AI consulting for business owners · $3,500 / month

One human. Armed with AI. Aimed at your overhead.

I point frontier AI at your books, payroll, vendors, ad spend and phone lines. I find the fraud, the fat and the wasted labor. Then I build the agents that remove it for good. No team of juniors. No slide decks. Just the one person who actually knows how to do this.

Flat monthly fee · Month to month · You talk to me, not an account rep

$3,500a month, flat. No hourly meter.
30 daysto your first ranked findings report.
1 personon your account. The one you hired.
0long-term contracts. Earned monthly.
The thesis

AI isn't the advantage. Knowing what to do with it is.

Everyone has the same models now. Your competitors, your vendors and your nephew all have a chatbot. Almost none of them can turn it into a lower payroll line, a caught thief or a phone that never goes unanswered.

The scarce thing is a person who knows exactly what these systems can do this month, who has read a P&L from the owner's chair, and who has the nerve to cut what the numbers say to cut.

That's the whole offer. Not software you have to learn. Not a firm that bills you to study the problem. One operator who shows up with the most powerful tools on earth, opens your data, and tells you in dollars where your business is bleeding.

Then fixes it.

Your options

Four ways to "do AI." Only one of them cuts anything.

A consulting firm

Who does the work
Junior staff, under a partner you met once.
First result
A discovery phase. Then a deck.
Cost
Project fees most small businesses can't justify.
You end up with
Recommendations someone else has to carry out.

AI software

Who does the work
You and your team, after onboarding.
First result
Whenever someone finds time to learn it.
Cost
Per seat, per month, forever.
You end up with
Another login. It can't tell you what to cut.

A new hire

Who does the work
One person learning AI and your business at once.
First result
Months, if the hire works out.
Cost
Salary, benefits and your time managing them.
You end up with
More overhead, aimed at reducing overhead.

Overhead Zero

Who does the work
Me. The person you spoke with.
First result
A ranked findings report in 30 days.
Cost
$3,500 a month. Less than one junior salary.
You end up with
Leaks closed and automations running in your business.
What I find

Fraud. Fat. Friction. In that order.

A person can spot-check a few hundred transactions. AI reads every invoice, every timesheet, every call and every ad dollar from the last twelve months, then cross-checks them against each other. I read what it flags and bring you the ones that hold up.

01 / MONEY BEING TAKEN

Fraud

The things nobody on your payroll is going to bring to you.

  • Vendor invoices paid twice, or paid to vendors that don't check out
  • Overtime and hours that don't match GPS, job records or door logs
  • Refunds, discounts and voids clustered around one employee
  • Jobs done on your trucks and your time that never reached the system
  • Materials and inventory that left the building and never got billed
  • Company card spend split to stay under approval limits
02 / MONEY BEING WASTED

Fat

Legal, quiet and renewing automatically every month.

  • Software seats nobody has logged into in ninety days
  • Lead sellers billing you for junk, duplicates and out-of-area calls
  • Supplier prices that crept past what your contract says
  • Ad budget feeding keywords and zip codes that never book
  • Insurance, telecom, fleet and card processing nobody has rebid in years
  • Roles that exist to copy data from one screen to another
03 / MONEY NEVER COLLECTED

Friction

Revenue you already paid to generate, then let walk away.

  • Calls that rang out, went to voicemail or were handled badly
  • Estimates sent once and never followed up
  • Invoices aging because nobody owns collections
  • Reports rebuilt by hand every week instead of generated
  • Decisions waiting on you because only you have the context
  • Paper, email and data entry eating your best people's hours
What I build

Finding it is half the job. Then I make sure it can't come back.

Every month I ship working AI agents into your business. Not prototypes and not demos. They run on a schedule, do real work, and report to you.

AGENT 01

Phones that never miss

AI answers every call day and night, qualifies it, books it and hands off the ones that need a human.

replaces: voicemail after-hours service
AGENT 02

Books that audit themselves

Every invoice, payroll run and card statement is checked against the rules as it lands. Exceptions hit your phone the same day.

replaces: year-end surprises
AGENT 03

Ad spend watchdog

Daily review of every campaign against booked revenue. Waste gets flagged before the month is spent, not after.

replaces: agency reports guessing
AGENT 04

Lead-credit recovery

Bad leads are identified, documented and disputed with the seller automatically. Money you were owed comes back.

replaces: hours of disputes
AGENT 05

The owner's daily brief

One message each morning: yesterday's numbers, what's off, what needs your decision. Built from your systems, not from someone's memory.

replaces: manual reports status meetings
AGENT 06

Back-office autopilot

Review replies, estimate follow-ups, collections nudges, mail sorting, data entry. The repetitive work goes to machines that don't forget.

replaces: busywork overtime
How it works

Thirty days from handshake to a list of leaks with dollar figures.

Days 1 to 3

Access

We sign an NDA. You grant read-only access to accounting, payroll, your CRM or job system, ad accounts and phones. Nothing gets changed.

Days 4 to 14

X-ray

AI reads the last twelve months end to end and cross-checks every system against the others. I chase down everything it flags.

By day 30

The findings

A ranked list. Each item has a dollar figure, the evidence behind it and a recommended action. You decide what happens next.

Every month after

Cut and build

We close the biggest leaks first. I ship automations, re-run the audit on fresh data and move down the list.

NJ
Nick JohnsonFounder and the only consultant
Before
Data science manager at a Fortune 500 fintech
Now
Owner-operator of a multi-trade home services company with trucks, technicians, payroll and a real P&L
Daily
Runs that company on AI agents, every day
Based
Central Ohio. Working with owners anywhere.
Who you're hiring

A human who knows AI like no one you've met.

I managed data science at a Fortune 500 fintech, a company built on financial data at enormous scale. Then I left to run a service business. Trucks, technicians, dispatch, payroll, ad budgets, the works.

So I know both sides. I know what the technology can really do, and I know what it feels like to sign the checks.

I run my own company on AI every day. Agents answer my phones, audit my ad spend, dispute bad leads, reply to reviews, sort my mail and brief me each morning. Everything I'll build for you, I've already put to work on my own P&L.

I'm not selling theory. I do this to my own business first.

That's why this isn't an agency. When you hire me, you get me: the person who reads your data, makes the call and builds the fix. There is no bench of juniors and no handoff. I take on a small number of clients at a time because that's the only way the work stays this good.

Pricing

One price. It should pay for itself or you should fire me.

The engagement
$3,500 / month

Flat. No hourly billing, no setup fee, no long-term contract.

  • Full AI audit of your financials, payroll, vendors, ad spend and calls
  • Ranked findings report in the first 30 days, refreshed monthly
  • New AI agents and automations built and shipped every month
  • Direct line to me. No account managers.
  • Everything I build stays yours if we part ways
Start with a call →

Third-party software and AI usage are billed at cost with no markup.

Do the math on your own numbers

What would I have to find?

Move the sliders. These are your assumptions, not my promises.

Break-even2.9%
Found per month$6,000
Return on fee1.7×
Net per year$30,000
Straight talk

What I won't tell you.

I won't promise a number before I've seen your data.

Anyone who quotes you savings on a sales call is guessing. I'll tell you what I found after I've looked, with the evidence attached.

I won't call something fraud that isn't.

I bring you anomalies and proof. I'm not a CPA, an attorney or a licensed fraud examiner. What happens next is a call for you and your advisors, and I'll help you brief them.

I won't decide who works for you.

I eliminate work. Sometimes that changes what a role looks like. I'll show you the math plainly; the people decisions are always yours.

Questions owners ask

Before you book the call.

Is my data safe with you?

We sign an NDA before you share anything. I ask for read-only access wherever a system allows it, use the minimum access each job needs, and work in business-grade AI tools that don't train on your data. When we part ways, access is removed and your data is deleted on request.

What size business is this for?

Owner-led companies with real operations: employees, vendors, ad spend and software subscriptions. If your monthly overhead is a few multiples of my fee or more, there is almost always enough to find. If I don't think I can pay for myself, I'll tell you on the first call.

I'm not in home services. Does this still work?

Yes. Payroll, vendors, subscriptions, marketing and phones look much the same across industries. The methods are data science, not trade knowledge. I've lived the service business, which helps there, but the audit works anywhere money moves through software.

What do you need from me and my team?

System access in week one and about an hour of your time each week. I don't need your staff to learn anything new, and I don't run workshops.

What happens if you find an employee stealing?

You hear it from me privately, with the records that support it. I don't confront anyone and I don't draw legal conclusions. You take it to your attorney or accountant, and I'll package the evidence for them.

Which AI tools do you use?

Whatever is strongest for the job this month. I work across the leading models and automation platforms and I'm not a reseller for any of them, so nothing I recommend earns me a commission.

How do I cancel?

Tell me. It's month to month. Everything I've built keeps running and stays yours.

Start here

Let's find out what your business is losing.

A 20-minute call. You tell me how the business runs and where you suspect the leaks are. I tell you straight whether I can pay for myself.

  1. Send the form. It reaches me directly.
  2. I reply within one business day to set a time.
  3. If it's a fit, we sign an NDA and the audit begins.

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