Built on a belief that
small businesses deserve better.
Intellectly exists to give small and medium-sized businesses the same operational edge that larger organizations take for granted — through AI systems that are practical, powerful, and built around how real businesses actually work.
Empower businesses to be the best at what they do.
Small and medium-sized businesses are the backbone of every local economy — and most of them are running on systems that weren't built to scale. They're talented, driven, and deeply good at what they do. What they often lack isn't skill or work ethic. It's infrastructure.
Intellectly's mission is to close that gap. By deploying AI-powered systems that handle the operational side of growth — lead capture, follow-up, communication, pipeline — we free business owners and their teams to focus on the work they're actually great at.
AI as a lever, not a novelty
Every system we build uses AI to solve a real operational problem — not to impress anyone with the technology.
Built for real workflows
Systems are configured around how a business actually operates, not how a software template assumes it does.
Outcomes over features
We measure success by what changes for the client — more leads captured, faster follow-up, less chaos — not by what the platform can technically do.
Community first
Intellectly is rooted in northwest Ohio and invested in the businesses and organizations that make the region thrive.
From a problem nobody
had solved yet.
Intellectly didn't start as an agency. It started as a question: why doesn't a good AI chatbot exist for a small business website?
A chatbot that actually worked
Patrick Soals was running SoulTec Solutions, a northwest Ohio IT provider, when he decided to add an AI chatbot to the business website. He tried every canned solution on the market. None of them were good enough — they were generic, rigid, and did little more than route visitors to a contact form.
If the tools didn't exist, he'd build one himself.
Falling in love with AI
What started as a practical fix became something more. Building that first chatbot opened up a deeper curiosity about what AI could actually do — not in a theoretical sense, but in the messy, specific, real-world context of a small business trying to serve its clients better.
The more Patrick worked with AI, the more clearly he saw the gap between what the technology was capable of and what most small businesses had access to. That gap became the business.
The product that started it all
The first product out of that work was Intellectly Studio — a platform that lets any business owner build, train, and deploy their own AI chatbot without writing a line of code. It was the tool Patrick wished had existed when he was looking for one.
Studio is still available today, including a white label option for entrepreneurs who want to build their own AI agency on top of the same platform.
A full AI systems agency
From that single chatbot, Intellectly has grown into a complete AI systems integration agency — building the infrastructure small and medium-sized businesses need to capture more leads, follow up faster, and grow without adding operational overhead.
The mission hasn't changed. The tools have just gotten much better.
Patrick Soals
Patrick is a tech-savvy entrepreneur with a genuine passion for using AI to help businesses operate at their best. He has a hand in every Intellectly project and product — from designing and training the AI agents that power client systems to ensuring every build reflects the real needs of the business it serves.
Before founding Intellectly, Patrick ran SoulTec Solutions, a northwest Ohio IT provider. That experience gave him firsthand insight into the operational challenges small businesses face — and a clear sense of where the right technology, applied thoughtfully, makes the biggest difference.
Patrick is an active member of the northwest Ohio BNI community and is committed to helping local businesses grow through better systems, better tools, and better access to technology that actually works.
Rooted in northwest Ohio.
Invested in its people.
Intellectly isn't a remote operation. It's a northwest Ohio business — embedded in the community it serves, connected to the organizations and people that make the region what it is.
Beyond building systems for clients, the Intellectly team is an active participant in the local business community through BNI, where building genuine relationships with other local business owners is as important as the work itself.
Intellectly is also proud to support several local nonprofits whose missions align with the belief that communities thrive when their people and their arts are invested in.
BNI — Northwest Ohio
An active member of the local BNI chapter, building referral relationships with other northwest Ohio business owners and professionals.
bninwo.comButterflies 15
Supporting the mission of Butterflies 15 and the important work they do for the community.
butterflies15.orgTFAA — The Tiffin Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts
Supporting the arts in Tiffin, Ohio and the foundation's mission to make the arts accessible and vibrant in the region.
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