Berkeley & the East Bay
Hi, I’m Justin with Supportive Tech in Berkeley. I help small business owners put AI to use on the work that eats up their day.
You don’t need any AI experience. If you already use it casually, I can help you go deeper and put it to work on more involved tasks in your business.
We wanted to save time by using a chat interface to update our ecommerce site. So we connected our inventory system, Airtable, to Discord and built a publishing workflow to WooCommerce. AI helped turn product notes into structured records and store listings, with a review before publication. This opens up the possibility of updating our site from anywhere, as easily as sending a chat message.
We wanted to bring down our software bills. So we used AI to review costs, usage, and overlapping services, then help carry out the changes: logging into accounts, migrating systems, and adjusting service levels. We cut back the number of vendors and moved to smaller plans, adding up to substantial savings.
We wanted to understand how sales compared across our delivery and mail-order businesses, but the records were spread across different systems. So we used AI to combine the order histories, standardize the data, and check the totals against the originals. We could then compare sales across channels and time periods.
Show me something you do repeatedly, or a job you keep putting off. In a first working session, we can work through a task you bring, try an approach, and figure out what’s worth setting up.
We can work through it together, or I can handle the setup and show you how to use it. We’ll check the results against your actual business information. You decide what gets sent or published.
I co-founded an ecommerce business, and I use AI in my own work with product listings, software costs, and sales data. I’ve also spent decades helping people make sense of technology. I’m happy to explain things as we go.
“Kind and thoughtful… I left feeling empowered with new skills.”
Jefferson Fellows · Google review of Supportive Tech
Start with a free 15-minute conversation. Tell me a little about your business and something you’re tired of doing by hand.
Consulting is $200/hour. Remote sessions are billed in 15-minute increments with no minimum. On-site sessions are billed in 30-minute increments with a one-hour minimum. Any travel charge is confirmed before we meet.
Based in Berkeley, with on-site help in the East Bay and remote sessions wherever you work. If a project needs paid software, we’ll discuss that cost before signing up.