# CLI ’n’ Amen co. (Clinamen)

> Fixed-price AI automations, websites and software for owner-run small businesses across the US, from $195 with money back. Start with a free Quick Check.

- Website: https://clinamenco.com/
- Book a free Quick Check: https://calendly.com/clinamenco
- Email: hello@clinamenco.com
- Updated: 2026-11-10

## Tiny swerves, huge impact: AI for your business, one chore at a time.

Automations, websites and software for owner-run businesses across the United States. A fixed price, a written scope, money back, and work that is live within days.

[Book a free Quick Check](https://calendly.com/clinamenco)

[See pricing](https://clinamenco.com/#pricing)

AI agents do the first pass. The founder checks every result before you see it.

## The old rule: Cheap, fast and good. The old rule said pick two.

It held because people’s time was the whole cost: cheap meant rushed, fast meant expensive, good meant slow. AI agents changed the cost of the first pass. They do it in a fraction of the time, for a few dollars. What is left is a person checking the result, and that is the part we never skimp on. So the rule is broken, and you get all three.

![A Venn diagram of three overlapping circles, cheap, fast and good, split by a lightning-bolt crack, with the swerving atom at the center where all three meet.](https://clinamenco.com/img/cheap-fast-good-venn-diagram-pick-three.webp)

*~~Not pick two~~, but pick three*

- **Cheap: A fraction of an agency’s price.** Agents do the heavy lifting, so a job takes hours, not weeks. We are paid fairly for the checking and the craft, and you still pay about a quarter of the cheapest agency setup fee we found, an eighth at the founding price.
- **Fast: Days, not quarters.** A written Quick Check within one business day. A fix or a website working within 5 business days of access. Every job is timed from signed scope to working result.
- **Good: Checked by the founder, backed by money.** A written scope, every result checked by a person before you see it, 30 days of fixes, and your money back if a One Fix doesn’t do what its scope says.

### What this costs elsewhere

| The job | Published prices, November 2026 | CLI ’n’ Amen co. |
| --- | --- | --- |
| One automation, set up and running | An AI agency’s pilot: $1,500 setup, then $2,000 a month | One Fix: $195 founding ($390), with 30 days of fixes |
| A small-business website | Website builders: $19 to $99 a month, every month, and you build it yourself | One page, built for you: $195 founding ($390), no monthly fee, and you own it |
| A first AI project for a firm under 10 people | $4,000 to $10,000 | Sprint: $990 founding ($1,450) |
| Keeping it running | Agency plans from $2,000 a month; advisory retainers $2,000 to $5,000 a month | Care: $149 a month |
| An hour of a US AI consultant | $150 to $350 | We don’t bill hours |

Published prices we found in November 2026. They change; ours are the ones on this page.

## What we do: Three ways to take work off an owner’s plate

Each at a fixed price with a written scope, each checked by the founder before you see it.

### Automations: Hand one weekly chore to AI

Owner-run businesses lose hours every week to the same few chores. We hand one of them to AI, in the tools you already use, and it is working within 5 business days of access.

**$195** founding price per fix · standard $390

- **A text back to every missed call.** Callers you can’t pick up get a text back, so the lead doesn’t walk.
- **Quote drafts from a web form.** A form on your site becomes a draft estimate for you to check and send.
- **Inbox sorting with draft replies.** Mail sorted by what it needs, with a reply drafted for you to send or bin.
- **Appointment reminders.** Reminders go out before each booking, without anyone typing them.
- **A website assistant.** Answers the questions you answer every day, from your own FAQ only.
- **A thank-you after each job.** Every finished job gets a thank-you and a way to book the next one.

### Websites: A website that says what you do and how to book

One page, built for phones first: your name, services, prices, hours and a booking button, written to be found in local search. Live on your own domain within 5 business days. You own the domain and every file. There is no monthly fee: the only running cost is your domain, about $10 to $20 a year.

This site is one. So is [briandominguezvoice.com](https://briandominguezvoice.com/), an audiobook narrator’s site, and two demos for local shops are just below.

**$195** founding price · standard $390 · changes and new pages under Care

![The CLI ’n’ Amen co. website on a phone: “AI for your business, one chore at a time”, and a button to book a free Quick Check.](https://clinamenco.com/img/small-business-website-on-a-phone.webp)

*This site, on a phone*

### Sites we’ve made

- **Brian Dominguez, audiobook narrator.** Live Every audiobook he has narrated, a page per title with a sample and store links, and a page for authors who want to hire him. [Visit Brian’s site](https://briandominguezvoice.com/)
- **Bolivar Coffee, a café redesign.** Demo A redesign concept for a Colombian café with shops in Smyrna and Marietta, Georgia: the menu, both cafés’ hours and pickup orders, on one page. [See the café demo](https://evanmcdowell31.github.io/bolivar-site/)
- **Elevate Smoke, Vape & CBD.** Demo A concept for a smoke and vape shop in Marietta, Georgia: what’s in the case, the week’s specials, directions, and an age check at the door. [See the smoke shop demo](https://evanmcdowell31.github.io/elevate-site/)

We make demos on spec, without the business taking part, to show what we would build. Their names and marks belong to them.

### Software: Software for the way you take money

**Canopy** is our checkout for market stalls and food trucks, in development: one screen on the vendor’s phone for every way a customer pays (card tap, phone wallets, Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, SNAP and market tokens, and cash). Card and wallet payments land in the vendor’s own Square account, and Canopy never holds the money. Zelle, Venmo, tokens and cash go in the same ledger, so the day adds up in one place, and there is nothing for the customer to install. We are starting with farmers markets: markets and vendors who want to try it early, [write to us](mailto:hello@clinamenco.com). [See how Canopy works](https://clinamenco.com/products/canopy/).

**Custom software.** When a chore needs more than an automation, we build the tool: a small server, a web app your team installs on their phones, an iPhone app. Payments go through your own Square or Stripe account, so you keep your money and your processor.

**$990** founding price for a small build · standard $1,450 · larger work by written scope, same terms

## The math on one chore: Three hours a week is 150 hours a year.

At $40 an hour, that is $6,000 of your time. If one fix takes that chore off your plate, it pays for itself within the first month, at $195 founding or $390 after. Then the hours keep coming back, every week.

Fifty working weeks a year. Put in your own numbers.

- Hours a week on the chore: 3
- What your hour is worth, $: 40

**150 hours and $6,000 a year.** One Fix at $195 pays back in about 2 weeks; at $390, about 4.

## Pricing: Four ways to work with us

Every offer has a written scope and a fixed price. No hourly billing, no surprises.

### Quick Check

Free

30 minutes, by video or in person, about your weekly chores. Within one business day you get a one-page written list of 3 chores AI could take over, each with a fixed price.

[Book a Quick Check](https://calendly.com/clinamenco)

### One Fix, or one website

*Start here*

$195 · · founding price · · standard $390

One automation or assistant, set up in the tools you already use, or a one-page website on your domain. Working within 5 business days of access. A 30-minute handover, a one-page “how it works”, and 30 days of fixes.

### Sprint

$990 · · founding price · · standard $1,450

Up to 3 fixes in 2 weeks, or a small software build. Documented, with your team shown how to use it, and each chore timed before and after so you see the hours saved. Includes your first month of Care, worth $149.

### Care

$149 · · a month · · Plus $390 a month

We keep every fix and page working as your apps change, and send a monthly note of the hours saved. Plus adds one new small fix and a 30-minute check-in each month. First month free with any Sprint.

### Money back

If a One Fix doesn’t do what its one-page written scope says within 30 days, you get your money back.

### Founding prices

Founding prices hold until Sunday 31 January 2027 or our first 10 paying clients, whichever comes first. That is a real limit, and we keep it.

### Refer a business

$100 off for both of you once a business you refer pays for its first job. Never tied to a review.

## How it works: Three steps, one person accountable

1. **You book a Quick Check.** 30 minutes on your weekly chores. Within one business day, a one-page written list: 3 chores, each with a fixed price.
2. **We build it.** In the tools you already use, working within 5 business days of access, with a handover and a one-page “how it works”.
3. **The founder checks everything.** AI agents, run by [Irie](https://clinamenco.com/products/irie/), the founder’s own open-source platform, on Anthropic’s Claude, do the first pass. He checks every result before it reaches you. Then 30 days of fixes.

The claims we make are the ones we can keep: a fixed price, a written scope, a deadline, and money back. No invented reviews or results. No claims we can’t back. No pressure.

## Products: We build our own software, too

With the same agents and the same checks as your job. One is out and free; two are on the way.

- **Irie.** Open source · version 1.0 The app our agents run in: every AI coding agent you have, side by side in one calm view. Free, for Mac and Linux. [More about Irie](https://clinamenco.com/products/irie/)
- **Canopy.** In development One checkout on a vendor’s phone for every way a customer pays, and one ledger at closing. For market stalls and food trucks. [More about Canopy](https://clinamenco.com/products/canopy/)
- **A social media tool.** In early development Plan, draft and post to every channel from one place, and nothing goes out until you say yes. [More about the social media tool](https://clinamenco.com/products/social/)

## The founder: The person checking your job is the founder.

![Evan McDowell, founder of CLI ’n’ Amen co.](https://clinamenco.com/img/evan-mcdowell.jpg)

- **Founder:** Evan McDowell, Marietta, Georgia
- **Experience:** Staff software engineer, shipping web and mobile products since 2017
- **Built:** Irie (open source) · a 100,000-user launch · 170+ agent skills · 263 automated tests
- **Replies:** Within one business day

Evan McDowell runs CLI ’n’ Amen co. and is on every job himself: a staff software engineer who has shipped web and mobile products since 2017, and who now directs AI coding agents every day, checks what they produce, and compares models on real tasks.

- **He built the platform the agents run on.** Creator of [Irie](https://github.com/irie-people/irie), an open-source (Apache-2.0) app that runs coding agents from any supplier side by side, routes each task to the cheapest model that is accurate enough for it, and keeps every session’s context in git. One Go program plus native Mac and iPhone apps; version 1.0 released on 9 November 2026.
- **He has done this at scale.** As a staff engineer at one of the world’s largest retailers: an early engineer on a nutrition hub that grew from beta to 100,000 users, scoped and built an AI feature in its shopping assistant, designed the team’s agentic tooling (170+ reusable agent skills used by a 12-person team, with about 40% of weekly token throughput on lower-cost sub-agents), and founded its end-to-end test practice, 263 Playwright tests run every weekday.
- **He knows small businesses from the inside.** Founding engineer at Ressio Software, construction management for small home builders: first commit through launch, to $150,000 in recurring revenue in its first year.
- **Nine years, one craft.** B.S. Computer Science, Florida State University. Earlier: full-stack and mobile work in logistics and delivery, and mentoring engineers preparing for jobs in tech.

> “I leaned in before it felt comfortable.”
>
> — Evan, on working with agents, at evanmcdowell31.github.io

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanmcdowell31) · · [GitHub](https://github.com/EvanMcDowell31) · · [evanmcdowell31.github.io](https://evanmcdowell31.github.io/) · · [Irie](https://irie-people.github.io/irie/)

## Who it’s for: Owner-run businesses of 2 to 20 people

Where the owner still does the admin, and can name a chore that eats 3 hours a week or more.

- **Trades and home services** · HVAC, plumbing, electrical, cleaning, landscaping
- **Real estate and insurance agents** · lead follow-up, write-ups, the inbox
- **Small agencies and studios** · proposals, reports, client updates
- **Independent shops and online stores** · product descriptions, customer questions, order emails
- **Markets, stalls and food trucks** · taking every kind of payment, closing the day
- **Local nonprofits** · donor and volunteer email, forms, reports. Our first three One Fixes for local nonprofits are free.
- **Regulated data** · health records, privileged legal files, financial advice: we scope the safeguards in writing before any work starts.

## The name: Why Clinamen

![Atoms fall in straight lines; one swerves a little and lands somewhere new.](https://clinamenco.com/img/clinamen-swerve-diagram.webp)

*Fig. 1 · a small lean, a different landing*

**clinamen** /klaɪˈneɪmən/ (kly-nay-men), *noun*, plural clinamina

Latin, from *clinare*, to lean.

1. **The swerve.** In Lucretius’ *De rerum natura*, written around 55 BC, atoms fall straight down through the void until one, at no fixed time or place, leans a little from its path. Without that swerve nothing would ever meet, and nature would never have made a thing.
2. **Us.** A tiny swerve, a huge impact: one chore handed off, and the whole week lands somewhere new. Small swerves for small businesses.

**Say it:** CLI ’n’ Amen. CLI is the command line, where our agents do their work. Amen: so be it.

## Your data: How we handle your data

Data privacy is the first worry most owners raise. Here is what we do.

**What access we ask for.** Only what one job needs. For a missed-call text back, that may be your phone line settings and nothing else. We ask for a test account or sample data first, where we can. We never ask for passwords by email. We use each tool’s own sharing or admin access, so you can remove it any time.

**Where your data is kept.** In your own tools, where possible. Anything we must hold while we work stays in access-controlled accounts that only the people on your job can get into. We never post client data in public or use it in our own marketing.

**Who sees it.** AI agents do the first pass on your job. Evan, the founder, checks every result before you see it.

**When we delete it.** When the work ends, we delete the copies of your data we hold, remove our access, and confirm it in writing.

**Regulated data.** Health records, privileged legal files and financial advice carry their own rules. We scope the safeguards in writing before any work starts.

Questions: [hello@clinamenco.com](mailto:hello@clinamenco.com)

## Questions: What owners ask before they book

### How much does AI automation cost for a small business?

With us, one automation, set up and working, is a One Fix: $390, or $195 at our founding price, with 30 days of fixes. The published prices we found in November 2026 were an AI agency’s $1,500 setup, then $2,000 a month, and $4,000 to $10,000 for a first AI project at a firm under 10 people. We don’t bill hours.

### What can AI take off my plate?

The chores that come back every week: a text back to every missed call, quote drafts from a web form, inbox sorting with draft replies, appointment reminders, a website assistant that answers from your own FAQ, and a thank-you after each job. If a chore takes 3 hours a week or more, it’s worth a Quick Check.

### What happens on the free Quick Check?

Thirty minutes, by video or in person, about your weekly chores. Within one business day you get a one-page written list of 3 chores AI could take over, each with a fixed price. There’s no obligation. [Book a Quick Check](https://calendly.com/clinamenco).

### How soon is it working?

A One Fix or a one-page website is working within 5 business days of access. A Sprint, up to 3 fixes, takes 2 weeks.

### What if it doesn’t work?

Every job has a one-page written scope and 30 days of fixes. If a One Fix doesn’t do what its scope says within 30 days, you get your money back.

### Do I have to change the software I use?

No. We set each fix up in the tools you already use. When the job is something new, it’s yours: a website lives on your own domain, and payments go to your own Square or Stripe account.

### Who does the work, AI or a person?

Both. AI agents, run by [Irie](https://github.com/irie-people/irie), the founder’s own open-source platform, on Anthropic’s Claude, do the first pass. Evan McDowell, the founder, checks every result before it reaches you.

### Is my data safe with you?

We ask only for the access one job needs, through each tool’s own sharing or admin settings, so you can remove it any time, and we never ask for passwords by email. When the work ends, we delete the copies we hold, remove our access and confirm it in writing. Health records, privileged legal files and financial advice get their safeguards scoped in writing first. [How we handle your data](https://clinamenco.com/#data).

### How much does a small-business website cost?

One page, built for phones first and written to be found in local search, is $390, or $195 at our founding price, live on your own domain within 5 business days. There’s no monthly fee: your only running cost is the domain, about $10 to $20 a year, and you own the domain and every file.

### Do you work with businesses outside Georgia?

Yes. The founder works from Marietta, Georgia, and we work with owner-run businesses anywhere in the United States. Quick Checks are by video or in person.

### What does Care include?

For $149 a month, we keep every fix and page working as your apps change, and send a monthly note of the hours saved. Care Plus, $390 a month, adds one new small fix and a 30-minute check-in each month. Your first month is free with any Sprint.

### Can you build custom software or an app?

Yes: a small server, a web app your team installs on their phones, or an iPhone app, with payments through your own Square or Stripe account. A small build is $1,450, or $990 at our founding price. Canopy, our checkout for market stalls and food trucks, is in development.

### How long do the founding prices last?

Until Sunday 31 January 2027 or our first 10 paying clients, whichever comes first.

### Do you help nonprofits?

Yes. Our first three One Fixes for local nonprofits are free.

### What does CLI ’n’ Amen mean?

Clinamen is Lucretius’ word for the swerve: atoms fall straight down until one leans a little from its path, and that small lean changes where everything lands. CLI is the command line, where our agents do their work; Amen means so be it.

## Start with a free Quick Check.

Thirty minutes, no obligation, and a written answer within one business day.

[Book a free Quick Check](https://calendly.com/clinamenco)

[or write to hello@clinamenco.com](mailto:hello@clinamenco.com)

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Products: [Irie](https://clinamenco.com/products/irie/) · [Canopy](https://clinamenco.com/products/canopy/) · [a social media tool](https://clinamenco.com/products/social/)

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