gotcb.comBash · Build · Go
These are not websites · Memphis · Oxford

Bash. Build. Go.

They look like websites. They are not. The website is the visible edge — underneath is a harness for intake, routing, calendars, payments, the customer record, and the next thing that needs to happen. The old promise of software was efficiency. The better promise is memory.

Who's actually doing the work

Run by a lawyer with a JD + LL.M. in tax and fifteen years of operating restaurants, bars, construction projects, and law practices. The work we do for you is the work we've done for ourselves. Not the AI-bro flooding LinkedIn with a one-week course. The operator who has lived inside your kind of problem.

01 / Audit · $1,500

The Audit

Five business days of close attention to how your business actually runs. Then a written report — your real problem, in your words, mapped to specific off-the-shelf tools that solve it.

You get: a written assessment · an effort-vs-impact matrix · a recommended tool list (grounded in live AI directories — no hallucinated software) · the upsell menu, priced in writing · a 60-minute walkthrough.

$1,500 credited toward any Implementation if you proceed within 60 days.

Fixed scope · 5 business days · $1,500Book →
02 / Build · $3K–$25K+

The Implementation

A harness. Not a website. Scoped from the audit. Built to be owned. The intake, the routing, the schedule, the payment, the customer record, the contract logic — wired into one rail your team can actually use.

Process & workflow optimization$3K–$5K
Zapier / Make automation builds$1K–$3K
Custom GPT knowledge systems$3K–$8K
Counter / Studio / Artists harness$8K–$25K
Speed-to-lead AI agent$2K + revenue share
From a week to a quarterSee examples →
The method · same for every audit

Interview. Map. Deliver.

No vague "AI strategy session." A real, structured method we run for every customer. Five business days, one written report, public price, named tools.

01 · DAY 1

Interview

We talk to you, your operators, and — if you'll let us — two or three of your customers. Recorded with permission. The output is a transcript: your real problem, in your real words.

Done in person where possible. Phone if not. No vendor-templated discovery call. The listening is the first deliverable.

02 · DAYS 2–4

Map

Every opportunity gets plotted on an effort-vs-impact matrix — quick wins one quadrant, heavier lifts another. AI-tool recommendations are grounded in live directories (Futurepedia, There's An AI For That) so nothing's stale or hallucinated. Real tools matched to real problems.

Where there's no off-the-shelf fit, we say so. No "AI everywhere." Where there is, we name it by name.

03 · DAY 5

Deliver

A written report. The matrix. The recommended tools with our short notes on each. The upsell menu, priced in writing. Plus a 60-minute walkthrough where we read it together and you ask whatever.

The report is yours. Take it to your next vendor. Implement it yourself. Or graduate to a build. Your call.

Time saved · money kept · in production now
~8 hrs

/ week clawed back at a Memphis event venue after the booking + door-count harness shipped

2

markets running on one Spanish-first operating system for a women-led cleaning business

5 yrs

of moving jobs at a 2-bartenders-and-a-truck Memphis operation that now books online + auto-deposits

2 / 50

states shipped on an open-source child-support calculator; forty-eight to go

The old promise of software was efficiency. The better promise is memory.

The customers

Six businesses. Real names. Real harnesses.

Most businesses do not fail because no one had an idea. They fail because the idea keeps asking the same tired person to remember everything.

Read the full piece →
The work

Harnesses we sell. Builds we ship.

Productized harnesses — buy one off the shelf
Direct → subdomain.gotcb.com
★ Flagship · the chassis

Counter

harness.gotcb.com

The operating system for brick-and-mortar businesses. Persona switcher, deep seeded data, an AI sales bot named Cap that listens before it sells. The chassis behind every vertical below.

Build

Counter for Studios

studio.gotcb.com

Multi-tenant intake, consent, and aftercare for tattoo studios. MSDH-compliant. State packs for the rest of the South coming. Pass an inspection by typing a name.

Soon

Counter for Artists

artists.gotcb.com

A specialized harness for solo body artists — tattoo, piercing, PMU, lash, brow. Coil at the front door, Inky in the back. Stop being your own receptionist at 11pm.

Selected work — case studies on gotcb.com, live where they live
Card → /work/[name] → external
URL strategy
  • Products → subdomain.gotcb.com (direct).
  • Work → gotcb.com/work/[slug] → outbound to the live URL.
  • Vanity → short-url.com → 301. Marketing only. Never canonical.
The approach

Rules first. AI where it earns its keep.

01

Rules before models.

Hard-coded logic, plain integrations, code that works the same way every time. The foundation never guesses.

02

AI where it earns its keep.

Telegram agents, plain-English questions, summaries when they're useful. Not running your business in the background. Not billing per token to do basic things.

03

Built to be owned, not rented.

No "only Taylor can edit this." The harness is yours. The credentials are yours. The data is yours.

Start here

Not the website. Not the model. Not the magic. The harness.

The thing that holds just long enough for the people doing the work to keep going. Start with an Audit. If we don't find three things worth fixing in the first hour, you don't pay for it.