For small & mid-sized businesses

AI agents and automation that scale your business — without adding headcount.

I help small and mid-sized businesses turn everyday bottlenecks — slow lead response, repetitive support tickets, manual busywork — into AI agents and workflows that actually ship. Built around how your business runs, not a generic template. Need a website or marketing plan too? We'll figure that out together.

How an engagement runs

Three stages, in order, every time

I don't recommend an AI agent before I understand how your business actually runs — and I won't bundle in a website or marketing plan just because it's easy to sell.

STAGE 1

Free workflow audit

What you sell, how leads and requests come in, which tools you already run on — I start with a free audit of how your business actually works today, before recommending anything.

Client onboardingLead follow-up processInternal reportsManual data entry
STAGE 2

Build & validate

I design and build your AI agent and workflows inside the tools you already use, and test it against real scenarios before it ever talks to a customer — usually two to three weeks, start to finish.

STAGE 3

Launch, monitor & improve

You get a working system, with me watching how it performs and fixing issues fast in the first few weeks. If a website or marketing plan makes sense too, that's the next conversation — not a bundled add-on.

Where it helps

The moments that actually decide the outcome

Sales

Speed-to-lead response

Respond to a new inquiry in under a minute, any hour, before a competitor gets there first.

Support

Support tickets, triaged and drafted

Incoming tickets get sorted, drafted, and routed automatically — a person still approves before anything sends.

Scheduling

Booking, handled

Customers book directly with your AI agent, and it lands on your calendar without a back-and-forth email.

Operations

Manual data entry, gone

Information moves between your tools automatically, so nobody's copy-pasting the same fields twice a day.

Reporting

Reports that build themselves

Recurring reports and internal updates get generated and sent out on schedule, without someone assembling them by hand.

Marketing

Content that ships on time

Drafts, social posts, and follow-ups go out the same day, with a human approval step before anything publishes.

Questions worth answering upfront

Frequently asked

Most of what I build starts with a single founder or small team in mind — that's who I work with most. Slightly larger teams get the same system, scaled to a few more people.
No — I build inside the CRM, inbox, and tools you already use, so nothing you rely on today has to change or migrate.
Not as a fixed package right now — I'm a one-person shop focused on AI agents and automation. If a website or marketing plan makes sense for your business, we'll scope that together separately, usually starting during your free workflow audit.
That's fine. The audit is free and doesn't require signing up for an AI agent, automation, or anything else.
Most first AI agents launch within two to three weeks, start to finish.
Let's talk

Tell me where the busywork is piling up. I'll tell you what actually fixes it.

A couple minutes on your business is usually enough to know if this is a fit. If it's not, I'll say so.

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About Zenward AI

A one-person shop, built specifically for growing businesses.

I work directly with every client — no account manager, no hand-off, no team roster. Just one person who knows your project end to end, from the first call to launch.

2026
Founded
1
Person you'll work with — always
<60s
Target lead response time, built in
How I work

Four things that don't change between clients

Built inside your existing tools

No parallel platform to maintain. If it doesn't run in the tools you already use, I haven't finished the job.

Measured by outcomes, not features

Not features shipped. Every build is judged by response time, tickets resolved, and revenue kept.

Honest about what's core vs. custom

AI agents and automation are the offer. A website or marketing plan isn't bundled in — we scope those separately, only if they make sense.

One person, start to finish

You work with me directly, from the first call to launch. No hand-off, no account manager.

Who you'll work with

Just me, for now

Dean Razic

Dean Razic

Founder, Zenward AI

I handle everything myself — scoping, building, and supporting every AI agent and automation I ship. When a project needs a website or marketing plan too, I'll say so plainly, and we'll figure out that scope together rather than forcing it into a package that doesn't fit yet.

Curious if we're a fit?

I'll tell you plainly if we're not.

A free 30-minute workflow audit, no deck.

Resources

Notes from the work.

Short, specific writing from inside real agent and team engagements — not general AI or marketing takes.

Guides

The 5-minute rule for lead response, and why most agents miss it

Speed to lead is the single biggest predictor of whether an inquiry turns into a customer. Response-time research consistently shows contacting a new lead within 5 minutes makes you roughly 8x more likely to qualify it than waiting 30 minutes, and close to 100x more likely than waiting a full day. Run the numbers on a business fielding 50 inquiries a month: cutting average response time from a few hours down to under 5 minutes, at a typical 20% lead-to-customer rate, works out to 8–10 extra customers a month — without spending a cent more on marketing. That's the math behind why lead response is usually the first thing worth automating.

BEHIND THE BUILD

The two-to-three week agent build, start to finish

Most builds run on n8n as the automation backbone — it connects your CRM, inbox, calendar, and other tools into one workflow without locking you into a single vendor. Claude handles the parts that need judgment: reading a message, scoring intent, drafting a reply, deciding what to route where. Data moves through direct API connections to the tools you already use — HubSpot, Gmail, Slack, Shopify, Airtable, whatever your business runs on — so nothing gets duplicated into a separate system you have to maintain. Every workflow gets tested against real, past examples from your business before it goes live, and anything sensitive routes to a human for approval rather than sending automatically. The result is a system built inside your existing stack, not a new platform bolted on top of it.

GUIDES

Why I don't launch an AI agent without a test

Before an agent ever talks to a real customer, I run it against dozens of real past inquiries and edge cases, checking tone, accuracy, and failure points until it consistently gets the response right.

PORTFOLIO · B2B SAAS

Intelligent Lead Scoring & Routing Agent

Response time for high-intent leads dropped from ~24 hours to under 10 minutes.

PORTFOLIO · E-COMMERCE

Customer Support Triage & Draft-Response Agent

70% of tickets resolved with zero human touch, with sensitive cases still routed to a person.

GUIDES

What actually belongs on an agent's homepage

Visitors decide in seconds whether you can help their specific situation and how fast they can talk to someone — everything else on the page is clutter slowing down that decision.

GUIDES

The marketing spend I don't recommend

Boosted social posts and broad display ads are the two I steer clients away from most often — for a service business, that budget almost always performs better spent on faster follow-up.

PORTFOLIO · MARKETING AGENCY

Content Operations Pipeline: Brief to Publish

First-draft turnaround cut from ~3 days to under 2 hours, with a human approval gate before anything publishes.

Want this applied to your business?

Bring me your slowest follow-up. I'll tell you what's fixable.

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