Jacob SagerShow me your business
AI operating systems for owner-led businesses

Build the company you’d build today.

Your company has outgrown the way it works.

I help business owners decide what’s worth changing, then build the software and connections to do it. AI can help prepare a quote using your rates and past jobs, ready for someone to check. We start with what you want the company to handle better.

Send me a few details about your business. I’ll read them and, if I can help, arrange a free 20-minute conversation. We agree any paid work separately.

Jacob Sager
You’ll work directly with me.Jacob Sager · Austin, Texas
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01 / The inquiry

A customer needs a quote.

“Could you quote the reception desk we discussed? We need it ready before opening day.”

Working fromOriginal customer email
Next decisionIntake needs review
When the business grows

A successful business can become harder to run.

Sometimes the work around a job takes as much attention as the job itself.

Perhaps a customer is ready for a quote, but the pricing history is in an old email. Or a job is approved and someone still needs the details before they can begin.

A business can spend a lot of time moving information between people. That can leave an inquiry waiting or make a new opportunity harder to take on. I want to understand how your company handles those moments.

The question is what a change would make possible: a faster response to a customer, for example, or room to take on a job that is difficult to handle today.

What you’re working toward

A company that carries more of the work.

These examples show what I mean. Software can gather the details for a decision and track what happens afterward. We decide together which parts need a person.

Before the decision

A proposal arrives ready for your review.

A draft brings together the customer’s request, relevant past jobs and your pricing rules. You check the details and decide what to offer.

After a customer says yes

The next person knows how to begin.

The accepted proposal becomes a job with tasks and a person responsible for each next step. The person doing the job can find what the customer was promised.

During a busy week

People can find the instructions they need.

The task links to the relevant instructions and customer agreement. Someone can check a policy or a promised date without having to reconstruct the conversation.

As the company grows

A new job follows a process people can use.

The routine steps are written down and connected to the job record. Missing information or an unusual request goes to someone who can decide what to do.

These are possible designs. My paid business assessment, the Read, identifies a change worth investigating in your company. If we build it, we measure what actually improves.

Your operating partner

I want to understand how your business actually works.

I’m interested in the details a quick summary leaves out. The exception to the rule often tells me why the rule exists.

My family runs 38 Supercuts salons. I built Command Salon, a website for our operation that puts location reports beside the tasks and decisions they lead to. I also use systems like these in my own one-person practice.

We look at a real example from your business. I follow how it gets done, help you decide what would be worth changing, and build the software we agree on.

Jacob Sager wearing a blue jacket and yellow tie
You work directly with me, from the first conversation through the agreed work.
How it works

A Business Nervous System.

Useful information reaches the person or task that needs it.

A customer’s history, your rates and the steps for preparing a quote can be connected in one system. An AI assistant—a piece of software given a specific job—can use that information to prepare a draft. Your approval rules determine what happens next. I call those connected records, instructions and software a Business Nervous System.

The Blueprint is my design service for that system. It includes written instructions and a demonstration you can click through. You can see what someone would receive and approve before paying to connect it to the live business.

See the complete business-system design →
Work together

Decide what’s worth building.

Tell me about the business and what you’d like help with. If there’s a useful fit, we’ll talk for about 20 minutes before you decide on a paid assessment.

First paid engagement · A business assessment

The Read

Know where the next investment belongs.

The Read is a paid assessment of an agreed business question. We spend 90 minutes going through examples together. Within two business days after the session, I send your Business Nervous System Report: what I found, the issue that most limits your goal, and one recommended first change with its reasoning.

$2,500Fixed fee · Session and written report

A clear recommendation you keep, whether or not we continue.

See what’s in the report
When connected workflows need a design

The Blueprint

Inspect the future operation before you build it.

I design how the agreed part of your business could run. You receive written instructions and a clickable demonstration, with short films showing each process and a plan for what to build first. Delivery is usually two to three weeks after the Read, within the scope we agree.

$12,000Fixed fee · Following the $2,500 Read

You keep the design. You can have me build it or take it to another builder.

Walk through the Blueprint

Each next step is a separate decision. If one focused change is enough, we can agree on that build after the Read. A Blueprint makes sense when several processes need to fit together.

Read + Blueprint: $14,500 through design. Connecting the design to your live tools and putting it into use is a separately priced build. Ongoing maintenance and development are optional, with their own agreement.

For established owner-led businesses from $500k in annual revenue, including one-person companies. We consider the value of the change before you commit to a build.

For franchise & multi-location owners

Make the next decision across your locations.

See which location needs attention and who owns the follow-up.

I built Command Salon for my family’s 38 salons. It brings location reports together with follow-up tasks: which manager is responsible, and when we’ll check what happened.

For your business, I’d design a Command Center—a website where you and your managers can review location reports and assign follow-up tasks—around the decisions you need to make.

Command Salon demonstration screen with illustrative location performance data
Command Salon · Family-business deployment. Public screen uses invented names and illustrative data.
Prefer the walkthrough?

See how the work fits together.

This film explains how we move from a conversation about your business to a paid assessment, a design if needed, and a separately agreed build.

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A one-minute introduction to the Business Nervous System1:01 · Play when you like
Your next step

What could your business take on if the work moved better?

Tell me what the business does and what you’d like to improve. I’ll reply personally, usually within two business days. If I can help, we’ll arrange a free 20-minute conversation.

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