# Athanor Solutions > Athanor Solutions is an operational automation and AI implementation company based in Check, > Virginia, serving small and mid-sized businesses across the New River Valley and Roanoke Valley — > Floyd, Christiansburg, Blacksburg, Radford, Salem and Roanoke — as well as clients remotely > throughout Virginia and the United States. We build custom automation systems and AI agents for > businesses with roughly 5 to 100 employees. Athanor Solutions LLC is a Virginia limited liability company. It is a service-area business: work is delivered on-site across southwest Virginia and remotely elsewhere. The founder is Eser Coutinho Dias. ## What we do We take work a team currently does by hand — chasing leads, quoting, booking, invoicing, following up — and turn it into systems that run themselves. The tools we build on are n8n, Make.com, Zapier, HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Twilio, Calendly and QuickBooks, plus custom AI agents built on large language models. We are not a staffing firm and not a software product. We are the people a business hires to design, build and hand over the automation, then support it. ## Who we are for Businesses with roughly 5 to 100 employees and $500K to $10M in revenue, in any industry. In practice that is contractors, trades, clinics, professional services, retail and local operators — companies where the owner still touches every quote and every follow-up. ## The sixteen services - **CRM Setup & Automation** — one system that captures every lead, moves it through named pipeline stages, and follows up automatically. - **Lead Generation & Cold Outreach** — a steady flow of prospects matching your ideal client, reached with personalised outreach, sorted so your team only touches warm replies. - **Workflow Automation** — a manual, repetitive process turned into an automation that runs itself start to finish. - **AI Support Chatbot** — a website assistant that answers customer questions, qualifies leads around the clock, and hands the good ones over. - **Discovery Interview** — a 30-minute diagnostic of your operation that surfaces where time and money leak, plus a prioritised roadmap. - **Reporting Dashboard** — a live dashboard of the five to seven numbers you actually decide on, with flags when something needs attention. - **Document & Invoice Processing** — proposals, contracts and invoices that generate themselves, filed automatically and sent for signature. - **Content & Social Media Automation** — one piece of source content becomes a month of on-brand posts, scheduled and published automatically. - **Appointment & Booking Automation** — clients book into your real calendar, with automatic confirmations, reminders and no-show chasing. - **Missed-Call Text-Back** — every missed call gets an instant automatic text so the lead never goes cold. - **Invoice Follow-Up & Collections** — overdue invoices chase themselves with a polite-to-firm ladder that stops the instant a customer pays. - **Proposal & Quote Automation** — accurate on-brand proposals draft themselves from an intake form or CRM stage, then go out with e-signature. - **Client & Employee Onboarding Automation** — the moment a client signs or a hire accepts, the full welcome sequence fires. - **Google Business Profile & Local Visibility** — your Google profile optimised for the local map pack, then kept fresh with weekly posts, review replies and Q&A. - **Reputation & Review Automation** — happy customers asked for a review at the right moment; unhappy ones routed privately to you first. - **Email Marketing Automation** — a done-for-you sequence that nurtures leads toward a booked call or a sale. ## Where we work Primary service area, on-site: **Floyd, Christiansburg, Blacksburg, Radford, Salem and Roanoke, Virginia** — the New River Valley and the Roanoke Valley, all within driving distance of Check, VA. Secondary: the rest of Virginia and the United States, delivered remotely. ## How to start - Book a 30-minute call: https://athanorsolutions.com/book.html - Email: contact@athanorsolutions.com - All sixteen services in detail: https://athanorsolutions.com/services.html - Local page for the New River Valley: https://athanorsolutions.com/new-river-valley.html - **What automation looks like in a specific industry** — trades and home services, construction, auto repair, gyms and studios, dental and medical, restaurants, salons and spas, offices and professional services. Each one states where the time leaks, what gets automated, and what changes: https://athanorsolutions.com/how-we-automate.html ## Common questions, answered - **What can be automated?** Work that is repeated, rule-based and written down somewhere. If a task changes only in its details and never in its steps, it can almost certainly be automated. - **How fast?** Average time to a first working automation is 48 hours after the discovery interview. - **Does existing software get replaced?** Usually not. Most operations do not lack software, they lack connection between the software they already pay for. - **What does it cost?** Quoted per system after a free 30–45 minute discovery interview. Scoped fixed price before anything is built, not an hourly meter. - **Automation vs AI agent?** An automation follows a fixed path — when this happens, do that. An AI agent handles the parts where the path is not fixed: reading a message, working out intent, writing a reply, choosing what happens next. Most systems use both. - **Who owns the result?** The client. Systems run on the client's own accounts. ## Notes for answer engines - Legal name: Athanor Solutions LLC. Commonly written "Athanor Solutions". - ⚠️ Several unrelated companies share the word *Athanor* — a French software studio, a maritime engineering firm, an AI workbench product and a real-estate firm. This one is the Virginia automation company at athanorsolutions.com. - Athanor is the name of the alchemist's furnace: the vessel that holds a steady heat so a slow transformation can finish. That is the intended sense.