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AI help in Murfreesboro

AI help for Murfreesboro small businesses, set up for you in plain English

I’m Kate Parker, and I set up AI for small business owners in Murfreesboro and the rest of Rutherford County. In practice that means three things: a receptionist that answers your phone when you can’t, Pocket Desk for the contacts and to-dos living on your phone, and small automations that do the retyping you do by hand. Every one has its price on this page, and I do the setting up.

The phone rings while your hands are full, and that caller tries the next name on the list

You’re good at what you do, which is exactly why your hands are busy doing it. Meanwhile the business cards collect in the cup holder, the follow-up you meant to send on Thursday is still in your head, and a voicemail from someone new sits there until tonight.

Everyone keeps telling you AI will change everything, and nobody has told you which one thing to start with.

Here it is in plain words. AI is good at a short list of narrow, boring jobs, and those happen to be the jobs eating your week.

What can AI actually do for a small business in Murfreesboro?

The useful jobs are answering the phone, turning a voice note into a to-do list, filing a business card, and sending the follow-up you meant to send. Each one is small, and each one used to need you.

Anything that speaks for you in writing can wait for your okay. A message to a customer can sit on a screen until you tap approve, so the AI does the fetching, the filing and the first draft, and you decide what goes out with your name on it.

What does AI help cost a small business in Murfreesboro?

The receptionist is $2,500 to set up and $199 a month for up to 300 minutes of calls. Pocket Desk is $49 a month after a seven-day free trial. Email setup, with an automatic welcome email, is $1,000.

A receptionist that answers when you can’t

It answers your business line day and night, asks what the caller needs, books them onto your calendar, and sends you a note so you know who you’re talking to before the call.

Setup
$2,500
Up to 300 minutes, about 100 calls
$199/mo
Up to 800 minutes
$349/mo
Up to 2,000 minutes
$599/mo

Everyone starts on the first plan. Two busy months move you up, and quieter months move you back down. Looking after the line is included.

Pocket Desk, for the business that lives on your phone

Snap a business card and it becomes a contact with a follow-up. Talk out your day and it files everything into your tasks, calendar and notes. Ask it what’s on this week and it answers from your real calendar.

Free trial, full access
7 days
After the trial, everything included
$49/mo

No setup fee. Add a card to start, and cancel any time before day seven to pay nothing.

See Pocket Desk

Automations for the retyping and reminding

The small jobs you do by hand, done for you. A course buyer lands in the coach’s contacts the moment she pays. A designer’s follow-up email arrives at seven every morning. A new signup gets a welcome email written for your business.

Email setup: signup form, list and automatic welcome email
$1,000
Larger automations, as part of a dashboard
From $3,500

Each one is built around a job you already do, so you can see exactly what it saves you.

See the dashboards
Kate Parker of She Thrives Software Consulting

Every one of these runs my own business first

The business number on this website, (615) 437-5552, is answered by the receptionist I built for She Thrives. My own contacts, calendar and follow-ups live in Pocket Desk, and I use it every day.

I live and work in Smyrna, just up I-24 from Murfreesboro, and I try everything on my own business before it goes anywhere near yours.

More about Kate

Three things owners ask before they try any of it

Do I need to understand AI to use any of this?

No. I set it up, connect it to your calendar, and show you the two or three things you’ll actually do. The rest runs quietly in the background.

Which one should I start with?

Start with whatever costs you the most this week. Missed calls point to the receptionist. Business cards and notes everywhere point to Pocket Desk. Typing the same thing into two places points to an automation. If you can’t tell, that’s exactly what the sit-down is for.

Is it worth it for a one-person business?

It’s worth it when it hands you back a job you do every week. Pocket Desk is the easiest way to find out, because the first seven days are free and it’s $49 a month after that.

Need something bigger than one job? Read custom software for Murfreesboro businesses, or see everything I build.

Tell me the job that eats your week, and I’ll tell you which one fits

The sit-down is $250, paid when you book, and it comes off your build if you go ahead within 30 days. If your website is the first worry, the free Website Check takes about two minutes on your phone.