The Midlands, South Carolina
Soda City AI builds company brains, digital assistants, and focused tools for Midlands organizations—so people spend less time searching, copying, sorting, and repeating work.
Why this matters
The goal is not to replace people. It is to remove the copying, sorting, searching, and follow-up work that quietly consumes the time of people you already need.
Illustrative example
8 employees × 1 hour a day × 5 days
If eight people each saved one hour a day, the total would equal a full-time role’s working week. Discovery measures the current workload; a pilot tests how much time remains after review and corrections.
Keep the people. Lose the busywork.An illustration, not a promised result. Actual time recovered depends on the workflow, adoption, and review required.
What we build
You do not need to know which tool to ask for. Start with the work that is slow, repetitive, hard to find, or easy to get wrong. We help choose the simplest useful solution.
Bring approved documents, notes, policies, and project history into a searchable knowledge system, with access rules for your team and source links to help people check the answers.
Give recurring work to a helper that can collect information, prepare drafts, organize files, and flag what needs a person’s attention.
Create a small app or workflow that fits the way your organization actually works—from capturing label information to turning forms into usable records.
Choose sensible tools, set clear boundaries, and give your team practical guidance they can use without becoming AI experts.
Ways to work together
Start with a focused recommendation, a plan for a serious project, or practical training for your team. Each engagement leaves you with something useful. Custom builds turn a valuable opportunity into a working system.
Bring one recurring task that costs your team time. We review your intake beforehand, work through the problem together, and send a written recommendation you can act on—even if we never do a larger project.
We prepare around your workflow, spend a half-day with the team, and map where time disappears. You receive a full recommendation packet with improvements and build options prioritized by value, effort, risk, and fit, followed by a handoff to walk through the plan.
A custom app, digital assistant, or company brain built around a valuable part of your team’s work. We agree on scope and success measures, build and test the system with its users, and train the team before launch.
Discovery Day is our recommended starting point for serious projects. If we build one of the recommended options, its $2,500 fee is credited toward the project. Smaller, focused implementations are scoped separately. Ongoing care and software costs are quoted separately.
We prepare around your team’s tools, then come to your workplace for guided practice on real tasks. Your team leaves with reusable examples, clear safe-use rules, and a playbook for putting the tools to work.
Selected projects
Searchable knowledge, church sermon publishing, a custom team game, and label scanning—built around the work people needed to get done.
Searchable project knowledge
We brought notes, decisions, and project history into one searchable collection, connected related material, and kept the original documents available for review.
Sermon editing & transcription
We built a publishing workflow that extracted sermons from full church service recordings and produced matching audio and readable transcripts. We also transcribed hundreds of older sermons, making years of teaching searchable.
Daily learning game
We created a daily word game with 1,000 curated answers from an organization’s language and products. Each answer included a definition and company-specific commentary, with scores and leaderboards for the team.
Labels turned into usable data
Our prototype read label text and barcodes from a phone camera and extracted key fields for a person to review.
The approach
Most organizations do not need a sweeping AI transformation. They need one frustrating part of the week made simpler, faster, or more reliable—and someone local who will stay with the problem until it works.
First, understand how the job really gets done and where people lose time. Then decide whether AI belongs there.
Important decisions stay with people. The system shows its work and makes mistakes easier to catch.
The best system feels less like “using AI” and more like the work finally making sense.
Before we get started
Choose the $250 AI Opportunity Session for one recurring task and a written next step. Choose the $2,500 Discovery Day for a prioritized plan with budget ranges. The $2,500 workshop is for a team that wants guided practice using AI.
No. Your team keeps the Discovery Day recommendation packet whether or not we build anything. If we build one of the recommended options, the $2,500 Discovery Day fee is credited toward that project.
We agree on scope, timing, price, and payment terms before a session is confirmed. Custom production systems start at $25,000; smaller focused implementations receive their own scope and quote. Ongoing care and software costs are quoted separately.
A short description of the task, the people involved, and what keeps slowing it down. Keep confidential documents, passwords, and customer records out of the initial email. We can agree on suitable examples and access if we work together.
One problem is enough
You do not need to arrive with an AI idea. If your team keeps copying the same information, hunting through the same folders, rebuilding the same report, or working around software that never fit—start there.
Email us about your teamOpens your email app with a few prompts. Prefer webmail? Write to homesteadinstudios@gmail.com with your organization, the recurring task, and your preferred timing. An inquiry does not reserve or pay for a session.