All this AI noise.
One honest signal.
I'm Preston Earnest. I analyze how your business actually runs, tell you which AI tools are worth it — and which ones aren't — build what's missing, and teach your team until they own it.
move your cursor — cut through the noise
The Busywork Bill
Tap the tasks that sound like your week.
These are jobs AI quietly does well today. Select the ones your team still does by hand and watch the meter climb. This little tool works the same way I build tools for clients — live, useful, no fluff.
Your busywork is costing about
$0
per year · $0/week
Tap tasks on the left to start the meter.
Your hourly cost × 50 working weeks. Honest math — no scare tactics.
Send Preston my numbers →The flagship
Your team already uses AI — in six places that don't talk.
This is the heart of what I do. I streamline the AI your team is already using, bring your data together so every tool runs on the same information, and build custom tools where nothing off the shelf connects the dots. One system, one source of truth — no more copy-paste between apps.
After Earnestly AI
One system.
One source of truth.
- Every tool your team touches reads the same data
- Custom connectors and tools built where nothing fits
- Fewer subscriptions, not more — streamlined on purpose
- Your team trained on one workflow, not six
The part nobody mentions
Your team is already using AI. Do you know what they're pasting into it?
Customer lists, pricing, contracts, financials — typed into free chatbots on personal accounts, where you can't see it and can't get it back. Nobody's being careless on purpose. They just were never given a safe way to do it.
Company data walks out the door quietly.
Free AI accounts can keep — and learn from — whatever your team types in. Once your customer info or pricing goes into one, you no longer control where it lives.
Every employee is improvising.
Without a plain-English policy, each person decides for themselves what's safe to paste into a chatbot. Some will guess right. It only takes one guessing wrong.
The work lives in personal logins.
Prompts, chats, and workflows sit in accounts your business doesn't own. When someone leaves, everything they built with AI leaves with them.
The fix isn't banning AI — it's owning it
Locked down, not locked out.
- Business-grade accounts with training on your data turned off
- A plain-English AI policy your team can actually follow
- Training on what's safe to share and what never leaves the building
- Everything under logins your company owns and controls
This check is built into every Earnestly Audit — most owners are surprised by what we find in week one.
How it works
Evaluate. Engineer. Equip.
I analyze your business from the inside.
Not a survey. Not a sales call. I work alongside you and your team, see how the work actually gets done, and deliver straight verdicts: what's worth adopting, what to skip, what each choice really costs — and where company data is slipping into tools you don't control.
I unify your stack and build what's missing.
The AI you already use gets connected around one set of data. What's wasting money gets cut. Where nothing off the shelf fits, I engineer the custom tool that does.
I train your team until it's second nature.
Hands-on sessions built around your actual workflow — drawing on my years training at Apple. The capability lives in your building, and I stay in your corner as long as you want me there.
Straight answers
The AI aisle is crowded. Most of it isn't for you.
Every vendor, ad, and podcast is selling you more. My job is to sort it — in plain English, for your business, not the latest trend.
Worth your money Adopt
- Tools that erase a task you do every single week
- One assistant your whole team actually uses
- A small custom tool built for how you quote, schedule, or follow up
- Training — so the capability stays when I leave
The Not-To-Do List Skip
- Twelve subscriptions your team opened once
- The all-in-one platform that takes six months to set up
- Whatever went viral on LinkedIn this week
- Anything that makes you dependent on the person who sold it
Ways to work together
Start small. Every dollar counts toward the next step.
Start here
The Earnestly Audit
$3,000 · credited if we continue
Two weeks. I analyze how your business runs, then hand you a plain-language plan: what to adopt, what to skip, what it costs, what it saves. The plan is yours to keep, whatever you decide next.
- Working sessions with you and your team
- Tool-by-tool verdicts with real costs
- A shadow-AI check: where your data is exposed today
- A build plan you could hand to anyone
The main event
Build & Teach
Scoped by the audit · milestones
90 days. I set up the right tools, build the custom ones your business needs, and train your team workshop-style until it all runs in their hands.
- Your AI stack streamlined into one system
- Custom tools built where nothing connects
- Data locked down under accounts you own
- Hands-on team training — you own everything
Ongoing
Earnestly On Call
Monthly retainer
Your AI advisor, on call. A standing partnership: I keep your system sharp, vet what's new, and give you a straight answer before you sign anything AI-related.
- Monthly working session with your team
- "Should I buy this?" hotline
- Your system tuned as your business grows
Who you're hiring
A teacher who builds — not a salesman who talks.
Preston Earnest
Founder, Earnestly AI
- Former Apple trainer — years of making technology make sense to regular people
- Builds real software: shipped App Store apps, web platforms, and AI pipelines
- Small-business operator himself — knows what a wasted month costs
I've spent my career doing two things: building tools and teaching people to use them. At Apple, I learned how to take something intimidating and make it feel simple. Since then I've built and shipped my own software — apps, websites, automation pipelines — for my own businesses and others'.
Earnestly AI points those two skills at one problem: business owners who know AI matters but are tired of the noise. I'm honest, I build real things, and I measure my work one way — whether your business saves time, saves money, and earns more because of it.
Talk to Preston
Tell me what's eating your week. I'll give you a straight answer.
No pitch deck, no pressure. A short call to see whether I can genuinely help — and if I can't, I'll tell you that too.
I read every one of these myself and I'll reply personally. Talk soon. — Preston