Real AI systems. A real small business. No hype.
Michael Jage runs an IT business in Mesa, Arizona — and for the last few years he's been building AI systems into how it actually operates. This is where he documents them: what each system does, what it replaced, what broke along the way, and what's still unfinished. Proof, not promises.
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Short, plain-English walkthroughs of one system at a time — usually under a minute. New videos appear here as they're published.
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Under the hood
The systems, written up properly.
Every video gets a companion write-up: the problem it solved, how it was built, what broke, and where it honestly stands today. No invented numbers, no skipped failures.
Fired My Freelancers — Season 1
The Rescue: rebuilding lastadmin.com
Our own website died on an aging WordPress. Five chapters: the outage, the database nobody dared touch, the upload that took the site down, the Google fix, and the AI wing that grew out of it.
Read the story → PublishedWindows automation
One-start USB deployment
Manual PC setup — Windows, drivers, updates, restarts — turned into a plug-in-and-go workflow. Including the failure that stalled it and the recovery that saved it.
Read the write-up →Hardware QA
Laptop QA & buyer reports
A custom testing app and the professional hardware reports that go to every buyer — specs, battery, activation, management status.
Personal productivity
The Thought Organizer
A custom-built system for scattered thoughts: one prioritized task list, notes, voice capture, and Google Keep and calendar imports.
Client service
Monthly client reporting
How invisible IT work becomes a readable monthly report — and the client reply that proved it was worth doing.
Windows automation
Update automation across restarts
Controllers that keep Windows update passes running through multiple reboots — with state recovery when a pass stalls.
The deal with this project
- Every system here runs — or ran — in a real business, on real equipment, for real work.
- Failures are part of the story, not edited out. A system that needed three repairs teaches more than a demo that never broke.
- No invented totals. Hours saved and dollars earned were not consistently measured, so you won't see made-up ROI figures here.
- No "AI will 10x your business" promises. Some of these systems are still unfinished, and that's stated where it's true.
Free guide
5 AI automations running in a real IT business.
One page per automation — what it does, what it replaced, and what broke while building it:
- One-start USB Windows deployment
- Laptop QA app & buyer hardware reports
- The Thought Organizer (tasks, notes & imports)
- Monthly client reporting that clients actually read
- Windows update automation across restarts
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Behind the project
Built by the same business it documents.
AI Operator is published by Last Admin LLC — managed IT services for small businesses in Mesa and the Phoenix area. If watching these systems makes you wonder what automation could do in your business, that's a conversation worth having.
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Step two
The findings
Your top 2–3 automation candidates, named plainly — with an estimate of the hours each one saves per month.
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A one-page written plan: what to automate, in what order, and what it's worth. Yours to keep whether or not you hire us to build any of it.
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Questions, answered straight
How can AI help a small business?
By taking over recurring, rules-based work — report prep, data moving between systems, inbox and document sorting, follow-ups — so your team's hours go to the work that needs a human.
What kinds of tasks can AI automate?
Any repetitive task with a pattern: preparing the same report, copying data between tools, drafting routine replies, organizing incoming information.
Do I need to know what I want automated before booking?
No. Finding the candidates is the point of the review — you just bring how your week actually runs, and we map the recurring work together.
What does the review cost?
$250 flat — no hourly meter. Book your first build within 30 days and the full $250 is credited toward it.
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