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Your AI Operations Officer
Your business should run without you.
A done-for-you AI system, installed and run by a real person.
You built it for freedom. Now it runs you, and the team you hired to get free is waiting on you too. I install an AI Operating System that takes the repetitive work off your plate, then I run it for you — monitored, maintained, improved every month — so the business keeps moving without you holding every piece together.
Free 30-min call · No pitch · You leave with a clear map either way
Jonathan Probert
Founder, building AIOS live and in public
Is this you?
You'll feel this one in your gut.
- You've checked your phone for work before you were fully awake.
- You hired a team to get free, and now you spend the day feeding it.
- Nothing ships until it runs through you for a yes.
- The proposals, status updates, and invoice chasing still land on your desk, because nobody else writes them the way the client expects.
- You're paying for a VA, an agency, and a stack of tools, and you're still the one holding it all together.
If two of those landed, keep reading. This was built for exactly you.
Sound familiar?
You started a business for freedom. Somehow you ended up with a worse job.
The Operator Trap catches almost every founder who grows past doing it alone. You're good at the work, so everything routes through you. You hired help, and now you manage the help. The business still stops the moment you do.
You're the bottleneck
Every decision routes through you. The team stays busy and you stay the constraint. Nothing ships without your sign-off.
80% of your week is firefighting
Admin, approvals, reporting, re-doing work that came back wrong. The stuff that keeps the lights on and never grows the business.
No bandwidth left for growth
Strategy, new offers, the life you wanted. All of it waits while you keep the day-to-day from falling over.
Your 7am, today
7:00 Phone's already in your hand. 40 unread, two of them on fire.
9:00 You're busy. Putting out fires, answering the same questions again.
2:00 A client concern from yesterday's call slipped through. Again.
9:00pm You couldn't say what actually moved the business today.
Your 7am, with an AIOS
7:00 One brief is waiting. The numbers, the priorities, what needs you.
9:00 The repetitive work already ran overnight. Leads followed up.
2:00 Yesterday's client concern was flagged at 7am with replies drafted.
9:00pm You worked on the business. The system carried the rest.
The solution
The AI Operating System.
Five layers, stacked. Each one hands you back hours. Built once, then it runs every day, with or without you.
Layer 01
Context
Your AI knows your business cold: strategy, team, customers, history. No re-explaining yourself every session.
It's a standing memory of how you work. Ask "should I take this client?" and the answer fits your real ICP, your capacity, and your past calls, not generic best practice.
Business context Remembered
- ICP: B2B founders, under 50 staff
- Offer: AIOS setup (retainer / trainer)
- Voice: direct, plain English, no fluff
- History: 40+ past decisions logged
Layer 02
Data
Your numbers, in real time. Revenue, leads, opens, bookings, pulled from your actual tools every day, automatically.
No spreadsheets to update, no dashboards to open. Ask "how did last week go?" and get a straight answer from live data, not a screenshot from three weeks ago.
This week Live
$12,480Revenue
7New leads
48.6%Open rate
Layer 03
Intelligence
Your AI watches meetings, messages, and signals, then hands you one daily brief. You wake up already caught up.
A client grumbles on a Zoom call. By 7am it's flagged in your brief with three replies drafted, even though you'd already forgotten about it.
Daily Brief 7:00 AM
3 meetings summarized
12 messages triaged
1 client concern, 3 replies drafted
Layer 04
Automate & Augment
Every recurring task scored, then either run without you or made far faster. Each one handled is hours back.
Automate means it runs itself. Augment means you still do it, in a fraction of the time. Most businesses land around 60 to 70% automated.
New client form submitted
Contract drafted
Kickoff call booked
Welcome email sent
Layer 05
Build
This is the point of all of it. With the day-to-day handled, you get the hours back to grow the business instead of just running it.
New offers, bigger strategy, the work only you can do, and a real life outside the business. The system carries the operations so you can build what's next.
Hours back, reinvested +12 hrs/wk
Real time for sales and strategy
A new offer, finally shipped
Evenings and weekends back
The offer
We take the work that keeps you at your desk.
You don't need more AI tools. You need the proposals, the follow-ups, the status updates, and the invoice chasing to stop landing on you. That's the job.
We find what's eating your week. Then we make it stop.
We install an AI Operating System around your business and run it for you. Every month more of the repetitive work comes off your team's plate, the system gets watched and maintained so you never think about it, and the hours come back to you.
- The 7am scramble becomes one brief: your numbers, your priorities, what actually needs you
- Proposals, follow-ups, and status updates drafted before you ask
- The questions your team brings you all day, answered by a system that knows the business
- New automations shipped every month, aimed at wherever it still hurts
Engagements start at $1,497 a month. Already paying for a VA, an agency, and a stack of tools? This replaces the slack across all of them. It's a swap, not a new bill.
Best fit: founders with a team who want the day-to-day handled without managing another system or making another hire.
More ways in
Not ready for the full build? Start smaller.
One hands you a plan. The other hands you the skills. Both stand on their own, and both make the bigger decision easier.
The On-Ramp
AI Opportunity Assessment
Two calls with me: one to map every task, tool, and process in your business, one to walk through the written report I build from it. Where AI pays off, ranked by payoff, with the dead ends marked.
- Every recurring task mapped and scored
- Your top opportunities, ranked by payoff against effort
- The report is yours to keep, whatever you decide
Consultants charge $1,000 and up for this piece of work. While I build my client base in public, it costs you an hour of answering questions.
See how the assessment works
Do-It-Yourself
Private AI Tutoring
Live, one-to-one sessions built on your real business. Book a single hour whenever you want one. Follow my four-session map from zero to building your own AI tools, or bring your own agenda.
- $150 a session, booked one at a time, no package
- You leave every hour with something working
- No technical background needed
Best fit: founders who want to own the skills themselves, at their own pace, before (or instead of) hiring it out.
See the tutoring program
In their words
Real founders. Real time back.
Not theory. Founders who were buried in their own business, and the system that changed their week.
"Now I create tools that complete tasks for me in minutes. It's really a small miracle. This will completely transform your business day, and you can do it, even if you're 'low tech.'"
"I have what I can only describe as a full strategic brain on standby that knows my goals, my voice, and what's happening in the moment. It's helped me do more in less time."
Everything here runs on an AIOS I built for my own business
Daily Brief
Content signal scanner
Content pipeline
Data warehouse
Cold-outreach engine
The process
How we work together.
A clear path from first conversation to a business that runs without you.
01
Free AI Discovery Call
We walk through your business, where your time goes, and what you'd get back if the day-to-day ran itself.
Free · 30 minutes02
AIOS Setup
We build your AI Operating System: workspace, context, data connections, modules. Then we run it for you, watching it and improving it every month.
Installed and run for you03
Task Audit + Automation Builds
We map every recurring task, score each for automation, and build them away one by one. Every task automated is hours back, permanently.
Ongoing · Measurable ROI
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Questions
Common questions.
Everything founders want to know before they start. Still unsure? A 30-minute call clears it up, no pitch, no pressure.
Book a free callAn AI Operating System is an intelligence layer wrapped around your entire business. It gives your AI deep context about how you work, connects to your data in real time, turns your meetings and messages into a single daily brief, automates the recurring tasks that eat your week, and lets you build custom tools when off-the-shelf ones don't exist. Think of it as the operating system your business runs on, working while you don't.
No. The whole system is designed to be operated in plain English, not code. If you can describe what you need, the AI handles it. Jonathan works with founders who have never written a line of code, and they use their AIOS every day without thinking about it technically.
ChatGPT is a tool. An AIOS is a system. ChatGPT doesn't know your business, your data, or your goals, so every conversation starts from scratch. An AIOS gives your AI full context about your specific business, connects to your real numbers, and runs work in the background. The difference is like comparing a Google search with a private advisor who already knows everything about your company.
You own it. Your AIOS is built on Claude, on your own workspace and your own accounts, so it isn't a subscription you have to keep renting to keep the lights on. If we ever part ways, everything stays with you in plain files, with a proper handover. We're here to set it up and help it grow, not to hold your business hostage.
Yes. Your AIOS is built around your own systems, and it's designed with a human in the loop by default, so nothing happens without your awareness or approval. Your business data stays under your control, not handed off to a third-party black box.
Engagements start at $1,497 a month. The exact tier depends on your team size and how much of the work you want fully handled. The best starting point is the AI Opportunity Assessment: you'll see exactly what an AIOS would take on in your business, and what that's worth, before you spend anything.
Building AIOS
Live & In Public
Live & In Public
About
More about Jonathan
Hi, I'm Jonathan.
I help founders buy back their time by wrapping a layer of AI automation around the whole business.
I studied Computer Science and worked as a software engineer before I realised I wanted to work directly with businesses. For years I helped companies get leaner and faster with traditional systems, then AI made that far more powerful.
Now I build my own AI Operating System live and in public. Not theory, the actual thing that's working right now. No gatekeeping, no gurus, just a system that gives you your time back.
5AIOS Layers,
Working Together
Working Together
60-70%Recurring Tasks
It Can Take On
It Can Take On
100%On Your Own
Accounts
Accounts
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Book a Free AI Discovery Call Free 30-min call · No pitch · No pressure"Now I create tools that complete tasks for me in minutes. It's really a small miracle." Laura Di Franco, CEO, Brave Healer Productions
A year from now, you'll either have hired and managed three more people to keep up, or you'll wake up to a brief that already did their work. One of those founders gets their evenings back. The call is 30 minutes, and you keep the map either way.