Practical AI for your business
Stop guessing at AI.
We have the playbook.
Learn to do it yourself. Or have us build it for you.
Give your team practical AI skills to draft, research and solve everyday problems, with people directing and reviewing the work.
Summarize yesterday’s project update and pull out next steps.
Put AI to work sorting requests, preparing responses and moving information between your apps, with your team in control.
A new request is submitted in your form
Extract information, review with AI, and route
Update your system and notify the right person
Bring your apps and metrics into one view, then use AI to summarize performance, highlight issues and help you decide what needs attention.
Do it yourself
Learn with Jim and a community of people putting AI to work. Start free, then add the tools and guidance you need.
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Put reusable AI tools to work.
$97/ month
Add apps and personal guidance.
$297/ month
Done for You Elite Program
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Skip the learning curve. We build it for you.
Your dedicated AI assistant, custom dashboard and connected workflows, built around your business with your team in control.
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$9,950 initial investment
01 · Setup
Your customer-owned Mac mini, provisioning, email and accounts, permissions, private access, and connection to our management dashboard.
02 · Custom build
Your agreed 30-day custom dashboard, integrations and automations. Built, tested and launched with your team.
After the initial build, a minimum of one maintenance queue at $997/month per queue while your managed program is active. See how ongoing work runs
The 30-day build begins after mutual statement-of-work approval and a reserved build slot.
Ongoing Elite maintenance
Each maintenance queue is $997 per month, with a minimum of one queue required while your managed program is active. Add queues when you want more work moving in parallel.
You own your local app, accounts and Mac. You can cancel management and keep them. Optional secure datacenter hosting is available while active maintenance continues.
Ownership and operating detailsDefine the outcome and scope together. Each queue has one active job at a time.
Each agreed job receives a two-week allocation when it starts. We work through it with your feedback.
You accept the work before the next job begins. Jobs run sequentially within each queue.
More queues let jobs run in parallel. Your priorities direct the work.
Business experience that turns AI into measurable value.
Effective AI implementation starts with understanding how a business works. We bring the operating judgment to identify the right opportunities, ask the questions that matter, and focus your investment where it can make a difference.
Our approach is shaped by Jim Gurol’s 30 years of starting, growing, and running businesses, including successful exits, a profitable managed services business, and a SaaS platform.
That experience spans sales, marketing, operations, field service and dispatch, project management, finance, billing, and IT. We understand how changes in one department affect the people, processes, and margins around it.
This perspective helps us identify opportunities for immediate ROI and anticipate issues that tool expertise alone can miss. We prioritize practical improvements, establish a baseline, and measure the return against your time and cost.
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Jim Gurol founded California Telecom in 2008, combining enterprise-level network engineering with personal, responsive service. Under his leadership, the company grew from a regional connectivity provider into nationwide managed network services, cybersecurity, and AI-powered infrastructure management.
Jim also founded Netverge, the platform behind California Telecom’s network monitoring and service delivery. Building technology to solve real operational problems is central to his approach.
Through Caltelligent, a division of California Telecom, Jim brings that same hands-on approach to AI: helping your people use it confidently, making business information easier to see, and reducing repetitive work.
Human-in-the-loop is how we work at every stage of your AI Journey. We put practical governance around your data, decisions, and workflows so your team can use AI with confidence.
Getting started should feel straightforward.
Join the free community to learn and explore practical ways to use AI. Choose Builder for reusable prompts, skills and monthly group sessions with Jim, or Builder Pro for apps and monthly individual 1:1 calls as well. If you want us to build and manage the solution for your business, start with a conversation about the Done for You Elite Program.
Builder members and higher can join Jim’s monthly group session on the second Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. Pacific. Builder Pro also includes monthly individual 1:1 calls with Jim.
The initial investment is $9,950: $5,000 for setup, including your customer-owned Mac mini, and $4,950 for the agreed 30-day custom build. After the initial build, the managed program requires at least one maintenance queue at $997 per month per queue while it remains active.
Setup covers provisioning, email and accounts, permissions, private access, and the connection to our management dashboard. The custom build covers the agreed dashboard, integrations, automations, testing and launch. Third-party software subscriptions, AI usage and any hosting charges are confirmed separately.
We include and provision the Mac mini. You provide an accountable decision-maker, the agreed data and access to your business tools, and timely feedback. We confirm the required third-party accounts, permissions and operating costs together. The 30-day build starts after mutual approval of the statement of work and reservation of your build slot.
Yes. We review your existing apps, spreadsheets and workflows, then agree on the connections and custom work to include. Your dashboard brings the agreed information into one view. We check access, data quality and integration options before committing to the scope.
We agree on the scope and acceptance criteria in a statement of work. Once we both approve it and reserve your build slot, the 30-day build begins. We build the agreed dashboard, integrations and automations, test them with your team, and launch. Changes to scope or dependencies are agreed together.
At least one $997-per-month maintenance queue is required while your managed program is active. Each queue has one active job at a time. We agree on each job, allocate two weeks when it starts, and obtain your acceptance before the next job begins. Jobs run sequentially within a queue; additional queues let work proceed in parallel.
You own the Mac mini, your custom local app and source code, your data, and your accounts. You can cancel management and keep them. We provide the agreed handoff so you can continue operating your local solution. Third-party software retains its own licensing and subscription terms.
The Mac provides a dedicated home for your local app and agreed workflows. That does not mean every AI model runs locally. Approved cloud AI services and connected apps may process information under their applicable terms and settings. We agree on those connections and permissions with you. Optional secure datacenter hosting is available while active maintenance continues; you still own the Mac.
We configure a dedicated AI assistant with an identity, email and access appropriate to its agreed work. Your team defines its instructions, reviews important outputs and approves consequential actions. It can help sort requests, prepare responses and move information between your apps within those boundaries.
We use a human-in-the-loop approach: people set the boundaries, review important outputs, and approve consequential actions. We select tools and configurations that keep your business data out of model training, checking the applicable terms and settings before connecting it. We agree on access permissions, test workflows, and define how exceptions reach a person. AI can make mistakes; practical governance keeps people accountable and gives your team a way to stop or correct the work.
Book a 30-minute call with Jim. Talk through your priorities and decide whether the community or the Elite Program is the right starting point.
