Mark Cuban's boring business rules still win
Mark Cuban's best advice on The Diary of a CEO was the boring stuff: sell by helping, get great at one thing, make a profit every month, hire your opposite, and be nice.
Obsidian AI Labs sets up AI that actually runs inside your business, day to day. The parts you don't have time to wire up yourself, we handle. So your time goes to thinking, not clicking.
We cut the BS between AI's promise and what your business actually runs on.
And that's just to name a few.
"Don't micromanage the AI. Hand it the busywork and let it go to work for you. Your time goes back to ideas, customers and growing the business. You're only limited by the ideas you bring to the table."
Everyone has heard the AI pitch. Most people are still stuck at the "I read about it" stage. The gap between knowing AI exists and AI actually running your business day-to-day is a chasm. And crossing it is the whole game. We help you cross it. Two ways: show you how to do it yourself, or do it for you. Either path, you come out the other side thinking differently about what your business is capable of.
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"I had a great experience with Obsidian. They were professional, knowledgeable, and easy to deal with throughout the process. What stood out most was the attention to detail and the willingness to help explain things clearly. It’s always nice working with a business that genuinely cares about the quality of its work. Highly recommend."
"As someone who was hesitant to start using AIs for anything beyond super basic questions, Brandon from Obsidian AI Labs enthusiasm for PAI made me finally give them a serious try." Read the full review
"I worked with Brandon to help set up an AI infrastructure that would become a force multiplier in my business. As a new business owner operating by myself, the capabilities Obsidian AI Labs brought to me and my company was something I didn't even know was possible." Read the full review
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Mark Cuban's best advice on The Diary of a CEO was the boring stuff: sell by helping, get great at one thing, make a profit every month, hire your opposite, and be nice.
Mark Cuban told The Diary of a CEO that AI isn't smart, it just grinds. I run my business on 13 AI agents. He's right, and here's how we set it up so judgment stays with a person.
Anthropic filed to go public. 11,900 companies pay it over $100,000 a year and its customers spend 9x what they did last year. This isn't stock advice. It's a reminder that AI can do more for you than you think.
Show you how: walkthroughs, installations, training, and videos so your team can run the infrastructure themselves.
Do it for you: we build, deploy, maintain, and iterate on the whole stack end-to-end while you stay focused on your actual business.
Agents and workflows that handle the repetitive work you wish you didn't have to do. Email triage, document drafting, data entry, research, report generation, whatever is eating your week.
Connect the software you already use. CRMs, spreadsheets, calendars, billing systems, communication platforms. Into a one connected system so nothing falls between the cracks.
Receipt capture, bookkeeping drafts, expense classification, compliance documentation, tax-credit preparation. Staging-mode by default. You always approve before anything hits the books.
Escape the rental software you can't leave. We clone and migrate your existing sites to infrastructure you own. Typically cutting monthly hosting and automation bills by a large fraction.
When the tools you can buy off the shelf don't quite fit how you work, we build one that does. Built around your actual workflow. With safety checks, written records of what the agent did, a fallback if something goes wrong, and you in the loop on anything that matters.
Installation videos, hands-on workshops, and applied research partnerships so your team doesn't just get a tool. They get the a working way of thinking about AI from this point forward.
A decade in cybersecurity. Currently Manager of External Network Security Services at Digital Boundary Group. Fanshawe College graduate, based in St. Thomas, Ontario.
I started Obsidian AI Labs because the AI tools I kept evaluating fell into two camps. One camp solved a narrow slice, like writing a subject line or summarizing a meeting. Useful, tiny. The other camp tried to replace a person whole. Neither matched how I actually work, or how the small businesses around me work. So I built something different for myself first, and I use it every day.
What got me into security was wanting to understand how systems actually run. What kept me there for a decade was the problem-solving. A million tools in the world, your job is to figure out the right one or build one. That turned out to be exactly the right mindset for wiring AI into a real business. Over the last year I did that for my own operation, and most days it gives me back two to four hours I used to spend on admin.
The goal isn't to replace you. It's to give you back capacity. If the owner-operator up working until 10pm can go to bed trusting that the follow-ups happened, that's the point. If the solo consultant afraid of the admin load on a bigger client can take the bigger client, that's the point. If a non-profit can spend more of their hours on their mission and fewer on a grant form they didn't know how to start, that's the point. What you choose to do with that capacity is the part I'm most excited about.
If you're running a business and the admin work is eating your week, or you want real automation but don't want to be locked into someone else's app to get it, let's talk.
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