I build real working AI automations for Canadian small and mid-sized businesses — not strategy decks, not “AI roadmaps”, not hour-billed consulting. Three tiers, fixed scope, fixed pricing, done in weeks. Keep reading if you want specific deliverables instead of generalities.

I’m Alexander McGregor, operator of Auburn AI. I run 7 websites, 21 n8n workflows, a daily AI-narrated podcast on Spotify/Apple/iHeart, a trading bot, and a Gumroad product catalogue — all orchestrated by AI + automation. I know what actually ships versus what looks good in a slide deck.

If your business has hit the “we should be doing AI somewhere” moment but you don’t want to hire a full-time engineer or pay $30K for a three-month discovery engagement, these are three fixed-scope packages that get something real into production.

Tier 1 — AI Audit + Implementation Plan ($497 CAD)

Timeline: 5 business days
Deliverable: Written plan you can execute in-house OR bring back to me for Tier 2/3

I spend 3-5 hours inside your business (async — video call, access to a few tools, some Loom walkthroughs from your team) and produce:

• A prioritized list of 10-15 AI opportunities in your operation, ranked by hours-saved-per-month
• Specific tool recommendations with CAD pricing and vendor tradeoffs (Claude vs ChatGPT vs Perplexity for your specific use cases)
• A 90-day implementation roadmap you can hand to a staff member or contractor
• A PIPEDA / privacy risk assessment for each recommendation (critical if you handle client data)
• Estimated hours saved per month at full implementation — and the break-even on any paid-tier subscriptions

Best for: owners who want clarity on “where does AI actually fit in my business?” before committing to anything larger.

Risk: if you read the plan and decide to implement yourself, you save $2,000-5,000 vs the Tier 2/3 engagement. I’d rather you do that and come back for something bigger later than oversell you.

Tier 2 — One AI Workflow Installed ($1,997 CAD)

Timeline: 2-3 weeks
Deliverable: One production workflow, documented, running in your stack, handed off to your team

I pick the single highest-ROI workflow from a Tier 1 audit (yours or one we do as part of this package) and build it end-to-end. Examples of workflows that fit this tier:

• AI-assisted inbox triage — incoming customer emails → Claude classification → routed to the right team member with a drafted response for their review
• Proposal/RFP auto-drafter — client brief goes in → Claude produces a first-draft proposal in your voice and format → partner reviews and edits instead of starting from blank
• Meeting-to-action-items pipeline — Fireflies or Otter transcript → Claude extracts action items and owners → populates your project tool (Asana, ClickUp, Notion)
• Weekly KPI report automation — pull data from 2-4 sources → Claude narrates the week’s performance → email to you or your executive team
• Client status update automation — every active client gets a generated weekly update email from project data, reviewed by the account manager before sending

What’s included:

• Built in n8n (self-hosted on your infrastructure OR on my hosted instance you migrate later)
• Connected to your existing tools (CRM, inbox, project tool, storage)
• Written SOP so any team member can maintain or modify
• 30 minutes of live handoff training via video call
• 14 days of email support after handoff

Best for: owners ready to ship one concrete thing instead of a broad rollout.

Tier 3 — Three Workflows + 30-Day Support ($4,997 CAD)

Timeline: 4-5 weeks
Deliverable: Three production workflows + ongoing optimization for the first month

The same scope as Tier 2 but three workflows instead of one, with a 30-day post-launch period where I monitor outputs, tune prompts and error handling, and iterate based on what your team actually does with the outputs.

This tier typically covers the three most common SMB AI deployments:

1. Communication workflow — inbox triage, drafted responses, meeting prep
2. Document workflow — contract review, proposal drafting, report generation
3. Data/reporting workflow — KPI aggregation, customer health scoring, exception flagging

After 30 days, your team owns all three and can maintain them independently. Most Tier 3 clients save 15-30 hours/week across the team once all three workflows are running.

Best for: owners who’ve decided AI is strategic and want a real operational shift, not a pilot.

What’s not in any of these packages

• Building you a custom AI product — that’s a different engagement model and typically starts at $25K+
• Hosting the AI service for you ongoing — workflows run on your infrastructure or tools you pay for directly (n8n Cloud, Make.com, OpenAI/Anthropic/Google API keys)
• Training your team on how to use ChatGPT — I focus on automations that run without ongoing team involvement. Prompt-engineering training for humans is a different product.
• LinkedIn ghostwriting or social content automation — not my focus area
• Email or phone sales — I don’t run an account rep team. The person you talk to is the person doing the work.

Who this is for

• Canadian SMBs ($500K-$10M annual revenue) in professional services, construction, real estate, consulting, healthcare practice, accounting, or legal
• Owners / founders / practice partners (not employees evaluating for their boss)
• Someone comfortable with async work — Loom walkthroughs, scheduled video calls, not ad-hoc phone support
• Businesses where saving 10-30 hours per week across the team is worth $500-$5,000 — for most professional-services firms billing at $75-250/hr, that’s a 3-20× ROI in year one

Who this isn’t for

• Solo entrepreneurs under $150K revenue (the Tier 1 audit might still fit; Tier 2/3 usually doesn’t pay back fast enough)
• Fortune 500 or enterprise procurement cycles (I’m a solo operator, not a consulting firm)
• Situations requiring on-site presence (everything is remote and async)
• Replacing human judgment in high-consequence domains — AI drafts, humans decide. If you want AI to autonomously file your CRA returns or sign contracts, that’s not what I build.

How this works

1. You email me with a brief description of your business and which tier interests you.
2. 30-minute video call — free, unpushy. We confirm fit or I refer you elsewhere if it’s not a match.
3. 50% deposit to start. Balance on delivery. Stripe or Interac e-transfer.
4. Work happens on the agreed timeline. Weekly async status updates.
5. Handoff — documented, tested, your team owns it.

Frequently asked questions

What’s your actual experience?

I’ve built 21 production n8n workflows running at Auburn AI — blog-to-podcast pipelines, mention monitoring, affiliate earnings tracking, automated content workflows, trading bot infrastructure. I’ve been writing Claude and ChatGPT prompts as part of working systems (not hobby projects) since mid-2023.

Will you sign an NDA?

Yes, standard mutual NDA before any discovery work. Data stays on your side — I don’t retain client data after project completion.

What about data privacy and PIPEDA?

All workflow architecture accounts for Canadian privacy law. When a workflow sends data to US-based AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic), I’ll document it, assess the risk category, and where material I’ll recommend mitigations (enterprise agreements with data-handling guarantees, redaction layers, or keeping PII out of the AI layer entirely). This is part of the Tier 1 audit; Tier 2/3 implementations are built privacy-first.

What tools do you build on?

Primarily n8n (self-hosted or cloud), Claude via Anthropic API, ChatGPT via OpenAI API, and whatever first-party tools your business already runs. I don’t believe in replacing working tools — AI layers on top of them.

Can I pay in USD?

Yes, billed in CAD equivalent at your preference. Pricing above is in CAD.

What if I only have part of the budget?

Start with Tier 1 ($497). The plan is usable in-house, and if we end up doing Tier 2/3 later, I deduct the $497 from the larger engagement cost.

What’s your turnaround on initial response?

Within one business day. I read every inquiry personally.

Contact

Email: alexander@auburnai.ca
Subject line: “Auburn AI Consulting — [Tier you’re interested in]”
Response time: one business day or less

Based in Calgary, Alberta. Working with Canadian businesses from coast to coast async.

Thanks — Alexander

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About Auburn AI Services

Auburn AI offers two services for businesses that want AI working inside their operations without building an AI team. Both are delivered by Alexander McGregor directly — there is no sales team, no account reps, no intern doing the actual work.

Pick the path that fits your situation:

How to choose between them

If you…	Pick this
Have an internal tech person who can maintain workflows	Auburn AI Consulting
Want one specific thing built and then to move on	Auburn AI Consulting
Want a short, clear validation before committing to anything bigger	$497 Audit tier
Are a professional services firm billing at $150-400/hr	Managed Bot Setup
Want the bot still working 12 months from now without your team becoming on-call	Managed Bot Setup
Have budget for $200-500/mo of predictable ops but can’t justify a full hire	Managed Bot Setup
Want to pilot one bot, then scale if it works	Managed Bot Setup (single-bot tier)

Common use cases across both services

Most projects fall into these categories. If your situation is different, the discovery call will confirm fit or I’ll refer you to a specialist.

• Inbox triage and response drafting — incoming customer emails → Claude classification → drafted response for team review
• Proposal and quote auto-drafting — client brief → Claude produces first draft in your voice → partner reviews and sends
• Meeting-to-action-items pipeline — Zoom/Meet/Teams transcripts → extracted action items + owners → CRM/project tool
• Website FAQ and lead qualifier — Claude-powered chatbot answering questions and qualifying serious leads
• Weekly KPI and status reports — data from 2-4 sources → Claude narrates → weekly email summary
• Client status update automation — project data → generated weekly update → account manager reviews before sending
• Scheduled research reports — weekly or monthly AI research brief on competitors, industry news, or specific topics

What neither service is

• Enterprise sales. I’m a solo operator, not a consulting firm. No procurement cycles, no RFPs, no security-review processes designed for companies with 10,000 employees.
• AI strategy decks or roadmaps. I ship working systems, not PowerPoints.
• Replacing human judgment in high-stakes decisions. AI drafts, humans decide. Signing contracts, approving invoices, deciding client fit — those stay with humans.
• Consumer chatbot-as-a-service. I build internal-workflow automation for inside your business. Not customer-facing support chatbots for e-commerce (different problem).
• Real-time voice AI. Voice AI is a specialized domain with its own service providers. If that’s your need, I can refer you.

Who runs this

Alexander McGregor, solo operator based in Calgary, Alberta. I run Auburn AI (seven WordPress sites, 21 n8n workflows in production, an AI-narrated daily podcast on Spotify/Apple/Amazon/iHeart, a Gumroad catalogue of operator kits, and a trading bot). Every workflow I build for clients has a parallel version running in my own operation first.

You talk to me directly from the first email through delivery and handoff. If there is a “we” in copy on this site, it refers to Auburn AI the property, not a team structure.

Get in touch

Email: alexander@auburnai.ca

Subject line tells me which service you’re after:

• “Auburn AI Consulting — [tier interest]” for fixed-scope projects
• “Managed Bot Setup — [what you want automated]” for setup + retainer
• “Not sure which fits” — I’ll help you figure it out in the discovery call

Response time: within one business day, often faster in the evening (Mountain Time).

Thanks — Alexander

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Working With Alexander

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Managed Bot Setup & Custom Builds

I install, configure, and monitor AI bots running on your infrastructure — so you get custom AI automation without the infrastructure headache, the DevOps contractor search, or the “nobody on our team can maintain this” trap six months later.

This is Auburn AI’s Managed Bot Setup service. One fixed-price installation + a predictable monthly retainer. Built for Canadian SMBs who want AI bots running in production without becoming infrastructure shops themselves.

What this service actually is

You already want AI doing something specific in your business — triaging inbox, drafting proposals, summarizing meetings, answering website visitor questions, qualifying leads, running a scheduled content workflow. You’ve read the blog posts. You’ve watched the demos. You’ve maybe even spun up an n8n workflow yourself and realized that “ship it to production and trust it” is the hard part.

I ship it to production and monitor it so you can trust it.

For a fixed setup fee I build the exact bot or workflow you need, deploy it on infrastructure we agree to (your existing VPS, a new droplet I’ll provision, or Auburn AI’s managed hosting — your choice), and hand off complete documentation. Then for a flat monthly retainer I watch the logs, fix breakage from upstream API changes, and apply small improvements as you identify them.

No vague “AI strategy deck.” No $30K three-month discovery engagement. One working bot, running in production, for money you can justify against its measurable impact.

Pricing

One-time setup: $1,997 CAD

Covers:

• 90-minute intake call to define the bot’s exact scope, inputs, outputs, and success criteria
• Full implementation in n8n (self-hosted on your server or Auburn AI’s managed instance, your preference)
• Claude or GPT-4 integration with your specific prompt library
• Connection to your existing tools (CRM, inbox, Slack, Asana, Google Drive, whatever you use)
• Error handling, logging, and monitoring dashboards
• Two revision rounds after the first working version based on your feedback
• Handoff documentation your team can actually use
• 30-minute team training video covering maintenance + customization
• 14-day bug-fix warranty after launch

Timeline: 2-3 weeks from deposit to production. 50% deposit, 50% on delivery. Stripe or Interac.

Monthly retainer: $197 CAD per bot per month

Starts after the 14-day warranty ends. Includes:

• Uptime monitoring (alerted within 10 minutes of any failure)
• Monthly review of logs for prompt drift, error spikes, upstream API changes
• Upstream API fixes when Claude/OpenAI/Anthropic/Google change behaviour (happens 2-6x per year)
• Up to 2 hours per month of small tweaks or improvements you request
• Quarterly check-in call to review results and suggest optimizations
• Priority email support (business-day response guaranteed)

Month-to-month. No contract. Cancel any time with 30 days’ notice. If a bot stops earning its keep in your operation, you pause the retainer and keep the code.

Multi-bot discount

Three bots = $497 CAD/month flat (instead of $591). Five bots = $747 CAD/month flat (instead of $985). Setup for additional bots after the first: $1,497 each.

Bots I build most often

Scoped, deployed, and running across multiple Canadian SMB clients. Each of these takes 2-3 weeks to ship and fits the $1,997 setup tier.

Inbox triage + response drafter

Your team’s shared inbox gets triaged automatically — urgent vs non-urgent vs sales vs support vs noise. For each non-routine message, a first-draft response is pre-written in your voice (using a brand-voice document we capture in the intake call). Your team reviews and sends from their normal inbox. Saves 5-15 hours per week per teammate on email.

Proposal and quote auto-drafter

Your client intake form feeds into a Claude-based workflow that produces a first-draft proposal in your template, pricing, and voice. Your partner or account exec reviews and polishes before sending. Drops proposal turnaround from days to the same afternoon. Most valuable for professional services firms (legal, accounting, consulting, construction).

Meeting-to-action-items pipeline

Zoom/Google Meet/Teams transcripts flow into a workflow that extracts action items, owners, and deadlines, then writes them directly into your project tool (Asana, ClickUp, Notion, Monday). Cuts the post-meeting documentation tax to near zero.

Website FAQ and lead qualifier

A Claude-powered chatbot on your website answers common questions trained from your site content, qualifies serious leads with a short conversation, and routes them to your calendar or intake form. Reduces unqualified discovery calls and makes after-hours visits convert instead of bounce.

Weekly KPI and status reports

Pulls data from 2-4 sources (Stripe, your CRM, Google Analytics, project tool), passes it through Claude, and delivers a written weekly summary email to you or your executive team. Replaces the 90-minute Monday exec meeting with a 4-minute read.

Custom workflows

Anything with clearly defined inputs and outputs fits this tier. I’ll tell you honestly during the intake call if your use case is better suited to a different approach.

What this is not

• Not chatbot-as-a-service for end consumers. I build workflow automation for inside your business. Not e-commerce support bots for your customers (different problem).
• Not real-time voice AI. Voice AI is its own specialized space. If you want an AI phone agent, I’ll refer you to specialists.
• Not replacing human judgment in high-stakes decisions. AI drafts, humans decide. If you want AI to autonomously approve client invoices, sign contracts, or commit your business to actions, that is not what I build.
• Not 24/7 emergency support. Monitoring is continuous but response is business-day (9-5 Mountain Time). If you need 24/7 on-call, enterprise tier has that — ask.

The honest part

Very few things in business automation are “100% autonomous.” If an AI provider changes their model behaviour (which they do, sometimes with 24 hours’ notice), prompts that worked perfectly on Tuesday can output garbage on Friday. The retainer exists because those changes need to be caught and fixed. If you tell me you want a bot that will run forever without any ongoing cost or maintenance, I’ll tell you the truth: that’s not realistic in 2026.

What is realistic is 85-95% autonomous — the bot handles its normal work without any intervention on your side, and I handle the occasional 5-15% that needs an eye on it.

Who I work with

• Canadian SMBs with $500K-$10M annual revenue
• Professional services (legal, accounting, consulting, healthcare practice, real estate, construction)
• Owners and partners (not employees evaluating for their manager — too much handoff friction)
• Comfortable with async collaboration (Loom walkthroughs, scheduled video calls, email)
• Willing to contribute brand voice + business context during intake (critical for bot quality)

Process timeline

1. Free 30-minute discovery call. We confirm fit or I refer you elsewhere. No sales pressure — if it is not a fit, the fastest way I help you is by telling you so.
2. Scope document + 50% deposit. Within 48 hours of deposit I start building.
3. Week 1-2: build. First working version in your hands by day 10-14.
4. Week 2-3: revisions. Two rounds of feedback-and-adjust.
5. Week 3 handoff. Production deployment, team training video, documentation, balance invoice.
6. 14-day warranty window. Any bug fixes free of charge.
7. Retainer begins (optional). Monthly. Cancel any time.

Frequently asked questions

Who owns the code?

You do. Full source code, documentation, and deployment scripts are yours at handoff. If you cancel the retainer, you keep running the bot on your own infrastructure. I do not retain lock-in.

What if we want to bring this in-house after a while?

Excellent — that is often the right outcome. The bots I build use n8n (open-source) + Claude or GPT APIs (vendor-neutral) specifically so you can transition to an internal developer or cheaper ops contractor without rebuilding anything. I will do a 1-hour handoff call to your new person free of charge.

What about data privacy and PIPEDA?

All workflow architecture accounts for Canadian privacy law. When a bot sends data to US-based AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic), I will document the data flow, assess the risk category, and recommend appropriate mitigations — enterprise agreements with data-handling guarantees, automatic redaction before AI calls, or keeping PII out of the AI layer entirely. Privacy is built into the bot architecture from day one.

How is this different from just buying a SaaS product?

SaaS products are built for the average customer and priced accordingly. Custom bots are built for your specific workflow, CRM, and brand voice. If your work is non-standard enough that off-the-shelf SaaS does not quite fit — which is most professional services firms — custom is more effective. If off-the-shelf genuinely works for you, you do not need this service. I will tell you during the discovery call.

Can we start with one bot and scale?

Yes — most clients do exactly that. First bot proves the model in 30 days. Second bot joins the retainer at 3-6 months if the first has paid for itself (which it usually does within the first 90 days for knowledge-work firms).

Do you offer a free trial?

No free trial. Instead: the discovery call is free, the scope is fixed before payment, and the 14-day bug-fix warranty gives you concrete protection on the setup fee. If the bot does not work to the spec we agreed on, I fix it without additional charge.

Contact

Email: alexander@auburnai.ca
Subject line: “Managed Bot Setup — [brief description of what you want automated]”
Response: within one business day, often same-day in evening (Mountain Time).

Thanks — Alexander

Auburn AI is a sole proprietorship based in Calgary, Alberta. Canadian clients invoiced in CAD. International clients invoiced in USD at current exchange.