5 Repetitive Tasks Your Bohol Business Can Automate Today
From inventory tracking to appointment reminders — where MSMEs in the Visayas waste the most time, and how to fix it.
I build small, specific AI tools and dashboards for Filipino MSMEs — the kind of work that used to cost ₱200k from a Manila agency, priced for the actual businesses that need it. One problem, one tool, one fair price.
"AI is the only entity that can give someone starting from scratch a real chance. I want small business owners to get the same fair advantage as the companies with more capital and more manpower."
No more 90-page proposals. Tell me which pain is killing your week — I build the smallest possible tool that ends it.
Hours every week typing paper receipts into Excel. Half end up wrong.
Snap a photo → vendor, date, amount auto-filled. Works with crumpled, faded, handwritten.
Sales data is everywhere — notebooks, GCash, supplier texts. No one has time to look.
One screen. Daily revenue, top products, slow movers. Mobile-friendly.
"Open ka pa?" "How much?" "Available pa ba?" — 50 times a day, every day.
Handles 80% of repeat questions. You only see the real ones.
No low-stock alerts. You find out you're out of bestsellers from a customer complaint.
Real-time stock. SMS/email when something hits reorder level.
Messenger, text, walk-in, Viber — double-bookings and missed appointments are normal.
One calendar. Reminders sent automatically. GCash pre-payment optional.
Or doesn't exist. Customers can't find you, can't book, can't trust you online.
Fast, mobile-first, SEO for local searches. GCash + booking baked in.
Don't see your pain? Book the free call — we'll figure out what to build.
Every Filipino business has paper receipts piling up. Sari-sari stocks, gas station fuel slips, supplier invoices, lunch receipts, GCash printouts. They end up in Excel by hand, eating hours every week.
We build custom receipt OCR pipelines tuned to YOUR specific receipt formats. Each one turns a photo into clean structured data the moment it is captured. Below are real outputs from production work.
Every project starts with a 20-receipt free pilot using YOUR actual paperwork. If we cannot hit 90% accuracy on your formats, we do not take the project. You only pay if it works.
5x Lucky Me Pancit Canton PHP 60.00 2x Coke 1.5L PHP 120.00 1x Tide Bar PHP 35.00 1x Marlboro Lights pack PHP 30.50
3x Bear Brand Powdered Milk PHP 720.00 2x Nido Forti Grow PHP 540.00 1x Surf Detergent 5kg PHP 685.00 6x Spam Classic 340g PHP 1,050.00 2x Datu Puti Soy Sauce PHP 62.50 ... and 9 more line items
Fuel type: Diesel Volume: 24.5 L Price/L: PHP 49.00 Plate no: GAB-7541 Driver: J. Bagao
These match the structured outputs of tools we have built. Want to see it run on YOUR receipts? Book the free 20-receipt pilot →
Pick one tool to solve one pain — or hand over a stack of problems and let me manage the whole system.
Best for: single-location businesses, sari-sari stores, small offices.
Best for: multi-branch MSMEs, service businesses, growing teams.
Best for: platforms, portals, multi-system integrations, your own AI product.
Most local agencies make you book a sales call before they'll quote a number. They want to size you up first — see if they can charge you ₱200k for ₱40k of work.
I'd rather you see the price, decide if it's fair, and only book the call if it is. Same price for the sari-sari owner as for the multi-branch service business. No FX markup. No "international rate." Paid in PHP. Cash, GCash, or bank transfer.
I'm Jerry Bag-ao, based in Tagbilaran City.
I didn't come to AI through computer science. I started as a service engineer for Disco Japan's local agency in Manila, selling and servicing wafer dicing and grinding machines for the semiconductor industry. Precision work, demanding clients, no margin for error, zero downtime allowed.
From there I moved into oil and gas seismic exploration, working across nearly every department on the research vessel. The trainings took me through most continents and put me alongside engineers of multiple nationalities. You learn fast when the equipment is down. When safety is at stake, you make decisions with life-and-death consequences, and the work doesn't care about your accent.
That international stretch is what changed how I see opportunity. It widened my mindset enough to notice the one thing happening now that I couldn't ignore:
AI is the only entity that gives someone starting from scratch a real chance. The window is too high-potential to ignore.
So I came home. I started in Bohol because this is where I was born, and because the gap is obvious. The countryside has fewer opportunities than Manila, and far fewer than the international markets I worked in. Most local businesses are underprivileged in tooling, not in talent.
My mission is simple: I want the small business owner to compete on the same footing as the bigger players. The sari-sari store operator. The family-run resort. The single-location service shop. Same automation. Same data clarity. Same advantage. Just at a price they can actually pay.
It's a broad vision. But every founding client I take on is one step closer.
Four steps. The whole thing is designed to be reversible at every stage — you only commit when you're sure.
30 min. I learn how your business actually runs. You learn whether AI even makes sense for you. No obligation, no pitch.
I map your current process in detail and show you the exact tools that would help — with realistic ROI estimates, not magic numbers.
You see it working before final delivery. We adjust as we go. No "ta-da" handover where it turns out wrong.
Full handover with documentation. Your team knows how to use it. I'm one message away when you need me.
From inventory tracking to appointment reminders — where MSMEs in the Visayas waste the most time, and how to fix it.
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30 minutes. Video call or in-person if you're in Bohol. I'll ask about your business, your time-wasters, and what you actually need. If AI doesn't make sense for you, I'll say so.
Usually reply within a few hours, Mon–Sat.
Or email hello@deskforgeai.com to schedule another way.