Charleston AI · Startups
Solopreneurship Program
Get started. Get to market. Get in front of real customers. On average, a venture launches here for less than $1,000.
Software startups and one-person shops alike. Where startups are born.
Recent graduates
A few of the ideas that came through the lab and became real businesses. Every one is live, on its own domain, and taking customers today. None of them is a mockup.
You don’t pay for the AI. You pay for what arrives.
Recurring business artifacts — articles, reports, designs, whole websites — produced and delivered on a fixed cadence. The machine is hosted and maintained on our side; the customer buys deliveries, not seats or tokens.
The best system is the one you never operate.
Sells, installs, maintains, and repairs Personal Operating Systems — an intelligent layer built around one person, connected to their life and work, that handles everything predictable and surfaces only what deserves attention. Installed in person, seven steps, every time.
Your next customer might send their AI.
Consulting, implementation and upkeep for online stores run by small businesses and solopreneurs — Shopify and custom builds wired into catalogs, feeds, checkout, inventory and fulfillment, so the store works for people and their AI shopping agents. A defined scope, deliverables and price before any work begins.
Your ideas, published beautifully.
A phone interview surfaces your principles, then the blogsite gets built — identity, structure, and a writing intelligence that predicts your next post rather than waiting for a prompt. No money upfront. You see it finished, then decide.
Maybe AI. Definitely a plan.
A free planner for small businesses choosing their first AI project. Pick one repetitive task and it produces a project brief — scope, inputs, who reviews what, a time-savings estimate and a pilot checklist. No signup, and your answers never leave the browser tab.
Hire digital employees at $1.68 an hour.
A staffing agency, not software. Infinia builds and operates the AI employee remotely and places it into your workflow — receptionists, lead qualifiers, CRM managers, copywriters — with no setup, no API keys, and no onboarding. Twelve roles across customer service, sales and marketing, all at one flat hourly rate, running 24/7.
The bar has been set. Very few will clear it.
A guided project, not a software sale. Susan Drake works in person with a small number of multi-property hospitality groups across South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida — connecting the reservation book, property system, point of sale and events inbox into one guest layer, so a stated intention comes back as a finished occasion rather than a list of things to book. By application, a handful at a time.
Your local service business, fully launched in 30 days.
Brand, website, four-channel AI lead capture, CRM, Google Business Profile, ads, Local Services Ads, and a bid-scouting engine that reads state, city, and federal boards every morning. One flat price, no retainer, you own everything.
AI is already in the classroom. We teach students how to think with it.
AI fluency, tutoring, and project coaching for grades 6–12, families, and educators in Charleston. Four moves — ask, test, build, explain — designed to give students capability without dependency.
Your ads are calling. Answer every one.
A fully managed 24/7 AI receptionist for businesses that pay to make the phone ring. It answers, qualifies the caller against your rules, books or transfers the next step, and drops the transcript and outcome where your team already works.
Your crew is great. Your paperwork is killing you.
An AI crew that rides along with the estimator, translates between the roof and the homeowner in 42 languages, and runs the CRM so nothing falls through. Twelve modules on one shared job record — notetaker, live crew translation, self-driving CRM, 24/7 front desk, claims and aerial measurement. Layers onto JobNimbus or AccuLynx instead of replacing them.
The future is a work in progress.
A think tank with a tinkering habit. AI thinks, robots do — Tinktanks asks what happens to the rest of us, across work and dignity, ownership and abundance, and care and connection. Public field notes, an interactive workbench, and an open door to bring a question. No title in robotics or degree in economics required.
Intelligence, with presence.
An agency that represents AI talent — Amy for hospitality reception, Mike as executive assistant, Sarah as client concierge, Charlie as sales assistant. The faces are personas; the talent is AI. $1.68 an hour, paid after the work is done. Work first. Pay after.
What should we become?
A thought experiment on human value in the age of abundant AI. Explore six values — agency, time, belonging, dignity, wonder and stewardship — turn the dials in the Possibility Lab to see where they lead, and keep a personal brief. No account, no tracking, no mailing list.
What will we become, together?
A field lab for human–AI collaboration: interactive experiments, practical prompts and original essays. An interactive field guide, not a live AI — the experiments run in the browser, with guided exercises and field notes to work through. No account. Just curiosity.
Graphic design, made face to face in Charleston.
Brand identity, logos, print, illustration, packaging, social graphics, and websites — the studio on Jessen Lane, established 2015. Free in-studio consultations.
Bring it to the lab. The program takes it from a concept to a business that is actually online and taking customers, for less than $1,000 on average — the same path every venture above took.