AI development company · Cincinnati
We're a small, hands-on team that builds custom apps, AI agents and automation for small and midsized businesses. Software made for your business, not another subscription you bend your business to fit.
20 projects delivered for entertainment and event venues, construction, auto services, youth sports organizations and marketing agencies.
ACORN WORKS HEADQUARTERS
Cincinnati, OH
What we fix
Your CRM says one number, your POS says another, and someone reconciles the difference by hand every month. We build the application that sits across them — one place the work happens, talking to the systems you already pay for, so nothing gets retyped in the middle.
It started as a quick fix. Now three people depend on it, one person understands it, and nobody dares change it. We replace it with something that has roles, history, and an audit trail, without losing the logic that made it work in the first place.
Spreadsheets, an old database, and three subscriptions that each hold a piece of the picture. We pull it into one clean source, so your reports are right and AI has something reliable to work with.
Leads sit unassigned. Calls and texts go unanswered after hours. Invoices get paid above the contracted rate. Counts get entered wrong and nobody notices until month end. These are routing and checking problems, and they're what AI is actually good at, with a person in the loop and a record of every decision it makes.
If yours isn't on this list, it probably rhymes with one of them.
Built around how your business runs, on any device.
AI that takes work off your team's plate, around the clock.
Reach every customer and employee the way they actually respond.
Every system connected, with answers delivered the way your team works.
How we work
We sit down with the people doing the work and map what the business actually needs. You leave with a clear scope and an honest answer about whether custom software is the right fix.
We build in the open. Every week you see progress, try it, and steer. No disappearing for three months and coming back with the wrong thing.
Your team uses it on real work before it goes live, we fix what they find, then we launch and train everyone on it.
Keep us on to maintain, improve and add to it as the business grows. You own the code and the data either way.
We will tell you when you don't need us. That happens more often than you'd expect.
Selected work
Full Throttle's employee app, from scheduling to payroll.
Every invoice checked against the contract before it's paid.
Answers from company documents for staff and guest services.
Every park compared side by side, with AI answers across all of them.
Why us
Acorn Works came out of operating multi-location businesses, not out of a consultancy. We started by building the software our own operations needed, so we know what a bad rollout costs. Since then we've delivered 20 projects for businesses across hospitality, construction, auto services, youth sports and marketing.
That is also why we will not sell you a platform. We build the specific thing your business needs and nothing beyond it, and we ship in phases so you can stop after any one of them and still have something that works.
We're based in Cincinnati, and we'd rather meet you at your office than on a video call.
Systems we've connected
A partial list. If you're running something we haven't touched, we'll find out quickly whether it has an API worth using.
One email describing the problem in your own words. We'll tell you whether we can help and roughly what it would take. No deck, and no discovery call to schedule a discovery call.
Or email aaron@acornworksai.com directly.
