Cut $50K to $350K of busywork.
Add $150K to $1M+ in value. 90 days.
A business that runs itself is worth more than one that runs you. We build the AI systems that flip that equation.For the work you do by hand.
You don't have to figure out AI. That's what we do: ACE puts a fractional AI Chief Executive inside your business for 90 days. Built for operations-heavy businesses doing $2M+ a year.
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AI moves faster than any operator can track, and your competitors are already figuring it out. You're running a business, not chasing every new model. So the questions nobody answers pile up: what's actually possible, where to start, who to trust, whether it even works for a business like yours.
The old routes are slow or rented: wait a year for the right hire to find and ramp, or pay an agency forever for a system you never own.
We deploy it in 90 days. You own it. We leave.
That's what ACE was built for. We find the work that's eating your team alive, build the digital labor that replaces it, and train your people to run everything themselves. We come in. We build. We train your team. You take the keys. Most people play AI. We actually put it to work for you.
ACE, an AI hire, or an agency? How the three actually compare.
| ACE | Hire an AI executive | AI agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | First automations in weeks. Done in 90 days | 6 to 12 months to hire, then ramp | Tied to their roadmap |
| Ownership | Yours. Your accounts, your keys | Tied to one person's tenure | Theirs. You rent access |
| Cost | One scoped project, known up front | $300K+ a year in salary | $50K to $120K a year, forever |
| Afterward | Your team runs it. We leave | You keep paying | It stops when you stop paying |
How does ACE work? From first call to running system.
Caddy becomes the operating layer your company runs its AI on, at the admin level of your own plan, owned by you. Not a tool you rent.
Free until you say go. A discovery call to learn what's costing you the most. Architecture calls to dig into your operation, process by process. Then a written proposal: exactly what we build, and the number. You accept, we engage.
Your plan, scoped and priced to what we found. We move in, build the digital labor that replaces your most expensive manual work, deploy it in accounts you own, and train your team to run it.
Your team trained, your system live, your keys. Optional ongoing support and senior advisory if you want a long-term partner. Your choice, never a dependency.
No recycled templates. We build your system fresh, tuned to how your business runs, on a foundation already proven in real operations. What we prove for you is yours to keep.
What happens inside the 90 days?
AI is the best employee you'll never hire and the hardest one to onboard. We do the onboarding.
Discover
Surface every opportunity. Target the magic five.
Build
Digital labor deployed in accounts you own.
Adoption / Integration
Your team trained, with SOPs for every system.
Optimize
Stress-test, tune, hand over the keys.
Always in the loop: a written report every week, a standing call every other week, a direct line whenever you want it.
You walk away holding three things.
Paper, not promises. Every engagement ends the same way.
The Number
Value ScorecardWhat the work is worth, in dollars a CFO would defend.
The Log
Weekly ReportWhat shipped, week by week, in writing.
The Keys
Operating ManualHow your team runs the system without us.
What one process is worth.
Digital labor is scored in dollars. Two real examples:
Every engagement is scored the same way, across our 21-metric value framework.
Who is ACE for? And who is it not for?
ACE IS for you if
- Doing $2M+ a year, with real operations
- A team buried in routine work: follow ups, reports, rekeying
- You'd hire a $300K AI executive if you could justify it
- You want to own the system, built inside your company
- You want your team fluent, not vendor dependent
ACE is NOT for you if
- Pre revenue, hoping for a free pilot
- Shopping on price for the cheapest consultant
- You want a vendor at a distance, directing remotely
- You expect zero team involvement
We figured AI out for our own portfolio first.
A single person in one of our companies checks two and a half million utility lines a year by hand. That one process holds around $200,000 a year in payroll, which at the multiples businesses like ours trade at is roughly $2 million in enterprise value. One process, sitting in plain sight. The full story is on the Board of Advisors Podcast.
When AI showed up, we didn't wait for the right consultant or the right hire. We went deep ourselves: learned the tools, studied what digital labor can actually carry, and turned that lens on our own portfolio. What we found changed how we think about every business we own: hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in routine work, and millions in enterprise value with it.
For another client, a construction group, we're going to take their 14-person admin team down to 4 people, save them over $500,000 a year in payroll, and add over $3 million in enterprise value to the business. All while improving their operations.
My family office invests across utility locating, military drones, manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare. I'm a family-first operator; time is the most expensive currency in my life. And I know what this value looks like at the finish line: my family built a business over 25 years and sold it for tens of millions, with more than a thousand employees at exit. I was inside the whole process: preparing the company for sale, the diligence, the deal itself.
If you're staring at AI and wondering how to make it work for your business, that's why ACE exists. Now we want to do the same for you.
Four steps to integrate digital labor in your business.
- Discovery call. We ask the questions that matter: what you want the next 12 months to look like, which processes cost you the most, and where AI can actually move the needle. No forms, no homework. A conversation.
- Architecture call. A working session on your operation: how the work gets done today, what eats the most time, where digital labor fits, and what that is worth in dollars.
- Your plan and proposal. Within days you get a scoped plan: the highest-value automations we found, what we'll build, and exactly what it costs for your business. Every engagement is scoped to what we find, so pricing is set on the call, not on a rate card. If we cannot deliver what we scope together, you pay nothing. That guarantee is in the agreement you sign.
- The 90-day engagement. We move in and ship. Discover, build, adopt, optimize. Your team is trained, your system is live, and you own all of it.
The questions everyone asks.
What exactly is ACE?
ACE stands for AI Chief Executive. It's a fractional executive role: one dedicated expert deployed inside your business for a standard 90-day agreement, running discover, build, adopt, optimize. We find the few things that actually drive results, we call them the magic five, then we build the digital labor that runs them: AI systems doing the work a person would otherwise do, deployed in accounts you own. We give ourselves 90 days. Honestly, we aim to be done in 45. The market calls this role a fractional Chief AI Officer, or CAIO.
Who is this for?
Owners doing more than $2 million a year who treat the business as an asset, not just a job. If your team's days go to follow-ups, reports, and moving information between systems, that's exactly the payroll we turn into digital labor. We move fastest in real estate, financial services, professional services, ecommerce, healthcare, and manufacturing. Under $2 million, this won't be worth your money yet, and we'd rather tell you now.
What does it cost?
Every engagement is scoped to your business: on the free discovery call we find what AI can actually do for your operation, and your proposal prices exactly that work. No rate cards, no one-size-fits-all packages. The scope goes in writing before anything gets built, and it carries a guarantee: if we cannot deliver what we scope together, you pay nothing.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
If your team is using AI in a browser tab, you're getting maybe ten percent of what it can do: copy and paste in, copy and paste out, no memory of your business, no access to where the work happens. ACE is the other ninety percent, wired into your actual systems, doing the work instead of talking about it. So if you want to keep playing AI, be our guest. But if you want results that hit the bottom line of your business, book a call with us.
Will this disrupt my team?
No. We integrate quietly: bite-sized chunks, the magic five, built into the tools you already run while your team's work continues as usual. Your side of the cadence is light: a written report every week, a 30-minute call every other week, and focused time with your key people during discovery and training. And automation gives you options: retire the role, move the person to work that needs a human, or take the savings straight to the bottom line. Your call, not ours. Just as often we take somebody from five units a day to fifteen: more output from the salaries you're already paying.
What do we own when it's done?
All of it. Everything is deployed at the admin level of your own enterprise AI plan: you own the plan, the system, and the data. We never host your data. On day 90 you take the keys: your team trained, custom SOPs for every automation, and the Customer Champion Operating Manual for full independence. Nothing switches off if you stop paying us, because there's nothing left to pay. If you want a longer-term partner, optional ongoing support and senior advisory are available; your choice, never a dependency.
The first call costs nothing. The status quo doesn't.
Book your free discovery call. You'll leave knowing where AI fits your business, which processes to target first, and whether ACE is the right way to get there. No pressure, no obligation.