Bureau Co. is a consulting practice for owner-run businesses. We find the 3–5 places your operation is losing time — usually the admin and follow-up tasks that should never land on the owner's desk — then build the systems that win it back. If AI isn't the right answer for your situation, we'll tell you that too.
Seven questions. A clear read on where you’re losing time — free, no sales pitch.
A 6–20 person professional services firm where the owner is still the one handling intake, follow-up, or document prep — there’s likely 8–15 hours a week waiting to be reclaimed.
Answer seven short questions about how work actually runs. We send back a plain-English read on one stuck workflow — free, with no sales pitch attached.
After the check, you can request a 20-minute intro. We review requests and schedule when a slot opens. You’ll get an honest read on whether the $750 assessment is worth it.
On a one-hour call, we map one high-friction workflow end to end, score effort against impact, and identify three to five opportunities.
You get a written report — executive summary, ranked recommendations, a four-day quick-win plan — plus a follow-up walkthrough.
We implement what you approve at a fixed scope and fixed price. You own everything we build.
Conversation, custom report, follow-up call. The starting point for every engagement.
→ You leave with a written report, ranked opportunities, and a 4-day quick-win plan.
Booking systems, intake forms, client trackers, job boards. Built for exactly how you work — replacing the per-seat software you rent.
→ You leave with a tool you own. No monthly seat fees, no features you don't use.
Zapier, Make, custom workflows. Removes manual handoffs from your team's day.
→ You leave with a running, documented workflow that handles the task without you.
An AI that answers your leads, qualifies them, and follows up — while you're on a job, in a meeting, or asleep.
→ You leave with an always-on agent handling intake and follow-up in your voice.
Sometimes the process itself is the problem. We fix the system first — then decide what to automate.
→ You leave with a simplified process your team can actually run, with or without automation.
An AI trained on your SOPs, FAQs, and past work — so your team stops asking you the same questions.
→ You leave with a searchable AI brain your team can query instead of asking you.
Already had something built with AI that half works? We audit it, harden the security, and make it production-ready.
→ You leave with a tool you can actually trust in front of customers.
Monthly AI advisory and ongoing agent care — a standing partner watching your stack.
→ You get a standing partner watching your stack, fixing what breaks, and finding wins.
Most technology consultants sell courses, generic playbooks, or retainers billed by the hour. Bureau Co. was built to do the opposite — small, technical, and accountable. We embed in your operation, find what's actually worth changing, and build it to last. We'll tell you where AI and automation fit. And we'll tell you plainly where they don't.
Dan founded Bureau Co. to give owner-run businesses access to serious technology consulting — without the agency overhead, the hand-offs, or the hidden hourly bills. Every call, every report, and every line of work comes from the same person. That’s the whole point.
Before anything gets recommended or scoped, we spend real time understanding your business — how it actually runs, where it's losing energy, what you're trying to protect. Not every conversation turns into a project right away, and we think that's healthy. If now isn't the right time, we'll tell you plainly. And you can come back when the time is right.
If the workflow is broken, automation just breaks it faster. We map and fix the system first — then we automate the parts that are actually worth automating.
No hourly billing. No surprise invoices. No "it depends." The number on the proposal is the number on the receipt, every time.
Every workflow, agent, and system we build belongs to you. No proprietary black boxes, no vendor lock-in to Bureau Co. We document what we build so your team can run it without us.
Bureau Co. is owner-run. You work directly with the person doing the work — not a salesperson handing off to a junior team. We sign our name to what we deliver.
We limit how many clients we take on. Not because we have to — because shallow engagements produce shallow results. When we take your project, we're actually there.
If the technology isn't the right answer, we'll say so plainly — and point you toward what is. Honest advice protects your money and your trust. That matters more to us than a closed deal.