AI for your business · Chicagoland
Where AI can save your shop time, and where it can’t
For owners of Chicagoland manufacturing, fabrication, machining, equipment and other local businesses who keep hearing about AI and want to know if it helps a shop like theirs. In a free consultation, we show you how to use AI for website management, email support, prospecting and social media, using your own content. Start there, and keep what works.
What the free consultation is
About 30 minutes, by phone, video or at your shop. We look at where your time goes: marketing, quoting, email, customer replies and hiring. Then we show you live, using your own website, photos and job posts, where AI can help and where it can’t. You leave with a short list of things your team can try this week, whether you work with us or not.
LinkedIn posts from project photos
Turn a job photo and two lines of notes into a ready-to-post update about the project, the material and the team behind it.
Customer email campaigns
Turn what changed in your shop this quarter, like new equipment, a capability or a recent project, into a short, friendly email to past customers.
Quote, proposal & RFQ responses
Turn rough notes on scope, material, finish and lead time into a clean, consistent proposal summary with assumptions and exclusions spelled out.
FAQ & reply templates
Ready-made answers for the questions your office hears every week: lead times, minimums, materials, file formats and how to request a quote.
Job posts & recruiting
Job ads that describe the work, the shifts and the machines, so experienced people take a second look.
What we’ll show you in the consultation
In the free 30-minute consultation, we show you how to use AI on the work that piles up: your website, your inbox, finding new customers and social media. We use your own website, emails and photos where we can, so you see it working on your business, not a generic demo. A person checks everything before it goes out.
Rather not do it yourself? Strick Media can set it up or run it for you.
Website management
How to use AI to update pages, products and equipment lists, write news posts and landing pages, and find simple SEO and speed fixes like better titles, descriptions, headings and image text.
Email support
How to use AI to sort your inbox, spot real inquiries among the spam, draft clear replies, and follow up on RFQs and leads so they don’t slip through.
Prospecting
How to use AI to find and research local companies that fit your work, learn what they make and who to talk to, and draft a first outreach email you can edit and send.
Social media management
How to use AI to write LinkedIn-first posts from job photos and notes, plan a month of posts in one sitting, and turn one project into a post, an email and a news item.
Simple reporting
How to use AI to turn website traffic, form inquiries and email results into a plain-English summary of what’s working and what to try next.
Where AI fits and where it doesn’t
Where it fits: first drafts, rewriting, summarizing, templates, organizing notes, and keeping your messages consistent.
Where it doesn’t: final pricing decisions, engineering judgment, or anything that needs verified technical accuracy without a person checking it. AI can sound confident and still be wrong, so every number, spec, tolerance and name gets reviewed. And confidential customer drawings, pricing and personal information stay out of public tools.
AI drafts. A person decides what goes out.
How it connects to your marketing
Knowing what AI can do is one thing. Keeping it going every week is another. We can set it up and run your marketing for you: website support, email campaigns, LinkedIn-first social media, and on-site video and drone. It starts with a free 2-week audit and start: we audit your website, email list and social pages, send you a short written list, then fix the first items on it and get it moving. If you want help putting AI to work beyond marketing, we can talk about that too. See all services.
AI consultation questions
Do I need to be technical?
No. If you can write an email, you can use these tools. We show you, step by step, using your own content, and we can set it up for you.
Is my data safe?
We'll show you how to use AI without pasting confidential customer drawings, pricing or personal information into public tools, and how to use business accounts with data controls. A person reviews everything before it goes out.
What does it cost?
The consultation is free, with no obligation. You leave with ideas you can use whether you work with us or not.
What happens on the call?
About 30 minutes. We ask where your time goes, then show you live, using your own website, photos and job posts, where AI can help.
Ready to see where AI fits in your business? Book a free consultation, pick a time online, email hello@strickmedia.com or call (630) 448-0133.