Jordan Croome
ServicesOne retainer

Tell me which job never gets done.

I work on a retainer. You name the job in your business that everybody keeps putting off, and month one is where it gets built and put in front of your team. Each month after that takes the next one.

If it is not running, month one is free. You do not pay for month one until the job you named is running with your team. If it is not running by day 30, you pay nothing for that month, you keep what was built, and you can stop that day.

Price
$2,400 plus GST a month
Time
About eight hours a week
Term
Month to month, 30 days notice either way
Month one
Invoiced once the job is running with your team. Not running by day 30, it is free
Extra hours
Only when you ask. $150 plus GST an hour, in blocks of ten
Running costs
Hosting and AI run in accounts you own, billed at cost plus a disclosed 10%
If you stop
At the end of month one, no notice needed. You keep everything that was built

What happens, in order.

  1. 01

    Demo

    Before any talk of money, I build one small working thing from your public information: your enquiry form, your job ads, your services. It costs you nothing.

  2. 02

    Month one

    You name the job that never gets done, and we write down in one sentence what running looks like. It gets built and put in front of your team. Month one is invoiced only once it is running.

  3. 03

    Running

    It runs next to the systems you already have, in accounts you own from the first day. Your staff log in with their own names.

  4. 04

    Next month

    A month of real use decides the next job. If it was not running by day 30, you pay nothing for month one and can stop that day. After that, 30 days notice.

What the hours get spent on.

Custom tools

Spreadsheets and seven browser tabs.

The system your business runs on but nobody sells. Client portals, internal dashboards, booking and intake forms, built around how you actually work. For a Melbourne freight forwarder, month one is a list of every enquiry that arrives, marked quoted, won or lost.

  • Portals
  • Dashboards
  • Ops consoles
  • Booking & intake
  • Reporting
  • Integrations

AI automations

The repetitive work no one should be doing.

A job your team does by hand, done on its own: reading enquiry emails, flagging the details a quote is missing, drafting the follow-up, building the weekly report. Every AI output lands as a draft. Nothing reaches a customer until a person approves it.

  • Enquiry intake
  • Data entry
  • Document handling
  • Reporting
  • Follow-ups
  • Human approval

Agent installs

A team member's worth of falling behind.

An agent inside your business that watches the inbox, the pipeline or the calendar and acts on a plain English instruction. Supervised, with a record of everything it did. Not a chatbot bolted onto your website.

  • Supervised agents
  • Audit trail
  • Plain English control
  • Pipeline watching
  • Scheduled runs
  • Guardrails

Probably not for you if

  • You run the business on your own. Eight hours a week is more than a one person business can use.
  • Software you already pay for would do the job. If that is the answer, I will tell you in the first conversation.

Questions people ask first.

What does it cost to hire an AI consultant?
$2,400 plus GST a month, month to month, for about eight hours a week. Month one is invoiced only once the job is running with your team, and if it is not running by day 30 you pay nothing for that month.
Where should my business start with AI?
With the job your team loses the most hours to, not with a tool. Before any talk of money I build one small working thing from your public information, so you can see what a start looks like in your own business.
Do I need to buy new software?
Usually not. What I build runs next to the systems you already have. If software you already pay for would do the job, I will tell you in the first conversation.
Who owns what gets built?
You do. Hosting and AI run in accounts you own from the first day, billed at cost plus a disclosed 10%, and if you stop you keep everything that was built.
Will AI send things to my customers on its own?
No. Every AI output lands as a draft, and nothing reaches a customer until a person on your team approves it.
Do you work with businesses in Cairns and Far North Queensland?
Yes. I am based between Melbourne and Cairns and work with businesses in both, and across Australia. Marsh Property, a Cairns real estate agency, runs on a system I built.

Tell me the job you want to stop doing.

Taking on retainer clients now. You do not need a brief. Name the job and start there.

Start a conversation