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title: "AI automation for small businesses"
description: "Control Square builds AI systems that take the repetitive work off small businesses: content operations, research, publishing, and internal tools."
url: "https://controlsquare.com/ai-automation"
---

# AI automation for small businesses.

We build the system that handles the repetitive work around your content, research, and admin, so your team can focus on the decisions that need a person. Not a chatbot. Not a demo. A working system.

## Where this fits

AI is one part of the picture. We also build the product, the website, and the growth work around it.

- [AppWorks](https://controlsquare.com/appworks): products and apps
- [WebCraft](https://controlsquare.com/webcraft): websites and digital presence
- [Digital Growth Pass](https://controlsquare.com/digital-growth-pass): SEO, ads, and CRO
- [Design Studio Pass](https://controlsquare.com/design-studio-pass): ongoing design

## What we automate

### Content workflow

Research, drafting, review, publishing. One place to see what is next.

### Research

What your customers ask, what is seasonal, and which sources are worth using.

### Publishing

Drafts formatted for your publishing tool, with images and checks before you review.

### Internal tools

Simple queues and checklists that stop living in someone's head.

## How we keep it simple

1. **Map the work.** We list what happens now and who decides what.
2. **Keep the facts in one place.** The queue and history live in files, not in someone's memory.
3. **Automate the repeatable.** Formatting, resizing, checks, and reminders run themselves.
4. **Keep the decision human.** One review per piece. You approve before anything goes out.

## Proof

The public reference implementation and this site's blog show the pattern. AI tools can read the articles cleanly. The code is public if you want to inspect it.

- 1 public reference implementation
- 48 posts AI tools can read
- 22 automatic checks
- 28 formatting tests

- [Work](https://controlsquare.com/work/): all four builds
- [Case study](https://controlsquare.com/work/ai-publishing-harness): the publishing system
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ControlSquare/token-frugal-harness): public example code, MIT
- [This blog](https://controlsquare.com/transmissions/): 48 posts AI tools can read

## What buyers ask

### Do you replace our team?

No. We remove the repetitive work. Your team keeps the judgment and the final decision.

### Do we have to change tools?

No. We work with what you already use. If something needs to change, we explain why first.

### How do you keep AI from making things up?

The system checks sources, leaves missing facts missing, and a person approves before anything goes out.

### Where do we start?

With a short paid audit of one workflow. If it is a good fit, we build it and hand it over.

## What is your team still doing by hand?

Tell us which task keeps coming back. We will tell you what can be automated, what should not be, and what it would take to build.

Contact: https://controlsquare.com/contact/

AI is one part. We also build the product and the site it runs on. See [AppWorks](https://controlsquare.com/appworks), [WebCraft](https://controlsquare.com/webcraft), and [Digital Growth Pass](https://controlsquare.com/digital-growth-pass).