Skip the Hire gives West Michigan businesses an AI and automation lead, without the job post or the salary.
Hi, I'm Patrick.
I'm Patrick Moody. I started Skip the Hire, and I run a small team of people and AI agents. The agents help run the company, and they have never once asked for PTO.
I have been building with AI since 2023: AI-powered websites and knowledge-base agents for home improvement contractors in Connecticut and West Michigan, and work for pediatric offices. I also run AI and automation inside an operating company every day.
I stay current on Claude first, then on the rest of the AI industry and the business software behind it: the team and enterprise plans your company would buy, and the consumer apps your staff already use.
Why this exists
Most companies need the work, not the hire.
Most companies of 10 to 250 people know AI could take real work off their plate. What they do not have is someone whose job it is to make that happen.
Hiring that person means a job post, weeks of interviews, a six-figure salary and months of ramp-up, often for work that does not fill a full-time week.
Skip the Hire lets you bring in that role for the work you actually have. You talk to a person, we do the work, and you can reach us when something breaks.
We are efficient because we have done it before, and because our own company runs on the same agents and playbooks we build for clients.
Experience
Work already shipped.
Real work inside working companies, not slides about what AI could do someday.
AI rollout
Rolled out Claude across a company
Set the rules for safe use, trained each team on their own work, and built a rollout plan people followed.
Integration
Connected the CRM to everything else
Built a headless CRM integration so data moves between systems without anyone retyping it.
Automation
Automated the executive briefing
The weekly leadership summary now assembles itself from live data and is ready before Monday.
Operations
Built a scheduling dashboard
Replaced a patchwork of spreadsheets with one live view the team uses every day.
How we work
Four rules we hold ourselves to.
Plain language
If we cannot explain it to the person who signs the checks, it is not ready.
One platform
We recommend one AI platform for your company and set it up properly, so nobody pays for two.
Yours to keep
Everything we build is documented and belongs to you. If we stop working together, it keeps working.
Honest answers
If AI is the wrong tool for the problem, we will tell you on the first call.
Who it's for
Companies of 10 to 250 people.
Big enough to feel the manual work, too small to justify a full-time AI department.