AI for Business Owners
AI for Business Owners gives a typical owner-operator around 10 hours a week back and six weeks' warning before cash gets tight, because you start each day with one short briefing and every decision waiting on you sits in one list with the facts attached.
Free · 30 minutes · Yours to keep
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Stop paying for things nobody uses.
Sound familiar?
It's all up onthe office wall.
The same four headaches, pinned up every week and never quite sorted.
Everything comes back to you
Staff wait on your answer about a discount, a hire, a supplier, a refund. The questions arrive by text, by email and in the yard, and the ones you miss sit there until someone asks again.
Flying blind until month end
You know roughly how the month is going. The real figures come from the bookkeeper three weeks after the month ends, which is too late to do anything about them.
Cash surprises
A big customer pays late, the VAT bill and the van lease land in the same week, and you find out when the bank balance is lower than you expected.
Working in it, never on it
Evenings go on quotes, emails and paperwork. The work that would grow the business (pricing, hiring, the conversation with the bank) keeps getting pushed to next week.
The automations
46 automations we buildfor Business Owners.
Click any one to read exactly how it works: the steps, the software it runs in, and where you sign off. There's enough on each page to build it yourself, or we build it with you.
And 43 more, biggest saving first
- Morning briefing4 hrs a week
- Shift output and yield reports4 hrs a week
- Local business outreach4 hrs a week
- Invoicing and overdue invoice chasing4 hrs a week
- Decisions waiting queue3 hrs a week
- Calendar protection3 hrs a week
- Development site pipeline3 hrs a week
- Daily trading summary3 hrs a week
- Emails into tasks3 hrs a week
- Weekly pipeline review and forecast3 hrs a week
- Check-ins for regular accounts3 hrs a week
- Weekly numbers report3 hrs a week
- Meeting notes to actions3 hrs a week
- Daily sales and stock digest2.5 hrs a week
- Weekly KPI digest2 hrs a week
- Cash-flow early warnings2 hrs a week
- Call prep and contact history2 hrs a week
- Team meeting agendas2 hrs a week
- Weekly updates from your managers2 hrs a week
- Meeting and appointment scheduling2 hrs a week
- Team chat catch-up2 hrs a week
- Answers from old emails2 hrs a week
- Voice notes to tasks and reminders2 hrs a week
- Weekly customer service report2 hrs a week
- Local ad reporting2 hrs a week
- Monthly website search check2 hrs a week
- Cash-flow forecast and daily cash note2 hrs a week
- Budget versus actual tracking2 hrs a week
- SOP upkeep2 hrs a week
- Compliance and renewal reminders2 hrs a week
- Capacity and overtime view2 hrs a week
- Fake invoice and unusual payment alerts1 hr a week
- Weekly team update1 hr a week
- Contract and subscription renewals1 hr a week
- Hiring pipeline view3 hrs a week while hiring
- Bank and lender reporting packs4 hrs a month
- Monthly customer feedback summary3 hrs a month
- Lead source report3 hrs a month
- Competitor watch2 hrs a month
- Month-end pack4 hrs a month
- Interview notes and scorecards2 hrs per hire
- Monthly staff report3 hrs a month
- Supplier terms and contract checks1 hr per contract
Hours back are typical, not promised. Yours get worked out on the call.
What it's worth
$29,900
a year back in the business, typically
13 hours a weekoff your desk.
In a typical week these jobs take 18 hours. Your elves take 13 of them. Here's the sum, shown in full, at a modest $50 an hour.
- Checking bank, jobs and inbox to see where things stand4$9,200
- Answering staff questions and approvals3$6,900
- Pulling numbers together2.5$5,750
- Bank, lender or partner reporting1.5$3,450
- Chasing replies and follow-ups you owe2$4,600
13 hours back a week × 46 working weeks × $50 an hour
- 6 wks
- of cash seen ahead, every Monday
- Before 7am
- you know where the business stands
- 1 list
- of decisions waiting on you, not five inboxes
Typical figures, not a promise. Your free live build gives you your own.
You sign off
Supervised first.Hands-off only where you say.
Your elves draft, sort, chase and remind. Anything that can't be undone, or that speaks for the business, waits for your OK.
- 01
The first few weeks
Supervised
Every draft waits for your OK before it goes anywhere.
- 02
Once you trust it
Routine ones go out
Only the kinds you pick go out on their own. The rest still wait.
- 03
From then on
Check-ups
We look after your elves and adjust them as the business changes.
At every stage
It won't be perfect. That's why a person sees anything that matters.
Portfolio and client data collection
An analyst or partner checks flagged figures against the source before anything goes into a board pack or investor update.
Inbox triage and draft replies
Drafts wait for a person to send them.
Your software
Keep the software you pay for.Your elves work inside it.
Every job on this page runs inside software you already use. Your team keeps working the way it does now.
The number on each is how many of the 46 jobs on this page run in it.
Using something else? We build into that instead. See all the software we work with.
Your business
- 17QuickBooks
- 15Xero
- 39Gmail
- 25Outlook
- 8Google Calendar
- 31Google Sheets
- 13Jobber
- 9WhatsApp
How it starts
See it working before you pay a cent.
It starts with a free 30-minute call. We build one real thing with you, on your own work, so you see exactly what this does. If there's more worth doing, you get a plan and a price in writing.
01 · 30 minutes
Free live build
Bring one job, say morning briefing. We build it with you on the call. It's yours, whatever you decide.
02 · In writing
Your plan
What we'd build next, the hours it should save each week and the price, in writing.
03 · Built for you
We build it
Around how your business already works, inside your software. You sign off before anything goes live.
04 · Your call
Hand over or keep improving
Take it over with video guides for everything, or keep us on monthly to improve it and build what's next.
- How much does AI for a business owner cost, and how long does it take?
- The price is in a written proposal you get within 48 hours of the free live build. A first piece is usually live in one to two weeks and runs supervised until you trust it.
Free, 30 minutes, and what we build is yours.
Already know what you need? Ask about a one-off build or a retainer.
Related pages
Same jobs,built for your industry.
Each page shows how we build these jobs for one kind of business.
FAQ
What owners ask us first.
Something we haven't covered? Ask it on the call.
I'm not technical at all. Will I be able to use AI in my business?
Yes. Non-technical business owners are exactly who this is built for. You read an email or a text and reply the way you normally would. We set everything up, and the handover pack explains it in plain English, including who to ring if something stops working.
Does the AI get access to my bank account?
Read-only access at most. The morning briefing and cash forecast read balances and transactions through your accounting software or a read-only bank feed. They can't move money, pay anyone or change anything in your accounts, and you can switch off access yourself at any time.
Will AI make business decisions for me?
No. The AI gathers the facts, lays out the options and puts each decision in front of you. You decide. The only things it does on its own are things you've told it to, like filing a report.
My bookkeeper already sends me reports. Do I still need this?
Yes, because it fills the gap between your bookkeeper's reports. Month-end accounts stay your bookkeeper's job. This gives you a daily and weekly view in between, so you're not waiting three weeks to find out how last month went.
Will my staff feel watched?
Usually not. The owner's briefing reads the systems the business already runs on, like the job board and the books, not anyone's personal messages. Most teams like it, because they get answers out of you faster.
How much does AI for a business owner cost, and how long does it take?
The price is in a written proposal you get within 48 hours of the free live build. A first piece is usually live in one to two weeks and runs supervised until you trust it.
Next step
Take one job off your desk this week.
Every week you wait is another week of the same jobs done by hand. Book a free 30-minute live build and leave with your first elf working.