The company, Detroit

The work should not stop when one person does.

That is what we get called in to fix, so we built this company that way first. The standards are written down, the systems are documented, and the workforce runs on them whether anybody is watching.

A Detroit company since 2016. Nothing important here lives only in somebody’s head, and most of the work happens wherever your business already is.

Where every job opens

What is your path worth?

That is the first question. The second one is harder. Do you know what your path actually is?

Answer it about your own week

Pick the one that stalls the week that person is out.

The phone

A call that goes to voicemail is a call to the next company on the list.

Nobody leaves a message any more. Every ring that gets missed at lunch, after five, or while your one good person is on the other line is money that went somewhere else, and you never find out it happened.

Quotes and estimates

One person prices the work, so their calendar decides how fast money comes in.

Everything waits on the desk that knows what a job should cost. What that person knows about pricing can be written down and handed to the whole team, and the quote goes out the same day it was asked for.

The person who knows everything

Ask what happens the week they are out.

If the honest answer is that things sit and wait, the business is running on one person’s memory. Memory can be captured while they are still here, which is a far cheaper week than the one that starts with a resignation letter.

The same questions, every day

Your team keeps asking a question that already has an answer.

Count how many times a week somebody gets interrupted for something the company already decided. You are paying twice for every one of those, once for the person who stopped and once for the person who asked.

Getting somebody new up to speed

New people learn your business by interrupting your best one.

Three months of a senior person answering the same beginner questions is the real cost of a hire, and nobody puts it on the offer letter. Write the business down once and day one starts with the same answers everybody else got.

Whichever one you picked is where the first conversation starts.

Bring us that one thing

What we stand on

Three sentences the whole company answers to.

Most companies hang three sentences like these on a wall. These three are the reason we have turned work down, including the times it cost us money.

Mission

What we do

We turn what your people know into a system the business owns.

What your best person knows stays in the building when they are not in it.

Vision

Where it goes

A world where no business loses what it knows when a person walks out the door.

A resignation letter stops being the day your company forgets how it does something.

Purpose

Why we exist

We exist so the business runs right when you are not in the room.

You should be able to take a week off and come back to the standard you left.

How we work

Intentional Experience.

We pay attention to the parts of a job nobody was ever assigned. What a customer thinks of your company gets settled in a dozen small places, and most of them were never anybody’s job.

Take an event

The run of show is the easy half. The experience starts the moment somebody decides they are coming, and it is settled long before anybody speaks from the front.

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    They commit

    Somebody decides they are coming. Everything between that yes and the day is already part of it.

  2. 02

    They park

    How far is the walk, is it lit, and does anybody out there know where to send them.

  3. 03

    The walk to the door

    Every step of it is telling them what kind of room they are about to walk into.

  4. 04

    The door opens

    The first thing they see settles how they feel before a word gets said to them.

  5. 05

    The desk

    The first thing they do. Handled and warm, or a line, a clipboard and a wait.

Your business runs that same walk all day, through employees, customers, partnerships, events and the community. Every one of those is a place where somebody makes up their mind about you, and nobody was ever assigned the parking lot. We go through yours the way we go through that one.

What that buys you

Your experience

You always know what happens next, who is holding it, and what it is costing while it waits. Nothing that matters lives in one head, including ours.

Your customer’s experience

Every place somebody touches your business gets handled the way you would handle it on your best day, at eleven at night and in the middle of your busiest week.

The craftsmanship

Built off what the audit found inside your business, written down, and yours outright. It keeps working after we step back, and that is the only test we count.

How we got here

One question, since 2016.

The habit of working out how a business actually runs came first and the AI came second. That order is why what you get back fits the way your place already works, on a Detroit shop floor or an office of four.

2016

Pathworth is founded

The name came from hearing the word "worth" at the end of a commercial, and wanting something that could travel with a business through whatever it became. The domain was already owned and priced out of reach. He built the company around it anyway.

2016 to 2020

Whatever a small business needed

Credit repair, consulting, digital marketing. Business formation, funding, websites. Years of sitting inside other people’s businesses, which is where the habit of working out how a place actually runs came from.

2021

Two divisions

Pathworth Consulting and Pathworth Solutions opened as two separate companies. One worked out what a business needed. The other built it.

2022

Building with AI, daily

November 2022, self taught, before any of this had a market. He moved the company over while the marketing clients were still being served, instead of dropping them and starting fresh.

2023

One company, and the first staff

The two divisions merged into Pathworth Consulting & Solutions, because clients were getting handed from one to the other and things were falling in the gap. The same year, a roster of eighteen AI staff got written down. The tools to build them did not exist yet, so each one was a job, a skill set and a bio, written by hand.

2023 to 2025

Twenty-three of them, one after another

Each one taught him something about what makes these hold up under real work. The training library runs to eighty-five documents now. The first one and the twenty-third one are not the same kind of thing, and everything he knows is in the gap between them.

Today

Twenty-nine on staff, and counting

Every major AI has been tested and the testing never stops. The workforce runs wherever the work is done best, and no one supplier gets to decide that for us.

The year after you buy it

The real question is whether it still works in year three.

Anybody can show you something that works on the day of the demo. The week that decides it is the one eighteen months later, when the person who set it up has moved on and nobody left in the building knows how it was wired. These three have already been through that week here, so we can tell you where yours will strain before you pay for it.

Harper

Answering the phone since 2024

The first one he ever built, and two years on it still picks up. A caller gets the same standard at nine in the morning, at lunch, and on the Saturday nobody is in the office.

ARTIE

Built 2024

Works in the room with him, live, on keynotes and training sessions with an audience watching. What holds up in front of a room will hold up on your worst week.

The estimator

Built 2023, still working

Prices commercial mechanical work, and on one job it came back at under half of what the budget had assumed. It researches construction work around Detroit as well now. Three years on it does more than it was built to do, which is the only kind of thing worth letting your business lean on.

The workforce

29 plus AI staff, and every one has a job.

Designed, built and trained in house, and working here since 2022. None of them call in sick, and none of them know one thing this company has not written down. That second part is the whole job.

We run this company on the same thing we build for you, which is how we know where it breaks and can say so before you buy one.

The largest division is social impact, because that is where we chose to point all of this first.

BuildMoneyPeopleRun the company

Social impact

We design, build and run programs for young adults, nonprofits, small businesses and founders.

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The business

The systems, the customers we are talking to, what we sell, and the software it all runs on.

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Brand and creative

The look, the sites, the video, the curriculum, the decks.

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Shared services

The work every department needs and nobody owns alone.

3

Specialists

Estimating, tax, and what a thing should actually cost.

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Notes and writing

Capturing what was said, and turning it into something readable.

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Operations

The roster, the standards, and the record of what changed.

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Who is answerable

Jermaine Peguese, President and CEO.

He designed and trained the workforce this company runs on, and he sets the standards it works to. That is the standard you are hiring.

One name on the standards and the same name on the outcome. If something we made does not hold, you already know whose desk it lands on, which is worth more than any guarantee written on a page like this one.

Reach us

Emailinfo@pathworthcs.comPhone(313) 631-9919Book a callOpen the calendar
Office
607 Shelby Street, Suite 700-776
Detroit, MI 48226

In their words

Best trainer, I learned so much and had fun! All-around patient, able to support learning on all levels, extremely knowledgeable in AI and small business marketing, and so much more.
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Jermaine Peguese gave excellent insight on how to make work more efficient and productive.
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Thirty-two five-star reviews, and counting

How it starts

A conversation, before anything else.

Every job opens the same way and it costs you nothing. An hour spent working out how your place actually runs, what it costs you on the weeks one person is out, and whether any of this is worth doing at all.

Standing in conversation with a client, both listening, mid-discussion.
The first conversation. Usually the most useful hour of the whole job.

The next step

Find out whether we are the right firm for it.

Bring us the part of your week that only moves when one person is at their desk. You get a straight read on what we would build for it, what it takes, and whether it is worth doing at all.

One call, no charge, and no obligation after it. If the honest answer is that you do not need us, that is the answer you get.