it something outside that file and it says so, takes a name and number, and hands off to a human. Before it goes live, we spend a session attacking it — trying to make it invent prices, promise services that don't exist, ignore its instructions. It ships when it holds.

The workers we install

• AI call answering — the newest one. Your phone answered when you can't get to it: it answers questions from your approved facts, takes the caller's name and number, and sends you the summary. Missed calls are where small businesses quietly bleed — the caller who gets voicemail calls your competitor next. Now the phone always picks up, and you call back the ones that matter.
• Website assistant — answers customer questions on your site day and night, in your voice, and captures the lead when the conversation gets serious.
• Email triage and drafts — sorts the inbox, answers the routine, drafts the rest for one-click approval. You read summaries, not threads.
• Review responses — every Google review answered within hours, warm and specific. The one-star gets a calm, professional reply instead of silence.
• Quote and lead follow-up — every quote chased on schedule. The job stops going to whoever called back first, because you always call back first.
• Lead intake — form fills answered instantly, qualified politely, logged where you'll see them.
• Internal paperwork — job summaries, reports, and proposals drafted from your notes in minutes, not evenings.

Every one of them runs with human oversight — nothing goes public without sign-off — and we monitor and tune them monthly. Automations nobody watches quietly break, and a broken one costs you leads while you assume it's working.

The numbers

• First AI Worker — $2,000 to build, $295 a month to run. One job, handled forever. Pick it: call answering, the website assistant, review responses, or email triage. Live in about two weeks.
• The AI Office — $6,000 to build, $995 a month to run. Three to five workers covering your busy work end to end. It's the setup we run our own company on. For comparison, typical agencies charge $7,500 or more for a build like this — and then leave.
• The Whole Department — $2,200 a month. The AI Office plus a full marketing engine: weekly SEO work, a LinkedIn post and blog articles every week, and your Google Business Profile kept honest. Website rebuilds are quoted per project.

The monthly part isn't padding. It's the difference between our model and everyone else's: they build and leave; we build and stay. Hosting, watching, fixing, and tuning are the product.

Where to start

Almost nobody should start with the big package. Start with the one job that costs you the most — for most owners that's the phone that goes to voicemail or the quotes nobody chases. One worker, two weeks, real numbers on whether it earns its keep. The rest can wait until it does.

If you run a business in Genesee or Livingston County, Michigan, we'll come to you, walk your busy work in person, and hand you a one-page plan for what's worth automating — free, no sales call required. Everywhere else, we do the same thing remotely.

Start at kitfire.ai — the assistant that greets you there is the same product we install. Or call (810) 510-2601. You'll hear back within 24 hours.

KitFire installs AI workers in small businesses, then runs them. AI-operated, human-approved. Michigan-built.