Evan Miles Burden, small-business AI automation consultant

Creator

Automating AI workflows for a more efficient business model

Marble bust of a youth wearing a Phrygian cap, looking upward

Teacher

Advising clients how to setup and implement AI tools

/ˌsmər-fə-ˈli-shəs/ adj.
(of a person) on the path to individuation; destined to set oneself free.

Some of my latest work

Automation workflows

  • The Harbor Plumbing inbox triage workflow as built in n8n: a mailbox trigger, a model step with a rules check, and routes for each kind of email Not yet recorded

    Inbound triage

    An emergency email stops waiting behind the vendor catalogs. Harbor Plumbing’s inbox; Whitlock Law’s intake.

  • The Rill Creative invoice extraction workflow as built in n8n: read the PDF, extract fields, validate the arithmetic, and route clean or review Not yet recorded

    Extraction

    Vendor invoices reach the bookkeeping sheet without retyping; a total that doesn’t add up is flagged. Rill Creative.

  • The Harbor Plumbing lead scoring workflow as built in n8n: a web form, rule checks, a model step and a routing decision Not yet recorded

    Enrichment and scoring

    Web-form leads are ranked before you call back, so the burst pipe beats the running toilet. Harbor Plumbing.

  • The Harbor Plumbing quote workflow as built in n8n: price from a book, write the wording, render the quote and route it to review or ready Not yet recorded

    Generation from template

    A web form becomes a finished quote in your own layout. Harbor Plumbing’s quotes, Rill Creative’s weekly report.

  • The watchdog workflow as built in n8n: heartbeats, health checks, errors and evaluations gathered into one alert decision Not yet recorded

    Watchdog

    You hear once when an automation stops, not when a customer asks. It watches every workflow here.

  • The Rill Creative newsletter signup workflow as built in n8n: a form, checks and a duplicate guard, then the mailing list, with a review branch Not yet recorded

    Sync

    Newsletter signups reach the list once, spelled right, and only with consent. Rill Creative.

Three fictional clients

  • Harbor Plumbing a two-truck residential plumber
  • Whitlock Law a solo attorney
  • Rill Creative a four-person agency

All names, addresses and documents are invented.

Teach Claude to teach you Claude

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    Your first project brief

    Writing instructions Claude can act on, and asking it to explain what it would do before it does it.

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    Asking Claude how to ask

    Using Claude to improve your own prompts, then checking whether the answers actually got better.

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    Reviewing Claude’s work

    How to read output critically, spot confident mistakes, and decide what needs a human.

Background

Fourteen years keeping business systems running, and fixing them when they stop.

  • Email, domains and accounts
  • Networks, backups and recovery
  • Line-of-business software and databases
  • Scripting and process automation
  • Vendors, licensing and hardware
  • User support and training

Contact for a quote.

Tell me what’s eating your time.

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