Role Review · $250

Before you post that job, let's make sure it's built around the work only a person can do.

Send me the job description and I'll review it and draft a plan before we talk. Then we'll go through that plan together on a 30-minute call, so your new hire ends up doing the work that needs a human while AI helps with the rest.

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This works for a role you're about to post or one you already have, and I bill after the call, so if the plan isn't useful to you, you don't pay the $250.

Most job descriptions get written the same way the last one was.

When it's time to hire, most owners pull up the last posting or a template they found online, change the title and the pay range, and hit publish. That's a reasonable shortcut when you're busy and the job needed filling yesterday, but it means the role gets built around how the work was done before tools like Claude and ChatGPT were any good.

So the person you hire ends up spending a big part of their week on first drafts, data entry, scheduling and copying information from one system to another. That leaves less time for the customers, the judgment calls and the relationships you hired them for in the first place.

You're about to write one of the biggest checks of your year.

A hire costs more than almost anything else a small business spends money on, and once someone has said yes and rearranged their life to take the job, it's hard to undo.

You keep hearing that “AI can do half of everyone's job.”

You don't know if that's true for this role, which half it would be, or whether you'd be setting up the person you hire to be replaced down the road.

You don't want to hire fewer people, you want to hire well.

You'd like the person you bring on to walk into a job that makes sense on day one and doesn't need rewriting six months later.

I think the people you hire matter more now, not less.

That belief is behind every Role Review I do. AI is good at a growing list of tasks, and I use it every day, but it doesn't earn a customer's trust or read a tense conversation. It also can't make the right call when the rules don't cover the situation, and it doesn't care whether your business does well. People do those things, and they're usually the reason your customers come back.

I'm not here to help you figure out how to hire nobody. I'm here to help you give the person you hire a job where their time goes to the work that needs them, while AI takes on a real share of everything else.

Here's how a Role Review works.

You book your call and send me the job description.

You book a time for our 30-minute call from my calendar and send me the job description. It can be a posting you're about to publish or the description for a role you already have, and a few lines about your business and what's behind the hire will help me understand what the role needs to accomplish.
I review it and draft the plan before our call.

I go through the role task by task and sort the work into three groups: what should stay with a person, what AI can handle, and the middle ground where the two work together. Where it helps, I'll also note which tools I'd look at.
We go through the plan together on the call.

Because the plan is already drafted, we can spend the 30 minutes on your questions, anything you disagree with and what you want to do first.
I send you the final version.

After the call, I update the plan with anything else that came up in our conversation and send you the final version, so you have something you can act on.

The thinking behind it comes from a book I lean on a lot.

I use the Fusion Skills approach from Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI by Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson. Their core idea is that there's work only people should do and work machines handle well on their own. The most useful ground is a “missing middle” between the two, where people and AI work together and each makes the other better. “Fusion skills” is their name for what people need to work well in that middle.

That's the lens I bring to your job description. I combine it with what I've learned from building with AI tools every day, which tells me what those tools do well right now and where they still fall down. I'm not affiliated with the authors in any way. I just find their framework the most practical one for the question of who should do what.

Here's what you walk away with.

A plan drafted from your job description

I go through the role piece by piece before we talk and show where a person should spend their time, where AI can help and where the two should work side by side.

A 30-minute call with me

We go through the plan together, you push back on anything that doesn't fit how your business really runs, and we settle on what to do first.

The final version of the plan

After the call, I update the plan with what we talked about and send it to you. That might mean rewriting the posting before it goes live, reshaping a role someone already holds or setting up a couple of AI tools before your new hire's first day.

This is a good fit if you're about to hire or rethinking a role you already have.

It's a good fit if:

You own or manage a small business and you're about to post a job, whether it's your first hire or your fifteenth.
There's a role on your team that has grown or drifted over the years, and you want a second set of eyes before you change it.
You want AI to help your people do better work, not work around them.

It's probably not a fit if:

You're looking for someone to sign off on cutting staff, because that isn't the kind of plan I write.
You need a recruiter, or legal and HR advice on pay, benefits or compliance, since all of that is outside what I do here.
You want me to set up and run the AI tools for you as part of this, which is a bigger project. If the plan points that way, I'll tell you what it would take.

Hey, I'm Austin.

I'm based in Middle Tennessee, and I build software and AI systems for small businesses. I spent my career in engineering, data analysis and product management before I started HomeTeam, and since then I've worked with 20+ Nashville business owners on where technology fits into how they run.

I use AI tools in my own work every day, so when I say a task can go to AI, it's because I've seen it hold up. When I say a task shouldn't, that comes from the same experience. Role Review is done entirely remotely, so it works wherever your business is.

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Here's what business owners say about working with me.

"Austin stepped in with clarity and direction that genuinely changed the way I approach my work. He didn't just help refine my ideas — he helped turn them into a clear, actionable plan."

Gowen Cox, TapKeep

"Austin has a bias to action that cuts through the hype cycles and gets to, 'What can we do right now?' He can drop into any business problem and offer creative but practical solutions."

DJ Tosh, Entrepreneur/Business Owner

"AI has a way of feeling scary and intimidating. Austin is able to talk about it in a way that makes you feel confident about what's next."

Robert Greathouse, Referrals on Demand Marketing

A Role Review is one flat price for one job description.

$250

That covers my review of one job description, the plan I draft before we talk, our 30-minute call and the final version I send afterward. It's a small number next to what the role itself will cost you, and it's a lot easier to get the job right before someone is in the seat than to reshape it after they've started.

A plan drafted from your job description before the call
A 30-minute call to go through the plan together
The final version of the plan, updated with what we talked about

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I send the invoice after our call, and if the plan isn't useful, tell me and you won't owe the $250. And if your role is already in good shape and doesn't need much changing, I'll tell you that plainly.

Here are the questions people usually ask first.

Is this really about replacing people with AI?

No, and it's the opposite of how I think about this. The point of a Role Review is to make sure the person you hire spends their time on work that needs a human, like building relationships and making judgment calls. AI's job is to take on enough of the repetitive work that they have room to do that well.

Can't I just paste my job description into ChatGPT and ask the same question?

You can, and it'll give you a confident answer. But it doesn't know your business, your customers or how the job really plays out week to week, and it hasn't watched these tools succeed and fail in real small businesses the way I have. It also won't tell you when you're asking the wrong question, and sometimes that's the most useful thing to hear.

Is 30 minutes enough time?

The call can be short because the real work happens before it. I've already reviewed the role and drafted the plan by the time we talk, so we spend the call on decisions rather than background. If it turns out the role needs more than that, I'll tell you what the next step would be.

What if I don't have a formal job description yet?

A rough list of the tasks you'd want this person to handle works fine, so you don't need a polished posting to get started. The more detail you can give me about what the job involves week to week, though, the better the review will be.

Does this work for a role someone already holds?

Yes. Reviewing an existing role is often where the plan is most useful, because you already know how the week really goes and where the time disappears. I'd suggest talking with the person in the role before you send it over, since they usually know better than anyone which parts of their job could use some help.

Are you connected to the authors of Human + Machine?

No, I'm not affiliated with Paul Daugherty or H. James Wilson in any way. I've found their Fusion Skills framework to be the clearest way to think about which work belongs to people, which belongs to AI and where the two meet. So I use it as a starting point and then add what I know from building with these tools myself.

What happens after the call?

I update the plan with anything else we covered and send you the final version. Most of the time you'll take it and run with it yourself, and that's how it's meant to work. If the plan does point to something bigger, I'll tell you what I'd suggest. If you're a solo owner who ends up doing the work yourself, that's often a Solopreneur Second Brain. If the role needs a tool that doesn't exist yet, that's a Prototyping Sprint. And if the role is part of a brand-new venture, that might be a Founding Tech Partner conversation. There's no pitch built into the call, and you're under no obligation to do anything else.

Send me the job description before it goes live.

I'll draft a plan before we talk, we'll go through it together on a 30-minute call, and then I'll send you the final version, so your next hire spends their time on the work that needs a person while AI helps with the rest.