Six installs in. The pattern is the same every time.

A spec engine their salesmen use in the field.

A Generac industrial-power dealer (name withheld) sells against Kohler and Caterpillar every week. Sizing and quoting a generator meant digging through factory spec sheets — 264 models across three brands. Now a rep asks in plain English — “75 kW, natural gas, 208V three-phase” — and gets the models that fit, the competitor comparison alongside, and every answer grounded in the factory sheets it cites.

First tool of the engagement, live today.

“It changed how I run my construction business.”

“Faris at Slocat Group set up my AI assistant ‘Sam’ on my own server, and it changed how I run my construction business. Sam handles my CRM, drafts estimates from roof measurements, books my rentals, parses Lowe's receipts, and Telegrams me updates all day long. Stuff I never knew was possible for a small contractor.

“What I liked most: Faris didn't sell me another monthly subscription. He installed everything on infrastructure I own, taught me how to drive it, and the system keeps getting smarter the more I use it. If you run a small business and you're drowning in SaaS bills and busywork, call him.”

“An entire new way of interacting with our audience.”

“Slocat helped us build infrastructure to manage our band, socials and produce great music. We didn't just get a quick project knocked out… we created an entire new way of interacting with our audience. It's allowing us to spend our time on what we do — make music and perform. Let AI handle all the other stuff that distracts. Slocat is on the cutting edge of this AI thing.”

“6 months of work in 3 weeks.”

“Great experience working with Faris. I was a complete novice in AI, and Faris guided me through the first steps to start using Claude, in an easy to follow way. He followed up after I'd had a couple of days experimenting, and offered course-correction, which massively improved my process, and the subsequent results. Since then, it's been off to the races, and I feel I've done 6 months work in 3 weeks. I'm using this to test a start-up idea, and it's looking promising, so if it takes off, I'm planning on bringing Faris down to help me with the nuts-and-bolts of setting up AI in business support functions. Highly recommend using Slocat to start your AI journey.”

“Sage ERP — we don’t replace the work, we just stop drowning in it.”

“I run a small CNC shop. We do precision parts for fire trucks, ambulances, and railroads. When Faris first started showing me what his AI agent could do, I wasn’t sitting at a computer — I called in from my truck on the way back from a job site and just talked it through, out loud, with a computer on the other end of the line. By the time I got back to the shop, the conversation was already written up and ready to act on. That was the moment I knew this wasn’t a gimmick.

“Where it’s going to pay off for us is integrating our operations efforts with our Sage ERP. Right now, our PO intake, invoice flow, and quote generation is a two-week manual process. I was about to hire an engineering intern just to push that paperwork around. Faris’s plan is to automate the whole pipeline — an agent reading the POs and feeding them into Sage, generating quotes, kicking out invoices — so we don’t replace the work, we just stop drowning in it. Our admin is heading toward retirement, and instead of scrambling to find someone to take her seat, we’re building it so the seat supports more strategic growth activities. He’s not selling you a black box — he’s showing you how to drive.”

Leonard runs the house.

An agent harness (currently OpenClaw) in a VM on a home server, with an agent named Leonard. Daily personal and professional digests built off the X API and Reddit RSS, summarized by a small local LLM to save tokens. A family grocery-list app that aggregates everyone's adds and assembles a Harris Teeter cart through the Kroger API. An Amazon-orders-to-Quicken skill that runs while the coffee brews. And Home Assistant has run the rest of the house — lights, climate, AV, deadbolts — since 2017; an AI coding tool makes adding new automations dramatically easier than it used to be. The Personal work grew out of that.