The flagship: for owners who are still the bottleneck
A brain for your business,
so it can run without you.
If you can't take two weeks off without the wheels wobbling, your business doesn't have an operations problem. It has a you-dependence problem. The Mainboard is the full operating layer, installed on top of the tools you already use: an AI board that watches everything, engines that do the daily work, your judgment written into playbooks, and remote monitoring that tells you what actually needs you. Our engines keep one pipeline full. The Mainboard runs the whole machine.
This is our largest engagement, and it starts with a conversation, not a checkout button.
What gets installed
Four layers, one connected intelligence.
Nothing gets ripped out. Your CRM, your books, your booking system, your storefront all stay exactly where they are. The Mainboard sits on top of them and connects them.
The board
AI specialists that watch your live numbers and meet daily: what happened yesterday, what's drifting, what they'd do about it, ranked by impact. You read a brief over coffee instead of holding the whole business in your head.
The engines
The doing layer: the pipeline engine for your industry, plus marketing content, lifecycle email, outreach, and reporting, all drafted by the system and approved by you. The work that never got done starts getting done.
Your judgment, codified
The part nobody else sells. Your pricing rules, brand voice, quality bar, and the calls you make on instinct get written into playbooks and guardrails the system follows. That's what lets it decide like you when you're not in the room.
Remote monitoring
One dashboard for the whole business, alert thresholds that page you only when something crosses a line you set, and a weekly owner's report in plain English. You supervise from anywhere; you stop operating.
How we install it
Read first. Connect second. Act last.
Installing a brain into a running business is careful work. The sequence protects you: the system sees everything before it touches anything, and nothing irreversible ever happens without your approval.
- →Audit: we inventory every tool you run and, more importantly, interview you. What crosses your desk every day? What would you never delegate? That map is the blueprint.
- →Connect: the brain plugs into your existing systems read-only first. It learns your numbers, your rhythms, and your customers before it drafts a single thing.
- →Install the board: AI specialists tuned to your business start producing a daily brief: what happened, what needs attention, what they'd do next, ranked.
- →Codify you: your pricing rules, your brand voice, your quality bar, and your judgment calls get written into playbooks and guardrails. This is the part that makes “runs without you” true instead of a slogan.
- →Monitor: dashboards, alert thresholds, and a weekly owner's report. You see the whole business on one screen from anywhere, and you hear about problems before customers do.
Every install includes a 90-day adoption period. The hard part of this work is rarely the technology; it's the handoff. We stay until the handoff sticks.
How it works
Blueprint first. Build only what the blueprint justifies.
The Brain Audit
$5,000
Two weeks. We map every system you run, every decision that still needs you personally, and every place the business would stall if you stepped away. You get the blueprint: what to connect, what to automate, what to codify, in what order, with a fixed quote. Credited toward the build.
The install
from $25,000 / from $50,000
The Core Mainboard (from $25,000) installs the board, the daily brief, monitoring, and one engine connected to your pipeline. The Full Mainboard (from $50,000) is the complete operating layer: board, marketing and content engines, lifecycle email, outreach, and your judgment codified. Scoped by the audit, priced by documented criteria, never by relationship.
The Brain-keeper
$2,500–$5,000/mo
We watch the brain so you don't have to: remote monitoring, tuning, model upgrades as AI improves, small additions as the business changes, and the weekly owner's report. Cancel after 6 months and everything we built stays yours and keeps running.
For scale: a fractional COO runs $5,000 to $12,000 every month, and the pipeline of judgment leaves when they do. The Full Mainboard costs about five months of that, once, and what it learns about your business stays yours.
Who this is for
- →Owner-operated businesses doing roughly $500k to $5M that are profitable but owner-bound
- →Owners who want their evenings, their vacations, or an eventual exit: a business that demonstrably runs without its owner is worth more to a buyer
- →Businesses already running one of our engines that want the rest of the machine
- →Operators willing to let a system draft while they approve, at least at first
Who it's not for
- ×Businesses that aren't yet profitable: fix the model first, then install the brain
- ×Anyone who wants AI to make the irreversible calls: pricing, hiring, refunds stay human
- ×Owners looking for a $99/mo tool: this is an installed operating layer, not software rental
Straight answers
Do we have to replace the systems we already use?
No, and that's the point. The Mainboard connects to what you already run: your CRM, your books, your booking or e-commerce platform, even the spreadsheets. It reads first, learns your business, then starts drafting work on top. If a tool genuinely needs replacing, the audit will say so and you decide.
Does the AI run my business without me?
It runs the work, not the calls. Day-to-day output is draft-and-approve, and anything irreversible, like pricing, hiring, refunds, or anything customer-critical, sits behind approval gates you control. Over time you approve less and supervise more, but the business never stops being yours to steer.
What does “your judgment, codified” actually mean?
During the audit we extract the rules you apply without thinking: when you discount and when you don't, what your brand never says, what makes an order worth escalating. Those become written playbooks and hard guardrails the system follows. It's the difference between automation that does tasks and a brain that makes your calls the way you would.
Will this replace my team?
It's not designed to. It does the work that wasn't getting done: the follow-ups nobody sent, the report nobody wrote, the reviews nobody answered. Your people get the drafts, the context, and the checklist instead of the blank page. The owner is who it's designed to free.
Do you guarantee results?
No, and be wary of anyone who does. What we commit to is concrete and inspectable: the systems named in your blueprint, built, connected, and running, with a weekly report that shows exactly what the brain did. The audit puts numbers on what owner-dependence is costing you before you spend a dollar on the build.
Who owns it?
You own your systems and your data. Everything runs on your own infrastructure, and if we ever part ways it keeps running, no kill switch. Most clients keep the Brain-keeper on because AI models improve every few months and we keep the brain current, not because anything would stop without us.
How is this priced?
A $5,000 Brain Audit (credited toward the build), then the Core Mainboard from $25,000 or the Full Mainboard from $50,000, scoped by the audit and priced by documented criteria: systems connected, engines installed, team size. Ongoing Brain-keeper monitoring runs $2,500 to $5,000 a month. For scale, a fractional COO costs $5,000 to $12,000 every month and takes the know-how along when they leave.
How long does the install take?
The audit is two weeks. A Core install typically runs 4 to 6 weeks; the Full Mainboard 8 to 12, phased so something useful is live every couple of weeks, starting with the board and the daily brief. Then the 90-day adoption period: we stay until you and your team actually trust it, because that's where these projects live or die.
Find out what still
needs you, and what doesn't.
A straight conversation with Branden about whether your business is ready for a brain. No pitch deck.