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Ipswich River AI · Consulting & Automation

# We built AI agents to run a nursery. We can build the same for your business.

We design AI agents that handle the repetitive operational work small businesses don’t have time for — customer messaging, social media drafting, scheduling, reporting. You stay in charge. The agents do the grunt work.

[Book a 30-min discovery call](https://ipswichriver.ai/contact?hsLang=en)[See how it works ↓](https://ipswichriver.ai#how-it-works)

## How it works

Three steps from discovery call to agents running in your business.

1

### We understand your business

A 30-minute call. What’s eating your time? What do you keep meaning to automate but never quite get to? Which parts of your job would you actually want to hand off?

2

### We build 3–5 agents for you

A 4–6 week setup sprint. We integrate with the tools you already use — Gmail, HubSpot, Square, Toast, Gcal — and tune agents to your voice. You review every draft before it goes out.

3

### We keep them tuned

A monthly retainer keeps your agents current. When your business shifts, the agents shift with it. You get a short status report each month showing what they did.

Real proof — our own business

## Built and tested on our own business

Before we sold this to anyone, we ran it for ourselves.

Ipswich River Growers is a small nursery in Reading, Massachusetts. It runs on a fleet of AI agents: inventory tracking, Monday-morning social posts, customer messaging across Instagram and Facebook Marketplace, CSA member communications, and a weekly operations report.

One person runs it in the evenings and weekends. The agents handle the rest.

[Read the full case study →](https://ipswichriver.ai/case-studies/growers?hsLang=en)

Inventory tracking

Auto-updated each week from sale data

Monday social posts

Drafted and queued automatically, reviewed before posting

Customer messaging

Instagram and Facebook Marketplace DM triage

Weekly operations report

Sales, messages, inventory — one page, every Sunday

## Transparent pricing. No surprises.

Two engagement shapes. Pick the one that fits where your business is today.

Setup-Light

$5,000–$8,000

one-time + **$2,000–$3,000/mo** retainer

For smaller operations that want 2–3 well-tuned agents to start. Ideal for single-location retail, solo professional services, or small trades businesses.

- ✓ 2–3 agents built in 4 weeks
- ✓ Integration with 1–2 existing tools
- ✓ Monthly retainer: ongoing tuning + status report

[See if this fits →](https://ipswichriver.ai/services#light)

Setup-Standard

$9,000–$15,000

one-time + **$3,000–$5,000/mo** retainer

For multi-channel or multi-team businesses. More integrations, richer workflows, quarterly strategy review included.

- ✓ 3–5 agents built in 6 weeks
- ✓ Integration with 3–5 existing tools
- ✓ Quarterly roadmap, priority support, workflow optimization

[See if this fits →](https://ipswichriver.ai/services#standard)

## Who we work with

✓

### A good fit

- 1–20 employees
- Owner-operated or thin management layer
- Tech-curious but not tech-staffed
- Within about 30 miles of Reading, MA
- Values craft and wants to keep it
- Ready to invest in tools that save 5+ hours a week

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### Not a fit (yet)

- Healthcare, financial advisory, or compliance-heavy businesses
- Companies with more than 50 employees
- Digital-native SaaS companies (you’ve got engineers)
- Businesses where AI would erode what makes them good

## Want to see if this fits your business?

A 30-minute call. No slides. We’ll look at what’s eating your time, show you how our agents work, and you’ll leave with a clear sense of whether this is worth your time — either way.

[Book a discovery call](https://ipswichriver.ai/contact?hsLang=en)

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AI agents for small businesses on Massachusetts’ North Shore. Based in Reading, MA.

A practitioner’s AI consultancy. We build, we run, we show you.

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