Brianna Bates

About

Hi, I'm Brianna.

I help service businesses turn recurring operational friction into clear, documented, maintainable systems.

Brianna Bates — AI automation and operations consultant

Growing teams have more operational work than people to manage it — intake forms filled out by hand, data re-keyed between systems, follow-ups that fall through the cracks, reports assembled manually every week. Building the right processes and systems early is what keeps that from compounding into something harder to fix later.

I am building this practice around a simple idea: small and midsize businesses should be able to benefit from automation without buying a complicated platform or handing their operations to a black box.

My work combines process mapping, no-code automation, Google Workspace, practical AI, documentation, and lightweight dashboards. I focus on systems a client can understand and own after handoff, with human approval wherever judgment, safety, or customer trust matters.

To demonstrate this, I designed a full operations engagement for my family's 85-year-old North Texas propane distributor (used with permission): a self-serve customer onboarding workflow, a structured knowledge base and SOP library that captures 85 years of institutional know-how, and a pilot spec for AI-assisted call handling with explicit safety guardrails. It's the same intake → route → log → notify → surface-status pattern operations teams implement during business onboarding and implementation projects.

What I do

  • Design onboarding workflows — intake, routing, confirmation, scheduling, and status visibility — so customers and new users have a consistent, documented experience.
  • Build forms and organize data with Tally and Google Sheets — structured intake, clean records, and reporting-ready outputs.
  • Write process documentation and SOPs — capturing how work actually gets done in clear, numbered procedures that a new hire can follow from day one.
  • Automate repetitive steps with Make — connecting existing tools so data moves between systems without manual re-keying.
  • Support AI-assisted workflows (Claude, Gemini, NotebookLM) — using AI tools to speed up communication drafting, knowledge retrieval, and routine task support.

The engagement, at a glance

Project 01 · Acquisition

Zero-Touch Onboarding

Self-serve intake, AI-personalized comms, and a real-time status portal — built on a reusable six-layer architecture.

Open

Make scenario run completing four operations successfully
The live Make scenario — Tally to Sheets to Gmail to Calendar in ~2 seconds.

Project 02 · Retain

Knowledge Capture

SOPs, a NotebookLM knowledge base, and a persona-driven Gemini assistant that answers only from the source documents.

Open

Knowledge hub ecosystem diagram
SOP library, NotebookLM knowledge base, and a persona-driven Gemini assistant.

Project 03 · Service

AI Receptionist Spec

A 24/7 voice-agent pilot scoped with safety guardrails, measurable KPIs, and a go/no-go framework.

Open

AI receptionist architecture diagram
Intake, safety-guarded routing, and pilot success metrics for a 24/7 voice agent.

Toolkit

Tally Google Sheets Google Docs Make Gmail + Gemini Gemini Gems NotebookLM Claude Google Calendar Google Sites Looker Studio Twilio / Vapi (spec'd)

Eager to learn the broader stack — Salesforce, HubSpot, and the platforms ops teams run on.

Who I work best with

Owner-led and growing service businesses in DFW or anywhere in the United States that need:

  • Faster response and follow-up for new inquiries
  • A reliable customer onboarding or status workflow
  • Clear SOPs and a searchable internal knowledge system
  • A lightweight HTML dashboard instead of another complex application
  • A controlled AI pilot with human review and measurable success criteria

Customer workflow systems  ·  Practical AI systems