Brenneis AI
Built on experience. Driven by mission.
Committed to nonprofits & their mission.
Where it all started
Three years ago, I wasn't trying to build an agency.
I was trying to keep a small family business alive.
And maybe get a few hours of sleep.
I started a food brand—Claire's Kitchen—with my daughter Claire, who was nine and obsessed with baking, and my son Liam, who practically lives on a baseball field. We were building something together, something that mattered, and I wouldn't trade those early days for anything.
But it was a grind.
I was working a full-time day job.
Running Claire's Kitchen on nights and weekends.
Serving on our youth baseball board.
Trying to be a present dad through all of it.
Like most small business owners, I was stretched thin.
Then thinner.
Then stretched past the point people usually talk about publicly.
Claire's Kitchen was beautiful—but brutally manual. Recipe development. Production. Packaging. Shipping. Marketing. Customer service. Every step, every hour, every dollar—we did it ourselves.
...stretched past the point people usually talk about publicly.
I figured it out myself
Every "software solution" that promised to make life easier required an enterprise-level budget we never had.
So I learned AI.
I learned automation.
Not because it was trendy, not to "get ahead," but simply to survive.
Those systems gave us time back.
They kept the business stable.
They kept me sane.
And they created something Claire and Liam could grow into someday if they choose.
If automation could save our tiny, bootstrapped brand...
If automation could save our tiny, bootstrapped brand...
how many other small businesses were drowning without it?
That question became a mission.
That mission became Brenneis AI.
Not built out of hype.
Built out of necessity.
Built out of lived experience.
Built for the people doing real work.
I saw it firsthand on the baseball board I served: Coaches drowning in registration spreadsheets instead of coaching kids. Board members spending hours per week on manual admin work. Passionate people burning out over tasks that could be automated.
The Charlottesville Tom Sox became my first nonprofit client. We automated their season registration, Contracts for Players and Interns, Communication - And we're just getting started.
They're now saving 12+ hours per week—time that went directly back into fundraising and focusing on their mission.
That's when Brenneis AI became what it is today: automation specifically built for Nonprofits.
Every nonprofit deserves the same power the big organizations have—without paying enterprise prices or waiting in a support queue.
...we've lived those same sleepless nights.
You're not sitting in boardroom meetings or answering to investors. You're advancing your mission, making decisions, and keeping your community strong. That's exactly where we come in.
We don't build pretty websites that just sit there. We build smart systems that work around the clock—processing donations, coordinating volunteers, and helping you grow your impact while you focus on what you do best.
What matters is what changes lives—period.
This agency is for the founders and operators who keep their communities running.
For the small businesses no one builds tools for.
For the nonprofit leaders who are trying to stretch one hour into four.
For the families making it work on grit and heart.
You'll never be just a number.
When you work with us, you're not getting a vendor—you're getting a guide who's walked the same path. We know what keeps you up at night because we've lived those same sleepless nights.
We've lived through that and we hated it.
That's why every system we build is designed to give you relief, not more complexity. Every feature available from the start. No paywalls to unlock. No gatekeeping the best tools.
When you work with us, you're not a ticket number in a support queue. You're the reason we built this in the first place.
And we're here to help you build something that lasts—not just for now, but for the long haul.
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