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Practical AI help for St. Louis small biz

Put AI to work in your business. Learn it one‑on‑one, or have me build it for you.

You have read the AI articles and watched the AI demos, but you are still writing every email, creating every promotion, and handling nearly every repetitive task the same way you always have.

I'm here to help. Let's sit down together and I will help you practically apply AI to your life to simplify tasks, get you back time, and help you better serve your customers.

What it can do

Here's what AI can take off your plate.

AI can help with the everyday work that distracts you or keeps piling up, from keeping your social feed fresh to expense reports to proactively reminding you of that lead you forgot about. The examples below represent just a fraction of the ways you can reduce repetitive work, help you move faster, and give customers a great experience.

Spend less time writing and following up while keeping your communication clear and consistent.

  • Draft customer replies, routine emails, and difficult messages without starting from a blank page.
  • Take a quick note or a voice memo and instantly turn it into a clear and professional follow-up email or team message.
  • Summarize a long email thread or voicemail and pull out key decisions, deadlines, and next steps.
  • Wake up every morning with a ready-to-go summary of the new emails that need your attention and the junk intelligently filtered out.

Respond faster, follow up more consistently, and move customers from their first question to a completed sale with less manual work.

  • Turn rough notes into a polished estimate, proposal, or quote that is ready to review and send.
  • Send timely follow-ups after an inquiry, estimate, appointment, or purchase so good leads and existing customers feel important.
  • Turn repeated questions into a clear FAQ, service guide, or set of ready-to-use customer answers.
  • Analyze reviews, surveys, and customer messages to find common complaints, repeated requests, and the reasons customers choose your business.

Create useful marketing materials faster, even if writing or design is not your strength.

  • Create beautiful flyers, advertisements, and social media graphics from a simple description, without needing professional design skills or a marketer.
  • Turn rough notes into a usable first draft for a social post, email newsletter, website update, or promotion.
  • Turn one customer story or completed project into a compelling writeup to share on social media, email, or your website
  • Use the questions customers already ask to create helpful posts, newsletters, FAQs, and website content so customers can self-serve.

Finish routine paperwork and turn scattered information into something useful without hours of manual work.

  • Turn meeting notes or a transcript into decisions, action items, and follow-up.
  • Draft job postings, policies, applications, and other business documents.
  • Turn a rough explanation into a checklist, process, or training guide.
  • Pull details from invoices, forms, and documents into an organized list or spreadsheet.

Understand your numbers, compare options, and work through complicated information faster.

  • Compare quotes, proposals, or pricing plans and quickly recognize the important differences.
  • Build a simple budget, pricing model, or break-even calculator that you can adjust as your numbers change.
  • Review sales or expense data to see what changed, what is driving it, and where to look next.
  • Summarize a contract or lease and prepare a list of questions to ask before signing.

Get better results, avoid common mistakes, and know which tools are worth your time and money.

  • Have AI actually show you how to better use it.
  • Know what business or customer information should never be shared.
  • Ask better questions and improve weak answers instead of settling for the first draft.
  • Give AI basic context about your business so you do not have to explain everything again each time.
  • Choose the right AI for the work you do and know when a free tool is enough.
Getting started

It starts with a free 30-minute chat.

Start here

Just a conversation to start.

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

If we are a good fit, there
are two ways to work together

Option One

The Guided Path

One-on-one sessions, in person or on a live video call. This is not a presentation, but rather a hands-on working session where we work together to use AI to accomplish a task you bring from your business.

Pricing
$300 per 2 hour session

2 hour minimum at $150 per hour

What to expect
  • Bring anything you want to from the most basic AI questions to advanced tasks.
  • We go at your pace and comfort level, not mine.
  • You may optionally record and keep the session for your reference.
  • After the session, receive a summary of everything we talked about along with coaching tips to help you continue your progress.
  • Expect to walk away more informed, comfortable, and capable of doing AI tasks.
Example topics
  • Choosing the right AI for you (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) and what built-in tools each one offers to consider.
  • How to talk to AI to get high quality, reliable results.
  • Ensuring you and your team keep your data safe when working with AI.
  • Setting up basic automations to immediately speed up your day.
Option two

The Easy Button

You want expert help, but don't want to be too hands on yourself. Ultimately, you just want something that works well and accomplishes your goals. I build the solution that delivers your desired results.

Pricing
$500 - $3K typical project range

All projects get firm bid

What to Expect
  • We discuss what you are trying to accomplish and why. It could be your idea for a cool new offering for your customers...or mundane administrative headaches you are trying to eliminate for your team.
  • I give you a firm price and clear project scope to deliver a custom solution to get you the outcomes you want.
  • I build it, give you documentation to keep, and show you how to use it (if it's not fully automated).
  • 6 months of direct support included.
Example projects
  • Update your company website as often as you like simply by talking to your custom AI agent.
  • Reliably create your own great looking, graphical ads and flyers that use your language, your colors, your logos.
  • Eliminate paid subscriptions by building DIY tools that only do what you need.
  • Remove countless manual steps from documents you have to build or update, like Word and Excel docs
  • Get your existing tools to talk to one another to eliminate manual steps.
Who you'd be working with

Hi, I'm Wayne.

Wayne, Remarka

Remarka is my digital consulting business, based in St. Louis, where I help small businesses and nonprofits put AI to practical use.

I've spent nearly thirty years in technology across Fortune 100 companies, small businesses, and startups.

Over the past year, I've gone all-in on AI, leaving my technology leadership role at Cisco to focus full-time on making a meaningful impact on local businesses and neighbors.

I'm not here to peddle services or technology. You need tools that save you time, solve real problems, and help you get more done. That is what I am here to help with.

Organizations I've worked with

30+

organizations have brought me in from the outside. A few of them:

28+

years of expertise developed across top technology organizations

Before you book

Common questions.

No. These sessions are specifically for people who are not technical.

You just tell me what you want to accomplish in plain words and I will step you through it. Ultimately we will get you to a point where your use of AI is at the same level of complexity as sending an email or adding events your online calendar.

It depends.

I prioritize what can be accomplished in free tools and plenty of people never pay additional subscriptions. 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.

Most AI tools have paid tiers with higher tiers unlocking more capabilities. Some capabilities, such as having AI talk to your calendar or your email require a higher tier from the AI company. For example, connectiong ChatGPT to your Gmail (as of Aug 2026) requires ChatGPT's Plus plan.

Either way, you'll know the cost before we start, and you're never locked into anything.

It depends.

You are in complete control of what you share with AI. I'll give you the straight facts on what's safe to share and what isn't, and you decide how much of your data goes in.

Nothing sensitive has to be shared for this to be worth doing, and you approve anything before it goes anywhere. As we work together, whenever there's a real decision about your data, I'll walk you through the tradeoffs so you're choosing with the full picture.

If an article or YouTube video gets you where you need to be, I say go for it! Learning to use AI is worth doing sooner rather than later, however you pick it up.

What I offer is the one-on-one help, someone sitting with you on your actual work, whether you are asking your very first question or building something ambitious.

YouTubers are after views, promise big things in minimal time, and leave you to understand it all and connect the dots in your own work, which is exactly where most people stall, especially when they start hitting roadblocks.

My model is the opposite approach: One-on-one, white glove, guided help. You skip the countless hours of trial and error (I was there once too!) and end every session far more capable than the session before.

AI is new, but building useful technology is not new to me.

I've spent my career building software and technology products inside startups, small businesses, and publicly traded companies, where budgets reached into the millions, timelines were aggressive, and the work had to hold up under scrutiny.

I've personally worked as a designer, programmer, product manager, researcher, and technology leader. That experience taught me how to take a mess, define the right problem, challenge assumptions, catch work that only looks correct, test whether something actually works, and make smart tradeoffs when time and money matter.

AI can make building things faster, but it does not replace that judgment. You are not hiring me simply because I learned AI. You are hiring me because I know how dependable technology gets built well.

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.

Book a free 30-minute chat Or text me: (636) 388-8832