@paulswaney3 Very interested in this. I run an independent sponsor - C9 Partners. We’ve done three deals. Just exited third co 7 weeks ago. Please share.
I replaced a $500K/year team with $1,100/month in AI.
23 agents. 5 departments. Everything automated.
4 businesses. 7 figures. Zero employees.
Here's the full operating system:
→ Engineering: Claude Code (47 Fortune 500 deployments this month)
→ Business Ops: @Accio_official (312 tasks automated, zero manual back-office)
→ Content: AI OS (3.1M impressions/month, zero keyboards touched)
→ Sales: AI SDR ($500K active pipeline, no agency)
→ Client Delivery: Agent Fleet (9 live Fortune 500 deployments, zero babysitting)
Business ops is the layer most solo operators never automate.
Supplier sourcing, vendor outreach, procurement, quote comparison — all running without me.
What makes this unfair:
→ $0 payroll vs $500K+ for a team doing the same work
→ 1,847 hours reclaimed this quarter
→ Every agent reports into one console
→ Scales to any volume without hiring
4 businesses. 23 agents. 1 operator.
I documented the entire setup. Every agent, every tool, every workflow, every dollar of infrastructure cost.
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I helped raise a company from $493K to $1.6M in valuation, spending 70 hours building a $35M AI operations system for them.
The founder was working 58 hours weekly before he came to me
But now is down to 25 hour weeks. ~zero time in delivery. ( Profit margin also increased from 22% to 35% too )
> The founder was personally involved in 83% (exact % btw) of revenue.
> 7 employees and most decisions still found their way escalating to him
> couldn't take a weekend off without his phone blowing up
we mapped every function in his business. what's actually keeping clients vs what's just keeping him busy.
69% of the operation was DRAG. reporting. project setup. invoice follow-ups. QA reviews. status calls. onboarding ran from memory every time. Scattered client data across multiple softwares.
so we stripped it all and here’s what we built to replace it:
> custom dashboard replaced him checking 6 tools every morning.
> AI agents took over reporting, proposals, and client updates.
> decision frameworks so the team stops asking him every question.
> QA system so he's not reviewing every deliverable.
> onboarding automated with material collection and client context immediately ingested Day 1.
The result:
> decrease his work load from 58 hours to 25 hour weeks. ~zero time in delivery.
> profit margin raised from 22% to 35%.
> valuation increase from $493K to $1.6M. (proprietary data set, owned software infrastructure, new revenue channel via system installation fees)
same clients, smaller team, same revenue. Now that his time is freed up , he’s taking on double the number of clients with this NEW AI architecture.
If you want me to do the same for you,
I’m giving away all of these for free: (today only)
1. How this $35M AI operations system works
2. Full Aerodynamics Audit — 75-question diagnostic that scores your business 0-100 on founder dependency, function maturity, systems infrastructure, revenue health, and AI readiness. Takes 60 minutes. You'll know your exact drag percentage down to the hour.
3. Drag Map — function-by-function breakdown showing which of your 10+ core business functions are load-bearing vs. drag, rated 1-5 on maturity. Most founders discover 60-85% of their hours are drag.
4. Financial Impact Report — what your drag costs you per month in dollars, what your valuation looks like with vs. without systems, and the margin unlock if you strip it.
5. Build Sequence — the exact order to systematize your operations so nothing breaks. Which function first, which stays human, what gets built in week 1 vs. week 2 and so on based on 30+ builds across 12 industries.
Comment "blueprint" to receive all 5 of these :)
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I spent years thinking I deserved a bigger cut. Then I became the owner. Nobody warns you about the years in the middle — when the outcome is uncertain and you have to push forward anyway.
Today I announced the sale of my Company. Here’s what I learned.
https://t.co/2Q94B8OcVA
@thejustinwelsh Just closing the sale of my business. I spent $405,000 on sell side legal counsel. Junior attorneys charging $450-600 per hour dropping balls left and right. I’m constantly astonished at how lackluster the staff at most of our over priced vendors are.
@ankurnagpal I agree, although I passed on SpaceX at $200Bn valuation because the sponsor promoting the secondaries was charging stupid promote. Would have (likely) crushed it regardless if that comes out at $1.5Tn w XAi.
THIS is the real story out of today's jobs report - Trump was handed an economy that was losing private sector jobs and adding gov't payrolls, but he successfully flipped the script, and one year later it's all private sector growth while cutting gov't jobs: