About CAIS

We build the systems small businesses run on.

Creative AI Solutions, trading as CAIS. An AI product and service company: platforms, apps, internal tools and the data underneath them, built around the way one business works day to day.

Custom platforms
Mobile apps
Booking and payments
E-commerce and email automation
Internal tools
Hardware integrations
Lead tracking and reporting
Websites that do a job

Based in Maryland, working with clients across the United States.

Why this exists

Small businesses run on software written for companies ten times their size. The parts that would help are bundled with parts you will never open, priced by the seat, and shaped around somebody else’s process.

We build the other thing: AI products and the systems around them, made for one business and owned by it. A booking platform that takes the payment, a mobile app that keeps the marketplace fee out of the ticket, an internal tool nobody sells, the hardware on your floor wired into the software upstairs. Whatever the job is, it is built to the way you already run it.

How we think about it

AI does the work. People stay in charge.

The software does the work: it takes what comes in, sorts it, keeps it in one place, drafts the reply, ranks what matters and reports on all of it, and it carries on when nobody remembers to press anything. Every build keeps a person in charge of the decisions, and a person your customer can always reach.

Buyers say the same thing:

79%: of Americans strongly prefer dealing with a human over an AI agent.
89%: say companies should always offer the option to speak with a human.

Source: SurveyMonkey, n=2,017 US adults, December 2025

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The work, and where it runs

Every build here belongs to a small business, and each card carries a link so you can go and see it running for yourself. One is a mobile app still in the workshop.

Takoma Montessori

Website + marketing retainer

Ongoing marketing retainer

Takoma Montessori School

Enrolment website · social media marketing

Montessori preschool · Takoma Park, Maryland · ages 2 to 6

We built the enrolment site: tours, programs, tuition and the questions parents ask first. The school's social media marketing runs with us month to month.

The one build here where the marketing carries on past handover, quoted on its own.

enroll.takomamontessori.com

The StoreHouse

Email automation

The Mel Johnson International Inc.

Customer communication

Nonprofit food bank · the DMV and Columbia, South Carolina

They describe themselves as The Nation's First Black Run Food Bank, with over a million pounds of food distributed and 1,000+ families served a month, on The StoreHouse's own published figures, 2026. We built the system behind their inbox: what comes in is sorted, answered and filed in one place, so the evening belongs to them again.

Covered by WTOP, NBC4, WUSA9 and WJLA.

themeljohnson.org

Sirius Company

Booking platform

Rebrand · e-commerce platform · booking and payments

Live music · published under the lead singer's artist name

A rebrand of the company and of its lead singer's artist brand, a website with an e-commerce platform of its own, and a booking platform that takes the signature and the payment without anyone stepping in, at any hour.

Booking went from a two-week process to one or two days.

The client's own reported outcome, 2026.

scoobydagodson.com

A Good Cleaning Lady

Brand + website

Brand · website · local search

Home cleaning

A brand and a website built together, with local search optimization and outreach that works neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

agoodcleaninglady.com

Odectech

Corporate website

A corporate website built to bring in leads and to earn the first conversation with whoever is reading it.

odectech.com

Holly & Ink

Web app

Interactive storytelling · one story per child

A web app that builds a children's storybook around the child who is reading it, with each story generated to order rather than picked off a shelf.

storybook-spark.vercel.app

The Minor Lab 25th Anniversary Symposium site, showing the event title, date and venue.

Minor Lab Symposium

Event website

Minor Lab 25th Anniversary Symposium

Event platform · registration · agenda

Research symposium · Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF

An event platform for a lab's 25th anniversary symposium: registration, speaker showcases, and an agenda that stayed current as the program firmed up.

electric-legacy-symposium.vercel.app

In build

Legends Halal Grill

Mobile app

In build

Native mobile app · direct ordering · growth strategy

College Park, Maryland

We are building a native iOS and Android app where ordering goes direct to the restaurant, so the marketplace fee stays out of the ticket. A week of meals can be booked ahead at a discount, or subscribed to rather than ordered one at a time, and the points earned along the way come off a later order. The growth strategy is part of the same piece of work.

legendshalal.com

This one could be yours.

Free scorecard first, then a conversation.

Calls and spreadsheets are a fine start.

What you can hold us to

You own everything we build: the code, the accounts and the credentials.
If you ever move on, the platform, the app and everything around them keep running exactly as they are, in your accounts, with your data where it has always been.
If a settings change in software you already pay for solves it, we will say so.
You hear that on the free call, before there is anything to quote.

Where to start

Up to eleven questions, about three minutes. You get back a ranked report on what to build first and what each piece would cost, whether that turns out to be a platform of your own, a mobile app, or better reporting on what you already run. Or book the free call and ask us instead.

You keep the full report either way, whether or not we ever work together.