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We map your operation and where AI fits — and where it doesn't.
AI consultancy for small businesses
AI agents went from 12% to 66% task success in a year. Most businesses still haven't deployed one.
We close that gap — custom automations, dashboards, and knowledge hubs built into the tools you already run. Hotclaw is an AI consultancy for small businesses: we design the system, build it, and run it with you.
HotScout is our AI intake — a 10-minute structured conversation that maps where AI fits your business. A human reads every transcript.
Automations·Ops dashboards·Client hubs·Content pipelines·Tool integrations (MCP)·Knowledge wikis
We build with — and for —
Claude
OpenAI
Supabase
Cursor
Obsidian
Granada House
Plan Prepare Home
Hermes
The window is real.
The research says the same thing operators feel: the technology moved faster than deployment. The advantage belongs to businesses that turn experiments into working systems.
Capability outran adoption.
Agent task success went from 12% to 66% in a year; only 2% of companies have fully deployed one.
Read the article →Most pilots die.
88% of AI pilots never reach production — the failure is deployment, not technology.
Read the article →Per-seat software is unwinding.
What replaces tool sprawl is built, not bought.
Read the article →How we engage.
The order matters. We diagnose before building, build only when the work is clear, and operate the system with the same discipline we use inside our own companies.
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Build
A fixed-scope system: agents, automations, dashboards — approval-gated by default.
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Operate
We run it with you: monitoring, guardrails, iteration.
How engagements work →Run like infrastructure.
- Approval gatesAgents draft. A human approves before anything reaches a client.
- GuardrailsKnown-bad actions are blocked before they leave the system.
- Audit logsTool calls and approvals leave a record operators can inspect.
- MonitoringThe system is watched, adjusted, and reported on as it runs.
Start with a conversation.
HotScout asks the right questions in about 10 minutes. We read every transcript and reply within a business day.