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AI Implementation · Lincoln, Nebraska
See where AI fitsin your business.
Where most owners are
Most owners have tried it.
You open a chat, ask a few questions, and get something useful.
Then
It fades.
The next week you start over, and it never becomes part of how the business runs.
How should I price our service contracts for next year?
Great question! Here are a few common approaches: cost-plus pricing, value-based pricing, and competitor-based pricing. The right choice depends on your business, your customers, and your market.
We raised prices last year and lost two customers. Should we do it again?
I don't have details about your business, your customers, or your past pricing. Could you share more context?
What it needs
Three things make it stick.
The chat tool is the easy part. These are what most owners are missing.
- 01
A home for what your company knows
Your numbers, your notes, and how you do things, in folders you own.
- 02
Some clear rules
What it may do, what it checks first, and what it never touches.
- 03
A person who keeps it going
Someone checks in each month, fixes what drifts, and teaches your team.
With all three
The same question gets a real answer.
It reads your numbers and your rules first, and it shows its work.
How should I price our service contracts for next year?
Read first01pricing/2025-contracts.md02rules/pricing.md03close/2026-09.md
| Line item | Revenue | Direct cost | Gross margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last year01 | $400,000 | $288,000 | 28% |
| Today's costs03Labor, $240,000 of direct cost, is up 6% | $400,000 | $302,400 | 24% |
| New price, up 8%02 | $432,000 | $302,400 | 30% |
Your rule: 30%
Labor is up 6% since last year, so at today's prices your gross margin falls from 28% to about 24%. Gross margin is what's left of revenue after the direct cost of the work. Your pricing rule says to hold 30%, and raising contract prices 8% gets you there. The two customers you lost were both small accounts. Want me to draft the letter?
Example business. Numbers are made up.
Two ways to start
Do it yourself,or do it with us.
Done with you
We build it beside you, connect your tools, and teach your team to use it. Then we step back and keep an eye on it.
It starts with a free Walkthrough.
Book a WalkthroughDone with you
How it works.
You own everything we build.
Walkthrough
Free, about 30 minutes. We tell you what we see and what we'd do. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.
Setup
We build your company's system with you and get your people using it. It runs to a checkpoint we name together. Then the setup commitment ends.
Oversight
We check in and keep it healthy while your team settles in.
More building
When the business needs new tools, we stay on to build them.
Questions
Common questions.
Do we have to switch tools?
No. We build around the software you already use. You can change AI models later and the system still works.
Do you use this yourselves?
Yes. It started as a marketing system Dawson built for a client and for 1610. Then it became the company brain our CFOs share. What we learn solving a problem for one business can help another, and each client's information stays private. It holds the rules for how a company works, written down like SOPs. Now we build the same kind of system for other businesses: we spend time in yours, learn how it works, and build one that fits it.
Who owns what you build?
You do. Your folders are yours, and our toolkits stay ours. Stop any time and keep what we built.
Where does our data go?
You own your company folder and choose whether to share or sync it. os-foundation does not upload your company content to 1610. Your AI provider may receive prompts and files for processing under its own settings and policies. Local storage does not mean local-only AI. Connections use each tool's own sign-in; never paste passwords or tokens into chat.
What does it cost?
It depends on what we build. We'll talk about price on the Walkthrough, once we've seen how your company works.
Book a Walkthrough
Start witha Walkthrough.
About 30 minutes. We'll look at how your company works and tell you what we see and what we'd do. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you.
Rather write to us?
Tell us where you're stuck
Tell us about your business and where you're trying to move. We'll reply to set up a free Walkthrough: about 30 minutes, goals first, and you leave with what we see and what we'd recommend.