ZBD · Wake County · NC

Agents that run the work.
Tools that stay yours.

Two products, one workshop. We build AI agents into how you already work and run them for you every month — and we still build one-time tools you buy once and own outright. Raleigh-area contractors, trades, and field services.

A Wake County small-business owner at a workshop desk reviewing paperwork.
How it gets there

Somebody drives over and installs it.

Not a login. Not a trial. A machine on your network, wired to the files you already have, set up by the person who will also be the one running it.

  1. We come to you

    One day on site, in your building, with you in the room. Wake County and the Triangle — close enough to come back when something needs a hand.

  2. It gets wired to your actual business

    Your spreadsheets, your customer database, your job files, your email. Not a blank product you then have to feed — it starts already knowing how your shop works, because we point it at how your shop works.

  3. Nothing is typed by hand

    Every step is a script that checks its own work and writes down what it did. You double-click a file and read a plain verdict. If a step cannot verify itself, it stops rather than guessing — which is the difference between a setup that works and one that looks like it worked.

  4. Then we run it

    It gets watched, corrected and improved every month. When it breaks, you call one person and that person already knows your setup.

Why this matters more than the software: anyone can sell you a subscription to an AI tool. Almost nobody will drive out, put it on your network, connect it to your files, and answer the phone when it stops working on a Friday. That is the whole offer.

What it costs

Ranges, not quotes.

Every business is shaped differently, so the number depends on what the agent has to touch. These are the bands the work falls into.

Step one

Find the bottleneck

Free → $1,500–3,500

A short look costs nothing. The full readiness review maps one real workflow end to end and shows what should be software, what should be an agent, and what should stay a person.

Step two

Build and deploy it

$3,500–8,000

One workflow, running inside the systems you already use. No migration. Yours, one time. A build that spans several workflows lands in the $8,000–18,000 range.

Step three

We run it for you

$750–2,500/month

Watched, corrected and improved every month — the part that decides whether an agent is still worth having in six months. Optional, and you can stop any month.

Auto repair and dealerships: priced separately. That is the vertical where twenty-five years on the bay side changes what the work actually is, and the scope is worth a conversation rather than a band on a page.

01 · The local market

What you'd pay elsewhere vs what we charge.

Local agencies and custom-dev shops price internal tools the same way they price marketing sites. We don't. We focus on tightly scoped operations tools, the kind a $1M-$10M contractor actually uses every day.

Raleigh agencies + custom dev

Basic small-business site (PrivateNode, Mythos) $2,500 – $4,000
Custom WordPress build (8+ pages) $8,000+
Agency professional site (2026 guide) $9,000 – $75,000
National "small internal tool" minimum $10,000 – $25,000
Plus ongoing monthly fees $75 – $500/mo

ZBD Solutions

Entry internal tool $1,950
Core operations tool $2,950 – $3,450
Advanced multi-process tool $4,250 – $5,250
Setup + training (optional) $750 – $1,250
Care + improvement retainer (optional) $275 – $475/mo
03 · The math

Most tools pay for themselves in 3–9 months.

For a $1M–$10M business, a $2,000–$5,000 tool typically returns 3–5x over 6–18 months by saving 10+ hours per month of owner or staff time or adding 2–3 additional closed jobs per month.

That's how SMB owners actually evaluate operational software. Payback in months, not features in a checkbox grid.

3–9 mo
Typical payback
10+ hrs
Saved per month
3–5×
Return over 18 mo
04 · Built for contractors + trades

The jobs an agent takes first.

Construction, roofing, HVAC, electrical, landscaping, plumbing, painting, general contracting. If your business runs on jobs, crews, and change orders, these are the workflows worth handing over first — the repetitive middle, not the judgment calls.

Agent · 01

Job Board + Dispatch

Active jobs, crew assignments, and same-day reassignments without a group text thread.

Agent · 02

Estimate → Invoice Pipeline

From walk-around quote to signed work order to invoice. One trail, no re-typing.

Agent · 03

Change Order Tracker

Scope changes get logged, priced, and approved in writing before the crew touches them.

Agent · 04

Crew Scheduling

Who's on which site, which truck, which day. Owner sees the week at a glance.

Agent · 05

Photo + Document Capture

Site photos, signed permits, inspection reports. Tied to the job, searchable later.

Agent · 06

Job Costing Dashboard

What did the job actually cost? Labor + materials + change orders vs the estimate.

The question everybody asks

“So does my customer list end up at an AI company?”

Fair question, and the honest answer has two halves.

Stays put

Your files stay on your machine

The customer list, the job history, the pricing, the documents — those live on the box in your building, the same as they do now. We do not copy your business onto somebody else's server to make this work.

Goes out, on purpose

The thinking happens at Claude

When the agent needs to actually reason about something, it sends that piece — and only that piece — to Anthropic's Claude and gets an answer back. That part is not local, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something slower and worse.

Yours, not ours

The account is in your name

We set it up under your Anthropic account, with a spending cap you choose. You see every dollar. You can change the password, cut our access, or shut the whole thing off without asking us — and we would rather you have that button than not.

Everything it sends is written down. There is a log of every request, on your machine, that you can read. If you ever want to know what it looked at on a Tuesday, that is a question with an answer — not a shrug.

Start with a Quick Answer.

$89, 20 minutes, one written recap. Decide in twenty minutes whether a tool makes sense for your business.

Book your Quick Answer · $89
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