From our Founder
I'm Travis Smith, a general contractor here in Washington State. Running a business is where I learned to spot what slows one down. Most business software is built by people who will never use it — that's why it breaks where it matters.
The problem
Most small businesses run on habits and memory. The same numbers keyed into three systems by hand. Decisions made on gut feel because pulling the real data takes an afternoon you don't have. And when you try the AI tools everyone's hyping, they hand back confident answers that are garbage.
I've seen it in construction, where I live. I've seen it in a counseling practice drowning in insurance billing. Different trades, same disease: the owner is the system.
The math changed
AI is improving faster than most businesses have priced in. Custom software that took a dev team and six figures two years ago now puts solutions for solo operations in play. Writing the code isn't the hard part anymore.
The hard part is knowing which problem is worth solving — and what solving it is worth. That's an operator's question, not a programmer's.
You won't need me forever
Most AI consultants sell you a black box and a forever retainer. I'd rather work myself out of the job.
I build the system that fixes your bottleneck — then teach you to drive the tools yourself: the models, the guardrails, the discipline. When you don't need me anymore, it worked.
The proof
I built wsec.ai because the published energy-code documents everyone relies on carry errors. I went line-by-line through the actual Washington Administrative Code and rebuilt the engine on the law itself — and caught the state's own published documents disagreeing with it. See what I found →
Here are some recent solutions:
- Invoices that file themselves — inbox to folder to printer to archive, no human touching them. Saves about 2 hours per week.
- Bid workbooks that organize multi-vendor quotes side by side— and caught a supplier's quantity error worth $1,450 on a single job.
- Business memory systems— the operation that ran out of one owner's head gets organized and memorialized so it can operate like a business, instead of a job.
- An AI assistant that can't make things up— it answers only from certified source text, cites the exact section, and refuses to give a number it can't source.
- Vision tools that read construction plans — specs, square footage, schedules, notes.
- One-button Excel tools — type your inputs, hit Run, get the full math on an audit sheet and the charts dropped in.
- The production stack around all of it — payments, authentication, backups, 1,500+ automated tests — plus websites that rank, including a #1 organic Google result for a competitive local service term.
Residential energy-code question this tool covers? Same form — straight answer, or I'll point you to who can actually help.