The Blixco AI Discovery Method

Turn "we should use AI" into something your team actually uses by Tuesday morning.

I'm Ryan Blix. Twelve-plus years translating between business and technology across regulated industries, including healthcare and financial services. Now I run the Blixco AI Discovery Method with small business owner-operators who want one working thing more than they want a strategy deck.

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Tools I Build With

M Make.com
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H HubSpot
C Claude API
AI OpenAI
G Google Workspace
S Slack
A Airtable
Z Zapier
CU ClickUp
The Method

The Blixco AI
Discovery Method.

Six steps. In order. Each one feeds the next. The same rigor a Fortune 500 spends six weeks on, compressed into a two-hour workshop and a week of delivery.

Discovery

Inventory every process in the business, ranked by time cost. Flag the broken ones for manual fixing first. Automating a broken process produces faster broken output, which is worse than the original problem.

Workflow Mapping

Map the top three to five processes step by step. Every action, every handoff, every wasted minute. The mapping itself often surfaces fixes that do not need AI at all.

Opportunity Audit

Convert each opportunity into hours saved and dollars recovered. Rank by ROI and complexity. You see which automations are quick wins and which are longer-term bets.

Architecture Design

Pick the tools, draw the data model, decide what is a linear workflow and what needs an agent. Every Blixco engagement ends with a single source of truth, not a tangled web of direct integrations.

Build

Construct the automations. Every one ships with a named owner, a defined failure mode, and a manual fallback. Nothing goes into production without a person responsible for it.

Delivery Documentation

Plain-language handoff so the team can run the system without me. With an evaluation rubric they can use to tell whether the workflow is still working six months from now.

What working together looks like

Two hours. One week.
One working thing.

Most AI consulting is six weeks of strategy and a deck. This is two hours of structured workshop and one week of delivery. The whole engagement is built to end with one workflow your team is already using.

Discovery Call

Thirty to sixty minutes. You walk me through your Monday morning, your top pain points, and the things you wish you did not have to do. I do not sell. I diagnose.

Two-Hour Workshop

I run the full method on your business. Inventory, map, audit, architecture. You leave with a roadmap whether or not we keep working together.

One Week of Delivery

I build, document, and hand off the first workflow. By the following Tuesday it is live in your team's week, with a named owner and a failure plan.

Who this is for

Small businesses that run on
relationships, not on a tech stack.

Trades and Home Services

A missed call is a missed job. The first workflow is usually lead capture, instant follow-up, and review generation, so the front office stops leaking and the field work stays human.

Plumbing, HVAC, electrical, pest control, epoxy flooring, garage door, tree service, insulation. Your front office is wide open for automation. Your field work stays human.

Event Planners and Venues

Vendor coordination, client intake, proposals, post-event follow-up. The email that owns your week, owned by a workflow instead.

Nonprofits

Donor outreach, grant tracking, event registration, board reporting. A small team that operates like a much bigger one without the headcount.

What gets built

Workflows, not strategy decks.

Every system is built for your business, your tools, and your team. Here is what tends to come out of the method.

Lead Capture and Follow-Up

Missed-call text-back, intake routing, follow-up sequences. The gap between a phone call you missed and a job you booked, closed.

Intake and Onboarding

Forms to CRM to scheduling, with no copy-paste in the middle. New clients arrive fully onboarded without anyone moving data by hand.

Reports and Content

Proposals, customer reports, dashboards that update themselves. Your team presents the work instead of building the spreadsheet.

Operations and Routing

Task assignment, vendor coordination, data pipelines, notifications. The plumbing that keeps everything running without daily babysitting.

About

Twelve-plus years of translating between business and technology. Now translating it for businesses your size.

I'm Ryan Blix. I have spent the last twelve-plus years translating between business and technology across regulated industries, including healthcare and financial services. The kind of environments where mistakes have consequences and a workflow either gets used by the people on the floor or quietly dies.

I am not a Fortune 500 consultant for hire. The pattern I learned in those rooms, that the hard part of any AI project is change management and not technology, turns out to be exactly what small business owner-operators need from someone who has already watched it fail a hundred ways. The Blixco AI Discovery Method is what came out of that.

The first cohort of small business pilots is in flight right now. When their workflows ship, they will be named on this page. Until then, the method is what I am asking you to evaluate, and the pattern strip below is the receipt that the rigor underneath it is real.

36x

Faster service requests at Wells Fargo

120

Enterprise customers onboarded at UnitedHealth Group

255

Facilities redesigned at Acadia Healthcare

12+

Years across regulated industries

Ready?

Let's find one workflow that's
costing you a day a week.

Thirty minutes. No pitch. Just a clear diagnosis of where the method would land first inside your business, and an honest answer about whether AI is even the right tool for it.

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Free. No commitment. The first thirty minutes are diagnostic.