# Zero Creativity Systems

> AI systems, operational automations, and the interfaces around them — built for owner-led companies where the work is still done by hand and the brand no longer matches the business.

Most shops build the brand layer or the systems layer. Zero Creativity builds both with the same hands, so the automation ends up looking like the company instead of a spreadsheet with a logo on it. One senior operator, from diagnosis through deployment.

## Who This Is For

- Owner-led services companies, roughly 10-150 people, where one person can approve the work without a committee.
- New York, New Jersey, and California. Remote US engagements accepted.
- Sectors with existing work: home services and trades, real estate and property operations, specialty contracting, professional services, consumer product and DTC teams.
- Also: seed to Series A software founders who need an identity, a site, and one internal system from a single senior party rather than three vendors.

## Who This Is Not For

- Pre-seed and idea-stage startups — the budget is better spent on a cofounder than a studio.
- Enterprises with a procurement function — every engagement is priced for one signature.
- Anyone shopping a single deliverable in isolation, such as a logo or one automation flow.
- Employment screening, lending, housing, and healthcare decision systems — referred out entirely. That is the one category where a defect harms a person rather than a metric, and it deserves a specialist.
- Cold outreach on purchased lists — declined on principle and on liability.
- Staffed content calendars or agency-of-record arrangements — that is labor, not a system.

## Capabilities, In Priority Order

1. Automation & Applied AI: mapped workflows, connected operations, LLM integrations, retrieval layers, agents with review surfaces, evaluation harnesses, data pipelines, email and campaign delivery infrastructure. The systems that remove the work.
2. Web & Interface: conversion-aware sites, product interface redesigns, design systems, accessibility and performance. The surfaces those systems live behind.
3. Brand & Identity: marks, color and type systems, naming and verbal identity, brand books and Figma libraries. The design system everything else inherits.

## Where To Start

The Operations Audit — $4,500, two weeks. Maps where the manual work actually is, ranks each workflow by what it costs to automate against what it saves, and returns a build order with a fixed quote against every item. It is a standalone advisory product and is not credited against a later build; Paid Discovery ($1,500) and Applied AI Discovery ($5,500) are credited in full against a build booked within 60 days.

For companies arriving to be seen rather than to be faster: the Identity Sprint ($4,500, 15 business days) and the Landing Page Sprint ($4,500-$7,500, 15 business days) run on the same timeline and route into the same audit at step two.

## How Engagements Are Bought

Three ways, usually in this order. Nothing commits to the next step before the current one has shipped.

1. Sprints — $1,500 to $5,500. A fixed deliverable on a fixed calendar, paid in full at booking, delivered in 5 to 15 business days with the revision count stated up front. No proposal, no discovery call, no negotiation.
2. Builds — $4,250 to $52,000. One bounded system, live and instrumented, with monitoring and documentation included. Scoped against a written six-factor assessment (systems touched, data condition, autonomy required, failure cost, volume, client readiness), so the number is derived rather than guessed.
3. Retainers — $600 to $18,000 per month. Watch, Care, Operate, Embedded, Advisory, Sending Operations, Design System Maintenance. Every build ships with a recommended retainer.

Bundles combine sprints and builds at up to 16% off, the only routine discount offered: Launch $11,500, Founder $12,000, Signal $19,000, Operator $23,000, Presence $28,000, Studio $39,000.

## Representative Prices

Two columns throughout: small business, then mid-market.

- Entry: Strategy Session $750; Paid Discovery $1,500 / $3,500; Diagnostic Day $3,500; Operations Audit $4,500 / $7,500; Applied AI Discovery $5,500 / $8,500.
- Sprints, flat nationally: Brand Teardown $1,500; Conversion or Email Program Teardown $1,800; Automation Sprint $2,800; Brand Kit + Figma Library $3,500; Deck Production $3,500-$6,500; Identity Sprint $4,500; Landing Page Sprint $4,500-$7,500.
- AI systems: Evaluation Harness $7,500 / $13,500; Tool & MCP Integration $8,500 / $15,000; Retrieval Layer $9,500 / $17,500; Agent with Review Surface $15,000 / $27,000; Document Understanding Pipeline $28,000 / $52,000.
- Automation and data: Alert Routing $3,000 / $5,750; Intake & Routing $4,250 / $7,750; Inbound Qualification $9,500 / $17,500; Ingestion & Warehouse or Integration Build $15,000 / $27,000; Internal Tool / Dashboard $11,000 / $24,000.
- Email: Campaign Build & Send $4,250 / $7,750; Sending Platform Setup $8,500 / $15,500; Email & Campaign Automation $15,000 / $27,000. Compliance is priced in, never added on.
- Brand and web: Identity System $9,500-$18,000; Marketing Site $12,000-$22,000; Interface Redesign $14,000-$28,000; Brand System + Rollout $22,000-$38,000.

## What Is Not Sold, And Why

- Model training and fine-tuning — outside the stack; prompt, retrieval, tool, and evaluation work covers the actual need in almost every case.
- Accuracy guarantees on generated output — cannot be honored. What is sold is the review surface, the evaluation harness, and the failure path.
- Guaranteed inbox placement — recovery timelines belong to the mailbox providers. Scope is fixes executed and monitoring installed.
- Cold outreach on purchased lists, community management, agency-of-record retainers.
- Multi-quarter programs as one commitment — sold as phases, re-scored at each gate.
- NYC Local Law 144 bias audits — the statute requires an independent auditor, so the work is referred out. California ADMT readiness ($6,000-$12,000) and New Jersey algorithmic-risk review ($2,500-$4,500) are quoted separately.

## Terms

Sprints 100% at booking. Builds under $25,000: 50% kickoff, 50% acceptance. Builds at or above $25,000: 40/30/30. Retainers monthly in advance, net 15. Defect window 30 days after acceptance, included. Rush +35%. Platform and model usage billed separately at cost plus 15% under a written cap. Full IP transfer of final deliverables on final payment.

## Key Pages

- Homepage: https://zerocreativity.systems/
- Automations: https://zerocreativity.systems/automations
- Brand: https://zerocreativity.systems/brand
- Legal & Privacy: https://zerocreativity.systems/legal

## Contact & Inquiries

- Email: contact@zerocreativity.systems
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/110141694