About
One person. Twelve years. No handoffs.
We're Alpenglow AI, a one-person consultancy run by Dillon Lara in Colorado Springs. When you hire us, you work with Dillon directly: mapping your workflow, building the fix, and answering the phone when something breaks.
Twelve years of building for other people's clients
Dillon started in website design and development, and for more than twelve years most of that work came through marketing agencies. That meant building for the businesses agencies serve: plumbers, roofers, HVAC companies, landscapers, small e-commerce stores, the kinds of owners who are good at their trade and buried in everything around it.
After enough of those projects, a pattern was hard to ignore.
The website was rarely the problem. The problem was what happened after the lead came in.
Calls went to voicemail. Quotes sat in a drafts folder. Follow-up depended on somebody remembering. The agency would deliver a beautiful site, and the owner would still lose the job to whoever called back first.
So for the last three-plus years, our focus has been that part instead: the handoffs, the follow-up, the admin that piles up after dinner. That is the work Alpenglow AI does now.
How we got here
- 12+ years
Websites for agencies' clients
Plumbers, roofers, HVAC, landscapers, small online stores.
- The pattern
Leads lost after the form
Calls to voicemail, quotes in drafts, follow-up by memory.
- 3+ years
Automation, full time
Handoffs, follow-up, and the admin that piles up after dinner.
- Today
Alpenglow AI
One person, start to finish. No handoffs.
Diagnose first. Build one thing. You own it.
We do not sell bundles. Every engagement starts with a two-week Clarity Audit because we have watched too many owners buy a stack of tools before anyone checked which problem was actually costing them money. Most of the time it is one or two specific places, not everything.
When we build, we build inside the tools you already run, so there is no new software to learn. When it is done, it is yours. No platform lock-in, and if you ever stop the $250 a month, it keeps running and it stays yours.
- Your phone system
- Your CRM
- QuickBooks
- Jobber
- Housecall Pro
Pricing is published. If the audit says the fix is not worth building, we will tell you that too.
What we will not do
- We will not automate something before we understand it. If your process is not defined yet, the audit will say so, and we will fix the process first.
- We will not put AI in front of your customers without a human fallback. Complaints, pricing exceptions, and anything with judgment stay with a person.
- We will not hand you a system you cannot maintain. Every build comes with documentation and a walkthrough for your team.
- We will not sell you a bundle you do not need. You pay $250 a month for one system that works, not $500 for five you never use.
Colorado Springs, serving the Front Range and beyond
Most of our clients are along the Front Range. The work itself does not care where you are, though. If you are a service business or an agency anywhere in the country with a follow-up problem, we can help.
You can see what we have built for other businesses on the case studies page, or read the guides we write for owners trying to figure out what to automate first.
Tell us what's slowing you down
You do not need it figured out before you reach out. A few sentences about your business and where the time goes is enough to start. Prefer to talk? Call (719) 314-1500.
No obligation to build afterward. If a fix isn't worth it, the audit says so.