# Efficient Technology Consultants (ETC)

Based in Inglewood and serving Los Angeles. Contact: howdy@etconsultant.com.

We help you navigate the tech market and tailor AI solutions to your business.

## Services

- [Business Technology & AI Consulting | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/ai-consulting/): Work with Max on useful AI tools, workflows, voice agents and individual training. Based in Inglewood, visiting clients across Los Angeles and working remotely.
- [Voice agents | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/ai-setup/): Try an AI phone assistant for one agreed task, then choose setup and handoff or ongoing managed care.
- [Operations review | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/business-systems/): We map a repeated task, tidy up the steps and responsibilities, then add suitable tools or AI where they help.
- [AI 101: Learning the Fundamentals | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/learning/ai-foundations/): Individual AI training: $600 for five hours over one month. Two fundamentals sessions and three hours of guided workflow building. Tools cost extra.
- [What we check in a website audit | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/search-visibility/): The search audit is part of ETC website work: useful pages, consistent listings, technical checks and measurement.
- [Website & search | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/websites-marketing/): We improve your website, business listings and enquiry paths so customers can understand your services and contact you.

## About and contact

- [About Max | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/about/): Meet Max, founder of Efficient Technology Consultants, and his approach to practical help for small businesses.
- [Contact Max | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/contact/): Tell Max what you want to improve. Send a business technology, AI consulting or training inquiry for personal follow-up. Inglewood, Los Angeles and remote.
- [How We Work | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/how-we-work/): Understand the work, choose useful tools, build and test the workflow, then learn to use it. Every consulting engagement is individually scoped and quoted.
- [ETC | Business Technology Consulting & AI Training](https://etconsultant.com/): Business technology consulting, AI consulting and practical AI training. ETC connects tools, builds repeatable workflows and teaches your team to use them. Inglewood, Los Angeles and remote.

## Digital Garden and resources

- [How to Use AI Without Outsourcing Your Judgment | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/garden/ai-without-outsourcing-judgment/): Keep the goal, evidence and approval decisions in your own hands when using AI. Ask questions that help you learn, test important claims and put review before consequences.
- [Domain Ownership: How to Check Who Controls Your Business Domain | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/garden/business-domain-ownership/): Separate registration rights, account access and recovery before assuming you control your domain. Use a practical inventory to identify who handles renewals and what remains unknown, without changing settings.
- [Why Your Digital Presence Is Your Business's Front Door | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/garden/digital-presence-front-door/): A referral still needs clear hours, useful service information and a reliable way to get in touch. Walk through your online presence like a new customer and check where the next step breaks down.
- [Domain vs. Hosting vs. Email: How Your Business Systems Connect | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/garden/domain-hosting-email/): Your domain, DNS, website and email do different jobs even when they share a bill. Learn what each controls and what to check before a proposed move disrupts something that already works.
- [I hope you gain some value from my Digital Garden. | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/garden/): Useful questions about business technology. Each article stands on its own.
- [How Small Businesses Can Use AI Without Chasing Every New Tool | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/garden/small-business-ai-opportunity/): Start with one useful task you can inspect rather than another subscription. A fictional gardening-service FAQ shows how to keep facts, unknowns and permissions separate while testing whether AI helps.
- [The Five-Dollar-Uber Era of AI | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/garden/the-five-dollar-uber-era-of-ai/): AI is still unusually affordable. The price increase may not look like a price increase. It may arrive as limits, ads, premium queues, and systems that work beautifully until you try to leave them.
- [Quick Bites | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/quick-bites/): Short explanations of AI agents, connected devices, website hosting and practical checks for your own tools.

## Policies and consultation information

- [Consultation Guidelines | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/consultation-guidelines/): How the free scheduled consultant hotline works: one call per person or business, up to 30 minutes, with availability agreed ahead of time.
- [Privacy | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/privacy/): How ETC handles website requests, optional analytics and information you choose to share by email or telephone.
- [Terms | ETC](https://etconsultant.com/terms/): Information about using the ETC website, consultations, paid training, custom projects and account ownership.