Turn technology into time
When you own the business, you do it all. Growing it keeps slipping to next week. I find what's eating your week and take it off your desk, so you can get back to the work you love. I ask the right questions, I know how business works, and I build the fix myself.
Book a 30-minute strategy callSound familiar?
That's the kind of work AI can take off your plate.
How it works
30 minutes · No charge
You tell me what's eating up your week. You leave with a straight answer on whether AI is worth pursuing, and what the path looks like if it is.
$1,000
I come to you. Two hours on site with you and the people who do the work day to day. Within a week, we sit down for 45 minutes and go through what I found:
If we work together after the assessment, the $1,000 goes toward that work.
Priced off what it's worth to you
We build what's worth building, or I teach your team to do it themselves. Either way, the time goes back to the work that grows the business.
Every project meets the 5–10x standard below.
I hold every recommendation to one standard: it has to pay you back at least five to ten times what it costs.
Proof
A medspa in Greater Cincinnati
LiveWeekly patient check-ins for their weight-loss program were eating 40 to 50 staff hours a week. I rebuilt the workflow so most of it runs on its own. It now takes 2 to 3 hours and has been running smoothly for months. That's more than a full-time position's worth of work, without the hire.
A structural engineering firm
UnderwayThe firm turns out about 10 reports a week, and each one takes an engineer roughly an hour to write. With the AI-enabled system I'm installing now, engineers stop writing reports and start reviewing finished ones, in an estimated 15 to 20 minutes each.
Early testing.
Who you'll be talking to
I've been asking questions for a living since my first job as a journalist. Now I do it as an executive coach and business coach. With owners, the first answer is rarely where the time is really going.
At Scripps, I was a regional executive over about 20 markets, 2,000 people and roughly $500 million in revenue, and I led national teams that included our digital developers and designers. I integrated six acquired stations in a single year and launched new businesses inside an old one, including WCPO Insider. Since then, I've started Gruntled Leadership and built the assessment platform I use with leadership teams.
I learned business before any of these tools existed, then used them to reinvent myself after a long career. Now I do the same for owners: find the work that doesn't need you, and build what takes it off your desk.
In local media, I watched Google and Facebook swallow our audience. Now I help local businesses use the same kind of technology to outrun their competition.
Dave PetersonFounder, Gruntled SMB