Understand the system.Make value legible.Apply AI where it actually moves the needle.
An AI practice for owner-led businesses. Diagnosis first. Prescriptions second. Implementation only when it earns its place.
AI alone is noise.AI embedded in a well-designed process is transformative.
We are not an AI firm that bolts AI onto things. We learn how your business runs as a system, make it legible to the people who own the outcome, then put AI to work as a lever inside a process that holds up.
Ignition is the spark that starts a self-sustaining engine. We start the reaction, and your engine keeps running.
What we do
Diagnose the system.
Interviews, workflow mapping, current-state assessment. You get a written opportunity assessment in a week, and you can walk with that.
Prescribe the right lever.
Sometimes it’s a $95 a month tool off the shelf. Sometimes it’s a workflow change. Sometimes it’s an agent we build: software that handles a task for you. We tell you which.
Build and hand off.
When we build, we build it so you own it: documentation, training, and a written record of why each decision was made.
How we’re different
Outcomes, not AI.
We scope against a business result, like cutting proposal turnaround from three days to four hours. Not against a technology deliverable.
Buy before build.
If a maintained commercial tool solves 60% or more of your problem, we’ll recommend it and price the setup. Custom builds create maintenance liabilities. We don’t sell those unless they earn the trade.
Your data stays where it belongs.
Most small businesses shouldn’t be handing customer records, contracts, or financials to a public chat window. You don’t have to. We build with a split-brain pattern: sensitive records stay in your system of record, and the AI layer only holds the operational memory needed to do the work. In plain terms, the AI tools keep working notes for the job, and your records stay put. Standard hygiene, not a premium tier.
Your system of record
- Customer records
- Contracts
- Financials
AI layer
- Operational memory: working notes for the job
Who this is for
A fit
- Owner-led businesses, roughly 5 to 50 people.
- Teams handling customer data, contracts, or financials that can’t hand raw records to a chat window.
- Teams that have tried AI and watched it not stick.
Not for
- Fortune 500 transformation programs.
- Solo operators shopping for ChatGPT tips.
- Buyers optimizing for cheapest-vendor.
Engagements
Three stages. Each one has to earn the next.
Discovery
About one week, fixed fee
Interviews, a current-state map and a written opportunity assessment.
You keep the written assessment either way.
Pilot
Two to four weeks
One working thing in your hands, tied to a measured outcome you agreed to up front.
Implementation and advisory
Only when the pilot earns it.
Who you’ll work with
Reagan Shawn started Ignition Agency in Naples, Florida in 2026, after multiple business owners independently asked him to help them capture value from AI in their day-to-day operations. Ignition currently works with select clients across a variety of industries.
The return, in numbers you can check.
Every recommendation comes with the math behind it, laid out so you can click through it yourself.
Process first, AI on top.
We codify how the work gets done before we automate any of it.
Running systems, not decks.
The deliverable is something that works in your hands, with the reasoning written down.
Tell us what you’re trying to get done.
We’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right shop.