A boutique AI engineering studio for B2B teams under 50. We discover, build, and deploy one production AI workflow into your stack — and hand you the keys.
Day-1 full refund · $14k fixed · You own the workflow
Already shipped for teams at
The bill you're already paying
$5–15k
Average burn on stalled AI prototypes before founders give up.
3 demos
Average number of Looms most teams produce before nothing ships.
10+ hrs
Weekly manual work that should already be automated.
The bottleneck isn't intent. It's that "AI consultants" sell demos and disappear. Engineers will rebuild forever. You need someone whose job is to finish.
What ships on day 14
Triggered by your real events, on your real data. Not a demo. Not a Loom. A workflow that fires, day in, day out.
Pushed to your GitHub. Stored in your secrets. Owned by your team. We can host. You don't need us to.
We instrument the workflow before handoff. You see what it's doing — and what's worth scaling next.
Plugs in
We integrate where the work already happens. No new SaaS for your team to learn.
Don't see yours? Ask on the fit call — we've integrated 30+ tools across 12 engagements.
How it works
Two days. We map your workflows, find the highest-ROI candidate, and write the spec. You leave the discovery call with a written commitment of what we'll build.
If the only valuable workflow is too big for 14 days, we tell you on day 2 and refund. Has happened twice in 12 engagements.
spec.md
├─ workflow: lead-qualification
├─ trigger: slack #leads
├─ stack: slack, hubspot, anthropic
├─ scope: in / out
├─ deadline: 14 days from kickoff
└─ acceptance: > 80% accuracy on holdoutTen days. We ship the workflow into your stack and run it on real data. Daily progress in a shared Slack channel; you see the workflow develop, not a deck.
By day 8 you usually have a working internal version. By day 12 the team is using it.
Two days. We deploy to production — your infra or ours — train one of your team to operate the workflow, and transfer ownership of code, prompts, and keys.
If the workflow isn't in production by end of day 14, the next 7 days are free.
"We'd burned $9k on three AI experiments that never shipped. JoyfulAI deployed our lead-qualification workflow in 11 days. Four months later, it's saving us 14 hours a week."
"I was skeptical we'd get a real workflow, not a demo. On day 12, the bot was answering Slack tickets. Day 14 it was deployed."
vs the alternatives
| JoyfulAI | Hourly consultant | In-house hire | DIY / Loom-it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to production | 14 days | 4–12 weeks | 2–6 months | Rarely ships |
| Cost | $14k fixed | $20–60k variable | $200k+/yr | $5–15k sunk |
| Risk reversal | Day-1 refund · 7-day extension free | None | None | None |
| You own the code | Yes — repo, prompts, keys | Varies | Yes | Yes |
| Reaches production | 12 of 12 | Maybe | Eventually | ~1 in 5 |
Numbers from our 12 engagements + buyer interviews · Hourly & DIY ranges from FAQ proof
Pricing
No "starting at." No surprise change orders. No retainer trap.
Discovery → Build → Handoff. Calendar days, not business days.
Optional managed-service afterwards from $1,200/mo. Most customers self-host.
In discovery we cut scope to the highest-ROI workflow shippable in the window. If the only valuable workflow is genuinely too big for 14 days, we tell you on day 2 and refund. Has happened twice in 12 engagements — both refunded in full within 48 hours.
Yes — your AWS / GCP / Vercel / Railway, your secrets manager, your CI. 10 of our 12 engagements self-host; the other 2 took the optional managed-service tier afterwards.
That's exactly what discovery is for. We come in with a triage process — "what does the team complain about every Monday?" — and pick the workflow with the highest hours-saved per dollar. Median candidate saves 11 hours/week post-handoff.
Yes. Anthropic, OpenAI, Vertex, Ollama, vLLM. Tell us your vendor mandate on the fit call and we'll confirm fit before the engagement starts.
Hourly bills the client for our learning curve. Fixed price means we eat the bad estimates. Twelve engagements in, we estimate well — every one shipped on day 14 except the two we refunded in discovery.
A 4-person agency with a content-brief workflow — six-figure ROI in the first quarter. We don't take on solo founders unless the workflow is unusually simple — fairer to both sides.
20-minute fit call. No deck. We'll know in the first 10 minutes whether it's a fit.
Book a 20-min fit call →Day-1 full refund · Not live by day 14 = next 7 free