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AI help for small biz and nonprofits in St. Louis

Learn to use AI in your business. I'll teach you one‑on‑one, or build it for you.

You've heard plenty about AI. The hard part is making it actually help your business, day to day. That's where we start, at your pace and in plain English. I'm Wayne, and you'd be sitting down with me, not a team you never meet.

What it can do

Here's what AI can take off your plate.

Start with the headaches you already know. Your inbox sorted before your first coffee. A contract in plain English before you sign. Follow-up emails that send themselves. Pick the one that sounds like your week and start there. There are 32 in all, sorted into the six groups below, but you don't have to take them in at once. Open a group whenever you're curious, and learn to run them yourself or hand them to me.

  • Your inbox sorted every morning, most important first
  • Replies drafted in your voice
  • A pre-send check for tone before the important one goes out
  • A voicemail turned into a written quote
  • A long cc'd thread, summarized in three lines
  • The awkward email written for you (price increase, saying no)
To: Dana  ·  Re: Your estimate from Tuesday
Hi Dana, just checking in on the estimate I sent over Tuesday. Happy to walk through any of it if questions came up.
Sample output, made up for demonstration. Yours would sound like you.
  • A month of posts in an afternoon, you approve each one
  • One customer story becomes a post, an email, and a flyer
  • Product descriptions that don't sound like everyone else's
  • A newsletter people actually read
  • Every Google review answered, in your voice
  • Three versions of an ad in the time it took to write one
  • A follow-up sequence that sends itself
  • Your 20 most-asked questions, answered once and reused
  • What customers are really saying, summarized
  • Estimates and proposals from bullet points
  • The Monday report writes itself
  • Meeting notes become an action list before you leave the room
  • A photo of a document becomes organized text
  • First drafts of job postings, handbooks, policies
  • Grant applications and donor letters
  • Repetitive forms filled by talking
  • A contract or lease in plain English before you sign
  • Vendor quotes rough-compared side by side
  • A gut question turned into structured pros and cons
  • An industry article or regulation summarized in 30 seconds
  • What AI is genuinely good at, and where it confidently lies
  • What never to paste into it
  • How to ask so you get a good answer, not a mediocre first try
  • Making it write in your voice
  • Using it on your phone, in the truck or kitchen or shop floor
  • Choosing which AI to use (ChatGPT, Claude, or another) without picking a side. It works with what you already have
One thing to know

You don't need to be technical.

All of this runs on tools you already have. If you can write an email and use your phone, you can learn anything on this page.

Getting started

It starts with a free 30-minute chat.

Start here

A get-to-know, not a working session.

You tell me where you are with AI, what you've tried, and what you want to learn or get solved. I listen, ask questions, and you leave with a plain quote and a clear first step. You'll walk out further along than you walked in, whether or not we work together.

Book a free 30-minute chat

Or text me: (636) 388-8832

From there, three ways to work together.
All three leave you more in control of AI than you are today.

Option one

I teach you, and we do it together.

One-on-one sessions on the things you pick. You leave able to run it yourself, with a written playbook that's yours to keep.

Option two

I run it. You never touch it.

The thing that keeps slipping, the follow-up emails you never get to, or the monthly report. I build that one thing and I keep it running in the background. You never open the hood. You get a plain-English note on what it does.

Option three

You run it. I hand you the recipe.

Same kind of build, but this one is yours to operate. I hand you the written steps and you run it yourself, from day one. Use it, change it, repeat it whenever you want, without me.

Pricing

What this costs.

You see the number before anything starts, never as a surprise on the invoice.

One-on-one

I teach you.

$300

Two hours together, in person or on a video call where we share screens. We work on whatever is actually in your way.

  • Ask me as much as you want
  • Go slow, or go fast and intense
  • Record it and keep it
Done for you

I build it for you.

$500 to start

Most first projects land right here. It takes a couple of calls with you, about two hours of your time all together.

  • A firm price before I start
  • Anything bigger comes back as a la carte options
  • No games
Ongoing help

I'm on call.

$200 a month

Immediate time with me when something comes up.

  • A reply in under 24 hours
  • Two hours included each month
  • Bought three months at a time

Ask me for full details on any of these. And if you run a nonprofit, there may be a lower path.

Who you'd be working with

Hi, I'm Wayne.

Wayne, Remarka

Remarka is my studio here in St. Louis, where I put AI to work for small businesses and nonprofits. I've spent almost thirty years in technology, in Fortune 100 companies, small businesses, and startups.

This past year I've gone all-in on AI. I quit my corporate technology job and now work full-time building businesses and helping people with AI.

My passion is seeing highly motivated, small, local businesses WIN. I commit to working one-on-one with you, start to finish, to demystify AI and blow your mind with how it will empower you and your business. No joke.

Before you book

Common questions.

No. This is built for people who aren't. You won't install anything or learn to code, you just tell me what you need in plain words and we go from there.
One to twenty people is exactly who this is for. Big companies have IT departments. You get one-on-one help.
True --- Yet you are reading this page. Free tutorials teach AI in general, and you're on your own to connect it to your actual work. I do it on your real business, sitting with you, so you leave with the thing running instead of a playlist to get through. You're paying to skip the trial and error for hours upon hours and, instead, have it working the same day.
No. Most of what we do runs on free tools, and plenty of people never pay for anything at all. Day to day, the work rarely needs more computing power than the free versions give you, and part of what I teach is how to get the most out of them. Worst case, you'd want a $20 a month subscription for more computing power, and that's paid to whichever AI provider you pick, not to me. Either way, you'll know the cost before we start, and you're never locked into anything.
Yes, and you stay in control of it. You decide what goes in, and nothing sensitive has to be shared for this to be worth doing. You approve anything before it goes anywhere. And we work inside the tools you already use and trust, not some new system you'd have to worry about.
No, and it's built so you don't. I'm not selling software, so there's nothing you have to keep paying me for. We use the tools you already have or want to try. The playbooks we write are yours to keep: run them, change them, repeat them without me. The goal is that you and your team can do the work yourselves.
You do, by design. Drafts wait for your approval, and nothing goes out under your name that you haven't seen.
You approve everything before it goes out, so a mistake gets caught before a customer sees it. And the playbook shows you exactly how to fix or redo it yourself. If you'd rather not, the on-call plan is there, but you're never stuck.
It fits, and you're welcome here. Swap the nouns: the grant report that starts out mostly written, the board packet that assembles itself, the thank-you letters out the same week donations come in. Same help, priced for a mission budget.

Come say hello.

The first 30 minutes are free: a friendly get-to-know, not a work session. You'll leave with a clearer read on AI and a first step, whether or not we work together. If I'm not the right fit, you'll hear that too.

Book a free 30-minute chat

Or text me: (636) 388-8832