With all the hype around AI, why are you still only using it to write emails?
Most businesses use AI to draft messages and search the web. It can clean your data, kill the admin, run your reporting, and spot connections across your departments you didn’t know were there.
If any of this is your week, it’s the kind of thing we take off the desk.
- Messy data
- Manual admin
- Spreadsheet chaos
- Slow reporting
- Contract overload
- Disconnected systems
- Endless paperwork
- Marketing bottlenecks
Every business needs an AI department.
It’s a function, not a tool, that sits alongside HR, Legal, Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing and IT, talks to all of them, and makes each one do what it already does faster and cheaper. The blockers are people, not technology, and it works better run from outside the building.
Read the thinking →We work with the lid off.
Most of what we know came from using these tools badly for a while and then getting good at them. We give that away. The tools change every month, so the list of them was never the valuable part.
Which tools, and why
You see the actual stack: what we used, what it costs, and why we chose it over the obvious alternative.
Where it falls over
Every model is quietly bad at something. We tell you which things, so you don’t find out on the one that matters.
How to run it yourself
The handover includes the reasoning as well as the password. You can change what we built without calling us.
The knowledge is free. The attention is not.
Judgement about which model to point at your problem, and years of knowing where each one fails. That goes stale every few months, so it can’t be written down for you.
Pick a door.
Name and promise only. The detail, all 269 jobs, is one click deeper.
Data Rescue
Turn messy business data into information you can trust.
See the jobs →Business Automation
Replace repetitive office work with software.
See the jobs →AI Prototypes & Proof of Concept
Validate an idea before making a major investment.
See the jobs →Business Intelligence & Financial Insight
Find what your numbers are trying to tell you.
See the jobs →Data Investigations & Reconciliation
When the numbers don’t add up, we find out why.
See the jobs →Executive Documents
Professional business documents without weeks of effort.
See the jobs →Research & Business Writing
Transform raw information into executive-ready documents.
See the jobs →AI Enablement
The strategy for senior leaders, the coaching for staff — tailored sessions for both.
See the jobs →Document Intelligence & Contract Review
Make sense of huge, mixed-format information — PDFs, contracts, emails, chats, spreadsheets — without reading every page.
See the jobs →Capture & Extract
Turn recordings, photos, scans and web pages into usable data.
See the jobs →AI Marketing & Content
Marketing content that sounds like you, produced at AI speed.
See the jobs →Not sure where yours fits?
Have an idea rather than a problem? We build micro apps and full websites from scratch too. Describe it in one line — we’ll route it.
Describe it →Fourteen spreadsheets in. One dashboard that agrees with the bank.
Fourteen rent-roll spreadsheets arrive. Four formats, six years of history, one patient bookkeeper.
A live arrears dashboard, reconciled against the bank statement. It agrees, to the penny.
The report runs whether anyone remembers or not. The spreadsheets are retired.
A boutique studio: a small core, a remote team, and a growing set of AI agents we have trained.
Meet the studio →We have spent over 15 years in the problem — data, automation and now AI. We do two things: we build tools with AI inside them, and we get the people in a business using it, from leadership strategy down to hands-on sessions with staff. AI does the heavy lifting, then human judgement is applied to the AI output — checking the nuance a model flattens and the things it gets confidently wrong. Whatever gets built, you own it outright.
Rather watch and hear than read?
The short version of what we do, who it suits, and why we work the way we do.
The tools change monthly. We read so you don’t have to.
A deep synthesis of the most interesting things published each month across the sources worth reading, and what they mean for a business, not a lab.
Tell us what’s not working.
Send the problem. If there’s a fit, we’ll set up a discovery call and take it from there.
Send us your problem →Or write to hello@tasksmithai.com