For small businesses in the Twin Cities and beyond
Websites and automation that keep working when you’re not watching.
I build the site that brings people in and the automation that takes the busywork off your plate. It all runs on accounts you own, so it's yours when I'm done.
Twelve years shipping production software, including Mailchimp and a trading platform with over 600,000 users.
Taking on new clients now: websites, automation, and AI tooling. Twin Cities or remote.
Services
Where I can help
If something on this list is better solved by software you can buy for ten dollars a month, I'll say so instead of building it. That happens more often than you'd think, and it's cheaper for you and less to go wrong.
Before anything gets built
Worth doing on its own. No obligation to do anything with it afterwards.
Audit of the site you have now
What's broken, what it's costing you, what Google sees, and how you compare to the competition
Second opinion on a quote or a plan
Someone else has proposed something and you want to know if it's fair
Websites
A small business site, 8 to 10 pages, built from scratch
Booking or forms wired in, search basics, analytics, and a walkthrough so you can edit it yourself
Replacing an existing site without losing its search history
Every old address redirected to its new home. Part of a rebuild, not billed separately
Making a slow site fast, and fixing it on phones
Getting found
Google Business Profile claimed, fixed and optimised
For a business with a storefront this is usually the highest return hour of the whole project
Automatic review requests after a visit
Phones, messages and email
An AI that answers the phone when nobody can get to it
Choosing the service, writing what it says, connecting it to your calendar, then a month of tuning against real calls
Missed calls get an automatic text back
Behind the scenes
The part most web people don't do. Usually the part that saves the most time.
One dashboard pulling several systems into a single page
Calls, bookings, website traffic and reviews in one place, with a weekly summary emailed to you
Making two systems talk to each other
Per workflow. Booking to accounting, forms to your CRM, that kind of thing
Monthly, if you want it
Optional, month to month, cancel whenever. Nothing starts until your site is live. If you'd rather just call me when something comes up, the hourly rate covers that.
Keeping it running
Hosting and domain watched, alerts if anything breaks, 30 minutes a month of changes, a quarterly traffic summary
How it works
One hour, one problem, and a fix you own
An hour where the work happens
I sit with you and watch how the work actually gets done, including the parts nobody writes down.
One problem worth fixing
We pick the one job that costs you the most when it goes wrong: missed calls, unanswered messages, no-shows.
Built on your accounts
I build the fix under your login and hand it over working, with a short written guide and my number.
Nothing I build answers for you on anything that matters. It drafts, you tap yes, and there is always an off switch.
Selected work
Things I have built
Who you'll work with
Jack Freiermuth
Tanuki Forge, Minneapolis, MN
Tanuki Forge is one person: me. I sit with you, I build it, and I'm the one who answers when you call.
Before this I built software inside larger companies, including systems that could not go down. Now I point that at small businesses, one owner at a time, with nobody else in the middle.
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