We're a small studio building the AI operations layer most small businesses can't afford to hire.
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 infrastructure and your data stays yours — leave and they keep running. What Mainboard keeps is the method and templates that let us build fast and keep improving. The only moat we want is next month's work.
Honest pricing on the website.
AI Bottleneck Audit, $1,500. Systems from $1,500. Managed AI Operations from $2,500/mo. No 'contact for pricing' games.
Where we are
Florida-based. We work with brands across the US, remotely.