What is the difference between a workflow and an automation?

A workflow is the whole job and its steps. Automation is how some or all of those steps get handled without a person doing them every time.

What workflow should I automate first?

Choose a job that happens often, takes real time, starts from clear information, and ends with a result you can check.

Can it work with my current apps?

Usually. I start with the tools the job already touches and connect them where the access is practical and reliable.

Where does a person stay involved?

Wherever you want. The workflow can stop every time, stop only for important decisions, or run all the way through.

Why put the workflows on an AI MacBook?

The Mac gives the business one place for its AI, tools, rules, jobs, and finished work instead of another scattered pile of software.

What happens on the free 15-minute call?

You show me one repeat workflow. I map what starts it, what happens in the middle, which decisions need a person, and what the finished result should be. Then I tell you the simplest useful next step.

How much does AI workflow automation cost?

A workflow can be quoted on its own when you only want one defined job. The full AI MacBook starts at $5,000 upfront plus $300 per month and includes one simple first job. The final price depends on what the workflow has to touch, decide, send, and keep running.

AI workflow automation for small business

AI workflow automation.One job at a time.

A workflow is just a computer job with steps. I teach those steps to your AI MacBook so the job keeps getting done.

Real work. Recorded.

Through August 19, 2026

25.4B+

AI tokens recorded

281,644

AI work events

201,586

External actions

546,350

Code lines changed

41,895

Guardrail checks

2,343

Deployments

395+

Client drafts tracked

Watch one job work

Workflow automation, in plain English

A job starts. The Mac does the steps. Finished work comes out.

That is a workflow. Maybe a lead comes in, an invoice needs checked, a report is due, or a customer needs followed up with. The AI reads what came in, uses what it knows about your business, works through the steps, and gives you the finished result.

Works with 1,000+ business tools.

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Put your numbers in

What is the computer work costing you?

Hours one repeat job takes each week

10 hours

1 hour80 hours

What one hour costs

$75 / hour

$10$500

Use what you pay someone—or what an hour of your own time is worth.

If the approved job gives all of those hours back:

520Hours back every year

$39,000Value of those hours

Straight math from the numbers you chose. Not a promised result.

Instead of stacking another automation tool onto the business, I build the workflows into one MacBook that knows your company and works through the apps you already have.

Why workflows work better inside the AI MacBook

A fixed automation follows a recipe. An AI MacBook can understand the job around the recipe.

Some steps should stay rigid. Others require reading an email, comparing records, understanding a customer, or deciding which allowed path fits. The AI MacBook can hold both inside one managed workflow.

A business computer buried under overlapping email, calendar, invoice, spreadsheet, customer, and notification windows

One clean AI MacBook holding the business computer work in a single finished-work queue

Scattered workflow tools

Scattered steps.

Workflow inside the AI MacBook

One Mac. Finished.

One trigger in one app with little business context

The Mac knows the approved context for the job

Why the AI MacBook is different

The AI MacBook is where those workflows live.

Selected business work

Businesses I've built for.

Real work. Real jobs.

Here’s what the work looks like.

Real inputs. One AI MacBook. The job finished the way you want.

See all proof

Approved customer records entering one AI MacBook and becoming three checked follow-up drafts waiting for human review

Real job

Customer & sales

Customer History to Review-Ready Follow-Ups

395+

client drafts tracked

Goes in: Approved customer and invoice exports
Comes out: A small, review-ready Gmail queue

Read the receipt

Exactly four accounting exports entering one AI MacBook and becoming one audited customer database

Real job

Files & operations

Four Accounting Exports to One Audited Customer Database

8,986

invoices recovered

Goes in: One exact four-file accounting export set
Comes out: One current, audited customer database

Read the receipt

Real client reviews

What clients say.

“Tanner was incredibly helpful to our business by figuring out a pretty complex AI Mapping to auto generate invoices.”
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Tanner, in plain English

Same business. One computer job off your plate.

You keep the tools and process that already work. I build the Mac around them, then make sure the assigned job is handled the way you expect.

Read the video transcript

Most AI still makes you do the work. And worse than that, most AI makes you change the way your business runs just so their app makes sense. This is the part nobody talks about. They do not actually remove the work. They hand you a new system and say, “Here, run your business through this.” That is backwards.

You should not have to rebuild your business around somebody else's software. The software should be built around your business. That is what an AI MacBook is. I take the way your business already works and I build the MacBook around that—not some fake, cleaned-up version of your business. Your actual business. The one you're already running every single day.

Then I teach the MacBook to handle the computer work that comes with that. Not to explain it to you, not to give you ideas, not to make you another list. It does the work. So instead of working all day and then coming back to fight the computer, you do the real work. The MacBook handles the office.

That is the difference. Normal AI is something you use, and an AI MacBook is something that you put to work. One Mac. One screen. One AI employee.

Why automate a workflow

Pick one job with a clear finish line.

The same job gets done the same way without somebody carrying every step in their head. AI workflow automation is useful when the work has a repeat shape but the information inside it changes. The Mac can read the new situation, follow the business rules, work through the tools, and finish at the control point you chose. If you can show me what starts the job and what done looks like, I can see whether the Mac can handle the middle.

See the jobs

How it starts

Start with one job.

Add more only after it works.

Your Mac. Your first job. Built for you.

$5,000

+ $300/month

Brand-new MacBook

One real job built in

14-day satisfaction period

Read the guarantee

The 14-day satisfaction period starts at Operational Delivery. A cancellation during that window refunds the cash collected on the AI Employee MacBook upfront invoice minus the $750 setup and deployment fee, and the Mac is returned to DOBE.

The person behind DOBE

Built by Tanner.

Hey, I'm Tanner.

WyomingMarriedTwo dogsAlways outside

I hate wasted time. I build you a brand-new Mac that knows your business and handles the computer jobs you never want to do again. You keep the tools and process that already work. I build the whole setup and hand it over ready to work. The whole point is more time for real life.

Life outside the work.

This is what getting off the computer is for.

The details

Questions, answered.

It is a repeat computer job handled through connected steps, with AI reading and deciding where normal fixed rules are not enough.

Have one repeat computer job in mind? Show me what happens now. I will map it with you for free in 15 minutes.

Free 15-minute first AI job map

Map My First Workflow.

Show me what starts the job and what done looks like. I will map the workflow and tell you whether the Mac can handle the middle. Bring one repeat workflow. We will identify the trigger, the steps, the tools, the decisions, and the finish line. I will tell you what should stay fixed, where AI actually helps, and whether it belongs in a smaller workflow or the full AI MacBook.