Daniel Stouffer

How I got here

I have spent years working with contractors and small businesses — not swinging a hammer, but coming in when the process is broken and figuring out how to fix it. What I kept seeing was the same thing over and over: smart, capable people buried in paperwork that didn't have to be that hard. Bids taking forever to pull together. RFIs sitting in email threads nobody could find. The principal writing customer updates at nine at night because nobody else had time.

That is not a labor problem. It is a workflow problem. And it is exactly the kind of problem AI is good at — not to make decisions, but to take the grinding, repetitive drafting work off the desk of the people who have better things to do.

I started AI @ WORK because I had seen enough contractor offices to know where the time disappears, and I had enough AI experience to know how to get it back. Not with another platform. Not with a six-month implementation. With practical workflows that somebody can use the day after a three-hour workshop.

The tools exist right now to cut your bid drafting time in half, to turn an RFI into a drafted response in minutes, to get a professional client update out the door without the principal doing it by hand. I build those workflows, I teach them, and I stick around long enough to make sure they actually work in your office.

Based in Champlin, MN. Working with contractors across the Twin Cities.

AI is the apprentice. You still decide.

AI should draft, summarize, organize, and format. It should take the first swing at a bid summary, turn field notes into a client update, and pull an RFI response together before a PM has to think too hard about it. That is the job. It is not to make pricing calls, approve scope, finalize contract terms, or say anything to a customer that a human hasn't read first.

The contractors who get the most value out of this are the ones who treat AI like a capable new hire — one who is fast, tireless, and needs review. They check the output, fix what is wrong, and send it. They do not rubber-stamp it, and they do not rewrite it from scratch either. The goal is a better first draft, not a magic button.

That is what I build. Practical workflows with a clear human handoff built in — so AI handles the volume, and your people handle the judgment. No software pitch. Just workflows that work.