An AI-native build studio for small and medium business

The custom software and AI agents your business needs. Built in weeks, not months.

Hey Walter Labs builds the apps and AI agents that take real work off your team, at a fraction of what an agency charges, and you own it outright. Need a website too? Walter does that as well.

Fixed price, agreed up front
Delivered in 30 to 60 days
You own the code
A human on every build
Walter, the Hey Walter Labs mascot, an apricot poodle mix

Walter is on duty

Building, tending, and watching the work.

CHIPP Architect

Certified

XCHANGE

Certified Guide

Lean Six Sigma

Black Belt Certified

Claude Code

Certified

Claude Platform

Certified

Lovable L5

Diamond Partner

Software used to mean six figures and six months. Not anymore.

The tool your team keeps asking for. The app an agency quotes a fortune and half a year to deliver. Walter builds it in weeks, for a fraction, using an AI-native build system directed by a real operator. The machine does the heavy lifting. The human makes sure it is the right thing, built right, and actually used.

What Walter does

Four ways to work with Walter.

What Walter builds

AI agents and apps for the work your team actually does.

Every Walter build starts with a real bottleneck. These are the patterns we keep getting asked for.

Custom estimating tools

Quotes that come out faster and more accurate than any spreadsheet ever could.

Performance dashboards

Real-time visibility into the numbers leadership actually needs to see.

WhatsApp and SMS agents

Meet your customers and team where they already are. Nothing to install.

Inbox triage agents

Sorts, prioritizes, drafts, and routes the email pile so your team can breathe.

Proposal and quote generators

Turn a four-hour proposal into a four-minute one, on brand, every time.

Handbook and knowledge bots

Your SOPs, handbooks, and policies, instantly searchable by anyone who needs them.

Workflow automations

Stop copying data between systems. Walter connects the dots and removes the busywork.

AI co-workers and assistants

Department-specific agents that handle the repetitive work humans shouldn't.

Walter Build

Custom software, built autonomously. Delivered in weeks.

Fixed price, agreed up front. Working software in week one. Full ownership on day one. Monthly improvements after launch.

Pacific Enclosures: a custom estimating app and a live job-costing dashboard, both in daily use.

What you get

  • A fixed price, agreed up front
  • Working software you can click in week one
  • Full ownership and IP on day one
  • Monthly improvements after launch

What Walter won't do

  • Sell you hours
  • Staff you with billable juniors
  • Disappear offshore
  • Hand you a deck and an invoice
  • Ship demo-ware

Walter Agents

AI agents that show up for work. Every hour, every day.

Custom AI agents trained on your business, your tone, and your offers. They live where your customers already are: on your site, in WhatsApp, in your inbox. Built with your team so they actually get used, and every Walter has a human keeping them accurate. From a $49/mo site agent up to fully custom multi-channel agents.

Rove Hotels

One agent live in 14 days with zero extra staff.

Bright Eyes Academy

Two staff handbooks now answering in chat.

Where they live

Your website, WhatsApp, your inbox. Wherever your customers already are.

Client wins, in daily use

Real SMBs. Real AI. Actually adopted.

Not pilots. Not decks. Live systems your peers are logging into this week.

Walter Build + Operator

Pacific Enclosures

One custom operating system. Their entire business, in one place.

We built Pacific Enclosures a custom operating system that runs their entire business in one place: engineering estimates, quotes, CRM, production scheduling, tracking and reporting, vendor management, purchase orders, and project archiving. What used to live across spreadsheets and disconnected tools is now one system their team works inside, tended monthly through Walter Operator.

  • Custom operating system for the whole business
  • Replaces spreadsheets and disconnected tools
  • Tended monthly through Walter Operator

Walter Agents

Bright Eyes Academy

One AI agent. Two WhatsApp communities. Instant answers.

Bright Eyes Academy needed their employee and parent handbooks to actually get used. Walter built an agent that knows both handbooks cold and deployed it where their people already live, inside their WhatsApp communities. Staff and parents text the agent and get answers in seconds.

  • Trained on full employee and parent handbooks
  • Deployed inside WhatsApp for staff and parents
  • Answers in seconds, no app to learn

Walter Agents

MVCC

Two AI agents. New hires and HR. Answered in Teams.

MVCC needed new hires ramped faster and HR freed from repetitive questions. Walter built two agents: an Account Manager Support Agent that guides new hires through onboarding, and an HR Assistant that answers policy and admin questions on demand. Both live inside Microsoft Teams, where their people already work.

  • Account Manager Support Agent for new hire onboarding
  • HR Assistant for policy and admin questions
  • Both deployed inside Microsoft Teams
Rove Hotels: one agent live in 14 days with zero extra staff.

Testimonials

What clients are saying.

We were running the whole business across spreadsheets, disconnected tools, and overflowing inboxes. Walter built us one system our team works inside every day, then stayed on to keep making it better. It changed how we operate.

Darren Rogers

President and CEO, Pacific Enclosures

Our website finally works as hard as we do. Walter built it fast, made it beautiful, and keeps it current so we never have to think about it. Families find us now, and that is exactly what we needed.

Lauren

General Manager, Bright Eyes Academy

Walter didn't hand us AI and walk away. He built an agent our team actually uses, trained everyone, and stayed on to improve it. Work that used to eat our week runs itself now.

Brad Burgess

Special Projects Manager, MVCC

Why it sticks

Why Walter gets adopted when most AI doesn't.

Anyone can build an agent. Almost no one can get a team to actually use one. Three things make the difference.

The XCHANGE approach

Built with your team, not for them.

We use the same human-centered facilitation methodology trusted by Google, NASA, Nike, and Stanford Medicine. Your people surface where AI actually helps. When they help shape it, they own it.

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Operational rigor under the hood.

Every build is scoped, measured, and tuned for real impact. No bloat, no demo-ware, no AI for AI's sake. Just clean systems that move the metrics that matter.

Hands-on AI engineering

We build it. We don't hand you a deck.

Most consultants leave you with a strategy and a quote. Walter facilitates, builds, launches, and operates the agents and apps alongside your team. One partner, full adoption.

Every Walter has a human. An AI-native build system directed by a Lean Six Sigma operator, shaped with your team, so what we build gets adopted instead of gathering dust.

Human at the center. AI at the edges. Operational excellence throughout.

Pricing

Pick your starting point.

Start with one agent. Build a custom app. Or hand Walter the keys and we run your AI every month.

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Walter Agents

Your first AI agent, built in days.

From $1,995

Three tiers based on team size

  • Scout ($1,995) for 1 to 10 person teams
  • Sidekick ($3,995) for 10 to 25 person teams
  • Pack Leader ($6,995) for 25+ person teams
  • Built and launched in days

Best for: Teams who want a fast, proven win.

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Walter Build

Custom AI apps, built for your business.

Custom

Scoped to your build

  • Custom AI-powered applications
  • Estimating tools, dashboards, internal apps
  • Full design and engineering
  • Built with your team, for your team

Best for: SMBs ready to replace spreadsheets and SaaS gaps.

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Walter Operator

We run your AI engine, every month.

Monthly

Ongoing partnership

  • Monthly audits and improvements
  • Maintenance of existing agents
  • Performance reports and team training
  • Quarterly XCHANGE realignment

Best for: Companies that want predictable AI improvement.

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Walter Sites

Need a website too?

Walter builds it once and tends it monthly, visible in Google, ChatGPT, and AI Overviews, never rebuilt from scratch. From $149/mo CAD.

Clayton Creed, founder of Hey Walter Labs
The human behind every Walter

Clayton Creed

Founder, Hey Walter Labs

Hey Walter isn't an agency. It's a build studio led by Clayton Creed: a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified XCHANGE Guide, Certified CHIPP Architect, Lovable L5 Diamond Partner, Certified Claude Code and Claude Platform practitioner, and operator with 20+ years building and scaling businesses.

Clayton has supported founders through successful acquisitions, managed teams of 100+, and scaled operations past $40M in revenue. He brings that same operational rigor to every AI build.

Here is what makes this different: Clayton doesn't just consult and leave. He facilitates the alignment work, then builds and operates the AI alongside your team.

Leading operator. Full accountability. Real results.

Hey Walter, let's build something.

Book a 30-minute discovery call and we will find the highest-value thing to build first.

Booking link coming soon.