The platform
Parsons Cloud is what I built before I started consulting: an AI-first platform of 22 products covering phone lines with an AI receptionist, email, billing on Stripe, CRM, databases, storage, scheduling and deployment. It runs this site, this inbox, and the number on it. It is also the toolkit I build client work on when it fits, and the $15-a-month self-serve option when a company is too small for consulting.
Proof
Billing, prepaid wallets, usage metering, Stripe payouts. Built, audited, and running for real users. The failure modes of money systems are not theoretical to me.
The receptionist that answers (833) 700-7551, the agent that drafts every reply to hello@parsonsai.co, the SMS line: all mine, all in production.
Monitoring, incident write-ups, migrations, cost audits. Operating a platform alone is the school for keeping a client's automation alive.
The products
AI receptionist for phone, SMS and email
Numbers, routing, voicemail, texting
Mailboxes on your domain, AI-drafted replies
Stripe-backed wallets, meters, invoices
Contacts, pipeline, follow-ups, driven by AI
Bookable calendars the receptionist can use
Serverless SQL for apps
Object storage with presigned uploads
Hosting for apps an AI wrote
Cron and scheduled webhooks
Email, SMS and in-app alerts
One connection to every tool, with grants
Register and wire a domain by AI
Stripe payment links and accounts
Hosted login on your domain
One key for every model, with spend caps
Plus Money, Journal, Fitness, Music, Radar, Social and Tracker on the consumer side. All under one $15/mo account at cloud.parsons.ai.
Every night at 2 a.m.
The same check runs on every client build that moves money: pull what Stripe says, pull what the ledger says, compare to the cent. A zero is silent. Anything else wakes the engineer, not the bookkeeper.
That check is the difference between "we automated billing" and "we automated billing and the numbers are right."
Under the hood
Client builds go on the client's accounts. The platform is used where it saves you money, never to create a dependency on me.
In writing
The first case study is the firm itself: what was automated, what a human still does, and what it costs to run.
You describe the problem. I tell you what I'd build, what it costs, and whether I'm the right person. No deck.