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For small businesses Q2 2026 · 2 of 5 engagement slots open · Next start: June 2026

Built on a small business. For small businesses.

We run a real estate team, an education platform, a media studio, and a technology firm. Four small operations sharing one playbook. The same operating system we built to run our own businesses is what we install for yours. Industry is mostly irrelevant. The pattern is what matters.

Buyer fit
Small & mid-size businesses
Industries served
Professional services, e-commerce, agencies, and seven more
Team size sweet spot
2 to 50 people, operator-led
·Problems
If this sounds familiar

Most small businesses are bleeding leverage.

i.

Inquiries come in faster than anyone can respond.

Quote requests, leads, customer questions, inbound interest. They land in five inboxes and three forms. Some get answered same day, some never get answered, none are tracked. You only know about the ones that complain when they're ignored.

ii.

Customer data lives in six different tools.

CRM has half the contacts. Email tool has different half. Spreadsheets fill the gaps. Invoicing system has its own version. Nothing matches. Pulling a report means an hour of manual cross-referencing.

iii.

Operational work is still manual.

You know it could be automated. You meant to set it up last quarter. The Zaps and templates are 60% built. Someone on the team owns each one but they get rebuilt every time the platform changes. The team spends hours on work that should run itself.

iv.

Team knowledge lives in your head, not the system.

New hires ask the same five questions every week. Standard operating procedures exist in Google Docs nobody reads. Onboarding is improvised, every time. Three months in, new team members still need you for things the system should answer.

v.

You know AI should be doing this. You just have not figured out how.

The headlines are everywhere. Your competitors are saying things on LinkedIn. The actual implementation in your business is a ChatGPT tab open in Chrome that nobody else uses. The gap between "should" and "does" is wider than you want to admit.

·Services
For small businesses

The work, plainly.

Same services as the rest of the firm, framed for general SMB context. Productized installs at the top. Scoped projects in the middle. Custom builds where off-the-shelf has hit its ceiling.

CRM installation

Your CRM rebuilt around the actual sales or customer process. Pipeline stages, smart filters, response-time enforcement, lead and inquiry routing, templates for the messages your team should already be sending. End-to-end QA with real test data.

$5,000Fixed price · ~16 hrs

Pipeline / project tracker installation

Activity standards, weekly cadence, project or sales tracking, team accountability flow. Whatever platform fits your business (Sisu, Pipedrive, monday.com, ClickUp, Asana, HubSpot Sales), set up the way disciplined teams actually use it.

$5,000Fixed price · ~16 hrs

Customer portal / community installation

Customer education, internal training, recruiting community, or coaching platform. Onboarding flow, course or content buildout, accountability engine, moderation. Launch-ready in two weeks.

$5,000Fixed price · ~16 hrs

Full operations stack rollout

CRM, project tracker, team accountability, automation layer, training community, integrations. The whole operating layer rebuilt and tied together. For SMBs ready to consolidate from 6+ platforms to a working stack.

$12K – $24KScoped project

Agentic intelligence layer

Claude-powered brand voice, agentic follow-up workflows, voice memo transcription, intent scoring on inbound, weekly accountability summaries. Built on top of your existing or installed stack. Where most SMBs underuse AI by a factor of 10.

$9K – $30KScoped project

Custom platform build

When the off-the-shelf options have hit their ceiling. Internal tools, customer-facing platforms, or full custom software with agentic features built in from day one. Pattern reference: Chrysalis, the CRM we run our own team on.

$45K – $120K+Project
·Why us
For small businesses specifically

Why us, for you.

Most ops and AI agencies pitching SMBs have never run a small business. They have only consulted on one. We have run several. The firm exists because we kept running into the same operating problems across all of them and built the systems to fix it.

Real estate, education, media, and technology. Four operations sharing one playbook. Different industries, same pattern. The pain points on this page are the same pain points we have lived through ourselves, just translated into the language of your business. You will not be explaining your operating reality to us from scratch. We will be recognizing it.

Small business fit call

Fifteen minutes with an operator who has run one.

Free, 15 to 30 minutes, with the founder. Bring your stack, your bottlenecks, your headcount. We confirm fit and recommend the next move.

Book the free fit call