How much of your week you get back, and what it costs.

When you work alone, every hour spent on admin is an hour not spent on the work people pay you for, and there is nobody to hand it to. That is the whole problem, and it is worth being precise about.

Two questions set the price. How much of your week the work touches, and how much of the job AI actually does. Every price below is a range, and it becomes a single number in writing before anything starts.

For solo operators For small companies

Read across for how much of your week the work touches. Read down for how much of it AI does. Every filled square is a tier you can buy, and choosing one takes you to the detail below.

Automation tiers, by how much of your week the work touches and how much of it AI does
One taskTasksomething you repeat Your weekWeekseveral tasks joined up The whole practicePracticeeverything you run on What clients touchClientsthey use it themselves
AI assists youAssistsyou still do the work 1 One task off your plate $900 to $2,400

Nothing worth buying sits in this row past the first square. An assistant that only ever drafts, spread across your whole practice, still leaves you doing every step. It feels productive and changes nothing.
AI runs itRuns itnobody restarts it each time 2 Your week, running itself $2,400 to $7,200 3 The whole practice, connected $7,200 to $18,000
AI decides and actsDecidesinside limits you set 4 An agent that decides $18,000 to $42,000
AI is the productIs the productclients use it directly

This corner is where solo budgets go to die. Software built deep enough for clients to log into, aimed at one task you repeat, costs more than the task will ever cost you.

 5 Something you can sell $42,000 to $84,000

Hatched squares are not sold. Building software deep enough to be a product, to handle one repeated task, costs far more than the task ever did. Tap a number for the detail.

Not sure which square you are in?

Most people working alone pick the tier one step above what they are ready for, because the ambitious one is more fun to imagine. The audit exists so you do not have to guess.

Two weeks

The AI Opportunity Audit takes two weeks and costs $4,500. You get a written plan: where AI would pay off in how you work, roughly what each move costs, and the order to do them in.

For a business of one that is a real amount of money, so here is the honest version. If you already know which single task is eating your week, skip the audit and just have that one built. The audit earns its price when you have five candidates and no way to rank them.

A good chunk of any plan is about what not to build. Two bad ideas caught early pay for the audit, and you find out in two weeks rather than after you have paid for the wrong thing.

Five tiers.

Each one is a finished thing you can stop at, and each is priced as a range because scope varies. The range becomes a single number, in writing, before any work begins.

Five tiers

Bar length shows the relative size of each tier.

One task off your plate

Reach: one task you repeatDepth: AI assists you

$900 to $2,400
a few days

Take the single task that eats the most of your week and hand it to AI, inside the tools you already open every morning. Nothing about how you work changes. You just stop doing that one thing.

You getThe working automation, set up in your own tools, plus a short written guide so it survives the next time something around it changes.

Examples

  • A recorded client call comes back as a summary, a list of action items, and a follow-up email ready to send.
  • The weekly note to each client, assembled from your project notes instead of your memory.
  • Receipts photographed once, then categorised, filed and waiting for your accountant.

Your week, running itself

Reach: the shape of your weekDepth: AI runs it

$2,400 to $7,200
one to three weeks

Several of those tasks connect into something that runs without you starting it. Work arrives, moves and lands on its own, and you only touch the parts that genuinely need you to think.

You getThe process running live, a short guide, and a monthly check for the first three months while you learn to trust it.

Examples

  • Enquiry to qualified to proposal draft to follow-up, with nothing sitting in an inbox over a weekend.
  • A month of content drawn from your own material and what is moving in your field.
  • Every open deal chased on a sensible cadence, in your voice, until there is an answer.

The whole practice, connected

Reach: everything you run onDepth: AI runs it

$7,200 to $18,000
four to eight weeks

Your tools stop being islands. Everything you have ever written, quoted or delivered becomes something you can ask a question of, and the answer arrives with the document it came from attached.

You getThe connected system, running on accounts in your name, documented well enough that someone else could take it over.

Examples

  • Ask your own archive a question and get the answer with the source, instead of searching four apps.
  • Client records, email, documents, time and billing wired so a change in one updates the rest.
  • A client-facing assistant that answers routine questions from your own material.

An agent that decides

Reach: work that used to need youDepth: AI decides and acts

$18,000 to $42,000
ten to sixteen weeks

Software starts doing the work rather than moving it along. An agent drafts, checks itself against your rules, and stops at the gate you set. For one person this is the difference between a practice that scales and one that ends at your calendar.

You getThe agent running in production, the limits it works inside, the monitoring, and a way to see exactly what it did and why.

Examples

  • Intake through to a signed proposal, with your approval as the only manual step.
  • Your standard deliverable produced in first draft, so your day starts at editing.
  • Every decision logged with its reasoning, so you can see it going wrong before a client does.

Something you can sell

Reach: what your clients touchDepth: AI is the product

$42,000 to $84,000
four to seven months

The thing you are best at stops being a service you deliver by hand and becomes software your clients log into. This is the only tier that changes what your business is rather than how it runs.

You getA platform you own outright, on accounts in your name, built so it does not depend on you or on me.

Examples

  • Your method, turned into something clients use themselves between sessions.
  • Revenue that arrives whether or not you worked that week.
  • A business with a value that is not tied to your calendar.

After the build: keep me on a small monthly retainer or run it yourself. Both work, and for most solo clients running it yourself is the right answer.

What this actually looks like.

Sixty things I have built or would build, grouped by the part of your week they touch, each with what it costs on its own.

60 priced examples

The tier tells you how deep the work goes, not what it costs. The price beside each line is that line built on its own, so you can add up the ones you want rather than buying a package with things you do not need in it.

Personal workflow Marketing Lead generation Sales Operations Hiring and delegating

Personal workflow

The things that eat your week and produce nothing a client would pay for.

11 lines
$900 to $7,200
What it doesDepthPrice
  • Call notes to follow-upA recorded call comes back as a summary, action items, and a follow-up email ready to send. Tier 1$900 to $1,500
  • Voice note to finished documentTalk for five minutes on a walk and get back a structured written document. Tier 1$900 to $1,500
  • Spend watchFlags the subscriptions you pay for and have not opened in three months. Tier 1$900 to $1,500
  • Morning planCalendar, tasks and open threads collapsed into one honest list of what today can hold. Tier 1$1,200 to $1,800
  • Meeting prep briefBefore every call, one page on who you are meeting, what you last agreed, and what is still open. Tier 1$1,200 to $1,800
  • Weekly review packWhat moved, what slipped, and what will bite you on Monday if you keep ignoring it. Tier 1$1,200 to $1,800
  • Reading pile digestThe newsletters and reports you never open, cut down to the parts that touch your work. Tier 1$1,200 to $1,800
  • Receipts and expensesPhotograph it once and it is categorised, filed and waiting for your accountant. Tier 1$1,200 to $2,100
  • Inbox triage with drafted repliesMail sorted by what actually needs you, with the routine replies already written. Tier 1$1,500 to $2,400
  • Ask your own archiveEvery note, document and past project, searchable in plain language, answering with the source attached. Tier 2$3,600 to $6,000
  • An assistant that writes as youEverything you have written becomes the first draft of whatever you need to write next. Tier 2$4,800 to $7,200

Marketing

Staying visible without it taking the day you meant to spend on client work.

10 lines
$1,500 to $13,500
What it doesDepthPrice
  • One idea, five postsA single thought becomes posts sized and written for each place you publish. Tier 1$1,500 to $2,100
  • Newsletter first draftAssembled from what you published, read and shipped that month, in your own voice. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,400
  • Case study writerProject notes become a client-ready case study with the numbers pulled out and checked. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,700
  • Comment and message triageFlags the handful worth a personal reply and drafts the rest for a glance. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,400
  • Content calendar that fills itselfA month of topics drawn from your own material and what is moving in your field. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Brand voice checkAnything about to go out is held against how you actually write, before it embarrasses you. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Search brief generatorWhat to write about and how to structure it, built against what already ranks. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Repurposing engineOne long piece becomes clips, quotes, a thread and the newsletter, without you rereading it. Tier 2$3,000 to $4,500
  • Episode to full media kitA recording becomes show notes, clips, quotes, social posts and the newsletter. Tier 2$3,600 to $5,400
  • The whole marketing weekEvery line above running as one system on a weekly cycle you approve. Tier 3$9,000 to $13,500

Lead generation

Filling the top of the pipeline on the weeks you are too busy delivering to think about it.

10 lines
$1,800 to $13,500
What it doesDepthPrice
  • Enquiry qualifierEvery enquiry scored against what a good client looks like, and answered within a minute. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,400
  • Referral askerSpots the moment a client is happiest and drafts the ask you keep forgetting to send. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,400
  • Prospect research briefBefore you reach out, a page on the company, the person, and the angle worth using. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,700
  • Dormant lead reviverWorks the list that went quiet, with a real reason to reopen each one. Tier 1$2,100 to $3,000
  • Trigger watcherTells you the day a target company hires, raises, launches or says something you can use. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Website visitor to leadIdentifies the company behind a visit, enriches it, and tells you while it is still warm. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Speaking and podcast pitcherFinds the shows and events your buyers actually attend, and drafts the pitch. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Lookalike list builderFinds companies that resemble your best clients, with the right person named at each. Tier 2$3,000 to $4,500
  • First-touch draftsOutreach written from the prospect's own public material, not from a template. Tier 2$3,000 to $4,500
  • The whole pipelineResearch, list building, triggers and outreach running as one system. Tier 3$9,000 to $13,500

Sales

Turning interest into signed work without the follow-up depending on your mood.

10 lines
$1,200 to $36,000
What it doesDepthPrice
  • Pricing floor guardFlags anything you are about to quote below your own floor, before you send it. Tier 1$1,200 to $1,800
  • Objection libraryThe answers that actually closed before, ready when the same worry comes up again. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,700
  • Call to scope documentThe scoping call becomes a written scope with the assumptions listed where both sides can see them. Tier 1$2,100 to $3,000
  • Follow-up that does not stopChases every open deal on a sensible cadence, in your voice, until there is an answer. Tier 1$2,100 to $3,000
  • Proposal first draftBuilt from the intake form and the last proposals you actually won. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Contract assemblerAcceptance triggers the agreement, filled in and out for signature the same hour. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Onboarding on signatureWelcome email, kickoff document, calendar invites and folders all fire the moment they sign. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Win and loss learnerAsks why, records the answer, and tells you which pattern is costing you money. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Deal deskEvery open deal, its stage, what is at risk, and what you owe it this week. Tier 2$3,000 to $4,500
  • Intake to signed, end to endOne agent runs the whole cycle and stops at the approval gate you set. Tier 4$24,000 to $36,000

Operations

The admin that has to happen whether or not you have time for it.

9 lines
$1,200 to $18,000
What it doesDepthPrice
  • Deadline radarContracts, insurance, filings, renewals and domains, surfaced before they bite. Tier 1$1,200 to $1,800
  • Invoice chaserPolite, then firm, then escalating, and it stops the moment they pay. Tier 1$1,500 to $2,100
  • Client status updatesEvery client gets their weekly note, assembled from your notes rather than your memory. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,700
  • Time to invoiceTracked hours become a drafted invoice with a line-item story a client can follow. Tier 1$2,100 to $3,000
  • Document intakeAnything a client sends is named, filed, summarised and indexed the minute it lands. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Project health checkTells you which project is quietly going sideways while you are looking at another one. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Deliverable first passYour standard deliverable, drafted, so your day starts at editing rather than at a blank page. Tier 2$3,600 to $5,400
  • A client-facing assistantAnswers your clients' routine questions from your own material, with the source shown. Tier 3$6,000 to $9,600
  • The whole back officeIntake, filing, invoicing, chasing and reporting running as one system. Tier 3$12,000 to $18,000

Hiring and delegating

Getting work off your plate and onto someone else's without it coming back worse.

10 lines
$1,200 to $12,000
What it doesDepthPrice
  • Role brief writerTurns "I need help with this" into a real brief and a job post worth answering. Tier 1$1,200 to $1,800
  • Paid trial designerBuilds a small real task and the scoring guide to judge it fairly. Tier 1$1,500 to $2,100
  • Interview kitQuestions built from the brief, and what a good answer to each one sounds like. Tier 1$1,500 to $2,100
  • Application screenerScores applicants against what the role actually needs, not against keywords. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,700
  • Delegation finderReads a month of your work and tells you what to hand off first and what to keep. Tier 1$1,800 to $2,700
  • Work sample reviewA first read on submitted work, with the things worth probing in the interview. Tier 1$2,100 to $3,000
  • Contractor onboardingAccounts, access, documents and a first-week plan, all ready on day one. Tier 1$2,100 to $3,000
  • Work quality checkDelivered work is held against the brief before it ever reaches you. Tier 2$2,400 to $3,600
  • Procedure writerWatches how you do a thing a few times and writes the procedure someone else could follow. Tier 2$3,000 to $4,500
  • The whole hiring loopBrief, screen, interview and onboarding, running once end to end. Tier 3$7,500 to $12,000

How to buy these: The smallest project I take on is $2,400, so a single $900 line is not something I would run on its own. Most solo clients pick three or four from these lists and have them built together, which also costs less than buying them one at a time because the setup work is shared.

The first call is free.

Thirty minutes. Tell me what your week actually looks like and I will tell you which lines on this page would pay for themselves first. If AI is the wrong answer for your situation, I will say so on the call, which happens often enough to be worth putting in writing.

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