Who you'd be working with

I've built and sold a small business. I know what it takes to run one.

I've owned small businesses for over a decade.

I started a pottery business on my own. Then I launched a community pottery studio and sold it at a 7.5x return within 24 months. Not because of a clever idea. Because I built the systems that let it run without me standing in the room. A twelve month schedule that planned for the holiday rush before it arrived. Safety procedures for a room full of kilns and heavy equipment. We never had an incident. A program where students worked studio shifts in exchange for memberships, which solved staffing and community at the same time. I built out the space myself and saved $10,000 doing it.

Before that I grew a handmade art project from my garage to 36 states and 9 countries, and it was featured in Upworthy, The Huffington Post, and My Modern Met. No budget. Just knowing how to get people to care about something they'd never heard of.

So when I say I know what it's like when everything lands on you, I'm not guessing.

You already know what your business needs. I just help you build the systems to act on it.

Kim Press, Founder

A few examples

Recent work

An AI assistant for a manufacturing company

Their team was losing hours to the same equipment questions. I built an assistant trained on their equipment manuals, with accounts set up by role for each team member and an escalation workflow for anything it couldn't answer. It handles the repeat questions so their people don't have to.

GlazeStock, for a working pottery studio

Nothing existed to track bulk dry materials. Recipes are written in grams; the materials come in pounds, some in half pound increments, some in quarter pound, priced differently at every supplier. So every batch meant conversions by hand, and studios were losing money on materials they'd forgotten they had. I built an app that handles the conversions, tracks stock against supplier pricing, and manages reordering. It's in daily use.

My own businesses

I rebuilt the site for my pottery studio, Sailing Adrift Studios, and moved it off Shopify. It was costing about $500 a year for something I could own outright. Now it's hosted for free. I built this site the same way.

I don't recommend anything to clients that I haven't run my own business on.

Nothing here came off a shelf. Each one was built around how that business actually runs. Yours would be too.

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