Brian Hall
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Winter Garden, Florida

What would you do with ten employees who work around the clock and cost less than a cup of coffee a day?

That's the question I ask every business owner I meet. Most of them have an answer inside ten seconds — the calls nobody picks up after five, the quotes that take three days to go out, the follow-up everyone means to send. I build the AI agents and automations that do that work.

I'm not a consultant who read about this somewhere. I've been building companies for twenty-five years and I build these systems for my own — docks, EV charging, marine contracting, structured cabling. The ones that earn their keep, I build for other people too.

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What I build

Every one of these is running in a company I own. None of it is a demo.

  • Agents that answer the phone

    Voice AI that takes the call after hours, qualifies who's on the line, and books a real appointment on a real calendar. For most service businesses this is the highest-return thing on the list, because the missed call is already costing you the job.

  • Agents that find the next customer

    Public records, permits, and licensing data pulled, scored, and handed over as a morning call list instead of a guess.

  • Quoting that keeps up with you

    Configurators and pricing tools that turn a site visit into a priced proposal before you're out of the parking lot.

  • Agents that work in a chain

    One handles intake, another does the research, another writes the draft, and a person only ever sees the finished thing.

  • The paperwork nobody wants

    Bookkeeping, compliance, and the follow-up that never gets sent. Handled by software instead of by someone's Tuesday.

What I do

I build the thing, or I tell you what to build. Both are on the table.

  1. 1

    I build it

    Fixed scope, fixed price. You name the job you want off your team's plate; I build the agent or the automation that does it, wire it into what you already use, and hand it over running. Most first builds sit somewhere between a voice agent that answers your phone and a pipeline that fills your calendar.

  2. 2

    A single working session

    Two hours on your business. We go through where your time and money actually leak, and I tell you which of it AI can take and which of it it can't. You leave with a written short list, in order, with what each one costs.

  3. 3

    Ongoing advisory

    Monthly. I stay close enough to your operation to be useful — reviewing what you're building, killing the projects that won't pay, and pointing your team or your vendor at the ones that will.

  4. 4

    A second opinion before you spend

    Someone quoted you for an AI project. You want to know if the number is fair and whether the thing will work. I'll read the proposal and tell you.

Rates depend on the business. Ask me on the call.

Who this is for

Owner-operators doing real revenue with real employees. Trades, contracting, service businesses, small manufacturers. Founders early enough that the decisions still matter. People who answer their own phone and want fewer hours in the business, not a new hobby.

What I run

These are mine. They're also where every idea above got tested.

The short version

Dates, in order, so you don't have to guess.

  1. 1983–1987

    Valdosta State University

    B.A. in Management Information Systems and Management, back when that meant mainframes and a DOS prompt.

  2. 1988–2001

    United States Air Force

    C-130 and WC-130 pilot. Thirty-two flights into named hurricanes with the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron — the Hurricane Hunters. Two Aerial Achievement Medals.

  3. 2001–present

    DockLife

    Floating dock manufacturing out of Winter Garden, shipping worldwide. Named a GrowFL "Companies to Watch" honoree.

  4. 2000s

    Fortress Marine and Bulldog Marine

    Fortress made the Inc. 500. Bulldog made the Inc. 5000 three years running. An earlier company of mine did $120 million and then went bankrupt. That one taught more than either of the others.

  5. 2015

    Cuba

    Flew the first private U.S. aircraft to land in Cuba in 55 years, with a news crew on board. The clips are below.

  6. 2023–2025

    Piedmont Airlines

    ERJ-145 first officer out of Philadelphia, and chairman of the Accident Investigation Committee.

  7. 2023–present

    FloatSolar, Florida Chargers, AMCG, Cableteks

    Floating solar racking, commercial EV charging, a marine contractor marketplace, and structured cabling.

  8. 2025–present

    Preferred Nerds and AnswerJet

    Managed AI agents for small businesses, and AI phone answering for the ones that can't miss a call.

Ten years in EO, the Entrepreneurs' Organization. Tesla-certified EV charging installer. Husband, father of five, grandfather of eight.

Selected press

Coverage over the years. Most of it came from 2015, when I flew the first private U.S. aircraft to land in Cuba in 55 years.

Also covered by NBC-2, TV 2 Denmark, TV Martí, América Tevé, Fox News, and Weltspiegel, ARD.

Let's talk

Twenty minutes, no pitch. Tell me what the business does and what's eating your week. If I can help, I'll say how. If I can't, I'll tell you that too and probably point you at someone who can.

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Or email me directly: brian@brianhall.me