We're a small studio building the AI engines that keep business pipelines full.
Mainboard was founded in 2026 by Branden Grant, an operator who builds and runs his own businesses on these exact systems. He builds them for himself first, then productizes what actually works.
Every small business is the same shape: real product, real customers, and a founder pulled in ten directions. The answer wasn't another tool, another agency, or another part-time hire. It was a system: one that reads the data, makes ranked recommendations, ships content on cadence, and runs the email engine without anyone's hand on the wheel.
Those systems are now productized into a repeatable process, the Mainboard Method, and a catalog you can buy one piece at a time. And we still run our own business on them. here's how.
What we believe
AI is a lever, not a magic button.
The work still has to be good. AI lets a small team do the work of a much larger one, but only if the system around it is built well.
Start with one bottleneck, not a moonshot.
We don't sell 'AI transformation.' We find the one thing costing you most, kill it, prove the ROI, then do the next one. You compound into an operation that runs itself.
Specificity beats hype.
We don't promise revenue lifts we can't measure. We put a number on a bottleneck before we build, and we prove it after. The compounding takes care of itself.
You're never locked in.
Your systems run on your own infrastructure and your data stays yours. Leave and they keep running, no kill switch. The only moat we want is next month's work.
Honest pricing on the website.
The audit is $1,500 in every industry. Build and managed-operations pricing is published openly on each industry page. No 'contact for pricing' games.
Where we are
Florida-based. We work with businesses across the US, remotely.