Straight answers, by the hour.
Levotate consults for owner-run businesses and their teams: software cost audits, AI workflow setup, technical advice and SEO and AEO audits. It's $175 an hour, and every engagement ends with a written report: findings, action items and projections.
You'll talk to the people who would do the work.
Action items, in order
- Two tools nobody opensSave $4,800 a year Cancel
- Three scheduling and form appsSave $3,600 a year Consolidate
- CRM contract at renewalSave $2,400 a year Renegotiate
- Job-tracking add-onSave $2,400 a year Replace
Four kinds of help
Pick one, or bring a question that doesn't fit.
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Software cost audit
What is your software really costing you?
We list every subscription you pay for, what it costs a year, who actually uses it and where tools overlap, then add the hours your team loses moving information between them. You get a ranked list of what to cancel, consolidate, renegotiate or replace, with the yearly saving next to each line.
Best for: Businesses whose software bill goes up every year
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AI workflow setup
"We should use AI for that." Now what?
Mark Placek designs automated AI workflows that hold up to real deadlines and real brand standards: research pipelines that gather and organize sources, writing and editing systems held to your standards, and AI image and video production. His rule: build it so it works every time, not just in the demo.
Best for: Teams that produce content or research every week
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Technical advice
Should we build it, buy it, or fix what we have?
Build or buy, which platform to pick, whether an app is ready to launch, why a site keeps going down. Alex Olson has spent 14 years building for the web and runs his own production software and servers, so the answer comes from someone who does this work every day.
Best for: Owners about to sign a software contract or start a build
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SEO and AEO audit
Why aren't we showing up?
A written audit of how Google and AI assistants see your business: whether your site can be crawled and rendered, your structured data, your Google Business Profile, page speed, and what ChatGPT and Perplexity say when someone asks about you. Every finding comes with its fix, in priority order, backed by measured search data rather than guesses.
Best for: Sites that rank below competitors, or that AI tools describe wrong
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How it works
Three steps, and the last one is always in writing.
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A 15-minute call
FreeTell us the question. We'll tell you straight whether we're the right people to answer it.
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The work
By the hourCalls, audits and hands-on setup, done by the people you met on the call.
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Your report
In writingWhat we found, what to do about it in order, and what each fix is worth, walked through with you on a call.
Consulting
What you walk away with
$175/hour
One rate for every kind of help. You'll know roughly how many hours it takes before we start.
After every engagement
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A written report of our findings What we looked at, what we found and the evidence behind it: numbers, screenshots and measured data, not opinions.
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Action items, ranked Every fix in priority order, with who should do it, how big a job it is and what it changes.
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Projections What each action is worth: the yearly saving, the hours your team gets back, or the search and AI visibility you can expect.
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A walkthrough call We go through the report with you and answer questions, so nothing in it is left to interpretation.
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Yours to keep Act on it yourself, hand it to your team or another developer, or have us do the work. If the answer is a custom build, you get a fixed-price quote.
Questions about consulting
Something else on your mind? Call or text 720-336-0389.
How much does consulting cost?
$175 an hour. You'll know roughly how many hours the work will take before it starts, and every engagement ends with a written report: findings, action items and projections.
What's in a software cost audit?
A line-by-line list of every subscription your business pays for: the yearly cost, who uses it, where it overlaps with other tools, and what to do about it. The hours lost moving information between tools are added in, so you see the full cost, not just the bill.
Can you build what you recommend?
Yes, when building is the right answer. Custom software from Levotate is a fixed price, quoted after a free discovery and separate from consulting time. If buying an existing tool is the better call, we'll tell you which one.
Who does the work?
Alex Olson covers software, servers, cost audits and SEO. Mark Placek covers AI workflows. The people on your first call are the people who do the work, not account managers.
Do you consult for businesses outside Colorado?
Yes. Levotate is based in Castle Rock, Colorado, and consults for owner-run businesses anywhere in the US. The work runs over video calls and shared documents, so distance doesn't change anything.