Who
Local service shops and everyday people who want less busywork — shop floor, solo desk, or home crew. Neighbor energy. Not a theater demo.
Dayton / Miami Valley
Your side shop for AI that actually helps the business run.
Setup over spectacle. Local service shops welcome. Practical agents and automations — not chatbot demos, not website rebuilds.
You already have tools — what’s missing is the wiring and the execution. We help set that up so the week runs quieter.
Learn See proof How can we help?
- Setup done for you
- You approve
- Data yours
- Cancel anytime
About
What this shop is
Plain English: who we help, what we set up, what we skip, and how to start with one problem.
Do
Practical AI setups: name the job, wire a thin station, teach the steps, prove it on a normal week. Wiring and execution — not another unused tool.
Don’t
- Not chatbot demos
- Not website rebuilds
- Not one mega-chat that drifts
How to start
Name one problem that eats your week. Email hello@sideshopai.com or open How can we help? — we’ll say if a setup helps, or if it doesn’t.
Learn
A short playbook or starter chat — no hard gate. If you later hire a setup hour, that Learn step credits toward it. Read first, decide later.
Pain → Want
From the week that eats you to a quieter Tuesday
Compact map. No invented client logos. Charcoal · white · teal · rust.
Pain
Busywork eats the week
Want
A quieter normal Tuesday
What we do
Name one job. Wire a thin station. You approve before we build.
Pain
Dinner deciding on the plate
Want
Dinner off the plate
What we do
Public Mrs. Patmore template — board → list → price-check → cart stage (you checkout). Try it.
Pain
Interviews wander
Want
Interviews on rails
What we do
Public Walter KronKite — brief → one Q at a time → transcript. You still decide. See Learn on Work.
Pain
Tools sit unused
Want
Wiring + execution
What we do
Learn · Save · Help. We set it up inside tools you already use — not another unused inbox.
How it works
Short chat → plan you approve → build → launch + fixes
Fixed, calm cadence. You approve before we build. No waitlist. No chatbot widget on this page.
Public templates you can try — dinner line, interview brief, and more on Work.
Learn — Download Grok Bot — get the app · Grok Bot guides — how the line runs Official xAI links · you run it.
Short call
Free 15–30 min chat. One problem, plain English.
One-page plan
You see the one-page plan and approve before we build.
Build
We wire the setup — agents and automations that run.
Launch + fixes
Go live, then a short window of fixes if something breaks.
We wire across the systems your shop already runs on.
Bots and agents work inside the tools you already use — so work moves end-to-end, not into another inbox.
Google Workspace
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Gmail
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Calendar
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Drive
Messaging
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Slack
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X
Creative
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Canva
Ops we wire
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Browser Use
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GitHub
Custom
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Bots we build for their stack
Grok Bot connectors we use in the shop, plus ones we can reliably wire ourselves. Not a fake logo wall — only what we actually connect.
Local
You keep the front. We take the side work.
One-person side shop in the Dayton / Miami Valley. Local service shops welcome — Centerville and neighbors first.
- Dayton / Centerville / Miami Valley, Ohio
- Neighbor energy — not enterprise AI deck
- hello@sideshopai.com is the public inbox
Articles
Field notes from the shop floor
Real Side Shop posts on X — notebooks, refusal logs, imitate → iterate → innovate.
Shop outcome: Shared maps and lasting rules — helpers stay in their lane.
Videos
Companions, not spectacle
Short video companions that walk a job — start with the work, not the demo reel.
Shop outcome: Teach one job end-to-end so a helper can run without babysitting.
Mrs. Patmore
Household dinner line — board → list → price-check → cart stage (you checkout). Try it, then see more on Work.
Shop outcome: Dinner deciding off the plate — so the household week runs quieter.
Also public: Walter KronKite · Quark — interview brief · deal desk. See on Work.
Does Learn credit toward a setup?
Yes. A short playbook or starter chat can credit toward a later setup hour — not a hard gate. Read first, decide later.
Approve vs ship — who decides?
You approve the one-page plan before we build. We don’t ship a live setup without that nod. You keep the front; we take the side work.
Are you local to Dayton?
Yes — Dayton / Miami Valley side shop. Prefer email; in person when we’re local. One person. Weekday mornings when we can.
What don’t you do?
No demos. No website rebuild offers. I offer real help for you and your business to get the most of the exciting new tools AI has available.
Templates vs custom?
Public templates (Mrs. Patmore, Walter KronKite, Quark) you can try yourself. Custom means we wire a thin station for your stack after you name one problem — Help path.
Learn
Start with an article, video, or a public template yourself — Follow while you're there so we can become friends.
Try a public template
Try one — see how the line runs.
Download Grok Bot — get the app
Grok Bot guides — how the line runs
Official xAI links · you run it.
Save
Stash a note or bookmark a setup. Come back when the week allows.
Help
One problem → hello@sideshopai.com · intake
Free short chat · or just say hello
No waitlist. No chatbot demo on this site. Tell us one problem — we’ll say if a setup helps.