The AI ops expert you can’t afford to hire
Normies helps business operators build automations, chatbots, and workflows — and tells you honestly when you don’t need to build anything at all.
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You’ve tried everything. Nothing actually worked.
ChatGPT gave you a plan
Step 1: set up a Postgres database. You closed the tab.
n8n looked simple enough
Right up until the JSON error. Then the OAuth error. Then you were on the Upwork homepage.
Lovable built something
It worked for three weeks. Now it’s 3,000 lines of AI-generated mystery and nobody’s picking up.
None of these tools were built to start with your problem. They were built to start after you already know the answer.
Three ways Normies is different
Before building anything, Normies asks: do you actually need to build this? Sometimes the right answer is a $10/month tool that takes 10 minutes to set up. Normies will tell you that — and set it up with you.
I want to monitor my competitors' pricing pages and get notified when they change.
Good news: you don't need to build anything here. My recommendation: Visualping. Point it at their pricing pages, it screenshots them on a schedule and pings your Slack channel when something shifts. ~10 minutes to set up. Why it fits: dead simple, no technical skill needed, built-in Slack integration. Want me to walk you through it instead of building something?
Just a few examples.
Monthly revenue reconciliation
Pull Stripe data, match it against your CRM, flag discrepancies for finance
Employee Q&A bot
Connect Google Drive docs, deploy on WhatsApp or Slack, answer questions instantly
Competitor monitoring
Watch pricing pages, get Slack alerts the moment something changes
Call note automation
Sync Gong summaries to Salesforce opportunities, no rep action needed
Gmail to CRM pipeline
New lead email comes in, contacts get created, follow-up sequence fires automatically
Document indexer
Index your entire knowledge base and make it searchable via chatbot
These happen to be common ones. Normies runs on Claude Code — the same AI professional developers use to build production software. If you can describe your problem in plain English, it can help you solve it.
Built for operators, not engineers
You know the plan before anything gets built
Normies maps out every step with plain-English descriptions and time estimates before touching anything. You see the architecture, you read the steps, you click Start. No surprises.
is this a good plan?
Honest take: it's a solid plan for a v1 — but there's one architectural question worth pressure-testing. How many documents are in your knowledge base? If it's 50+, pulling all of them on every question will slow responses and hit Claude's limits fast. You'd want a search layer in between first. If your doc set is small, ship it as-is. Want me to dig into either path?
AI is good at calling AI’s bullshit
Every response has a Sanity Check button. Ask it to pressure-test its own plan, poke holes in the approach, or just confirm you’re not missing something obvious. It will tell you straight.
Leaves you with a guide, not a mystery
When a project wraps, Normies writes a plain-English maintenance guide covering what was built, how to verify it works, and what to do when something breaks. Future you will appreciate it.
Normies is for you if:
- You’ve thought “this should be automated” about the same task at least ten times
- You’ve opened n8n or Zapier, spent two hours, and closed the tab
- You want to understand what’s being built, not just hope it works
Not for you if:
- You want AI to run everything autonomously while you sleep
- You’re a developer looking for a coding assistant (that’s Claude Code)
- You need legal and security sign-off before installing a Mac app