Peakside Digital
A daytime moon over a fresh-snow ridge near Crested Butte, Colorado
Castle Rock, Colorado

Practical AI, smart builds, and clear rules for using them.

Custom AI and automation for your business, sized to the job. Peakside Digital builds AI that does real work, sets it up in accounts you own, and explains every piece in plain English, so you know what it does and why. Routine work runs on its own, anything that matters comes to a person, and you learn to run it yourself.

AI, demystified
Don't know where you fit?

Growing fast and buried?

If rapid growth has you struggling to keep up, or you always feel understaffed and weighed down by administrative work, schedule a free consultation. We'll look at how your business runs today and help you figure out what you need, from one workflow to a company-wide project.

  • Free, with no obligation
  • Plain-English recommendations, no jargon
  • Any size: a single workflow or a larger build, scoped with us directly
What we build

Custom AI and automation, sized to the job

No fixed packages. We start with what's eating your week, then scope the smallest build that fixes it, from one workflow to a company-wide project. Every project gets a one-page written scope and price, is built in accounts you own, and ends with training, a recorded handoff and a 30-day fix window.

Need a website or a small tool to go with it? We build those as part of a project. Tool subscriptions are paid by you directly, and we estimate their monthly cost before we start.

AI Governance

Your team is already using AI. Give them clear rules.

Data security and accuracy are the two biggest worries owners have about AI. A short policy, a look at the tools in use, and an hour of training answer both. Our founder has designed compliance automation and data governance at enterprise scale, and we bring that experience down to a size that fits your team.

AI Policy and Data-Risk Package

For small businesses, professional offices and nonprofits whose staff or volunteers use AI tools.

  • A one- to two-page AI acceptable-use policy tailored to you
  • An approved-tools list and a "do not paste" data list
  • An inventory of the AI tools in use, including free accounts
  • A simple map of what data goes into each tool
  • A vendor checklist for your top tools, and a ranked list of risks with fixes
  • Automated audit checks that catch errors in AI output and data before they make a difference
  • A one-page plan for what to do if data is shared by mistake
  • A 60-minute staff training session, recorded, with a cheat sheet
Delivery
About 2 to 3 weeks
Built on
The free NIST AI Risk Management Framework

Advisory only, not legal advice. AI Governance work is practical business guidance. Peakside Digital is not a law firm, does not give legal opinions, and does not certify compliance with any law.

How it works

A short review, a written scope, the build, and training

  1. Step 1

    Free 30-minute review

    We look at the part of your week that hurts most and what it would take to fix it. You get our honest take either way.

  2. Step 2

    Written scope

    A one-page scope with a fixed price, what's included and what isn't, and any tool costs. Work starts after you sign and pay the deposit.

  3. Step 3

    Build

    We build in accounts you own and test with invented data first, then with your real examples.

  4. Step 4

    Training and handoff

    A hands-on session, a written how-to and a recording, then 30 days to fix anything that doesn't work as agreed.

Always included

You stay in control

  • People where it mattersRoutine answers and reminders run on their own. Prices, commitments and anything sensitive go to a person first.
  • A plain-English data mapOne page showing what each workflow touches, which tools see it, and what never goes into an AI tool.
  • Training, not a black boxA hands-on session, a written how-to and a recording for you and your team.
  • Your accounts, your dataEverything lives in accounts you own, so you keep it if you stop working with us.
  • A 30-day fix windowIf something doesn't work as agreed in the first 30 days, we fix it at no charge.
  • Open about AIYou always know when you're talking with AI, and you can reach a person any time. How we use AI
AI Transparency Policy

How we use AI, and where we don't

Colorado's automated decision-making law (SB 26-189) sets four practices for businesses whose AI materially influences important decisions about people: tell people first, explain unfavorable decisions, let people correct their information, and offer human review. Our own use of AI doesn't make decisions like that, but we follow those four practices voluntarily as our standard, and we hold the tools we build for clients to the same standard.

Peakside Digital LLC · Effective November 12, 2026 · Reviewed at least twice a year

Where we use AI

  • Website assistant. The "Ask Peakside" chat is AI. It answers general questions about using AI and questions about Peakside, can walk you through a short AI opportunity assessment of your business, helps you book a call and passes everything else to a person on our team.
  • Follow-up emails. Some confirmations, reminders and follow-ups are sent automatically from templates we approved, and each one says so.
  • Drafting. AI helps draft proposals, documents and code. A person reviews everything before it reaches you.
  • Summaries. AI may summarize your request so we can prepare for your call.

Where we don't

  • AI doesn't decide whether we work with you, what you pay or what terms you get. Pricing is based on your project and needs.
  • AI doesn't screen, score or rank job or contractor applicants. A person reads every application and makes every hiring decision.
  • We don't use AI to make decisions about anyone's job, housing, credit, insurance, health care, education or government benefits.

Talking with our assistant

  • It says it's AI at the start of every chat and whenever you ask.
  • Type "talk to a person" or email PaulB@peaksidedigital.com to reach a person, who replies within one business day.
  • It's meant for adults asking about AI and business services. It has no rewards or features designed to keep you chatting, and it stays on AI and Peakside topics. If you mention a personal crisis, it points you to help right away.
  • Please don't share passwords, card numbers, bank details or health information in the chat.

If AI ever plays a role in a decision about you

  1. We tell you first, before or when AI is used.
  2. We explain an unfavorable outcome within 30 days: what was decided, AI's role and how to use these rights.
  3. We correct inaccurate personal information on request.
  4. A person reviews and reconsiders the decision on request.

We keep records of these notices and requests for at least three years.

Your information

  • We collect what you choose to share, such as your name, email, organization and question, to answer you and follow up.
  • AI service providers process chats and drafts on our behalf. Where offered, we use settings that keep your information out of model training.
  • We don't sell your information.
  • We delete chat transcripts after 90 days unless you've asked us to follow up, and keep follow-up records up to 24 months.
  • Email PaulB@peaksidedigital.com to see, correct or delete your information. We respond within 30 days.

Tools we build for clients

  • Every tool comes with a plain description of what it does, what data it uses and who reviews its output. By default, a person at the client approves what it sends.
  • Before a project starts, we ask whether the tool will influence a decision about people's jobs, housing, credit, insurance, health care, education or government benefits. If so, we review it personally and document the tool's intended uses, known limits, data and human oversight, and tell the client about material updates.
  • Clients using such tools handle their own customer notices; we can help as practical guidance.

Questions or concerns about how AI was used with you go to Peakside Digital at PaulB@peaksidedigital.com. This policy describes Peakside Digital's own practices. It is not legal advice and does not certify compliance with any law.

Founding clients

Three founding-client spots

Our first three clients get a founding-client rate. In return we ask for a 20-minute feedback call after 30 days and, only if you're happy with the result, a short testimonial.

Examples

Types of projects we can do

Each example is based on real work by our founder, described without client or employer names. Yours will be sized to your business, but the approach is the same: find the work that eats the most time, build something that handles it, and keep a person in charge of what matters.

Competitor price tracking, brought in-house

A national company relied on an outside consultant to see how its prices compared with competitors. The work brought it in-house: a tool that gathers competitors' published pricing, plus benchmark workbooks showing where the company stood against its peers.

Pricing gaps became visible, including points where the company sat well above market, and leadership got clear, plain-language summaries without paying a consultant.

Compliance automation and data governance

For an enterprise software company, the work designed compliance automation and the data governance behind it: which rules are checked automatically, who owns each piece of data, and how it is kept accurate.

Too often, businesses take a heavy-handed approach to compliance without sizing the risk of the task. We help you make those risk assessments while taking advantage of the best in new technology.

Technology transformation

Our founder has led large-scale enterprise technology and business transformation for household-name national brands, moving teams from old systems and manual work to new tools they actually use.

For your business, we'll conduct an audit of your business operations and advise you on opportunities to reduce operational cost and leverage technology, with a written scope, clear owners and training at the end.

A lead engine built from public data

To find new business customers, we built a prospect finder from public sources: state business registrations, broadband coverage data, job postings and company websites. It scored and ranked targets in three test markets.

The result was a ranked target list and a playbook for the first outreach campaign, built entirely from data anyone can access.

A business launch run with an AI project manager

Peakside itself runs on what we sell. An AI project manager keeps the task tracker, sends check-in reminders, drafts documents, and helped set up the website, business email and analytics, with a person approving every step.

Weeks of startup admin were handled in days, and nothing was sent, bought or published without a person saying yes.

Administrative automation: sort through the noise

A busy owner with a full calendar of client and board commitments was buried in email threads where meetings and decisions got scheduled. In one hands-on session, we set up an AI assistant on their own accounts that summarizes the inbox each morning: what needs a reply, what's coming up and what's still undecided.

Part of our custom private training: you leave the session with it running and know how to adjust it yourself. It's read-only, so nothing is sent or forwarded automatically.

Research and records for decision-makers

For a local governing board, we organized the research and records it needed: a tracker of community interest in a project, plain-English summaries of long, complex documents, and decision-ready notes. The same approach works for any owner or leadership team that has to digest contracts, reports or proposals and act on them.

Less time digging through paperwork, more time deciding.

Custom AI agents and assistants

Assistants built around a specific process: answering common questions in plain English, walking someone through an intake checklist, and handing a clean summary and next step to a person. Peakside's own website assistant and AI Opportunity Assessment are being built this way.

The assistant always says it's AI, never makes promises or quotes prices, and a person is one message away.

About

About Paul

I've spent my career where technology meets the numbers: building the systems for household-name national brands, and running the revenue and risk decisions that depend on them. That's why every Peakside project starts with what it's worth to your business, and why we put as much care into clean data and automated checks as into the AI itself.

Peakside brings that discipline to Castle Rock, without the jargon or the enterprise price tag. I live and work here, so I know what it's like to run something with a small team and never enough hours, and I focus on making new tools simple enough that people actually keep using them.

  • Led large-scale enterprise technology and business transformation
  • Led revenue, finance and market risk: pricing, forecasting and financial controls
  • Designed compliance automation and data governance
  • Castle Rock small business owner and local board leader
Questions

Common questions

Is my customer data safe?

You get a written map of where your data goes before anything is switched on. We use business accounts you own, choose settings that keep your data out of model training where the tool allows it, and keep card numbers, passwords and health or financial information out of AI tools entirely.

What if the AI gets something wrong?

It will sometimes, so we match the checks to the risk. Low-risk answers come only from content you've approved, while quotes, commitments and sensitive topics always go to a person. During training we test it on your real examples so you know where to look closely.

Is it worth the cost?

Every project has a price agreed in writing before work starts, so there are no surprise invoices. We look for work that pays for itself, and the free consultation is where we size that up together. Monthly plans are optional, and tool subscriptions are estimated up front.

I'm not technical. Will I be able to use it?

Yes. We build around the tools you already use where possible, and training is part of every project.

What happens if I stop the monthly plan?

Everything keeps running in your accounts. You keep the how-to guide and recording, and you can come back for one-off help any time.

Do you work with nonprofits, associations and boards?

Yes. Along with Castle Rock businesses of every size, we work with nonprofits, associations, HOAs, special districts and youth organizations on meeting follow-up, inbox and records work, and AI Governance. We serve on local boards ourselves, so we know how much gets done with a small team and limited time.

Is the AI Governance work legal advice?

No. It's practical business guidance on how your team uses AI. We're not a law firm, and we don't give legal opinions.

Can you take on a big project?

Yes. Every project, small or large, is scoped and quoted directly with us. Use the project form and we'll reply personally.

Is the assistant on this site an AI?

Yes. It answers general AI questions and questions about Peakside, and hands anything about pricing, legal matters or bigger projects to our team. Type "talk to a person" any time to reach one of us. Please don't share passwords, card numbers or health information in the chat. See how we use AI.

Do you use AI to make decisions about people?

No. AI doesn't decide who we work with, what anyone pays or who we hire. If that ever changed, we would tell you first, explain any unfavorable outcome within 30 days, correct your information on request and have a person review the decision. Our AI Transparency Policy has the details.

Start a project

Have a project in mind? Talk to us directly.

One workflow, custom apps, AI agents connected across your systems, data and analytics programs, private training, or several projects at once. Every request comes straight to us, and we reply personally within one business day with next steps. We don't quote until we've talked.

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Free 30-minute review

Tell us which part of your week you'd like back.

We'll look at how you handle inquiries, follow-ups or your data today, and share what we'd change, whether or not you hire us. We reply personally.

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