AI System Install
One system, built into your business and running before we finish. Not a course. Not a subscription. On your machine, in your accounts, yours to keep.
45 minutes, no charge. You leave knowing what you would build and whether it is worth it. If it is not, I will say so.
Not ready for a call? Register for a free AI Myth webinar instead. Six talks, one every two weeks.
If any of this sounds familiar
You are already paying for AI. You use it most days. It answers questions, it writes a bit, and then you go back to doing the work by hand, because nothing you set up ever quite becomes part of how the business runs.
So the same job gets done from scratch every week. You re-explain your business every time you open a new chat. The follow up you meant to do is still not done. And somewhere in the back of your mind is the thought that other people have figured this out and you have not.
You have not. Nobody showed you. There is a difference between using a tool and installing it, and no one sells the second one.
And the arithmetic does not improve on its own. Another year is fifty-two more weeks of the same job done from scratch, and the same follow up you meant to send. The people you compete with are being sold the same tools you are. Some of them will stop reading about it and install it.
I didn't realize what AI can do for me and my business. How you took us through it step by step, you were patient, you walked us through it, answered all our questions. I thought it was worth its weight in gold.Stephen GreggOwner, Active Webinar Systems
Who I am
I help small business founders see what they have actually built, and work out how to grow it without losing themselves in it.
Thirteen years inside businesses across three continents. Three engineering degrees. Trained personally by Michael E. Gerber, who wrote The E-Myth.
How this is different
Most people will try to sell you an AI tool, or tell you the problems disappear once the back end is automated. That does not happen until you have clarity about your business, your customer, and the way you talk about both.
So this starts with the business. What systems you already have, what each one is for, and what it is all trying to become. Only then does the question of where AI belongs get asked. Most AI work skips that part and automates whatever is loudest.
AI supports the person doing the work. It does not replace them. The artist stays at the easel and the chef stays in the kitchen. What gets built goes around the craft, never through it.
If you already have a team, the point is not a smaller one. It is the same people carrying several times what they carry now, because the parts that never needed a human stopped needing one.
This is not one tool connected to another until something moves. It is AI working inside your own environment, set up around how your business actually runs.
It runs on your machine, in your account, on your data. Nothing here is rented from us and nothing stops working if we stop talking. You are not buying access to a black box.
What we build
That is the whole test. If a human still has to start it, it is not finished. If it does two unrelated things, it is two systems. Every business has three or four worth building, and you already know which one is yours, because it is the thing you dread.
Three that come up most often, each one built and running in somebody's business right now.
Yesterday's conversations turned into notes on your own form, in your voice. Internal calls skipped.
Your deliverable, in your template, from your own calls. You do the final pass, not the whole thing.
A short list of who to chase, ready before you start work, from calls nobody had to file by hand.
Bring the thing you dread. If it repeats, has a beginning and an end, and lives on your computer, it can be built.
What a Sprint looks like
Nobody buys before we have spoken. The call is free, and its job is to find the one system worth building. By the end of it I know enough to have most of the groundwork done before your day even starts.
Connecting your tools to AI is free and takes minutes, and I do that with you on the call at no charge. Building the system that runs on top of it is the paid work. So a conversation stays a conversation.
45 minutes, no charge. We look at how you work now, where the time goes, and which job keeps coming back. You leave knowing what you would build and whether it is worth it.
You pick the date and I prepare against what you told me on the call. The day starts with the work already scoped instead of with a blank page.
Built remotely, onto your machine, in your accounts, using the AI you already pay for. You are there throughout, and the last stretch you drive while I sit on my hands.
What you get
The last one is the point. You are not buying a thing that gets built. You are buying the way of seeing that lets you build the next one without me.
Three months from now
You open the laptop and yesterday's calls are already written up, on your own form, in your voice. The follow up list is waiting, and it is short. The job that used to cost you a morning has already happened.
You are not managing the system. You are working, and the thing you dread is not on the list any more.
That is the point of it. Not more hours in the day. Fewer things in the day that never needed you.
Three ways to do it
What separates these is how many working systems get installed. Not how often we speak.
We build the system your business is missing, together, and you run it after. Three follow up sessions of about half an hour each come with it, to fine tune it and answer what comes up once you are living with it.
This is where most people start.
Rather than one day, we keep going. A working system installed every month, each one built on what is already there.
Usually that is about two sessions a month, an hour each, plus my build time in between.
The same work at double the distance, for a business that wants the whole thing built out sooner rather than one piece at a time.
You are buying systems, not meetings. Which one fits, and what it costs, is what the call is for.
Before you spend anything
Proof
It's helping me get to know my clients better and what they're trying to say. I can pick up what they're struggling with and tell my business partner. This is the clarity they need. This is where we need to focus.Melly YFounder, Wealth Builders
Alan has a rare ability to see how all the parts of a business connect and make it understandable to everyone in the room.Roberto Battistoni, MBASmall business founder and CFO
Before you book
Questions people ask
We build one working system inside your business, with you present throughout. It runs on your own machine and in your own accounts. Beforehand you send working material and answer a short set of questions, so the day starts against a named system rather than a blank page.
That is what the call is for. There are three ways to do this and which one fits you depends on things neither of us knows yet, so quoting before we have spoken would be a guess.
Both, and we say so. It is 45 minutes at no charge and you leave with specific things to do differently, whether or not we work together. It is also where we decide whether working together makes sense. Every free consultation is partly a sales conversation. We would rather tell you than let you assume it.
Almost never. Most businesses already pay for ChatGPT or Claude and use a fraction of it. The work is installing what you have properly. Depending on how heavily you use what we build, your existing plan may need a higher tier. That is your subscription and your call, and you will be shown how to read your own usage.
Most people who do this are not. You are in the room so you understand why it works, not so you can write code. The part you learn is the way of seeing, which is what lets you build the next one without me.
No, and it is not built to. The systems go around the people doing the work rather than through them. If you have a team, the point is the same people carrying more, not fewer people on the payroll.
No. Connecting your tools to AI is free and takes minutes, and I do it with you on the call at no charge. Building the system that runs on top of it is the paid work.
Register for a free AI Myth webinar instead, at theaimyth.com. Six talks, one every two weeks, on what AI does to a small business and what it does not. Nobody phones you afterwards.
Not ready to book a call?
The myth is that AI will run your business for you. It will not, and the businesses being sold that story are the ones wasting the most money on it. The series takes that apart, one piece at a time, and shows what AI does do for a small business once it is installed properly.
Six free talks, one every two weeks. Each one takes a single claim you have heard about AI and tests it against what actually happens in a real business. You can come to one or all six, in any order.
A call is a commitment. This is not. Register at theaimyth.com, come along, and nobody phones you afterwards.
Run with Chris Groote under The AI Myth.
The next step
45 minutes, no charge. We find the system worth building before you spend anything. It is also where we decide whether to work together, and I would rather say that than pretend otherwise.
Rather start further back? Register for a free AI Myth webinar at theaimyth.com and come to one before you book anything.
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