The work · no invented numbers
Real systems. Real clients. The whole truth.
This page is what exists today, written the way I'd want a supplier to write it to me: what's live, what's in build, which numbers are measured and which are estimates.
A closer look at the work.
Same call. Two versions of the same evening.
21:47
Phone rings
Burst pipe. Kitchen flooding.
21:47
Four rings, then voicemail
21:48
Caller hangs up
Nobody leaves a voicemail at nine at night.
21:52
They call the next plumber on the list
Mon 08:10
The owner sees one missed call
No name. No message. No idea what it was worth.
21:47
Phone rings
Burst pipe. Kitchen flooding.
21:47
Answered on the second ring
21:48
Works out the job
Burst pipe, kitchen, water off at the main, tenant on site.
21:49
Address confirmed and read back
Spelled out, then repeated, so it's right the first time.
21:49
In the owner's hand
Name, address, what's wrong, how urgent. The owner decides what happens next.
An illustration of the sequence, not a recording of a customer. I'm not putting a fake call on a website.
Written from transcripts
The questions the system asks are the ones that come up when someone's kitchen is actually under water: taken from real call transcripts in the pilot, not imagined by a software company.
Catch, qualify, hand off
The scope is deliberate: it answers, works out the job, and puts it in the owner's hand. It does not book the diary. The owner closes jobs from his head, and no software knows what he knows.
Built and run by one person
I built it, I run it, and when it says something odd at eleven at night, fixing it is my problem. No agency, no support desk in another timezone.
One plumbing company signed for the AI receptionist; it goes live in October 2026 and the first 30 days get published on this site. Five workflow automations completed for Chimpy, a powerbank rental company, with a 5.0/5 client review. Paid audits sold and delivered to Norwegian businesses before that. No revenue claims, no percentages, no “clients love us”: those numbers don't exist yet, and inventing them would tell you everything about how I'd treat your business. When the October numbers land, they get published here. Including if they're boring.
Five workflow automations for a team lead at Chimpy.
Chimpy rents powerbanks across Europe. A team lead there sent me a brief covering meetings, the inbox, invoices and dictation. The completed package includes a fifth workflow: a Friday summary of the week and open items.
Chimpy
5.0 / 5
“Ivar is really good at what he does. Even though there were complications, he was determined to deliver exactly what I asked for and did it fast. He's also personable and charming, so it's been a pleasure to work with him. I look forward to working with him again!”
Recaps from Wispr Flow to Slack
Jari dictates his recap in Wispr Flow. The text is transcribed in his preferred structure and tone, then automatically pasted into his Slack account.
Stays human: The recap follows his preferred format. Names, decisions and action items still need to be accurate.
How this one is built →Twice-daily digest, 09:00 and 14:00
Slack messages and mentions plus work email since the last run, summarised per sender: who, what they want, what they're waiting on. Every line links back to the thread.
Stays human: It never replies. LinkedIn stays out; the official API doesn't expose the inbox.
How this one is built →Invoice PDFs filed to Drive
Invoices from email and from the tools that send them are detected, renamed by date, vendor and amount, and dropped in one Drive folder. Duplicates skipped.
Stays human: It files. It never pays, never deletes, and some billing pages stay a manual download.
How this one is built →One-key cleanup of dictated text
Wispr Flow transcribes; one key sends the text through a style guide built from their own messages and shows the tighter version for a quick review. One more key pastes it.
Stays human: The review window stays. The transcript can be wrong, and only the person knows what they meant.
How this one is built →Friday Weekly Summary
Each Friday, the workflow gathers the week’s Slack messages, email and meeting transcripts. Claude summarizes what happened and what is still open, then sends it by Slack DM.
Stays human: The summary brings open items together. The team lead decides what to prioritize and follow up.
How this one is built →- Recap to Slacksay 4 meetings a day × 3 min of copy, find, paste, tidy1 h / week
- Digestsay 24 inbox checks a day × 2 min, replaced by two 5-min reads3 h / week
- Invoicessay 40 a month × 3 min to find, download, rename, upload0.5 h / week
- Dictationsay 20 messages a day × 45 s of paste, wait, copy, paste1.25 h / week
- Total, one personEstimate for the original four workflows only. The weekly summary is excluded. No measured time savings are available yet.≈ 5 to 6 h / week
The full story, including what I told them no to, is in the case study. This was a fixed-price build. Ongoing maintenance is scoped separately.
Aviation and healthcare use cases
AI voice-agent testing and analysis.
I conducted hands-on testing and analysis of Acolad’s AI voice agents for aviation and healthcare applications, evaluating the caller experience and delivering practical recommendations to refine agent behaviour.
Agent evaluation
Assessed how the agents handled test conversations from the caller’s perspective.
Conversation analysis
Analysed the interactions and reported findings to Acolad’s team.
Practical recommendations
Translated the findings into concrete recommendations for refining the agents.
Acolad DS
5.0 / 5
Wording adapted from the original review.
“Ivar is great! Professional, responsive, and delivered quality work. Highly recommended.”
Before the receptionist: follow-up, workflows, and honest reviews.
The only numbers here are the ones the client said first.
Technology and manufacturing
Droptech
Interviewed the founder on where work actually stalled, dug into customer follow-up, parts traceability and development pace, and came back with prioritized recommendations and what each would take.
5.0/5
“Within just a few days he came back with solid recommendations.”
Consulting
Grude Consulting
Automated client follow-up, so it happens by itself instead of waiting for someone to remember.
4 hours a week saved on client follow-up
5.0/5
“Ivar helped me save 4 hours a week on client follow-up!”
Sales
SalesUp
A setup that cuts routine work out of daily operations.
5.0/5
“Fantastic delivery, fast, and a great setup that will save us many hours every single week!”
Business association
Arendal Næringsforening Ung
Review of how they communicate with members, and which routine tasks eat the time.
5.0/5
“Ivar is practical and concrete, and showed us new tools we can actually use right away. 100% worth the time.”
Fitness
Kick Trening
Workflow and tooling review.
Every build ships with a fallback route: if the system can't take a call, the call goes to your existing voicemail or answering service instead of dead air. It's part of the acceptance test before go-live, not a promise in a paragraph.
I watch alerts from 06:00 to 23:00 Central European Time. That covers midnight to 5pm on the US East Coast and 5am to 10pm in the UK. Outside those hours the fallback route takes the call and I fix it before your morning.
I have a day job teaching entrepreneurship for Ungt Entreprenørskap. This business runs before and after it, and I say so because you'd find out anyway.
After the build, every system carries a monthly fee. For the receptionist that's the phone line, the minutes and my monitoring, typically several hundred dollars a month at single-shop volumes. For a single automation it's a smaller retainer that covers running it and fixing it when a supplier changes something. I quote the exact figure with the build, before you sign anything.
The next system gets built from your week, not a menu.
We look at where you want the business to go, what is slowing you down and where AI could make a useful difference. You get a clear recommendation: a tool to try, a focused automation, a broader system or a closer look at the process. Any build is scoped and quoted before work starts. Free, no obligation.
Single automations are quoted on the call: a setup fee plus a monthly retainer to run them. Full systems start at $4,500, fixed scope, fixed price.
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