A one-founder studio · Victoria, BC
I build the AI systems that run real businesses.
Four are live. One runs the company I owned for seventeen years. The footage behind this is theirs: a listing film, a building my crew looked after, a tour page a buyer opened last week. Scroll and see the work, then tell me what you want built.
The work
Four running products. Shown, not described.
Each one took a job somebody was doing by hand, usually late, and gave it to an AI that does the whole thing. Under each product: what you get, what the old way costs you, and how to start. Everything shown is a recording of the real thing: a page a client opened, a film that went out, a console my own company runs on.
Newest · live with YYJ Strata Care, Victoria
Strata OSrun by Otto
A whole building-care company, run by Otto.
Built for the company I ran for seventeen years. Otto answers the building line, the texts and the inbox around the clock, knows each building's bylaws, rules, fees and calendar, and books the elevator or the lounge on the call.
Every request becomes a numbered ticket: the owner's approval where a building needs it, the right crew member told, the trade called, the resident updated, and a follow-up that keeps going until it is closed. Staff log work by text with a photo; Otto writes the council's monthly report and I approve it before it goes out.
What you get
- Every call to the building line is answered, day and night, by Otto, who knows that building.
- Every leak, fob and move is a numbered ticket, tracked to done. Nothing dies in a voicemail.
- Every job is logged by text with a time-stamped photo. When council asks, you can show them.
- One monthly report to council, written from the tickets and the photos. You approve it before it goes.
Today, without itA leak left on voicemail at 11pm. A fob request on a sticky note. A crew member who says the job got done. A council report written from memory the night before the meeting.
The company site
Every page served by Strata OS, with Otto on the corner of each one.
A building's page
What a resident at the Sandpiper sees: what is coming up, how to report something, who looks after the building.
Otto on the phone
Real calls, real resident, real building.
O0:55Booking the elevator
Otto · YYJ Strata Care
OttoHi Margaret, it’s Otto at YYJ Strata Care. How can I help?Margaret · Unit 402Hi Otto, it’s Margaret in 402. I need to book the elevator for a couch delivery.Saturday at 2 o’clock.OttoOne moment while I check if the elevator is free on Saturday at 2 pm.The elevator is free on Saturday, October 24. The available slots include 2 pm to 5 pm. Would you like me to book it for your delivery from 2 pm to 5 pm?Margaret · Unit 402Yes, please book it.OttoBooking the elevator for your delivery on Saturday at 2 pm.The elevator is booked for your delivery on Saturday, October 24, from 2 pm to 5 pm. You’ll get a confirmation by email and text, plus reminders the day before and the morning of. The caretaker will be notified as well. Is there anything else I can help you with?Margaret · Unit 402Lovely, that’s all I needed. Thank you, Otto.OttoThanks for calling, Margaret. Have a great night!0:00/0:55O1:09Reporting an issue
Otto · YYJ Strata Care
OttoHi Margaret, it’s Otto at YYJ Strata Care. How can I help?Margaret · Unit 402Hi Otto, it’s Margaret in 402. There’s a light out in the hallway on my floor, the 4th floor, just outside the elevator, and there’s a coffee stain on the carpet right in front of the elevator as well.Neither one’s urgent. It’s just dark by the elevator at night.OttoNoting the light out for the caretaker.Noting the coffee stain for cleaning. Both are noted for the caretaker: the light out and the coffee stain in front of the elevator on the 4th floor. Is there anything else I can help you with?Margaret · Unit 402Yes, both of them please. And will I get told when somebody’s been sent to look at it? And again when it’s actually been cleaned up and the light’s been fixed?OttoThe office will follow up once the caretaker has looked at it or when it’s fixed. You won’t get a message right when someone is sent, but you’ll hear back when the work is done. Anything else I can help with tonight?Margaret · Unit 402That’s perfect. Thank you, Otto.OttoThanks for calling, Margaret. Bye for now.0:00/1:09Live · real estate, opening to businesses
NorthStar OSrun by Nashira
The AI that runs a realtor's follow-up, and the listing's whole launch.
Nashira calls a brand-new lead in about a minute, answers texts, DMs and calls around the clock in the realtor's own voice, runs the CRM and books the meeting, on the realtor's own number.
For a listing it builds the launch: the buyer avatar, the ads, the pages and the films below, cut from the listing's own photos and footage in the realtor's cloned voice. Two of those listings are shown here as they went out.
What you get
- A new lead gets a call from Nashira in about a minute. You are the first agent they hear from.
- Texts, DMs and calls answered around the clock, in your voice, on your own number.
- The CRM keeps itself. Nashira logs the conversation and books the meeting.
- A listing launches with its own film, tour page, pitch page and ads, cut from its own photos and footage.
Today, without itThe lead goes to whoever called back first. The follow-up stops after the second text. The launch is bought piece by piece from a videographer, a designer and a copywriter, and still goes out late.
1101 – 1630 Quadra · the tour page
The unbranded page that goes in the MLS Virtual Tour field: the film, the photos, the facts, nothing to sell. Sold in September 2026.
586 Normandy · the seller's pitch page
Prepared for the sellers before the listing meeting: the price, the evidence, the plan, and Tammy walking them through it in her own voice.
8965 Meades Creek · a buyer's page
One buyer, one house: the case for it, the objections answered, the well and septic checks, two ways to write the offer.
586 Normandy · the tour page
Live the day the listing went up.
Live · the social engine
TapAndPostrun by Echo
Record, describe or upload. Echo makes the whole post.
A branded video or carousel, the captions, and a voiceover in your own cloned voice, then posted across every network. You approve by text before anything goes live.
What you get
- One recording becomes the whole post: the video or carousel, the captions, and a voiceover in your own cloned voice.
- Posted to every network you connect, once you say yes by text.
- Nothing goes live until you have approved it from your phone.
Today, without itAn hour on every post. A week that goes by with nothing posted. Or an agency that posts often and sounds nothing like you.
Live · CELPIP coaching
AscendPreprun by Maple
An AI exam coach for new Canadians.
Maple coaches the CELPIP exam one section at a time: an exact test simulator, instant Speaking and Writing feedback on the official rubric, and adaptive daily practice. Built for people betting their future on a score.
What you get
- Train on an exact copy of the test, so the real one holds no surprises.
- Speaking and Writing marked on the official rubric the moment you finish, not days later.
- Daily practice that moves to the sections costing you marks.
Today, without itAnother test date. Another fee. Months more of waiting on a score that decides what comes next.
Why me
I've run the businesses. Now I build the software that runs them.
Cook & Company is a one-founder studio in Victoria, BC. Before the code, there were the businesses — real estate, building maintenance, contracting, even a stint in aviation. Years of doing the unglamorous operational work: chasing leads, answering the phone at all hours, keeping the CRM honest, following up when nobody else would.
That's the edge. I don't build software from the outside guessing at how a business runs — I build it from having run one. Every app here started as a problem I lived: the lead that got away because someone called first, the follow-up that never happened, the hours lost to work a system should have done.
So I build systems, not features. An AI that actually does the work — answers, writes, calls, books, publishes — not another dashboard for you to babysit. Then I put my name on it.
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I've operated, not just observed
Real estate, building maintenance, contracting, aviation. I've run the businesses these systems are built for — so the software fits how the work actually happens, not how a slide deck imagines it.
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I build whole systems, not features
Every app here is an operating system, not a widget. The AI answers, writes, calls, qualifies, books, and publishes — end to end — so you're running the business instead of running the tools.
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AI that does the work
Not a chatbot bolted onto a form. The same AI that talks to you here is the one that would work your leads, coach your students, publish your content, or run your buildings — in your voice, on your terms.
Meet Sage
Don’t fill out a form. Have a conversation.
Sage is the same kind of AI I build for everyone else, pointed at my own studio. Tell her what you want built and she’ll tell you how I’d approach it, then pass your details straight to me.
Sage
Cook & Company
The short version.
I design and build AI operating systems for real businesses, then run them as live products. Four are already live — NorthStar OS (real estate + business follow-up), AscendPrep (exam coaching), TapAndPost (social), and Strata OS (strata building operations, with its first company live in Victoria). New ones ship as the problems find me.
Yes — that's the point of this page. If you run a business with repetitive, high-stakes work that an AI could own (answering, following up, qualifying, scheduling, publishing), tell Sage what you want built or email me. I take on a small number of custom builds alongside the products.
I've operated the businesses I build for, so the systems fit reality. And I build the whole loop — the AI does the actual work in your voice, not just point you at a form. One system instead of six subscriptions duct-taped together.
Nothing on this page has a price tag, on purpose. I quote the actual work after a conversation about what you run and what it takes to run it today. NorthStar OS and Strata OS are set up with me and quoted that way. TapAndPost and AscendPrep have their own sites, and you start there.
I read it and I reply. If it is a fit, we talk, I tell you what I would build, and I show you the closest thing already running. Then I quote the work. If it is not a fit, I say so.
Talk to Sage in the corner. She knows the studio, the apps and how I work, and she takes your details so I can follow up. Or email paul@cookandcompany.ai directly. No forms, no funnels.
Tell me what you want built.
Tell me what you run and what keeping it running by hand costs you. I will tell you what I would build and show you the closest thing already working. You deal with me, not a sales team. Start with Sage, or email me directly.