What does SYNTAXSPHERE actually do?

We install an AI operating system for your business. We capture how you work, pull the expertise that lives in your head into a system AI can run, and wire up your workflows so the business keeps moving without you being the bottleneck.

Is this for small businesses or only big companies?

It is built for owner-operators and small teams, the people who ARE the business. If you are the bottleneck on the work only you can do, that is exactly who we set this up for.

How is this different from just using ChatGPT?

ChatGPT in a tab still needs you to drive it. We wire AI directly into your real tools, data, and workflows so it does the repeatable work on its own and only surfaces what genuinely needs you.

Will it work with the tools I already use?

Yes. We connect to your existing stack: email, docs, CRM, calendar, and the rest, so everything lives in one place your AI operating system can reach.

How do we get started?

Start with a Discovery Hour for $250. In 60 minutes we map where you are the bottleneck and you walk away with something already working. From there we scope the full setup.

What makes SYNTAXSPHERE different?

We do not sell you software and disappear. We install the whole operating system, tailored to how you actually run things, then maintain and improve it every month as you grow. And the proof is in the building: we run our own business on one.

What is an AI operating system?

An AIOS puts a business's data, expertise and workflows where AI can safely reach them, so follow ups, quotes and reporting run without the owner doing them by hand. It is an installed, governed system, not a chatbot subscription.

What does an AI OS cost in Maryland?

Platforms are quoted per seat or on request. An installed AIOS for a small business runs $5,000 to $15,000 to build and $1,000 to $2,000 a month to run and keep improving.

Can a small business hire the big Maryland AI names?

Mostly no. Lockheed Martin, BigBear.ai and Johns Hopkins APL work at government and enterprise scale. A small firm is better served by an installer or one of the agencies on the list.

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PRICING

What does AI automation cost for a small business?

The short answer

For an owner operated service business, expect $5,000 to $15,000 once to build the system and $1,000 to $2,000 per month to run and keep improving it. You can find out whether it is worth it at all for $250 first. Anyone who quotes a firm price before understanding how you actually work is guessing, and the number will be wrong in one direction or the other.

What actually drives the price

How much of your business is undocumented

If how you run the business lives only in your head, capturing it is most of the work. If you already have written processes, the build is faster and costs less.

How many systems have to talk to each other

Two tools connected is straightforward. Nine tools, one of which is a twelve year old industry system with no API, is a different project and a different number.

How much has to keep changing

A system built once and left alone decays. Most of the monthly cost is keeping it correct as the business changes, not hosting.

The four ways to start

Discovery Hour, $250. One 60 minute session. We map where you are the bottleneck and you leave with one thing already working.

Starter Pack, $1,000. Three sessions, enough to get a first real workflow running rather than a demo.

Full setup, $5,000 to $15,000. The system built and installed against your actual tools and data.

Monthly retainer, $1,000 to $2,000. The system run, maintained and extended as the business changes.

What $250 buys

Not a sales call. A working session with a written recap, and one automation or prompt that saves you real time the next time you run it. The fee credits toward anything you book within 14 days.

What $1,000 buys

Three sessions and one workflow that runs without you. Enough to know whether a full build is worth it, at a price where being wrong does not hurt.

What a full setup buys

Your data captured, your tools connected, your expertise written down, and the repeatable work running on its own. Built against your systems rather than a template.

What the retainer buys

Someone keeping it correct. New surfaces automated as you find them, a monthly account of what the system actually did, and the tuning that stops it drifting out of date.

How to find out what yours would cost

The honest way is an hour. Book a Discovery Hour for $250 and you get a real number based on your business rather than a range from a web page. If automation is not worth it for you yet, that is a useful answer and you will hear it.
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