The questions owners ask before they call.

We find where the hours leak in an owner-run business and close the leaks that are worth closing. In practice that usually means connecting software you already pay for, so the same number stops being typed into two systems, or so a lead gets an answer in minutes instead of hours. We diagnose before we build, and when we share a result, we show how we counted it. See our published case study.

We're an AI transformation consulting firm. If you've been looking at a fractional COO or an operations consultant, you're in the right neighborhood. Same work, except we build the systems instead of becoming one more person the business depends on. We map how your business actually runs, then build the fix, train your team to run it, and teach you why it works. If you want a strategy deck and nothing built, we're the wrong choice, and we'll say so in the first conversation.

Christopher Sharkey, who founded the company. Before this he spent about a decade as a healthcare Performance Improvement Specialist. It's the same job in a different building: watch how work actually moves, measure it, and remove the steps that are there for no reason. More about how we work.

If you do a handful of estimates or a handful of leads a month, the retyping and the slow replies aren't costing you enough to pay anyone to fix them. We'll tell you that rather than sell you something. As a rule of thumb, the math starts working somewhere around five people.

Twelve months, then month to month, and we plan our own exit. Graduation is the goal: your business runs without you in the middle, and without us. Every account is in your name from day one. What we build becomes yours at the end of the first year, or sooner if the partnership ends first. We don't switch anything off when we part. We train your team as we build, so they can run it. The written terms spell out how leaving early works before you sign anything.

Start with the Task Sorter and our how-to guides. When you want an outside look, book the Architecture Assessment. If a partnership doesn't fit you yet, we'll tell you. Either way, you get a written report on what to fix first, and it's yours, with or without us. We'd rather you grow into a partnership than rush into one.

Then the Assessment says so and you haven't spent a build budget finding out. Slow follow-up is frequently the loudest problem rather than the biggest one; the same is true of estimating. The map ranks the leaks by what they cost, not by what you noticed first.

$250, credited 100% toward the first work you hire us for. If you hire us afterward, it comes straight off the first invoice. If you don't, you keep the written report. We charge because a free session has to end in a pitch to pay for itself, and we'd rather spend the time looking at how your business runs. The Assessment terms cover payment, changes and cancelling.

60 to 90 minutes, depending on how many moving parts you have. Prepare nothing special. Have the tools you use every day open, and be ready to walk one real job from the first phone call to the paid invoice. Mostly we watch and ask questions.

No. The report is yours either way. Some of what it finds you can do yourself, and it says how. We can build what's genuinely beyond you, and the $250 credits toward that. Plenty of Assessments end with a list of settings to change in software you already own.

Nobody can quote it honestly without seeing your operation. What you pay for the AI itself is usually the cheapest part. The number comes from four things: how many systems the work touches, how clean the data is, how many exceptions there are, and how often a person has to approve a step. Those four drivers are what the Assessment prices for you.

Because a price quoted before anyone has looked at your systems is a guess, and you'd be paying for the guess. The Assessment exists so the number you get is built from your estimate volume, your tools and your exceptions. The one price we do publish is the Assessment itself.

We do, and we're based here. Sharkitect Digital maps how a contracting business actually runs and builds the connections between the tools it already pays for: the job platform, the scheduler, the accounting software. Our published case study is a Kansas City flooring and remodeling contractor. Here is what that work looks like for a contractor.

Yes, anywhere in the metro, and we'd rather do it that way. You see more standing in someone's office than you do on a screen share. The Assessment is 60 to 90 minutes at your place.

Both sides of the state line and the surrounding suburbs: Overland Park, Olathe, Lee's Summit, Independence, Lenexa, Shawnee, Leawood, Prairie Village, Liberty and Blue Springs. Just outside that? Ask. The answer is usually yes.

Yes, remotely, across the US, and we have since day one. The systems are the same everywhere; the only thing that changes is whether we can stand in your office for the first 90 minutes.

Often the same week; the booking page shows the next open slot. Book directly or call (816) 443-0826 and we will find a time, including early or late if that is when your day allows it.

Almost never, and we'd rather you didn't. The point is to use what you already pay for and make it talk to itself. Your crew learned those tools the hard way, and making them start over is a cost, not a fix.

Partly. monday.com's own integration is one-way for the part most contractors care about: customers go out to QuickBooks, invoices come back, and the invoice itself is still typed by hand. Here is exactly what moves between the tools, what does not, and what the gap costs.

Most small businesses need an automation. If the work follows the same steps every time, it's an automation: cheaper, more predictable, easier to check. An AI agent earns its place when the input is messy, such as reading an email and deciding what it is asking for. The guide explains the difference and how to tell which one you are looking at.

That's a design decision, not an accident. Anything a customer sees or that moves money gets a person's approval before it goes out, and every run is logged so you can see what happened. When a tool changes and a connection breaks, it should tell you. Monitoring and a run record are part of the build, not an add-on.

Only if it reads like a template. A good message mentions the specific job the customer described. It arrives in minutes, and a person takes over the moment they reply. That doesn't read like a robot. It reads like a company that was paying attention. Our lead follow-up guide shows how.

Frequently, yes, especially the first one. If you have somebody comfortable in Zapier or Make and the job is simple, start there. The guide gives you the five steps. Owners tend to call us at the second or third connection, when the exceptions pile up and nobody owns keeping it running.