Solo AI consultant

Stop being the glue between your apps.

I'm Jon-Paul. I build the AI systems that carry work from one tool to the next, so you stop copying, pasting and chasing.

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  • One person From the first call to the last handover
  • 130+ projects completed for clients
  • 25 years in IT, marketing and operations
  • Since 2022 building with AI
  • U.S. citizen available in U.S. business hours
  • Claude Partner Network member (2026)
Sound familiar?

You became the glue in your own business.

It creeps in quietly. One app for leads, another for invoices, a chat tool, three dashboards, and a spreadsheet nobody admits is load-bearing. Each one promised to save you time. None of them talk to each other. So you do.

You copy the lead from the inbox into the CRM. You paste the numbers from one screen into the next. You chase the update nobody logged. Somewhere along the way you became the thing holding it all together, a person doing the job the software was supposed to do.

What AI should be doing is the connective work. Reading the email and pulling out what matters. Carrying the record from one system to the next without you in the middle. Drafting the follow-up so it's waiting for your yes.

That's what I build. A system that lives in your business, not in one person's head. You own it outright. No lock-in, no black box, no one holding the only key.

What I build

Infrastructure, not another tool.

I don't sell subscriptions and I don't resell someone else's chatbot widget. I engineer systems that fit the way your work already runs.

An AI chief of staff

Before you start your day, it reads across your inbox, calendar, CRM and project tools. Then it tells you what changed overnight, what's stuck and who's waiting on you, with the follow-ups already drafted. One page instead of ten tabs, and nothing slips through quietly.

  1. Every tool checked
  2. Stuck work flagged
  3. Follow-ups drafted

In practice: I run my own business on one I built. It gathers what changed across my mail, files, calendar and tasks, and every email it writes waits as a draft until I send it.

Job closeout, handled

The moment a job is done, the paperwork starts, and that's where things get dropped. AI reads the final job record, corrects your customer records to what actually happened, files it, and drafts the follow-up and the review request at the right time. A separate check confirms every run did real work, and nothing reaches a customer without your yes.

  1. Final job record read
  2. Records corrected
  3. Review request drafted

In practice: for a private aviation broker, each finished trip's paperwork was pulled from sent mail and read by AI, the CRM was updated to what actually flew, the trip was archived, and a personal review request was drafted two days after landing. Live when I handed it over.

Guardrails you can trust

Your AI doesn't send an email without your review. It doesn't make up client names. It doesn't go rogue on a Friday night. I build approval checkpoints, audit trails and monitors that catch silent failures and stop bad data before it spreads, because I've spent 25 years in IT, marketing and operations and I know what breaks.

The rule: a person approves anything that leaves the building.

Common starting points

Pick the one closest to you. Each opens a page on how it works and what it costs.

Not sure which of these fits? Bring me the messiest workflow you have and we'll find out.

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How it works

Map it first. Build it second.

I don't start coding on day one. Each step ends with your yes or no, and nothing assumes the next one.

  1. The conversation

    Free. You walk me through how the work really moves, including the spreadsheet everyone leans on. I come back with a written proposal and its price. No obligation.

  2. The plan

    Paid, and yours to keep either way. I map the real workflow, measure where it stands today, and pick where AI saves the most time. Some things stay human, and I'll tell you which.

  3. The build

    You sign off on the design and the price first, and the first piece is a small pilot. It runs in your own accounts and waits for a person on anything that leaves your business. Records about people wait for a written agreement.

  4. The handover, or the seat

    Signed off, documented and yours, with 30 days of fixes after sign-off. Run it yourself, keep me on for monthly upkeep as AI models change, or keep me on to run it as your AI and operations lead.

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It's just me, on purpose. You work with the person who does the work, with no account managers in between. If a job ever needs a specialist, I'll tell you before anyone else joins.

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Proof

Done experimenting? So were they.

My clients had already tried the demos and the weekend-with-ChatGPT approach. They wanted AI that does the work, plugs into what they already use, and doesn't need babysitting.

130+projects completed for clients
25 yrsin IT, marketing and operations before I built AI for them

Selected work

AviationClaude Code

Charter lead engine

Reads new charter leads, researches each person, logs the deal in HubSpot and drafts the reply. Live when I handed it over.

AviationClaude Code

Silent-failure monitor

A check that each automation ran and did real work, with its backup alarm on separate infrastructure so the monitor couldn't fail alongside it. Live when I handed it over.

ConstructionClaude

Operations manual

A service manager's head-knowledge became an operations manual of about 150 pages and a 60-page Quick Start, checked against 30 days of his answers.

ConstructionClaude

Hiring screen

A bilingual job application with AI screening. It checked 13 physical requirements, audited the I-9, drug-test and background steps, and wrote a 12-section candidate report in about a minute. Reviewed for legal risk before launch.

Commercial solarClaude

Meeting engine

Turned a recorded meeting into a written record and a task list, tested across the client's three businesses. The office manager ran the write-up herself on a real meeting.

HealthcareMicrosoft Copilot

Email triage

The instructions that turned Copilot into an email triage assistant for a healthcare benefits administrator, inside the client's own Microsoft account. It drafted replies from their policy knowledge base and cited its source.

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Work with me

Start small, or start with a plan.

Fixed scope and a fixed price, mostly in three sizes. Tell me what you're trying to fix and we'll pick the one that fits.

The orange mascot smiling at an office desk beside a coffee mug and a notebook, with a city skyline at dusk behind itStart hereA free first conversationWalk me through the one workflow eating the most time. I'll tell you straight whether AI is the right move, and come back with a written proposal and its price.

Free, no obligation

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The orange mascot peering through a magnifying glass at a map of amber glass tiles on an office deskA plain-language AI auditI map how one area of your business really runs, then rank what to automate, what to train people on and what to leave alone.
  • One to three workflows mapped on live calls, then a debrief
  • A ranked list of fixes in words you can act on
  • The larger size ends with a fixed-price scope for the top fix

5 to 10 days · $350 to $1,250, by size

Talk it through →
The orange mascot sits behind an open laptop that shows a Claude Code session, in an office at nightClaude coachingLive screen-share sessions to set up Claude Cowork, Skills and Claude Code on your own account.
  • One to three 60-minute sessions on your real jobs
  • Working Skills, Cowork tasks or a daily plan, built as we go
  • The larger size ends with a written handover guide

4 to 14 days · $195 to $695, by size

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The orange mascot behind five tall amber glass panels with a soft beam of light passing through themn8n AI lead captureWorkflows that capture leads and feed your CRM and Google Sheets.
  • AI reads each lead from a form or inbox, tags it and logs it
  • Larger sizes skip duplicates, pull out the details and draft the reply for your yes
  • The biggest handles up to three sources, with a handover call

4 to 14 days · $250 to $1,500, by size

Talk it through →
The orange mascot sitting at an office desk beside a coffee mug and a large hourglass, with a Claude Code screen beside itOne AI project, seen throughOne person to see a single AI project through from plan to handover.
  • A kickoff call, hands-on work and a wrap-up call
  • Written updates and check-ins along the way
  • One project at a time, ending in a handover on the longest size

10 to 30 days · $350 to $1,500, by size

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The orange mascot resting an arm on one of three amber glass gears on an office deskn8n fix or finishBroken or half-built workflows repaired, with failure alerts added so you hear when one breaks.
  • One to three workflows, depending on size
  • Broken or missing steps fixed or added
  • A failure alert on every size, plus notes or a walkthrough of what changed

3 to 14 days · $250 to $1,095, by size

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Also available: training your team to build with Claude Code, ClickUp, Notion and Airtable builds, plus SOP writing and operations manuals. Message me if you want one of those.

How a build is priced →

I've published five Kindle books on AI automation and agentic AI. See them on Amazon →

I also publish two free, open-source Shopify skills for OpenClaw agents: Shopify Audit Pro and Shopify Admin Pro. They're independent and aren't made or endorsed by Shopify or OpenClaw.

Before you book

What does a custom build cost?

It depends on the job, so I don't guess. The first conversation is free and ends with a written proposal and its price. You sign off on the design and the price before I build, and the first piece is a small pilot. How a build is priced →

You're one person. What if you're not around?

It's just me, on purpose, so you work with the person doing the work. That's why everything is documented and handed over. The system lives in your business, not in my head, and no one holds the only key.

Where does my data live?

In your own accounts. The build runs there, and anything that leaves your business waits for a person's yes. Anything involving personal records waits until we've agreed in writing how it's handled.

What happens after handover?

It's signed off, documented and yours, with 30 days of fixes after sign-off. Then run it yourself, keep me on for monthly upkeep as AI models change, or keep me on to run it as your AI and operations lead.

Do I have to change the tools I use?

You don't have to start over. I build to fit the way your work already runs, and the system carries work from one tool to the next.

Let's find the work AI should be doing for you.

Bring me the messiest part of your week. We'll talk through how it runs today and where AI fits. No pressure and no pitch deck.

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Free, no obligation. You get a written proposal and its price.

Prefer email? [email protected]

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