AI Operations · Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri

Built right.
Run quietly.

Thane Operations builds and runs the systems a working business depends on. We hold the ground so you can work the land. No decks. No advice-only engagements. Machines that collect money and hand you your hours back.

Every system we sell runs on our own publication or inside our own family's businesses first. That is the warranty.

A thane held land and rendered service. That is how we run: we take responsibility for the load-bearing parts of your operation, and we stay accountable for them.

The Products

Three ways in. All of them ship.

Fixed prices, named deliverables, and a care plan behind every install. Pick the door that fits your operation.

Flagship · Running live at The Mile Marker

Revenue Agent

A sponsorship sales department for local media that runs itself. Every morning it finds real businesses in your coverage area, drafts a three-touch pitch in your voice, and puts every word in front of you in one approval email. Nothing sends itself. When a prospect replies, the machine goes quiet and hands you the conversation. When they say yes, Stripe takes the card and their placement renders into your next edition on its own.

  • Prospects daily. Real local businesses inside your coverage radius, pulled every morning.
  • Drafts in your voice. A hard ban list on AI-sounding language, and a rule against claiming anything outside your market as local.
  • You approve every send. One morning email. Approve or pass, per prospect.
  • Three touches, then closed forever. A reply stops the cadence dead and the conversation becomes human to human.
  • Stripe does the money. Monthly billing, failed-card retries, and a webhook that reopens the slot if a sponsor ever cancels.
  • Paid sponsors publish automatically. Checkout to placement with no human touch.

Collection is genuinely autonomous. Judgment stays human at exactly the moments that matter.

Your daily labor: read one email, tap some buttons, answer humans.

Legal · The J.D. is in the room

Compliant AI Setup

Private, compliant internal AI for small law firms, configured by a J.D. who reads Model Rule 1.6 and ABA Formal Opinion 512 for a living. Your client data stays inside accounts the firm owns. Your staff gets trained on what the system may and may not touch, in writing.

  • Private by architecture. Firm-owned accounts, documented data boundaries, no client information in consumer tools.
  • Configured to your practice. Intake, drafting support, and internal research workflows mapped to how your firm actually works.
  • A written use policy. The document your malpractice carrier and your conscience both want to see.
  • Thirty days of support after handoff, with an upgrade path to managed operations.
Bespoke · For the machine nobody sells yet

Custom AI Systems

Some operations need a machine that does not exist off the shelf. The Discovery Sprint is the front door: two weeks, a full automation roadmap for your operation, and one working automation shipped before the sprint ends. You leave with something running, not a report.

  • Two weeks, fixed price. The sprint filters what is worth building from what only sounds like it.
  • One quick win, deployed. A working automation ships inside the sprint itself.
  • Flat quotes after. Full builds get a fixed price and a delivery date, not an hourly meter.
  • Care plans behind every build. Monitoring, fixes, and a monthly report once your system is live.
Proof of Work

Live systems, not case studies.

Everything below is in production today. Ask for the walkthrough and watch any of it run.

Revenue Loop

THE MILE MARKER REVENUE AGENT

Pitch, approval, Stripe checkout, webhook, live placement. The full loop tested end to end on a real transaction, running daily on our own publication.

Publishing Pipeline

THE MILE MARKER

A daily digest for Lake of the Ozarks that assembles, writes, and sends itself, with lake conditions, an archive loop, and automated list hygiene.

Operations App

BUILD HQ

A shared construction management app a homebuilding crew uses every day across two active builds: bids, sequence, photos, documents, and notes.

Also shipped and maintained: lakeozark.ai · elephantrocklaw.com · duffradio.com · themilemarker.news

The Charter

Four clauses we do not bend.

Clause I

Nothing sends itself.

Every outbound word passes a human approval gate before it moves. The machine proposes. You decide.

Clause II

You own the accounts.

Stripe, domain, DNS, and your data live in your name from day one. If we ever part ways, keys transfer in a one-hour handoff. Clean exits are part of the product.

Clause III

A ban list, enforced.

Our writing engines run under hard rules against AI-sounding language and against claiming anything outside your market as local. Your name is on it. It has to sound like you.

Clause IV

Care means care.

Monitoring, fixes, copy and cadence tweaks, and a monthly performance report. A care plan that naps is a bill, and we do not sell bills.

The Operator

Ty McDuffey

J.D., UMKC School of Law
Former Montana newspaper editor
Publisher, The Mile Marker
Third-generation Lake of the Ozarks

The word is the business plan. A thane was a landholder who answered for his ground and rendered service for it. Land held, work rendered, name attached.

Thane Operations runs out of Linn Creek, Missouri. Before the AI systems there were newsrooms, a family utility company, and a construction business, which is to say: operations that had to work every day, for people we see at the grocery store.

That is the standard here. Every product on this page runs on our own publication or inside our own family's businesses before it is offered to yours. When something breaks at 6 a.m., the person who built it is the person reading the alert.

One operator, small client list, direct line. If that sounds thin, it is the opposite: nothing gets handed to a junior, because there is no junior.

Begin

Tell us what eats your hours.

A discovery call costs nothing and ends with a straight answer: what we would build, what it costs, and whether we are a fit.

Request a discovery call
ty@thaneoperations.com