Your AI subscriptions aren't driving the returns you hoped for.

We design, build, and oversee custom AI command centers for businesses ready to shift from subscriptions to true AI-enhanced operations.

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While you wait for subscriptions to deliver, the costs compound.

Your team keeps doing the work by hand.

Your best operators spend their weeks on tasks a good agent could finish by the end of the day.

Competitors who got AI right are pulling ahead.

Output isn't growing. The costs are.

What you'll walk away with.

Built for your specific business.

A custom AI system designed around how your business actually runs. Not a generic template adapted to fit.

Own and iterate on your AI.

Subscriptions leave you at the provider’s mercy. Your AI command center is yours. You operate it, change it, and evolve it as your business does.

Less software you rent. More you own.

Some of what you pay monthly can be built into your system, once. Yours to keep.

AI experts who stay on your team.

Real people who built your system. On call long after launch to tune, expand, and answer questions as your business changes.

Ethan Sefchik, founder of Time Machine Automation

Ethan Sefchik — Founder, Pittsburgh

The inflection point you're really looking for.

You bought an AI subscription and tried to get your team to use it. Some are using it. A few are even faster. But your business hasn't meaningfully shifted and the subscription bill keeps coming.

Here's why. An AI subscription just makes your team faster at the work they were already doing. Same output, less time. And the worst part: you're paying them the same to do less, and you're paying for the subscription on top.

Real change happens when AI does the work and your team oversees it. They use their expertise to manage the agents instead of doing the busywork themselves. Output goes up. Roles evolve. The business actually changes.

Time Machine Automation (TMA) was founded by Ethan Sefchik, a Pittsburgh-based founder and operator who's built AI both inside his own past business and for clients. We design, build, and oversee the custom AI command centers that make this shift real.

Ethan Sefchik — Founder, Pittsburgh

ONE RECENT BUILD.

A custom agent system for a tele-radiology firm with 220+ providers in their onboarding pipeline.

Before

$0/moper delayed radiologist

0-daygaps between case activity

0-hourweeks for the credentialing lead

After

Deadlines don't slip.

The team got their weeks back.

Want to see it work on your business first? →

From first call to your own custom AI command center.

Tell us about your business.

Discovery calls with you and your team. Where AI belongs, where it doesn't.

Review the plan. Greenlight it.

An approach we design together — you shape it until you're ready to sign off.

Your custom system ships.

Agents, command center, integrations — purpose-built. No two clients get the same system.

You gain an AI team.

Ongoing tuning. New capabilities as the space evolves. Access to real people, not a portal.

Step in and wake up to progress, not problems.

You see the potential.

You know AI is going to change how businesses operate. You just don't have a clear picture of what that looks like inside your business yet. That's the work we do: painting that picture with you, then shipping it.

Your business runs on manual processes and software. Your team operates multiple tools by hand: sales tools, email, spreadsheets, project management, etc. Custom AI agents can automate a lot of that work and connect what's currently disconnected. An enterprise AI subscription won't. Someone has to sit with your business and build those agents.

There's another thing going on. Some of the software you're paying for monthly could be built in-house. Until recently, that wasn't realistic — buying always cost less than building. Now it's flipped. The cost of building a custom system for your specific workflows has fallen below the cost of renting a generic one. The businesses that act on this first will own what they used to rent.

The big AI vendors aren't going to do this work for businesses your size. Their teams go where the enterprise deals are. Mid-market operators get pointed at self-serve tutorials and told good luck. That gap — where the tools exist but nobody's setting them up for your specific business — is where TMA lives.

The shift is happening right now. Operators who move early won't be the ones falling behind.

Your very own AI command center.

A custom AI command center with every agent trained on your unique business and workflows. We build the features your business actually needs: document retrieval, live maps, human-in-the-loop approvals, scheduled runs, whatever the work calls for. Discovery calls tell us what goes in.

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Common accompanying features:

Full audit log.

Every action and tool call, visible and traceable.

Isolated by design.

Each agent runs in its own sandbox. Your data stays where it belongs.

Message from Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, etc.

Your team uses what they already use.

Integrated with what you own.

Airtable, your CRM, your calendar, your documents, your internal tools. No rip-and-replace.

Triggered on schedules and events.

Morning briefings, expiration alerts, reconciliation runs — agents fire when the work needs doing.

Human-in-the-loop approvals.

For anything that matters, a person reviews before the agent acts.

Our pricing model.

Every engagement has two parts: an upfront project fee that covers discovery, design, build, and delivery — and a monthly retainer after launch that covers ongoing tuning, new capabilities, and access to your AI team.

No hidden fees. No long-term contract. Cancel the retainer anytime.

We'll talk about them on the intro call, not after you've filled out a form.