The AI person your business doesn't have yet.
I help owner-led businesses hand their repetitive work to AI: the right tools set up safely, a team that actually uses them, and custom agents for the jobs that should run on their own. It starts with a free AI audit.
The businesses automating now get those hours back every week.
Move the sliders to your team. This is the math behind most first projects, and the reason they tend to pay for themselves in weeks, not years. The audit replaces every number here with yours.
What does the manual work cost you?
Assumes 4.33 weeks a month and that automation takes 70% of the task, not all of it. The free audit replaces every number here with yours.
Three ways I work. One way in.
Implementation, training and custom agents, the way you'd hand work to a capable new hire: clear rules, plain English, and someone accountable for the result.
Free AI audit
One hour on your operation. A one-page map of what AI should take off your plate, in priority order, within 48 hours.
AI implementation
Who gets access, what AI can touch, and the written policy behind it. Then a rollout, one team at a time.
AI training
Hands-on sessions built around the jobs your team already does every week. Plain English, no code.
Custom AI agents
Always-on builds for the jobs training can't reach. Kill switch, cost caps, and I stay after launch.
Virtual AI CIO
Your dedicated AI person, month to month: implementation, training and agents, with one scorecard.
One hour on your operation. One page that tells you what to do.
Most people who try AI start with a tool and go looking for a problem. The audit runs the other way: find where the hours go first, then decide what, if anything, AI should take.
We walk the operation
Where the hours go, what is still manual, and what breaks. Your words, your week.
We name what AI can take
Two or three specific jobs, with the hours each one costs you today.
We name what to skip
Some things should stay human. Telling you that costs me work. Automating the wrong thing costs you trust.
You get the map
One page, priority order, with a fixed quote if you want it built. Yours to keep or hand to anyone.
What it looks like when it works.
Names stay private. The numbers are real, and the method is the same every time: a baseline before, one number after.
A bakery
Cash-flow optimization
A social media agency
Customer-service assistant
A kindergarten
Childcare operations automation
An AI startup
AI generation features in the product
Earlier client engagements, 20+ projects to date. Names withheld; figures are the time and resource savings reported for each project. Your audit sets your own baseline.
A workflow should be inspectable before you buy it.
Pick an outcome. Each example shows the bottleneck, the improved process, where a person decides, the output and the number that proves value.
Lead-to-booking
New inquiries wait in an inbox while the owner is on a job.
A personalized reply, qualification note, booking link and follow-up task.
Want all of it, handled? Get one person who owns the question.
What should AI do here, and did it work? As your Virtual AI CIO, I run implementation, training and agents month to month, govern the vendors and data, and report on the number that proves it. Executive-level AI leadership for less than a quarter of a full-time hire.
Strategy + portfolio
Your AI roadmap, prioritized by ROI and risk.
- Opportunity audits per workflow
- Build vs buy vs skip decisions
- Quarterly roadmap review
Governance + vendor oversight
AI you can defend to a customer, an insurer or a board.
- Data access and privacy rules
- Vendor evaluation and contracts
- Human-approval policies
Delivery + adoption
Workflows that ship and stick.
- Production builds with fallbacks
- Team training and runbooks
- Least-complex reliable solutions
Measurement cadence
Every engagement on one scorecard.
- Baseline before, KPI after
- Monthly review, quarterly deep dive
- Kill or scale decisions on data
Founder · Virtual AI CIO · Brooklyn, NY
You work with the person responsible for the result.
I'm Stephen. I've spent 20 years in enterprise IT making technology work for people who don't have time for it, and I run my own fleet of AI agents in production every day. Now I do it for owner-led businesses, starting with the shops and service companies of Flatbush and across Brooklyn, one workflow at a time. No account managers, no junior handoffs: I stay involved from the audit through build, training and measurement.
Steal these. Seriously.
The prompts, workflows and repos I actually use, given away, each paired with a weekly post that explains it. Build it yourself, or have it built, tested and measured.
The Bottleneck Audit
The questions I ask before automating anything, with a live score. No email required.
Start the framework →15Prompt library
Copy-ready prompts for audits, briefs, replies, research and security reviews.
Browse prompts →24Workflows + repos
Blueprints for the automations I build and the open-source projects behind them.
See everything →Real work, real numbers, every week.
Weekly update #001: the front door is now a free AI audit
I rebuilt LifeRoundHere.ai around one first step: an hour on your operation and a one-page map in 48 hours. Here is why, and what I will report every week.
The five places hours leak out of a small business
Before anyone talks about tools, I look for leaks. Here are the five I check in every audit, with the questions that find them.
Speed to lead: what nine hours versus fifteen minutes costs a service business
The cheapest leak to fix is usually the slow first reply. Here is the math I run with owners, and the two workflows that close the gap.
Who this works best for.
Built for
- Owner-led service businesses in Flatbush, across Brooklyn and NYC, roughly $500k–$10M in revenue
- Teams of 5–50 where the owner still touches operations
- Businesses losing leads to missed calls, slow replies or manual follow-up
- Owners who want AI leverage without becoming AI experts
Not a fit
- Teams shopping for the cheapest tool
- Businesses unwilling to grant workflow access
- Anyone wanting a chatbot by Friday with no process behind it
- Companies that need full-time, on-site presence
Straight answers.
Where do we start?
With the free AI audit. One hour on your operation, then a one-page map within 48 hours: what AI should take off your plate, in priority order, with the hours attached. Yours to keep.
What does it cost?
The audit is free. After it, you get scope and a fixed number with your map. The number I quote is the number you pay. For reference: the hands-on AI Workflow Lab is $500, custom agents are built as 14-Day Sprints from $4,500, and a Virtual AI CIO is $3,000–$7,500 a month.
What if we take the map and build it ourselves?
Then you got something useful for free. The playbooks, prompts and workflows on this site exist for exactly that. The owners who see how much steady work a reliable workflow takes tend to come back.
What happens to our data?
It stays in your systems. I build on tools you already pay for, write down the exact access before anything connects, and you can revoke it any time.
Our team isn't technical. Is that a problem?
No. Most of my clients aren't. Training is in plain English, built around the jobs your people already do. No code, no new system to learn.
Will you tell me if AI is the wrong answer?
Yes, and it happens. If a form and a rule solve it, you get a form and a rule. Some things should stay human, and the map says so.
What is a Virtual AI CIO?
A part-time, accountable AI lead for your business. I decide what AI to adopt, make sure it actually works for your team, govern the vendors and data, and report monthly on the numbers that prove it.
Do you replace my IT person or MSP?
No. Your IT provider keeps devices, network and security basics running. I own the question of what AI should do in the business and make sure it works. Good IT partners welcome that.
Who owns what you build?
You do: accounts, workflows, documentation, prompts and data, from day one. Nothing runs on infrastructure only I can access.
Do you work outside Brooklyn?
Yes. In person across Brooklyn and New York City, starting in Flatbush, and remotely with owner-led businesses anywhere in the US.
Bring your messiest week. Leave with a map.
One hour on your operation, a one-page map in 48 hours. If the honest answer is that you don't need AI yet, that's what the map will say.