For the self-employed
An AI Employee for a One-Person Business
The short answer. If you run a trade, a practice, or a shop by yourself, you already have two jobs: the work, and the admin the work generates. Fred takes the second one. It's a personal assistant installed on your own computer — sixteen specialists behind one name — that triages the inbox, drafts the invoices, chases the follow-ups, does the research, and makes the marketing, for $99 once. Not a seat licence. Not another subscription. An employee-shaped piece of software that you own.
The problem it solves
The evening shift
Every self-employed person knows the second shift: quoting after dinner, invoicing on Sunday, the customer you meant to call back three days ago, the website you'll get to eventually. None of it is your craft, all of it decides whether the business grows. That's the shift Fred works.
A week, delegated
What handing it over actually looks like
- Monday, 7:00am — the briefing came to you. The Morning Briefing preset ran while you slept: inbox triaged with what matters flagged, calendar laid out, anything overdue surfaced. You read it with coffee instead of digging for it.
- Tuesday — the money admin. "Draft invoices for the Patterson job and the two service calls." The Bookkeeper drafts them and flags an unpaid one from July. You glance, approve, send.
- Wednesday — nobody goes cold. The Customer agent keeps the log: who asked for a quote, who you promised to call, who's overdue a nudge. "Draft a friendly check-in to everyone I quoted this month." Drafts appear; you approve. You approve, Fred posts — that's the standing rule.
- Thursday — the research you'd never get to. "Compare the three suppliers for composite decking — prices, lead times, complaints." The Research agent reads, cross-checks, and hands back a structured report.
- Friday — the marketing you kept postponing. Marketing creative: ad copy drafted, images generated on your own machine, and if you need a landing page for the spring promotion, Fred can write it, build it, and ship it.
- Saturday, from the job site — you text Fred on WhatsApp: "what's the address for the 2pm Monday job, and remind me Sunday to load the trailer." Same Fred, same conversation, already on the big screen when you're home.
Trust, mechanically
Why you can trust it with business things
- Approval gates. Anything sensitive — sending, spending, deleting — passes through you. Fred drafts; you approve. Permission matrices per agent decide what each specialist may touch.
- Your data stays on your machine. Files, memory, credentials — local. Model calls travel to your chosen AI provider on your own key; Six Days West never sees them and collects no telemetry. Your client list is not on someone's server.
- Costs on the glass. Real-time cost tracking on the dashboard — you watch the AI bill as it forms instead of discovering it later.
- A security agent on staff. It audits your machine and code for known vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, risky dependencies, and open ports — plus prompt-injection protection with active blocking underneath.
The business math
Not another seat, not another month
Business software has trained everyone to expect $29-per-seat-per-month forever. Fred is $99 once: every agent, the dashboard, the Android app, and the owner's guide, with a year of updates and a 14-day refund window. AI usage is billed by your own provider on your key — light use often lands at a few dollars a month; heavy automation costs more, and the dashboard always shows the real number. One machine at a time, transferable when you upgrade computers.
The honest requirements
What it needs from you
- A Windows 10/11 (x64) or Ubuntu-class Linux (x64) computer — no macOS build. The phone app is Android only. Internet connection required.
- An AI key from Claude, OpenAI, or Google Gemini (or a local model via Ollama), pasted in once during the wizard.
- Your judgement. Fred drafts, researches, and prepares; the approvals stay yours. It's an assistant with excellent work habits, not an autopilot for your business — and its memory of old conversations can occasionally be imperfect, which we tell you before you buy.
Pricing
Hire it once
Every agent, every workflow, the dashboard, the Android app, and the owner's guide — from day one. No subscription. Bring your own AI key. 14-day refund window. One machine at a time.
One-time purchase · licence key by email in minutes · 14-day refund window
FAQ
Questions people ask
Can Fred invoice my clients?
Fred drafts them: the Bookkeeper tracks income and expenses, drafts invoices, and flags what's overdue. You review and send. The same pattern runs through everything money-adjacent — Fred prepares, you approve.
Will it email people without asking me?
Not unless you allow it. Every agent has a permission matrix, and sensitive actions pass an approval gate. The working pattern is: Fred drafts, you approve. Scheduled reports like the Morning Briefing run unattended because they only read and summarise.
Do I need an IT person?
No. Fred installs like any app on Windows 10/11 or Ubuntu-class Linux, asks for your AI key once, and after that you talk to it — from the dashboard, or by texting it on WhatsApp or Telegram from a job site.
What does it cost to run?
$99 once for the software. AI usage is billed by your provider on your own key — light use often lands at a few dollars a month, heavy automation costs more, and the dashboard shows your real-time spend.
Is my business data safe?
Your files, Fred's memory, and your credentials stay on your machine. Model calls go directly from your device to your chosen AI provider on your key — Six Days West never sees them and collects no telemetry.
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