That's the trap every mountain town business lives in. By the time you get a quiet week to build something better, the season is already over.
No matter what type of business you run up here:
And then there's the version that's specifically yours:
You're managing turnovers, owners and emergency repairs across dozens of properties, with a phone, a spreadsheet and a group text.
Your inventory decisions for a twenty-week season get made on gut feel in September, and you eat the mistake until spring.
Half your day goes to scheduling, rescheduling, writing proposals and chasing payment instead of doing the work you actually get paid for.
Weather cancels a day and you're issuing refunds and rebooking one phone call at a time.
I've spent 36 years building software. Twenty-three years at IBM, and a sales leader for IBM's Watson AI division from day one, for hundreds of small and medium businesses and Fortune 500 companies worldwide. I live in Breckenridge. I'm bringing that same capability to businesses that could never afford it before.
Fun fact: I worked on the space shuttle software, and the software for the first flip cell phone.
Let's give you back 15 hours a week.
One conversation, no deck. I'll tell you straight whether I can help.
Overview
"I do two things: I teach business owners how to actually use AI, in plain English, no jargon. And I build the systems, the virtual employees, that keep a business running through a seasonal town's on-season crunch and off-season lull."
If you're a small business owner in a seasonal town, and you keep hearing you should be "using AI" but nobody's told you how, in your terms, for your business, this is who I built this for.
Workshops and training for business owners and teams who want to actually understand AI, not just be told to "use it more."
Virtual employees, real systems for scheduling, customer follow-up, inventory, seasonal new employee onboarding, and the admin that eats your week, built around your season, not a generic template.
The problem versus the solution
Before you ask
No. The goal is to hand back the hours you're losing to work a machine can do, so you and your team can spend them on the parts of the business only a person can do.
That's who this is built for. No jargon, no assumption you've used any of this before. If you can describe your business in plain English, you have everything you need to start.
That's exactly who I built this for. Everything's scoped and priced for a business your size, not a Fortune 500 IT budget, and you only pay for the pieces you actually need. We start with the one thing that'll save you the most time or money first.
Yes. Your data stays yours, it's not used to train anyone else's AI model, and I'll walk you through exactly where it lives and who can see it before we build anything.
Most of those are generic tools dropped into your business with no setup. What I build is scoped to your actual workflow first, then the AI gets wired in, so it's doing the specific job you need instead of guessing at it.
Meet your AI consultant
Founder, SummitCoastAI · Dillon, Colorado
I've spent 36 years in enterprise technology. Twenty-three of those years were at IBM, where I was a sales leader for IBM's AI Watson division from its very start. Along the way I've built software for hundreds of small and medium businesses and Fortune 500 companies all over the world.
For most of my career, that kind of capability belonged to companies with an unlimited budget. AI changed that math. The same power is available to a shop on Main Street now, if someone translates it into plain English and builds it right.
I'm not learning this from the outside. I've spent my career living inside these systems, and I'm building this business the same way, in real time, which is exactly why people trust me over someone who read about it.
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck, no obligation. We'll talk through your business and figure out if this is a fit, together.