Ourios
AI and automation for owner-run businesses

Your business runs on spreadsheets and email. Let's take the busywork off your plate.

I build the systems that handle your follow-ups, data entry and status updates, inside the tools you already use. You keep your spreadsheet. You lose the busywork.

Free first call. Published prices. You own every account.

Inbox06:12

Fwd: FW: load for thurs??

Hi, need a truck Thu AM. Pickup Joliet IL, drop Fort Wayne IN, 38k lbs dry van, $1,450 all in. Ref PO 77812. Thx, Dana

Loads sheet06:12
POPickupDropLbsRateStatus
77790Gary INPeoria IL41,200$1,120Delivered
77812Joliet ILFort Wayne IN38,000$1,450Picked up
Text to Dana14:05
PO 77812 was picked up in Joliet at 2:05 PM. Expected in Fort Wayne by 7:30 PM.
Sound familiar?

Where the hours go

I retype every load from email into the sheet.

An hour or more a day of copying, with a typo waiting somewhere in every batch.

Quotes sit for days because I can't get to them.

The customer who asked on Monday signed with someone else on Wednesday.

Customers call to ask where their order is.

Every one of those calls is a question your spreadsheet already knows the answer to.

What I build

Five systems that give owners their hours back

Five systems I build again and again, set up for your business. Most clients start with one.

Inbox to sheet

Today

Orders, tenders and requests arrive by email and PDF. Someone retypes them.

With Ourios

AI reads each email and attachment, writes a clean row, and flags anything it isn't sure about.

Quote drafter

Today

Quotes wait until you have a free evening. Each one starts from a blank page.

With Ourios

Your notes or a short form go in. A branded draft comes out for you to check and send.

Follow-up engine

Today

Leads and unpaid invoices go quiet because nobody remembered to chase them.

With Ourios

Timed, polite emails and texts go out based on a status column. Nobody falls through.

Status texts

Today

Customers call to ask where things stand. Your team stops work to look it up.

With Ourios

When a row changes, the customer gets a text or email. The calls stop.

Morning brief

Today

You find out about the problem when it is already a problem.

With Ourios

One message on your phone at 7:30: what's at risk, what's overdue, what needs you today.

Worked example

The log of one load

A day at a 12-truck carrier after an Inbox to Sheet and Status Texts build. Blue marks the moments a person decides.

Example business and figures, for illustration.

  1. System

    A shipper emails a load tender with a PDF rate confirmation attached.

  2. System

    The AI reads the PDF and writes a new row: pickup, drop, weight, rate and PO number.

  3. Flagged for you

    The rate is well under what this lane usually pays, so the row is flagged instead of accepted.

  4. System

    Morning brief on the owner's phone: one tender to review, two invoices past 30 days.

  5. You decide

    The owner counters at a higher rate. The confirmation email is drafted from the sheet and sent from his own Gmail.

  6. System

    The driver marks the load picked up. The shipper gets a text with the expected delivery time.

  7. System

    Delivered. An invoice draft lands in QuickBooks, ready for a final look.

How it works and what it costs

Start small, see it work, then keep improving

  1. Step 1

    Discovery call

    Free
    30 minutes

    You walk me through a normal day. I tell you plainly whether I can help.

  2. Step 2

    Busywork Audit

    $1,000
    1 to 2 weeks

    Two working sessions and a written map of your top five fixes, with hours saved and cost. Credited to your first build.

  3. Step 3

    Quick Win

    $3–5k
    2 to 3 weeks, fixed price

    One system built on your real data, with a demo every week, then handed over with a one-page runbook.

  4. Step 4

    Run and Improve

    $750+ / month
    Monthly, cancel anytime

    I watch it, fix it, and add one new improvement each month from your audit list.

Founding clients: my first two clients get the audit free and 40% off their Quick Win, in exchange for a testimonial and an honest case study.

Hours back

What the busywork costs you in a year

15 h
Retyping, chasing, answering status calls, building quotes.
$32
50%
Half is a sensible starting guess. The audit gives you a real number.
Back in your pocket each year
$12,480
Hours back per week7.5 h
Payback on a $4,000 Quick Win17 weeks

Based on 52 working weeks. A rough estimate to start the conversation, not a quote.

Where I draw the line

What I won't do

  • Replace a spreadsheet that worksYour sheet is how the business thinks. I build around it until it truly runs out of room.
  • Let AI talk to your customers uncheckedA person approves what goes out until the system has run cleanly for a month.
  • Hold your dataEverything runs in your accounts, with your keys. If we part ways, you keep all of it.
  • Sell you a chatbot you didn't needIf plain automation solves it, you get plain automation. AI goes where it pays for itself.
  • Disappear after launchEvery build ends with a runbook, a trained team and a way to reach me.
  • Take on health or card dataThose need compliance work that belongs with a specialist firm.
From my engineering work

Systems like these, built for real operations

70%

fewer missed customer messages after I built SMS and in-app messaging for a home services platform.

Hours → min

to set up a new property, once an AI pipeline filled in the details people used to type.

Same day

fix, on site, for a client problem that had been open for four months.

About

Banker turned engineer

I spent nearly four years in commercial banking, reading owners' businesses from the inside: cash flow, margins, where the hours went.

Then I spent six years building the software businesses run on: live fleet tracking, customer messaging, notification systems, and AI that takes data entry off people's desks.

The name: ourios (OO-ree-os) is the Greek word for a fair wind at a ship's back.

Shane Sweeney

Founder

I talk in hours and dollars, I put a price and a date in writing, and I show you a working system before you pay for the next step.

You work with me directly. No account managers, no offshore handoff.

Questions owners ask

Before you book

I'm not technical. Is that a problem?

No. You know your business, and that's the part I can't learn from a manual. I handle the technical side and explain every decision in plain terms.

Do I have to switch tools?

Usually not. I build on Google Sheets, Gmail or Outlook, QuickBooks and the CRM you already pay for. If a tool is holding you back, the audit says so and shows the cost of changing.

Is my data safe?

Your data stays in your own accounts. I use AI services set not to train on your information, and I write down exactly what goes where so you can check it.

What does the AI actually do?

It reads messy things like emails, PDFs and notes, and turns them into clean data, drafts and summaries. A person stays in charge of anything that leaves your business.

What happens if something breaks?

Every system ships with monitoring and a one-page runbook. On a monthly plan, I fix it. Without one, fixes are billed at a fixed rate you'll know in advance.

How fast will I see results?

A Quick Win is live in two to three weeks, and you see a demo on your own data each week before that.

Start here

Tell me what eats your week

Send a few lines and I'll reply within one business day with times for a 30-minute call. No pitch deck, no obligation.

Prefer email? Write to hello@ourios.io.