# Work × Whistle

> They demo. I ship. Work × Whistle is an AI consultancy for mid-sized businesses that want to use AI — and want to do it right. It is the solo practice of Drew Thomas, an Austin-based operator who builds production AI systems.

Work × Whistle is run by Drew Thomas, a hands-on operator (not a strategist) who has been using AI development tools in production since the early Copilot era. The practice helps mid-sized companies figure out what AI can genuinely do for them today, then ships the highest-leverage thing first — scoped tightly enough to actually finish.

## Ways to work together

- **No-Hype AI Assessment** — $1,000 fixed, 1 week. A focused engagement that cuts through the hype and tells you what's real, what's not, and where to start. Includes a 45-minute working strategy call, a prioritized build-ready plan document, and all of your questions answered.
- **Custom AI Builds** — $5,000 per week, 1–3 weeks on average. You already know what you want; Drew builds it. Agents and automations wired into your real tools, data pipelines and on-demand reporting, internal dashboards and workflow tooling. Scoped per project, fixed weekly rate, deliverables each week.

## Recent builds

- Marketing email, rebuilt — an expensive email marketing system replaced with an AI-assisted pipeline that writes, routes, and sends
- A podcast made with AI — full production pipeline, publishing, and an AI-cloned host voice. Case study: https://workandwhistle.co/work/podcast-production-pipeline/
- Investment intelligence dashboard — nightly AI evaluator and a chat interface that knows the holdings. Case study: https://workandwhistle.co/work/investment-intelligence-dashboard/
- Lead responder — inbound leads get a contextual, intelligent email reply in seconds
- An author, as a chatbot — RAG-powered chat over a writer's full catalog, answering in their voice with citations
- Daily video pipeline — automated color correction, rotoscoping, and information overlays

## Elsewhere

- Request Router — a self-service speed-to-lead app that answers inbound leads in seconds, from any form: https://requestrouter.com
- Yesterday's Weather — today's weather compared to yesterday's, in one friendly sentence. Privacy-first, on web and mobile: https://yesterdaysweather.com
- AI… Honestly — Drew's podcast about AI, itself AI-generated: written and produced by his pipeline, in a clone of his voice: https://aihonestly.workandwhistle.co

## Approach

- Real over theoretical: tells you what AI can and can't do today.
- Built, not pitched: advice comes from someone shipping production systems daily.
- One thing, then the next: not a roadmap of fifty initiatives — the single highest-leverage thing first.

## About Drew Thomas

- Founder and operator of Work × Whistle
- Based in Austin, TX
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewthomas
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/truedrew
- GitHub: https://github.com/drewbrolik

## Links

- Site: https://workandwhistle.co
- Contact: https://workandwhistle.co/#contact (AI reply in seconds, then a human follow-up)
- Email: drew@workandwhistle.com