In person first
Discovery and setup happen at your place of business. After that, support is by phone, email, or a visit, whichever fits the problem.
About
A one-person shop in Charlottesville
Rivanna Works connects the software a small business already owns and takes the repetitive work out from between the pieces. No new platform, no sales team, one engineer you can call.
Who runs it
I am a software engineer. My day job is building systems for a hospital, where a bad integration is a patient safety problem. I have spent years making stubborn software talk to other stubborn software and keeping it that way.
I started Rivanna Works because the businesses around me do not have anyone doing that for them. A dental office or a winery pays for QuickBooks, a scheduling tool, a point of sale, and email, and then pays a person to move information between them by hand. Big companies have a team for this. A twelve-person business has the owner, after hours.
So that is the job. Come to your shop, find the two or three places where the paper and the retyping pile up, and wire them together on the software you already have. Where AI helps (drafting a follow-up, sorting requests), I use it. Where it does not, I do not.
I also build and run a couple of apps of my own: Spirit Speak AI, a Bible study app, and H.O.P.E., a help-and-prayer app for Mountain View Chapel in Madison. See the apps.
How the work goes
Four things to hold me to.
Your software stays
The work builds on QuickBooks, Square, Google Calendar, and whatever else you already run. Your staff do not learn a new system.
You can see what it did
Every automated action is written to a log you can read. If you want a rule changed or an automation turned off, it is done the same day.
No contract, and an honest no
One-time setup fee, flat monthly rate, cancel when you want. If discovery does not turn up at least ten hours a week of busywork, you hear that before you pay anything.
Where I work
Albemarle, Greene, Madison, and Orange counties. Roughly anywhere within 45 minutes of Charlottesville.
Albemarle County
Charlottesville, the Downtown Mall, the medical offices along 29 North, and the wineries out toward Crozet and Scottsville.
Greene County
Stanardsville, Ruckersville, and the Route 33 corridor. Trades businesses and tasting rooms.
Madison County
Farms, contractors, and main-street shops that still run on paper invoices.
Orange County
The Town of Orange, Gordonsville, and the Route 15 corridor. Seasonal businesses and rural delivery routes.
Farther out than that? Ask. Some of this can be done remotely, and I will tell you up front whether yours can.
Tell me where your week goes
Fifteen minutes on the phone or coffee at your shop. I will ask what you spend Monday morning doing and tell you whether any of it is worth automating.
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