Business owners waste

17 hours every week

on tasks that should be automated.

But before you waste more

money, time & energy

rushing to fix this yourself...

  1. Take the 2-minute Friction Finder Quiz™ (to get clear on where you're stuck)

  2. Understand the exact system your business needs (no tech knowledge required)

  3. Get a step-by-step action plan from an ex-Sales & Marketing Director and certified automation nerd (me)

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Who

am I?

Before becoming an AI & Automation Partner, I was the Sales & Marketing Director of a multi-million pound manufacturing business.For 5 years I led sales, marketing & customer experience teams, gaining first-hand experience of what really moves the needle for a business (and more importantly, what doesn't).When it comes to implementing AI & automation, the latest models and most sophisticated software mean absolutely f*ck all if you don't strategically diagnose the true needs of the business first.And that's when I came across the 2 problems that fuel my business today...

  1. Most business owners know very little about AI & automation

  2. Most AI & automation experts know very little about business.

Why the

Quiz?

Before my career in business, I served in the Merchant Navy for almost a decade.

I spent years at sea training to use maritime autopilot systems. Most people think it's simple - press a button, and the ship drives itself.The reality is VERY different.If you don't know exactly what's happening around you, you don't set the system up properly, and you don't continuously monitor & adapt it to the environment (all of which takes a LOT of training)......the ship becomes uncontrollable, which can result in life-threatening situations.Business is exactly the same (just hopefully without the life-threatening bit).Everyone's rushing to implement AI & automation (press the autopilot button) without assessing what's actually going on around them and what's needed to grow the business (keep the ship on track without capsizing).In the last 2 years I've built real AI & automation systems across marketing, sales & operations for businesses doing up to £8m in annual revenue.The ones that made the biggest impact in the shortest time ALL started with a proper assessment.The Friction Finder Quiz™ is a lite version that will give you clarity on your biggest AI and/or automation opportunity in just 2 minutes.

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The

Research

A 2023 survey found that 41% of small business owners work up to 48 hours per week, and 20% work up to 64 hours per week - with 37% experiencing burnout as a result.(FreeAgent, "Burnout Britain", 2023)

Research consucted by Zapier shows that easily automated tasks take up an average of 17.3 hours per week, which is almost half the work week. At £100/hour, that's £89,960 in lost opportunity cost annually.(Zapier, 2021)

Most business owners automate the wrong thing first. The top reasons automation projects fail are "unclear use cases" and "lack of technical expertise." They waste months building systems that break, then they're back to manual work - except now they've lost time and money.(Del Valle, 2025)

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