# Kestrel Modern

> Kestrel Modern helps small and mid-sized businesses in Ontario cut admin overhead with automation, AI assistants and simpler software. Audits, builds, guides and one-on-one personalization consulting.

Location: Whitby, Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. Remote across Canada. Contact: hello@kestrelmodern.ca

## Pages

- [Kestrel Modern: AI and automation for small business in Durham Region](https://kestrelmodern.ca/): Kestrel Modern helps small and mid-sized businesses in Ontario cut admin overhead with automation, AI assistants and simpler software. Audits, builds, guides and one-on-one personalization consulting.
- [Services: audits, AI automation, overhead removal](https://kestrelmodern.ca/services): Modernization audits, automation and AI assistant builds, software overhead removal and one-on-one personalization consulting for small businesses in Ontario.
- [Guides for modernizing a small business](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides): Practical guides on AI agent secretaries, smart calendars, admin automation and cutting software overhead. The starter guide is free.
- [The Modernization Starter Guide](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/modernization-starter): Find the hours your business loses to admin, and decide what to fix first. Free PDF guide.
- [Build an AI Agent Secretary](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/agent-secretary): Hand off email triage, scheduling replies and follow-ups to an assistant you supervise. PDF guide.
- [The Smart Calendar Playbook](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/smart-calendar): Make your calendar protect your time instead of handing it out. PDF guide.
- [Admin on Autopilot](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/admin-autopilot): Automate intake, quotes, invoices and follow-ups without losing the personal touch. PDF guide.
- [The Software Overhead Audit](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/software-overhead-audit): Cut the subscriptions, duplicate tools and manual glue your team pays for every month. PDF guide.
- [About](https://kestrelmodern.ca/about): Kestrel Modern is a modernization and AI consultancy in Whitby, Ontario, founded by John Chuanico.
- [Book a free call](https://kestrelmodern.ca/contact): Tell us what is taking too much time. Free 30-minute call. Email hello@kestrelmodern.ca.
- [Privacy notice](https://kestrelmodern.ca/privacy): How Kestrel Modern collects, uses and protects personal information under PIPEDA.
- [Terms of sale](https://kestrelmodern.ca/terms): Terms for guides and consulting, including refunds.

## Guides

- [The Modernization Starter Guide](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/modernization-starter) (free): Find the hours your business loses to admin, and decide what to fix first.
- [Build an AI Agent Secretary](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/agent-secretary) ($39 CAD): Hand off email triage, scheduling replies and follow-ups to an assistant you supervise.
- [The Smart Calendar Playbook](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/smart-calendar) ($29 CAD): Make your calendar protect your time instead of handing it out.
- [Admin on Autopilot](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/admin-autopilot) ($49 CAD): Automate intake, quotes, invoices and follow-ups without losing the personal touch.
- [The Software Overhead Audit](https://kestrelmodern.ca/guides/software-overhead-audit) ($29 CAD): Cut the subscriptions, duplicate tools and manual glue your team pays for every month.