Obsidian AI Labs
What can AI do for you?
Everyone is selling what it might do. This is what it did.
Four jobs from one small business in St. Thomas, with the real numbers attached.
The honest question
So what have you done for me lately?
It is the right question and almost nobody answers it. Most talks about AI are predictions. Someone stands up, tells you the world is changing, shows you a chart, and sells you a feeling.
This one is a record instead. Four jobs, all of them real, all of them finished, all of them boring. Nothing here is a demo.
Four jobs, four numbers
None of it was the exciting part of the business.
358
receipts found and filed books gone from 0% to 88% documented
38 min
meeting turned into a record transcript, summary and three legal documents, same hour
12
videos written, made and published in two days
122,343
words lifted off a shelf 17 CDs in a garage, now searchable
1
The shoebox
The receipts nobody wants to find.
Every business has this. A year of purchases scattered across email, three credit cards and a glovebox, and an accountant waiting on all of it. The work is not hard. It is just long, and it is always the thing that gets pushed.
358receipts located and filed
0% → 88%of the year properly documented
4suppliers who "do not send receipts" and did
Those four were the interesting part. Nobody had ever searched the right words.
2
The meeting you half remember
Thirty eight minutes with an accountant.
You sit in the chair, you nod, you write three words on a pad. A week later you remember roughly a third of it and none of the numbers. Then the deadline arrives and you are guessing.
38 minconversation captured
7,068words transcribed
3legal documents drafted from it, same hour
The documents existed before the coffee went cold. Not notes about them. The documents.
3
The marketing that never happens
You know you should post. You do not post.
Not because you do not understand it. Because it is Thursday, you are on a job, and writing something for the internet is fourth on a list of three. So months go by and the business stays quiet.
12videos written, produced and published
2days, start to finish
0of them written the night before
The constraint was never the idea. It was the three hours between having one and publishing it.
4
The thing on the shelf
Seventeen CDs nobody was ever going to play.
A full professional sales course, inherited, sitting in a bag in a garage. Useful, expensive when it was new, and completely dead because nobody owns a CD player and nobody has twelve hours.
17discs read, start to finish
122,343words now searchable
1afternoon
It is not a shelf any more. It is something you can ask a question and get an answer from.
What they have in common
None of it was clever. All of it was owed.
Look at the four again. Not one of them is a futuristic use of AI. Every one is work that was already sitting there, already late, already costing something quietly.
- It was all real work, not a demo. Each one had a deadline or a person waiting.
- None of it needed new skills from the owner. Nobody learned to prompt.
- The cost was never the tool. It was the evenings and weekends the work was eating.
- Every one of them was invisible until it was done. That is why it had been put off for so long.
Why listen to us
Everything on the last four slides happened to us, not to a case study.
We are a St. Thomas company. Those were our receipts, our accountant, our marketing and our garage. We build the same thing for other businesses here, and every claim in this deck is something we can show you the file for.
Local St. Thomas and Elgin
In person we come to the building
You own it your accounts, your data
Accountable a name, not a support queue
How long would that have taken you?
Pick whichever of the four sounded like your week. That is the conversation. Not what AI is, not where it is going. Just the one job you keep pushing to next month.
Tell us which one it was