Run your business with
AI you can
actually trust.
Golden Maple Group is a one-operator AI consulting practice in Barrie, Ontario that installs working AI agents — lead response, quoting, follow-ups, the books — inside small businesses in 14 to 30 days, in the tools you already use. Every action visible, every step on the record.
For the owner who pays for too many AI tools, worries it’ll sound robotic to customers, and would rather have it set up by someone who runs this in his own companies every day — and is building a vetted bench of builders to ship it at scale.
Here to build, not buy? Apply to the founding bench →
Built by a real small-business owner.
Yorkis Estevez · runs a landscaping company in Barrie, ON
↳ watch the work get drafted — you approve every send
BUILT ON TOOLS YOU ALREADY USE
Sign in once in front of you. We never touch your passwords.
AI was supposed to make running this easier.
Tired of paying for 6 AI tools and using 2.
ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Jasper, Notion AI. Same prompt copied across three tabs. Receipts you forgot you were on.
"Subscription fatigue isn't what's going to kill your business. The paralysis is." — Finsi.ai
Worried it'll sound robotic and lose customers.
Sixty-five percent of business owners say AI replies feel mechanical. One in four say AI is actively costing them clients.
"AI often produces grammatically correct but lifeless content." — Robin Waite
Don't know where to start — or stop.
Everyone says "use AI." Nobody says which AI, for which task, with what guardrails. So you keep paying and keep guessing.
"Lack of understanding of benefits is the #1 barrier to adoption." — 2025 SMB AI Report
Six everyday jobs.
One calm window.
These are the things small-business owners actually use AI for — ranked by how often they show up in real-world surveys. Golden Maple Group handles all six in one place, in front of you, with a receipt for every step.
Draft customer replies in your voice
Paste the customer message. Get back a draft that sounds like you, not like an AI. Approve, edit, send. Never touches "send" without you.
Triage your inbox + calendar
See what needs you today vs what can wait. The helper reads Gmail and Calendar in front of you — no copy-pasting between tabs.
Summarise long stuff quickly
Meeting transcripts, contracts, PDFs, voicemails. Get the gist in three bullets. Get the full draft when you ask for it.
Research without 14 tabs
Ask once. The helper checks the web, your files, and your past notes together, then comes back with a short answer and the sources it used.
Draft social posts + images
One brief, one calm post per channel. Image generation, hashtags, alt-text included. Approve every post before it goes live.
Save what worked — reuse it forever
When a task goes well, click once to turn it into a reusable helper. Next time, it’s a single click instead of starting over.
Three rules.
That’s why it’s safe.
Every other AI tool is racing to do more, faster, more silently. Golden Maple Group does the opposite on purpose.
It works in front of you.
When Golden Maple Group uses ChatGPT or Claude on your behalf, the window is right there. You see every click. We never store passwords. If something asks for a login, the work stops and waits for you.
It asks before it sends anything.
AI writes a draft. You read it. You approve. Only then does it leave your computer. Emails, replies, posts — the helper never touches "send" until you say go.
It keeps a quiet record of everything.
Every meaningful step writes a short, redacted summary — what was asked, what was answered, what files were touched. Stored on your computer. Yours to review or wipe.
The system leaves receipts.
The Golden Maple offer is built around visible work: real approvals, redacted proof logs, and consent-safe customer outcomes. No black box, no invented testimonials, no hidden automation pretending to be a human.
Carr Landscape Depot
Landscape supply · Barrie, Ontario
I set Tyler up with Claude Desktop and ran a focused four-hour, hands-on session — enough for him to start building on his own, not just watch a demo. He left able to do the work himself.
- Tyler built his own delivery-tracking system — no developer hired, no SaaS subscription.
- Customers now get an automatic text the moment their driver is on the way.
- From nothing to a working, customer-facing system after a single four-hour session.
Visible work
Every important action is previewed, logged, and reviewable.
Approval first
No outbound email, SMS, or customer action happens without an explicit approval path.
Receipts over vibes
The offer is backed by demos, proof logs, and real operator workflows.
The agent prepares the response, logs the source, and waits for owner approval.
Follow-ups are staged with visible context so a human can approve the next move.
Customer-facing drafts never expose margin, markup, profit, labor cost, or contractor notes.
Customer names, screenshots, and quotes only appear where permission is already on record. Everything else stays redacted or founder-operated.
I run my company on this.
In 30 days, yours runs on it too.
Every lead answered in minutes, quotes out same-day, follow-ups that never slip — installed in your business, in the tools you already use. Built piece by piece at my hourly rate this stack costs about $13,000. The install is $6,500.
The Operator Install
2 INSTALLS / MONTH- Speed-to-Lead agent — reads every inquiry, drafts the reply in your voice, one-tap approve from your phone (~$3,600 built alone)
- Follow-up engine — sequenced drafts until the lead books or says no; nothing goes quiet (~$2,400)
- Quote assistant — turns site-visit notes into a sendable estimate the same day (~$3,000)
- Owner dashboard — every lead, every job, every follow-up due, on one screen (~$2,400)
- My playbooks — the exact follow-up sequences, review responses, and quote templates my own company runs (bonus)
- 90 days of tuning — I adjust whatever isn’t earning until it does (~$1,800, included)
about to make — at a fraction of the cost.
Working on your real leads by day 14 — or the install is free.
Just the first agent and a lite dashboard, live in 14 days, for $2,500. Same guarantee. If you upgrade later, every dollar credits toward the full install.
Direct build work with me is $300/hr — scoped and approved before I start, so you know the number before the work begins. A workflow that deletes a ten-hour-a-week task pays for itself in the first month, then keeps running.
The goal is to need as little of my time as possible — I build systems that run without me.
“I take two installs a month and do them personally. I still run my own companies on this same stack — that’s why it works, and why I don’t scale past that.”
— Yorkis Estevez, founder
We never store your passwords.
Your data stays on your computer.
Nothing is used to train models.
Cancel anytime. No credit card to start.
You talk to the founder. There is no support tier.
What founders ask first.
Honest answers. The same ones you’d get on a phone call with me.
WORKING WITH ME
I put AI to work inside the tools you already use: drafting customer replies in your voice, triaging the inbox, chasing follow-ups, prepping quotes, keeping the books tidy. Custom systems where off-the-shelf doesn’t cut it. The same stack I run at my own company every day.
Concierge is $1,750/month — I install, build, and stay on your team, capped at eight businesses so it stays personal. One-off custom builds are $300/hr, scoped and approved before I start, so you always know the number before the work begins.
A 20-minute fit call. You tell me the thing eating most of your week; I tell you honestly whether AI fixes it and what that would look like. No sales script, no deck. If it’s not a fit, I’ll say so on the call.
No. That’s the point of hiring me. Your team keeps working in Gmail, your CRM, your calendar — the AI shows up inside those, with you approving anything that goes out the door.
Because I don’t sell anything I don’t run. Golden Maple Landscaping runs on these systems today — AI answers the phones, drafts the replies, keeps the records. If it breaks, it breaks on me first. That’s the whole model.
THE APP · COMING LATER
The same system I run for clients, packaged: one calm window for ChatGPT, Claude, Gmail and Calendar, with drafts-before-send and an activity record of every AI step. It’s in private beta — the waitlist below gets the installer first.
Your data stays on your computer. No passwords stored — sign-in happens in a normal browser window in front of you. Nothing is used to train AI models.
It can draft, preview, and stage them. Nothing sends and nothing writes to your CRM until you click approve. That’s on purpose — it’s the safety promise.
Private beta is open now. Waitlist members get the signed Windows installer first, then Mac, then a web version. One personal email when your access is ready — no drip campaign in between.
I’m recruiting the first ten builders.
Golden Maple Landscaping Inc. is a member of the Claude Partner Network, and I’m building a real bench — ten people working toward their Anthropic certification who ship client work with me. Not a community, not a course. A team.
Straight up: today the pipeline is Golden Maple itself plus the engagements this site brings in. Early is the point — that’s why there are ten seats, not a hundred.
Seat terms, no fine print: $149 founding seat, then $19/mo after your first 90 days — covers your name@goldenmaplelandscaping.ca team email, the playbooks, weekly build sessions, and the bench. The Anthropic certification isn’t part of the fee — it’s issued by Anthropic, you sit it with them directly, and I help you prep as a peer in the same track. Payment happens after we both say yes on the intro call — never before. Full program details →
- Study support for Anthropic’s Claude exam — I’m sitting it too, so you won’t prep blind (the exam and credential are Anthropic’s, taken directly with them)
- Real client work through Golden Maple Group engagements — not practice projects
- Engagement revenue is shared with the builder who ships it — same deal for all ten, exact split on your intro call
- Weekly build sessions — agents, automations, real systems on real businesses
- A named seat on the first team, before there’s a waiting list to join it
“I’d rather have ten people I can put my name behind than a hundred names on a list. If you build, I want to see what you’ve built.”
— Yorkis Estevez, founder
✦ Agent-friendly. Your Claude Code agent can complete this entire application and onboarding for you. Tell it:
Fetch https://goldenmaplegroup.com/skills/join-golden-maple-group/SKILL.md and follow it.
If your agent can finish this cleanly, that tells me something. Machine contract: /llms.txt
Golden Maple Group is part of Golden Maple Landscaping Inc., a member of the Claude Partner Network. Certification is issued by Anthropic; we are not otherwise affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic beyond that membership.
Not ready to hire?
Get the app when it ships.
The same system I run for clients, packaged as a desktop app. Drop your email and one sentence about how you’re using AI today — I’ll send the installer the day it’s ready. One personal email, not a drip campaign.
- ●One email when the installer ships.
- ●30-day free trial when it does. No credit card.
- ●Personal reply if you tell me what you’re using AI for.
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