⚓ Built for the Gulf Coast

A working AI operator, inside your shop by Monday.

GCAS builds simple, done-for-you AI workflows that handle the busywork drowning Gulf Coast small businesses — missed calls, quote follow-ups, reviews, scheduling, invoices. Local. Fixed fees. No shelfware.

Easy as pie. Pick a workflow, we install it.

  • Missed call? Customer gets a text in 60 seconds.
  • Every quote followed up until it's won or lost.
  • Happy customers asked for a Google review, on autopilot.
  • No-shows cut with smart appointment reminders.
  • A plain-English brief on your business every Monday.
60 secmissed-call text-back
3 pkgsfixed price, no hourly
1–2 wktypical install
100%locally operated
The problem

You didn't start your business to do paperwork at 9pm.

Quoting, scheduling, follow-up, review responses, invoices, social posts. The admin never ends, and you've heard AI can help but you don't have time to learn ten new tools. GCAS is the local operator who shows up, listens, and hands you a working system you can actually use.

🔧 Trades & home services
🦷 Dental & medical practices
🍽️ Restaurants & hospitality
🏠 Real estate teams
🛍️ Independent retail
💼 Professional services
The fit

Built for owners, not enterprises.

GCAS is the right call if you're an independently owned Gulf Coast business doing roughly $500K–$5M, with 3–30 people, at least one painful weekly workflow, and an owner who makes the decisions. We stay in our lane: operations workflows, fixed fees, working systems — not slide decks, not custom software, not shelfware.

Easy-as-pie workflows

Pick a slice. We install it, test it with your real data, and hand you a runbook.

Each one is a productized, repeatable build — proven on real Gulf Coast operations, deployed in days, not months.

📞

Missed-Call Text-Back

Every missed call gets an instant, friendly text so the lead never goes cold. Books the job while your competitor is still on voicemail.

Recovers 20–40% of missed leads
Best for: trades, salons, auto, restaurants
🧾

Quote & Estimate Follow-Up

Open quotes get a polite, automatic nudge sequence until they're won or lost. No more deals dying in the inbox.

Saves ~1 hr/day · lifts close rate
Best for: HVAC, contractors, dental, B2B services

Review Request + Reply Autopilot

Happy customers get a one-tap Google review link after the job, and every review gets a drafted reply in your voice for approval.

Saves 2 hrs/wk · raises your rating
Best for: anyone with a Google profile
📥

Front-Desk Inbox Triage

Incoming email is sorted, summarized, and answered with drafted replies — only what truly needs you lands on your desk.

Saves 1–2 hrs/day
Best for: clinics, professional & real estate offices
📅

Appointment Reminder & No-Show Reducer

Automatic confirmations, reminders, and easy rebooking so the chair, table, or truck slot doesn't sit empty.

Cuts no-shows 30–50%
Best for: dental, salons, services, hospitality
📣

Social & Content on Autopilot

Snap a job photo; get a week of ready-to-post captions and images for Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Your Sunday night back.

Saves 2–3 hrs/wk
Best for: restaurants, retail, trades
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Invoice & Payment Chaser

Outstanding invoices get a friendly, automatic follow-up cadence until they're paid. Faster cash, fewer write-offs, zero awkward calls.

Gets you paid days sooner
Best for: any business that invoices
📊

Monday Morning Owner Brief

Last week's leads, jobs, cash, and reviews pulled into one plain-English brief in your inbox every Monday at 6am. No spreadsheets.

Clarity in 5 minutes
Best for: every owner
🎯

AI Lead Qualifier

Every form lead gets scored against your criteria the second it comes in — budget, fit, and need. Qualified leads get an instant booking link, you get a text alert, and the rest get logged and skipped.

Cuts wasted sales calls
Best for: contractors, real estate, dental, professional services
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Don't see yours?

If it's a repetitive weekly task, it can probably be a workflow. We'll map it in your free call and tell you straight if it's a fit.

Ask about a custom slice →
How it works

Three steps. No mystery, no retainer trap.

1

Readiness Assessment

We walk your operation, inventory your systems, map your three biggest time-drains, and hand you a written roadmap ranking each AI opportunity by time saved and cost. One to two weeks.

2

Build & Activation

We install the workflows from the roadmap, test them with your real data while you watch, and hand you a plain-English runbook for everything we built. Two to six weeks.

3

Managed Agentic Services

We run, tune, and expand your stack every month so it keeps working as your business changes — and we add new workflows as you grow. Month to month after the first six.

Pricing

Fixed fees. A number before any work starts.

Mom-and-pops hate hourly billing and so do we. Every engagement has a price on it up front. Start small with a single workflow, or get the full roadmap.

Start here

Initial Call Consult — “How To Ride A Bike”

Teaching you the basics and you can go as fast or slow as you want.

$500 / 1 hour
Book the consult

The Pie Slice

$1,500 flat
One workflow, installed and running in about a week. The fastest way to feel the difference.
  • Any single workflow from the menu — or a custom one built for your business
  • Setup, testing with your data
  • Plain-English runbook
  • 30 days of tuning included
Start with a slice
Most popular

Readiness + Build

$2,500 assessment
The roadmap, then the build. Assessment fee credits toward your Build. Build runs $6,500–$18,000 by scope.
  • Full operation & systems audit
  • Ranked AI opportunity roadmap
  • Multiple workflows built & activated
  • Team training + runbooks
  • Assessment fee credited to Build
Book the assessment

Managed Agentic Services

$1,500–$3,500 / mo
We operate, tune, and expand your stack every month. Six-month minimum, then month to month.
  • Ongoing operation & monitoring
  • Monthly tuning + new workflows
  • Priority support, real human
  • Monthly written status report
  • Three tiers by workflow count
Talk retainers
Build tiersStarter ~$6,500 · Core ~$11,000 · Full Kitchen ~$18,000, by number of workflows and integrations.
Add-onsExtra training $500 / 1-hour session.
SoftwareThird-party licenses billed at cost +10% admin fee, or you bring your own keys.
Why it's priced this way:the Slice removes the risk of trying it, the Assessment pays for itself by aiming the Build at the right problems, and the retainer is what keeps the system working long after install. The wrong client is more expensive than no client — if the entry point isn't a fit, we'll point you to free tools instead.
Premium build add-on

Lead-to-Proposal Autopilot

For businesses where one lead is worth real money, we extend the AI Lead Qualifier into a full closer. An AI voice agent calls the lead within minutes of their form submission, asks the questions your intake form can't, and researches their company before the call so the pitch sounds like it came from someone who did their homework. From that call, AI drafts a custom proposal, sends it for e-signature, and your CRM updates itself the moment it's signed.

  • ✓ AI outbound qualifying call, minutes after the lead comes in
  • ✓ Auto-researched talking points before every call
  • ✓ AI-drafted, e-signed proposal, sent automatically
  • ✓ Deal stage updates itself in your CRM
Best for: contractors, real estate teams, financial & insurance advisors, dental and med spa practices — anywhere a lead or consult is worth real money. Built into the Core and Full Kitchen Build tiers.
Ask if this fits your business →
Additional service

Custom-Built Website

Need a new site to go with your workflows? We'll design and build a fast, modern website for your business — like this one. Simple one-pagers, multi-page marketing sites, or something more complex. You own the code and the domain.

  • ✓ Fast, modern site built on the same stack as this one
  • ✓ Mobile-first, SEO-ready, HTTPS out of the box
  • ✓ Contact forms, booking links, image galleries — whatever you need
  • ✓ Hosted for free on Vercel, deploys in a day
Per quote
Message me for a quote →
Pete Blankenship with his family
Who you're hiring

Pete Blankenship, Founder

Pete is a Gulf Coast sales and technology operator who spends his days helping Southeast businesses adopt new tools that actually get used. GCAS is the practice he built to put that same capability inside Gulf Coast family-owned shops — at a price they can afford. One local operator, accountable to you, who ships working systems instead of slide decks.

Local first. Fixed fees. Working systems.Serving the Gulf Coast
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Tell us the task that eats your week.

Fill out the form and Pete will get back to you within one business day with a straight answer: whether it's a fit, what it would take, and what it would cost — before you spend a dime.

  • Free 20-minute fit call, no obligation
  • A fixed price before any work starts
  • If we're not the right fit, we'll point you to free tools instead
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