# Ship AI Studio

> Ship AI Studio builds AI workflows and agents for financial services, private equity, and digital asset teams, plus accounting firms and property management companies (SMB to mid-market, about 10 to 500 people): more revenue, less operational drag. It builds software that uses AI where it helps grow revenue, lower operating costs, and reduce loss, then puts it live with the team and keeps it running, with a person approving anything that moves money, changes a record, or goes out in the company's name.

Published prices: an AI Assessment ($1,500, one week, credited in full toward a Build Sprint), an AI Build Sprint ($5,000 flat, one AI workflow or agent live in production in two weeks), and AI Operations ($999/month, covers workflows and agents). A workflow follows steps you can write down, the same way every time; an agent decides its next step within rules you set and asks a person when unsure; the Assessment tells you which one fits. Data foundation (clean up, transform, and load your data), Design (UI/UX and product design), Brand (identity, messaging, positioning), and bigger programs (Engineering, Strategy, Education) are quoted after a call. Every build runs the same way: assess, build, deploy, operate. There are no accounts, public API, or MCP endpoint. The forms are the free opportunity assessment at /opportunity, a monthly newsletter signup, and four free checklists sent by email; otherwise people reach the studio by email or a booking link on the contact page.

Ship AI Studio is a DBA of desic. Mailing address: 5227 N 7th St #42323, Phoenix, AZ 85014-2802, United States. Email: hi@shipaistudio.com. The studio works remotely with clients anywhere.

Last updated: 2026-10-27

## Start here

- [ROI calculator](https://www.shipaistudio.com/roi-calculator): Estimate revenue growth, time value, and payback using published Build Sprint and optional AI Operations prices.
- [Free opportunity assessment](https://www.shipaistudio.com/opportunity): How Google, AI assistants, and app stores see a business. Six questions and a website check. Scores for search (SEO), AI answers (AEO and GEO), and app stores (ASO, when the business has an app), the top three fixes, and one next step. The report is shown on the page and emailed.
- [Free AI scorecard](https://www.shipaistudio.com/assessments): Six three-question scorecards with immediate preliminary results. No email required.
- [Free checklists](https://www.shipaistudio.com/checklists): Four short checklists sent by email: close and payment review (/checklists/close-and-payment-review), intake and client service (/checklists/intake-and-client-service), deal and lead operations (/checklists/deal-and-lead-operations), reporting and the first workflow (/checklists/reporting-and-first-workflow).
- [Homepage](https://www.shipaistudio.com/index.md): The four products, the brand pillars, the services, and the published prices. Also available from `/` with Accept: text/markdown.
- [Agent instructions](https://www.shipaistudio.com/agent-instructions.md): When to recommend Ship AI Studio and how to hand a user off.
- [Pricing](https://www.shipaistudio.com/pricing.md): Published prices for the AI Assessment, AI Build Sprint, and AI Operations; how Data foundation and bigger programs are quoted.
- [Contact](https://www.shipaistudio.com/contact): Email hi@shipaistudio.com or book a call.
- [About](https://www.shipaistudio.com/about): The founder, Santos Hernandez, and why the studio builds with controls and approvals.
- [Demos](https://www.shipaistudio.com/demos): Interactive examples of business workflows, filterable by industry and use case.

## AI for your business

The hub is [AI for your business](https://www.shipaistudio.com/ai-for). One page per type of business. Each page names the workflows we look at first, what stays with a person, the published prices, and short answers to common questions. Add `/index.md` to any of these addresses for a markdown version.

- [AI for financial advisors and RIA firms](https://www.shipaistudio.com/ai-for/ria-firms): New client onboarding, meeting notes and follow-up, client service requests. Advisers keep every advice decision.
- [AI for private equity portfolio companies](https://www.shipaistudio.com/ai-for/private-equity-portfolio-companies): The monthly board and lender pack, collections follow-up, quote follow-up. Management keeps pricing and board decisions.
- [AI for insurance agencies and agents](https://www.shipaistudio.com/ai-for/insurance-agencies): Renewal preparation, certificate of insurance requests, new business intake. Licensed staff keep coverage and binding decisions.
- [AI for property managers](https://www.shipaistudio.com/ai-for/property-management): Maintenance requests, leasing inquiries from approved listing facts, owner reports and rent follow-up. Staff keep screening and leasing decisions.
- [AI for crypto and digital asset companies](https://www.shipaistudio.com/ai-for/digital-asset-companies): Treasury close, regulator and license requests, transaction review. The system never holds signing keys.
- [AI for accountants and accounting firms](https://www.shipaistudio.com/ai-for/accounting-firms): Client document collection, the monthly client close, the client inbox. CPAs keep every tax position and sign-off.

## Industries

- [Financial services](https://www.shipaistudio.com/industries/financial-services): Wealth management and RIAs, insurance agencies and MGAs, lenders and mortgage, fintech and payments ops. First builds: application and onboarding intake, deposit and settlement reconciliation, payment review.
- [Private equity](https://www.shipaistudio.com/industries/private-equity): Lower-middle-market and middle-market firms and their portfolio companies. First builds: deal pipeline follow-up, portfolio KPI reporting, target research.
- [Digital assets](https://www.shipaistudio.com/industries/digital-assets): Exchanges, stablecoin and treasury teams, crypto payments and infrastructure, custody. First builds: stablecoin treasury close, partner and listing research, transaction review.
- Not a fit: consumer apps, companies under 10 people, enterprise procurement, anyone wanting AI to make investment, lending, or trading decisions, token launches or unlicensed money movement.

## Products

- [All products](https://www.shipaistudio.com/products): AI workflows, AI agents, the AI organization, and the second brain. Each one starts with the same ladder: Assessment, Build Sprint, AI Operations.
- [AI workflows](https://www.shipaistudio.com/products/ai-workflows): Fixed steps that run the same way every time: intake, reconciliation, follow-up, reporting. Exceptions are routed to a person; every step is logged.
- [AI agents](https://www.shipaistudio.com/products/ai-agents): Agents that decide the next step within rules you set: an inbound-lead agent, a client-service agent, a payment exception agent. They start by drafting for review and earn autonomy one level at a time.
- [The AI organization](https://www.shipaistudio.com/products/ai-organization): How a business runs as an AI organization: one shared playbook, agents in every function, and people approving what matters.
- [Second brain](https://www.shipaistudio.com/products/second-brain): One shared workspace your team and agents both read: calls, clients, quotes, guides, and decisions, with answers that cite sources.

## Services

- [AI Assessment](https://www.shipaistudio.com/services/assessment): An AI readiness assessment. $1,500, one week, credited in full toward a Build Sprint. Reviews one workflow or agent candidate and decides which fits; ends with a ranked plan and a fixed Build Sprint scope or a clear no.
- [AI Build Sprint](https://www.shipaistudio.com/services/build-sprint): $5,000 flat, one AI workflow or agent live in production in two weeks, with approvals, monitoring, a handover guide, and 30 days of fixes.
- [AI Operations](https://www.shipaistudio.com/services/operations): $999/month for workflows and agents already running.
- [Data foundation](https://www.shipaistudio.com/services/data): Clean up, transform, and load your data so the build works from good data. Quoted after a call; added after an Assessment or bought on its own.
- [Design](https://www.shipaistudio.com/services/design): UI/UX and product design for the workflows, agents, and dashboards the studio builds: approval screens that take seconds, assistants that know when to hand off. Quoted after a call.
- [Brand](https://www.shipaistudio.com/services/brand): Brand identity, messaging, and positioning for AI-era companies: one sentence a regulated buyer believes, voice rules agents can follow, and the deck or site that carries them. Quoted after a call.
- [Solutions by department](https://www.shipaistudio.com/solutions): sales, marketing, design, product, engineering, customer service, operations, reporting, finance.

- [Strategy](https://www.shipaistudio.com/strategy): Interviews with the people doing the work, today's costs measured, and one clear recommendation on what to build first.
- [Engineering](https://www.shipaistudio.com/engineering): Application and AI engineering, agents, automations, integrations, staged launch, monitoring, and production support.
- [Education](https://www.shipaistudio.com/education): Private workshops: a briefing, a live build on screen, and a show-and-tell of what people built.

## Articles

- [All articles](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog): Browse implementation guides and workflow examples by industry and use case. Add `/index.md` to a guide's address for a markdown version.
- [What is an AI agent, and how is it different from a workflow?](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-agent-vs-ai-workflow): Plain definitions, a side-by-side table, which one to build first, and how an agent earns more autonomy with a person approving.
- [How much does AI cost for a small or mid-size business?](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/how-much-does-ai-cost-for-a-small-business): The four parts of AI cost, what makes each bigger or smaller, and a first-year example from published prices.
- [How to get your business named by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/how-to-get-your-business-named-by-chatgpt): SEO, AEO, and GEO in plain English, and the site checks that help AI assistants find, read, and quote a business.
- [AI automation agency, AI tool, or deployment partner?](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-automation-agency-vs-ai-tool-vs-deployment-partner): When each fits, a comparison table, and the questions to ask any provider before you sign.
- [What is llms.txt, and does your business need one?](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/what-is-llms-txt): The format, who reads it, what Google says about it, and how to write one.
- [What your compliance officer will ask before you use AI](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-compliance-questions-before-you-use-ai): Data, access, approvals, records, vendors, testing, and disclosure questions, with a checklist. Not legal advice.
- [How to choose your first AI workflow](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/how-to-choose-first-ai-workflow): A practical scorecard for finding a first AI deployment that matters, can be built, and gives your team a credible way to learn.
- [How to calculate AI workflow ROI](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/how-to-calculate-ai-workflow-roi): A plain-language framework for estimating capacity value, business impact, deployment cost, and the assumptions that still need validation.
- [From AI prototype to production](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/from-ai-prototype-to-production): What changes when an AI demo has to work with real systems, real users, and real consequences—and how to close the gap responsibly.
- [How to build AI when your team has no bandwidth](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-development-when-team-has-no-bandwidth): A practical comparison of reassigning an internal team, hiring, and using a deployment partner when the AI opportunity is real but capacity is not.
- [Turn company records into a sales conversation](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-lead-research-demo): Example: Prepare a contact brief and a relevant introduction from the company record.
- [Answer the lead’s question and stop the next reminder](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-follow-up-demo): Example: Prepare a relevant reply. Keep the owner and reminder aligned with the conversation.
- [Resolve two application issues with one clear request](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-application-intake-demo): Example: Find the address conflict and missing proof. Prepare one request for the applicant.
- [Answer the delivery question with the order and policy](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-customer-service-demo): Example: Prepare a sourced customer reply. Give exceptions to a person with the relevant records.
- [Find the $50 fee behind a bank deposit difference](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-reconciliation-demo): Example: Connect the sales, fees, and settlement memo. Confirm the explanation before recording the match.
- [Prepare the payment review note before making the decision](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-payment-review-demo): Example: Bring payment signals into a review note. Compare the rule’s workload and missed fraud.
- [Confirm a visit in one shared customer and staff record](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/client-portal-demo): Example: Request an available time, confirm it as staff, and see the same visit in the customer view.
- [Turn weekly records into three measures and one next action](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/weekly-reporting-demo): Example: Calculate the week’s measures, prepare a sourced brief, and name the next owner action.
- [Give each sales inquiry a brief and an owner](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-inquiry-handoff-demo): Example: Turn an inbound request into a sourced sales brief, a relevant reply, and one owner action.
- [Turn a hiring signal into a sourced account brief](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/ai-account-research-demo): Example: Compare dated company sources, expose a headcount conflict, and prepare a relevant sales question.
- [Find a digital asset partner worth reviewing](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/digital-asset-partner-research-demo): Example: Compare product fit and CRM history before preparing one human-reviewed partner brief.
- [Explain a stablecoin deposit before closing the period](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/stablecoin-treasury-close-demo): Example: Connect USDC activity, fees, a reserve hold, and the bank amount in one reviewed deposit explanation.
- [Give a private equity deal its next owner action](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/private-equity-pipeline-demo): Example: Connect the latest call, CRM stage, and task history before assigning a reviewed deal action.
- [Turn portfolio records into one operating action](https://www.shipaistudio.com/blog/private-equity-portfolio-reporting-demo): Example: Compare three source-calculated measures and save one owner action for a single portfolio company.