Clockworks.

The person behind the machine

Hi, I’m Parker.

I live in Maple Grove with my wife Melissa and our two kids. By day I’ve spent over a decade running technical operations and account teams for a national smart-home security company — the kind of job where things have to work at 2am, for real customers, or somebody’s phone rings.

A few years ago I started building AI systems for my own life — assistants that answer, schedulers that schedule, paperwork that files itself. It got a little out of hand, in the best way. More than thirty of them run my household and side projects today.

Then I watched the owners around me — the people who fix our sinks and furnaces and yards — quoting jobs at their kitchen tables at 9pm, losing weekend calls to a full voicemail box. The gap was obvious: this technology is ready for the trades, but the people selling it are agencies with sales scripts, or faceless apps from three time zones away.

MN Clockworks is my answer: one local person who builds the machine, shows you the price, and answers his own phone. The name is the promise — a good system should be like a good clock. You don’t think about it. It just keeps your time.

Faith and family first here — which is exactly why I build things that give evenings back. I want your Tuesday dinner table to get you back, too.

Parker Swanson

PARKER SWANSON

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How I do business

Four things I won’t bend on.

Prices in print

Every number I charge is on this website. If a price ever feels mysterious, ask me to explain it until it doesn't.

You own everything

Accounts, numbers, logic, documentation — in your name from day one. My favorite kind of client relationship is one you could leave but don't.

Small on purpose

I take a few clients at a time and do the work myself. You will never be handed to an account manager, because there isn't one.

No robots pretending

The systems answer fast and sound human because you approved the words — but the moment a conversation needs a person, it hands off to one. That's a feature, not an apology.

The next step

Let's talk about your week.

Coffee in Maple Grove, a visit to your shop, or a 30-minute call — whatever's easiest. Worst case, you leave with a free plan and a strong opinion about me.

30 minutes, no pitch. You leave with a written plan either way. And if I can’t find anything worth fixing, the coffee’s on me.