# David Ndungu — Done-for-you AI automations for small business

I build custom AI automations for your business. I take one repeated, expensive manual workflow off your team's plate and build it into a durable AI automation: connected to your real tools, running in days not months, with a human approval gate so nothing fires without your sign-off.

20+ years building software · Ex-Zendesk · $3,500 fixed · Scope-backed guarantee

## The problem

Your team is doing the same manual work every week: client reporting pulled by hand from three tools, the same support tickets answered over and over, paid leads going cold because nobody followed up in time, data re-keyed between systems.

## How it works

1. **Free audit call** — find the one workflow worth automating first and put a real number on the hours and dollars it's costing you.
2. **Fixed-price scope, 50% to start** — a one-page scope with an exact price and timeline.
3. **Live in days** — your automation runs on your real tools, with the approval gate, plus a walkthrough video and a one-page runbook.

## Pricing — the Sire Founding Pilot

$3,500 fixed, 5 business days start to finish, 3-5 slots. Includes: intake, diagnosis, 1-2 working automations, onboarding onto Sire (approval gates, receipts, dashboard), and a Sire subscription with your pilot fee credited toward the first month(s).

## The engineering behind it

- [Sire](https://sire.run) — the durable-workflow engine automations run on.
- [Zerfoo](https://github.com/zerfoo/zerfoo) — a from-scratch ML inference engine in pure Go, 40+ model architectures, ~28% faster than Ollama on Gemma 3 1B.
- [Mint](https://github.com/sirerun/mint) — turns an API spec into a working integration.
- [Gist](https://github.com/sirerun/gist) — 98.9% context reduction on a 754 KB spec, CI-gated.
- [Kazi](https://kazi.sire.run) — machine-checkable predicates that loop Claude Code until every check passes.
- [Valyrium](https://github.com/valyrium/valyrium) — OpenAI-compatible gateway to the Claude Code CLI.
- [Blink](https://coachblink.com) — an AI planning coach for iOS, launching 2026.

## Contact

- Book a call: https://cal.com/david-ndungu/automation-audit
- Phone: +1 (559) 414-8242
- Email: david@sire.run
- GitHub: https://github.com/dndungu

See also: [/about/](https://ndungu.dev/about/), [/contact/](https://ndungu.dev/contact/), [/blog/](https://ndungu.dev/blog/).