About 513 AI · Cincinnati, OH
A productized AI agency for the small businesses that built this city — not the consulting firms that fly over it.
The thesis
There are roughly a dozen AI agencies operating across Cincinnati and NKY right now. None of them publish their pricing. None of them run a productized stack. Almost none of them were built here. They're consulting firms with a chatbot demo and a city page.
On the other side: national outfits charging $50,000-plus for engagements that treat the Midwest like a procurement line item. They'll ship you a 90-page strategy deck. They won't ship you a phone agent that picks up at 8pm on a Tuesday.
513 AI was built specifically because Main Street here deserves better than templated pitches from out-of-state agencies. We're not a side project and we're not a consulting bench. We're a productized agency running on shared infrastructure with a defined ladder of services — every price listed publicly on the home page, every product live and shippable in weeks, not quarters.
“Small business in this city deserves AI that works without a consultant in the loop. So we built the agency that ships it.”
The operating principles
If we ever break one of these, we stop being 513 AI and become every other agency in the market. We don't break them.
Every product we sell has a number next to it on the home page. Six products. Six prices. The other Cincinnati AI agencies don't publish theirs. We think that's the tell. If you won't name a price in public, the price isn't the price.
We speak owner-English, not pitch-deck. No “agentic orchestration.” No “leveraging transformer architecture.” If you don't know what an agent is, that's a feature of our customer base, not a bug. We'll tell you what it does, what it costs, and what to expect by month two.
Our cheapest product is $97/mo. Most clients stack two or three of them across the first 90 days. We don't sell six-figure transformations. We sell the smallest thing that solves the worst problem, then we sell the next smallest thing — and we let the results pay for the ladder.
Local team. Local accountability. Real demos you can drive to. If something breaks on a Tuesday night, the people fixing it are in the same area code as the people running your front desk. That's not a marketing line — it's the operating model.
What we owe the city
If you've been here long enough, you know the pattern. The 513 builds quietly and gets underrated. Procter, Kroger, Fifth Third, Cintas — every one of them got started by people who were told to move somewhere “real.” AI is the next wave we don't have to be left behind on, and we are absolutely not going to be.
We're not just running an agency here. We're trying to build the connective tissue between Cincinnati small business and the AI stack that's already eating every other city's lunch. That means being in the room with the owners — wherever the owners actually are.
We start in Cincinnati and serve the surrounding Tri-State — Northern Kentucky, Dayton, Lexington, Louisville, and beyond. The 513 is the anchor; the region is the territory.
01 · Local roots
Cincinnati small business gets sold to by people who flew in for the day. We're going to be the ones who live here, run a business here, and know what the rent is. Local first — every month, every quarter.
02 · Hiring
When 513 AI grows, the people running it grew up here. Operators, engineers, account leads — local first. Talent doesn't need a coast to be world-class.
03 · Main Street
The independent shops, the family practices, the studios that make a neighborhood feel like a neighborhood — we want AI to reach them too, not just the chains. As we grow, that's the part of the business we'll defend.
04 · The bet
That's the goal, plainly stated. Not “a thought leader.” Not “an innovation hub.” The city where Main Street businesses run AI better than anyone in the Midwest. We're building toward it.
Does the model work?
Take Body Alive Fitness — a Cincinnati-born brand running across 30+ locations. We built five custom AI agents into their stack: AI Assistant (Nova) inside their Google Workspace, the AI SEO Agent, the AI Inbox Leads Agent, the AI Google Ads Agent, and the AI Trademark Infringement Agent. Real brand. Real numbers. Read the full build on the case study page.
More case studies landing this quarter.
The next move
One sentence on what's eating your week is plenty. We'll come back with a few time slots for a 15-minute call. No deck. No jargon. No pressure.