Book a call — bring your worst chore
Half an hour: you tell us what eats your team's hours. Describe it in a sentence or two, pick a real time, and the call is on your calendar immediately.
Founding client program · US & UK small businesses
Your first AI automation. Built free.
Pick the workflow your team hates most. We build the automation completely free — live in 30 days with a measurable result — and you pay only to run it. Agencies charge $1,500–$5,000 for the same build. We're taking 5 founding clients.
5 founding spots — first cohort openBuild free · run $199/moLive in 30 days
Kill your worst workflow this month
Book your automation call5 founding spots · no card · 2 minutes · the terms, in plain words
The founding deal, in plain terms
What you get
- Your first automation designed and built free — a build agencies price at $1,500–$5,000
- Live in 30 days, with one measurable number attached (hours saved, turnaround time, error rate)
- Run & Care: monitoring, fixes and updates — 3 months free, then $149/mo locked for life (list $199)
- AI and API usage billed at cost, visible to you — typically $20–$200/mo depending on volume
What we ask
- A case study with your real numbers — anonymized if you prefer
- An honest review once we've earned it
- Two introductions, if and only if we've earned those too
The honest terms
- 5 spots. When they're filled, this offer is gone.
- You own everything — the workflows, the accounts, the data. Leave anytime with 30 days' notice and take the automation with you; we hand over the docs.
- No card needed to apply; billing starts only when your free run months end
- Why free? We're an established AI engineering firm — automation is what we already do all day. We're buying proof, and we'd rather say so than pretend otherwise.
How it works
You get your automation map, free
A one-page map of the three most automatable workflows in your business with estimated hours saved — yours to keep whether or not we go ahead.
We build the worst one, free
Live in 30 days with a number attached. You watch it run, we tune it, and only then does the run plan start — 3 months free for founding clients.
What a running automation looks like
Invoice intake — month 1Sample
| Invoices processed | 214 |
| Entered by a human | 0 |
| Errors caught & flagged | 3 |
| API cost, at cost | $31 |
| Hours saved | 9.5 |
One workflow, one number
Every automation ships with a run log like this — what it did, what it caught, what it cost, what it saved. The figures above are a sample; yours arrive monthly with your workflow's numbers.
Typical first builds: invoice and receipt intake, lead follow-up sequences, CRM hygiene, report assembly, quote generation, email triage.
What running costs after the free build
Run & Care · list $199$149 / mo founding
- Per running automation
- Hosting, monitoring, fixes and updates included
- Founding clients: first 3 months free, rate locked for life
AI & API usage — at cost
Model and API usage passes through at cost, visible on every run log — typically $20–$200/mo depending on volume. No markup, no surprises.
You own it, always
Workflows, accounts and data stay in your name. Leave with 30 days' notice and take the automation with you — we hand over the documentation.
Book your automation call
Two minutes, no card, and no waiting for a reply — you leave with the call on your calendar.
Describe the workflow your team hates most in a sentence or two, get a clear brief back, and pick a real time — the call is booked on the spot and the invite arrives by email.
No card. No commitment. The map and the first build are free either way.
Common questions
What's the catch?
The visible one: we build free because we're buying proof — a case study, a review, introductions if we earn them — and because a working automation tends to sell the next one. After your 3 free run months you pay $149/mo to keep it monitored and maintained, and you can leave anytime with 30 days' notice and take the automation with you.
Do I keep the automation if I stop paying?
Yes. The workflows, accounts and data are in your name from day one. If you leave, we hand over documentation and you run it yourself or host it anywhere. The monthly fee buys monitoring, fixes and updates — not ownership.
What tools do you build on?
Whatever fits the job — n8n, Make, Zapier, or custom code when the workflow deserves it. Accounts are created in your name. We don't lock you into a platform we resell.
What do the AI and API costs actually run?
Typically $20–$200 a month depending on volume — a document parser processing 200 invoices costs a few dollars; a heavy AI agent costs more. It passes through at cost and appears on every run log, so you always see the real number.
Is my data safe with you?
Access is least-privilege and in your accounts — you grant it, you can revoke it in one click. We build inside your stack, not ours, which is also why you keep everything.
Who actually does the work?
Founding clients' automations are built by our senior engineering team and reviewed personally by the founder — building production AI systems is NQD's core business. Questions are answered within one business day.
Who's behind this
Piyush Gupta
Founder, NQD.ai
I come from a Baniya family — Indian merchants who ran lean businesses generations before software existed. Wasting hours on work a machine should do offends the family instinct. NQD builds production AI systems for a living; your automation is built by the same team, and I review every founding build myself.