Money Agents for Owner-Operators
You bought the business.
Now stop the leaks.
Service businesses leak revenue in countable ways. Calls that ring out after five. Customers who lapsed and never heard from you again. Invoices at 45 days that nobody chased. I build AI agents that recover that revenue — and where the leak is countable, I take most of my compensation as a share of what the agent measurably recovers.
The Deal Structure
Two lanes. I'll tell you which one you're in.
Profit share only works when we can both count the result. Most AI use cases can't be measured that cleanly — and pretending otherwise turns a partnership into an argument. So there are two lanes, and the first hour tells us which one your leak is in.
Lane 1 · Countable leak
Build fee + profit share
If the leak has a number we can both count — jobs booked, customers recovered, cash collected — I build the agent for a founder-rate build fee and take the rest of my compensation as a share of measured recovery over twelve months. We agree the metric and the baseline in writing before I build anything.
If it doesn't recover money, I made almost nothing. That's the point.
Lane 2 · Everything else
Fixed price, no meter
Plenty of valuable agents — internal ops, document handling, knowledge capture — don't produce a clean number to share. Those I build fixed-fee: same quality, same ownership model, a price you know before we start.
I'll tell you which lane you're in inside the first hour, before either of us spends a dollar.
The Agents
Four leaks I keep finding. Each one has a number.
These are the profit-share candidates: agents whose output is a countable business result, measured against the baseline we agree before the build.
After-hours & missed-call response
Every call that rings out after close is a job someone else booked. The agent answers instantly — calls, texts, web leads — qualifies the work, and puts it on your schedule. You see every conversation.
Lapsed-customer reactivation
Your customer list is an asset nobody is working. The agent re-contacts customers who quietly stopped calling — maintenance overdue, memberships lapsed, seasons missed — and books the ones who come back.
Receivables follow-up
Invoices age because follow-up is a chore humans deprioritize. The agent runs a systematic, polite cadence on everything from day one to day sixty — in your name, with your tone, before anything needs a collector.
Quote & estimate follow-up
Most estimates die of silence, not of price. The agent follows up on every open quote until it gets a yes, a no, or a reason — and tells you which quotes are stalling and why.
How It Works
Aligned from the first hour.
The structure is designed so my incentive is your recovered revenue — and so neither of us ever argues about attribution after the fact.
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Free leak diagnostic
A working session, not a sales call. You walk me through the business — call volume, customer list, receivables — and you leave with the leaks ranked by size and which lane each one is in. Useful whether or not we go further.
60 minutes · no fee
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Metric and baseline in writing
For a profit-share agent, the SOW names the metric, the measurement window, and the baseline we're measuring recovery against. Agreed up front, on paper. If we can't agree on a clean number, the agent belongs in the fixed-price lane — and I'll say so.
Before anything is built
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Founder-rate build fee
The build fee covers the engineering; the upside comes later from the share. If you closed on the business recently, this is the kind of expense a 7(a) working-capital line exists for — happy to walk your lender through it.
Fixed, known up front
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The agent ships. I own and maintain the engine
You get a money agent that's built, monitored, and improved for you — no maintenance burden handed to your team. Your data and your playbook stay yours. Every conversation and every dollar is instrumented, so we're reading the same number.
Production, not a demo
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Share of measured recovery
My share comes out of revenue the agent recovered above the written baseline — not out of what your business was already doing. The math either works or it doesn't, and we'll both be able to see which.
12 months
Why Me
An operator who actually ships with AI.
Fifteen years running revenue and operations inside SaaS. Salesforce, PagerDuty, Deloitte Consulting, then COO of an 85-person European hotel software business. I left in August 2025 to build a SaaS product solo, with AI doing the engineering. It works.
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Searcher OS
Production SaaS · built solo with AI agents
Salesforce for business acquisitions. Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Python scrapers, ~15 integrated surfaces. Profitable, paying customers, growing. No engineering team. Claude Code writes the code. Orchestrated agents help me scale operations. This is the playbook I bring into a portfolio company.
See the productStraight Answers
The questions worth asking.
What if my use case isn't measurable?
Then it's a fixed-price build, and I'll tell you that in the first hour. Most AI use cases aren't clean enough for a profit share — that's not a flaw in your business, it's just attribution. A share only works when neither of us has to argue about the number.
Who owns the agent?
I own and maintain the engine — that's what lets me keep improving it instead of handing your team a maintenance burden. Your data, your customer list, and your playbook stay yours, with the carveout written into the SOW. You're buying a measured outcome, not software to babysit.
I just closed on the business. Can I afford this?
The structure is built for exactly that moment. The build fee is founder-rate and fixed; the majority of my compensation arrives only after the recovery does. If cash at close is tight, the build fee is the kind of expense a 7(a) working-capital line exists for — I'm happy to walk your lender through the math.
Why not just buy a $99/month AI answering tool?
You can, and for some businesses that's the right call. The difference is accountability: a tool gives you software and a dashboard; this gives you someone whose pay depends on the number going up, who wires it into your actual systems, watches it, and fixes it when your business changes. If a cheap tool would genuinely solve it, I'll tell you that in the diagnostic.
What businesses does this fit?
Service businesses with real call volume, a customer list worth reactivating, or a receivables book — typically $1–30M revenue, and often recently acquired. If you bought the business in the last couple of years and the seller's systems came with it, you almost certainly have at least one countable leak.
Start Here
Book the free leak diagnostic.
One hour, no fee, no deck. You walk me through the business; you leave with your leaks ranked by size, what each one is likely worth, and which lane each one is in. If there's nothing worth building, I'll tell you that too.
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