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Operator pod · the flagship engagement

One workflow, off your plate
in two weeks.

We embed with the person doing the work, build the AI employee with them, and prove it’s right against a written acceptance test. $7,500 fixed per workflow — half up front, half only when the test passes in live use.

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The deal, plainly
50/50
half up front · half when the acceptance test passes
Before we build anything, we write down — together — what “working” means. If the operator doesn’t pass that test running on your real work, the second half is never due. That’s the whole contract.
How a pod runs

Ten working days. Built with your team, not installed at them.

The best automation opportunities are invisible from outside — so the pod starts by sitting where the work happens.

  1. 01 · Days 1–2

    Shadow

    We sit with the person actually doing the work — the WhatsApp threads, the booking system, the spreadsheet — and write down how the workflow really runs, not how the org chart says it runs.

  2. 02 · Day 3

    Prioritize

    Together we pick the exact slice to automate first: high repetition, real dollars, data we can reach. And we write the acceptance test — the pass/fail bar the operator must clear before you pay the second half.

  3. 03 · Days 4–5

    Build with your team

    The operator gets built next to the person who owns the workflow, in their words, on your systems. They shape it; they’re not handed it.

  4. 04 · Days 6–9

    Validate

    It runs on real work, supervised, with every outbound message held for approval. We check it holds up across the messy cases — not just the demo-friendly ones.

  5. 05 · Day 10

    Ship

    The acceptance test runs against the live trial. It passes, you pay the second half, and the workflow is off your plate. It doesn’t pass, you don’t.

What you’re buying

Your business, encoded — and proven right.

The software underneath is open source and cheap — we say so out loud. What you’re paying for is your business encoded into an operator you own, the proof that it’s right, and someone who answers for it.

01
One production workflow
Not a demo, not a chatbot — one real workflow running end to end on the systems you already use.
02
Approval on every send
Every customer-facing message is drafted and held until you approve it. “Draft ready → approve → sent” is wired in from day one, not bolted on.
03
Your business, written down
How you price, how you escalate, what you never say to a guest — captured in a living document you own. It’s what makes the operator yours, and it makes every future workflow cheaper.
04
A written acceptance test
Before we build, we agree in writing what “working” means — real cases, real pass criteria. The second half of the fee is due only when the operator passes it in the live trial.
05
Proof it stays right
A test suite built from your real conversations. We re-run it whenever anything changes, so “it still works” is checked, not assumed.
06
A plain-English runbook
What to do when something looks off: how to pause it, who to call, what happens next. Written for you, not for engineers.
— Wired into the tools you already use

WhatsApp, Gmail, Google Calendar, your booking or property-management system, your CRM, Stripe, Notion, spreadsheets — and the odd custom system every real business has. If it has a way in, the operator can work it.

Pricing

One fixed price. Paid when it works.

Operator pod
$7,500· fixed, per workflow

Two weeks, one workflow in production. 50% to start, 50% only when the written acceptance test passes in the live trial. Your $1,500 audit is credited against it.

No hourly billing. No open-ended scope.
Additional workflows
$3,500–5,000· fixed, each

Cheaper than the first, because your business is already written down and the proof harness already exists. Most of the setup work never has to happen twice.

Same deal: acceptance test, then payment.

What the machine costs (not much). The operator runs on a Mac mini you buy and own (~$600–1,500 one-time) or a small cloud server (~$30/month) — passed through at cost, because it’s cheap plumbing, not the product. Expect roughly $30–150/month in AI model usage for a working workflow, with hard caps and alerts so it can never run away. Ongoing accountability is its own offering — see the operations retainer.

The front door is the audit.

Every pod starts with a week of looking.

The $1,500 read-only audit finds the workflow worth automating and the dollars it leaks — and it’s credited in full toward the pod. A read-only look can’t make things worse.

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