Buy yourself 20 hours a week before you hire a single person
AI Automation at $3,000 a month. One senior engineer, Claude and OpenAI wired into your real tools. One client cut 40 hours a month of manual document processing.
Who this is for
Pre-MVP founder doing email, lead follow-up, content drafts, and bookkeeping solo. Every hour spent on ops is an hour not spent on the product or the round.
The pain today
- I am the ops team, the product team, and the sales team.
- The obvious automations would save 20 hours a week if I knew how to wire them.
- Zapier and no-code tools break every time the workflow grows a limb.
- I cannot afford an ops hire, and one would not solve the problem anyway.
The outcome you get
- Three to five automations that return time in the first month.
- Integrations that use real APIs, not fragile browser scripts.
- A monthly retainer I can cancel the moment the value drops.
- A vendor-neutral engineer (I do not resell any AI product).
Three highest-ROI automations pre-launch
The first three automations I build for a pre-launch founder are almost always the same three. Inbox triage: Claude reads incoming email, labels it by intent (investor, user, noise), and drafts responses I review in bulk. Lead scoring: every new sign-up or demo request gets enriched, scored, and dropped into the right CRM stage automatically. Founder digest: a daily Slack or email brief pulls the important signals from CRM, analytics, and billing into one message. These three return about 10-15 hours a week for a solo founder.
OpenAI vs Claude picker
Pre-launch I pick the model per task, not per vendor. Claude for anything that needs to respect a long founder brief or a nuanced writing voice. GPT-4o for fast structured extraction and code. Embeddings from whichever is cheaper this quarter. I do not sell you a single-vendor story because AI pricing and capability change every month. The retainer covers model drift: if a task works better on a new model in six months, I re-wire it at no extra charge. That is the difference between a senior engineer on retainer and an agency proposal.
Keeping data in one place
The most expensive mistake pre-launch founders make with AI is scattering data across five tools that do not talk. I anchor everything to one system you already pay for (usually HubSpot, Airtable, or a simple Postgres database), and every automation reads and writes there. When the team grows, the data is already structured. When you replace a tool, nothing breaks. This is the hidden compound benefit: a year in, your data is worth more than your automations because it is clean and centralized.
Measuring time saved
Every automation I ship comes with a simple before/after time log. I ask the founder to track one representative week of the workflow before we start, then compare at 30 days. Most clients report 20-40 percent reduction in ops hours by month two, 50-70 percent by month four. One client cut 40 hours a month of manual document work. I measure because the retainer should justify itself every month, and if it does not, you cancel. 14-day money-back, cancel anytime.
Recent proof
A comparable engagement, delivered and documented.
A prompt library that works with every AI tool
A home for your best AI prompts. Save them once, then use them in Claude, Cursor, or any AI tool you work with. No more copy-paste.
Frequently asked questions
The questions prospects ask before they book.
- I am not launched yet. Is AI automation premature?
- No. Pre-launch is when your time is worth the most because it goes straight to product and distribution. Ops automation bought pre-launch compounds for years.
- Can I self-host the models for privacy?
- For pre-launch work, hosted Claude and OpenAI handle the privacy posture most founders need, with careful data handling. If a specific flow needs self-hosted (Llama, Mistral), I can wire that.
- What if my tools change?
- The retainer covers re-wiring. When you switch CRMs or email tools, I migrate the automations. That is the difference between a retainer and a one-off build.
- How fast can the first automation go live?
- One to two weeks for the first workflow. Week one is discovery and integration setup. Week two is build and rollout. The retainer starts paying back inside the first month for most founders.
- Do you resell AI tools or take vendor kickbacks?
- No. I am vendor-neutral. I pick the model and platform that fits the task, and I get paid only by you.
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