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Yorkville · Chicago · Two bets · No wasted weeks
Two gambles. One rule: if we don’t make or save the fee — we worked for free.
Pick the bet that matches your company. $15,000 or $30,000 — five days in your business. Direct. No fluff. AI champions ASAP. We put our money where our mouth is. Free Labor Leak Checklist first — then see if you qualify.
$15,000 · $30,000
your choice · 5 days · or we ate the week
Full scope, both tiers & agreement →
Compare the $15k vs $30k gamble ↓
Make money
Catch revenue you’re dropping
Speed-to-lead, missed-call text-back, reactivate past customers, turn good jobs into Google reviews that bring the next job.
Save money
Cut labor waste
We meet your people one-on-one, then automate as much of their daily flow as possible. Skilled staff stop retyping. You get more output from the payroll you already pay.
The bet, plain: Pick $15,000 or $30,000 ($5M+ / ~10+ people). We guarantee you’ll make or save that fee within six months (often path in month one). If we miss under the written terms, we ate the week. Full guarantee → · Compare tiers →
Our $15k bet — make/save or we ate the week
No wasted time — direct, done in 5 days
Free checklist — start here
Filter first — qualify
How this works (no six-month science project)
Competitors sell “strategy retainers.” We sell a path with a free start and a dollar bet.
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See if you qualify
Short form + 15-min pre-qual. We filter revenue & team size — you see if we work together. Apply
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Pick your bet · AI Week
Five days. $15k or $30k gamble. Make/save the fee in ≤6 months — or we worked for free. Compare tiers · Agreement
Who this is for (and who should leave)
Top converters don’t take every lead. Neither do we.
Good fit
- $15k bet: leveling up · typically ~$2M+ · about 5+ people
- $30k bet: $5M+ / year · about 10+ employees
- Service / local / B2B ops that live on phone + leads + reviews
- Owner will run the systems after week one
- Wants make money / save money — not AI theater
- Yorkville · Chicago suburbs first (USA on-site OK)
Not a fit
- Under ~$1–2M looking for a magic button
- Want a 40-page deck and no installs
- Enterprise RFP / six-month “transformation”
- Won’t give access or train the team live
- Shopping hourly rates with no dollar outcome
The money math (why $15k is cheap if it works)
Same framing top SMB AI sites use — hours × labor, leads × close rate. We lock it in Exit Value Sign-Off.
| Leak | Example | Rough annual $ |
|---|---|---|
| Labor grind | 10 hrs/week × $40 loaded | ~$20,800 |
| Slow lead response | 2 extra jobs/mo × $800 margin | ~$19,200 |
| Dead database | 1 reactivation/mo × $600 margin | ~$7,200 |
| Missing Google reviews | Maps lift → 1 job/mo | often five figures |
Your numbers differ. That’s why week one starts with the map — and why the guarantee is make or save the fee ($15k or $30k) in six months, not vibes. Run the free ROI calculator → · Score your leaks (PDF) →
How the week actually works
One-on-one with each employee — then automate the grind
This is not a slide deck for the owner only. We sit with the people who do the work, maximize their efficiency, and strip busywork out of the day so payroll returns more.
1:1 with every seat that matters
We meet employees one-on-one: real daily flow, real bottlenecks, real tools. No guessing from the org chart.
Maximize efficiency & ROI on people
Goal is simple: more output from the team you already pay. Better return on investment in labor — not “hire three more.”
Automate the daily flow
Follow-ups, routing, logging, reminders, handoffs — automate as much as possible so humans keep judgment work and drop the copy-paste tax. Saves time and money.
Part of every $15k / $30k AI Week — map, build, train live.
It’s not about us. It’s about your P&L.
Companies don’t buy headshots and “as seen with” logos. They buy a clearer answer to two questions: How do we make more money? and How do we stop wasting money?
Revenue you already paid for
Old leads and past customers sitting cold. We build the stay-in-touch and trickle systems so the database earns again — cheaper than buying new ads forever.
Leads that don’t die
Missed calls and slow form response are cash walking out. Instant follow-up and routing so the work you already market for actually books.
Payroll that multiplies
One-on-one with each employee, then automate their daily flow. Best people stop being the copy-paste machine. You get more return on the wages you already pay.
We install reputation the right way — on your customers
Every company we work with: collect proof. Every one of your customers can get a simple post-job questionnaire that feels like Google.
4★ and 5★ → Google
Happy customers get routed to leave a public Google review. That’s how Maps and trust compound — not by begging once a year.
1★ and 2★ → private only
Rough nights stay off the wall. Management sees them fast for training and recovery. Same playbook we use across Steve’s client brands.
As we finish AI Weeks, real company outcomes and testimonials go here. Until then we stay honest: the pitch is the money math, not a fake logo wall.
New · AI sales avatars
Wouldn’t you love an avatar like this for your top salespeople?
Not a gimmick chat bubble. A face-and-voice avatar that answers the objections your company has heard for years — professionally scripted, run through top AI language models, ready when a buyer stalls at 9 p.m.
Sample build: Steve Holland AI promo avatar · your brand would use your people, voice, and objection library.
Imagine your best closer — cloned as an avatar — answering every common “no” the way you wish every rep answered it:
- Sales objections — price, timing, “we already have a vendor,” “send a proposal” — scripted from your real history, not generic AI fluff.
- Professional responses — polished through top language models, then locked to your voice and brand so it still sounds like you.
- Train salespeople — new hires watch and practice the same objection library your veterans use. No more tribal knowledge stuck in one person’s head.
- Train how the company runs — same stack trains ops and new employees on how you sell, follow up, and deliver — not just product facts.
- Train how to sell the company — messaging, proof, guarantee language, next step — consistent at scale.
Inside The AI Week we can scope this as part of your install: capture objections, write the scripts, build the avatar path, and train your team to own it — under the same $15k or $30k make-or-save bet.
See if you qualify Agreement & tiers Free Labor Leak Checklist
Before you ghost — read this once
Same five stalls we hear. One kill-shot for all of them.
Who cares if you already have IT? You’re looking at $15,000 with a guarantee we make or save you $15,000 in months — stop it — you’re getting a free audit (Labor Leak Checklist). Full FAQ: objections answered.
“Too expensive”
Then the free checklist first. Guarantee: make/save $15k in months — or the written terms make you whole. Sticker without ROI is fear.
“We have IT”
Who cares? IT ≠ speed-to-lead, dead database, review routing, labor leaks. Different job. Same guarantee.
“Need to think” / “not ready” / “tried AI”
Stop it. Free audit path now. Thinking without the checklist is stalling. Past tries that didn’t print money don’t block the guarantee.
What small businesses are fighting right now
Labor is expensive. Good people are hard to keep. Most of the pain isn’t “we need more staff” — it’s that the work is still manual, inconsistent, and stuck in the owner’s head.
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Payroll grinding with no return
Payroll climbs while the same people retype the same follow-ups, chase the same leads, and answer the same questions. We multiply the team you already pay — common sense, not buzzwords.
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Missed calls and slow lead response
The average business still responds in hours. Buyers decide in minutes. Every unanswered ring and cold form is money walking to a competitor who texted back first.
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Reputation left to chance
Great jobs never become Google reviews. One loud complaint sticks. Without a system, your best customers stay silent and your Maps ranking stalls.
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CRM full of dead money
Old leads and past buyers sit untouched while you buy new ads. Reactivation is cheaper than acquisition — if someone actually runs it.
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Owner is still the system
If the process lives in your head, you can’t step away and the company can’t grow. That’s a job with overhead — not a company built for profit. One week: we pull it out of your head and into systems.
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Tools with no glue
Website, phone, email, reviews, ads, and booking don’t talk to each other. Staff become the integration layer. That’s expensive labor doing machine work.
What we put in during the week
Practical systems. The same stack we’ve been building for real local businesses — tuned to your shop, your people, and your numbers.
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AI phone & desk
Missed-call text-back, after-hours capture, FAQs, and booking handoff so your best people aren’t glued to the phone.
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Lead response
Instant web/form follow-up, nurture sequences, and no-more-cold-leads routing into a clean pipeline.
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Reputation engine
Automated review asks at the right moment. Happy customers to Google. Private recovery path for rough nights.
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CRM & database
Clean records, reactivation of old leads, and a pipeline your team can run without reinventing it daily.
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Modern website
Conversion site that captures name, email, cell, and address — built to book work, not look futuristic.
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Ads that actually convert
Paid traffic only works when follow-up is instant. We connect the spend to the system so dollars don’t vanish.
Built for operators who live on calls & jobs
Same stack pattern top service-business AI shops use — tuned to your trade, not a generic chatbot demo.
Home services & trades
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, remodel — missed calls = lost jobs. Speed-to-lead + reviews win the next booking.
Clinics & professional
Intake, FAQs, follow-up, reputation. Staff stops drowning in the same questions.
Local B2B & multi-location
CRM hygiene, reactivation, routing. Owners stop being the only system that works.
Yorkville · Naperville · Aurora · Oswego · Joliet · Chicago western suburbs — then anywhere USA. Local page →
Choose your gamble
Same week. Same intensity. The bet scales with the company. If we don’t make or save the fee you paid — under the written terms — we worked for free.
Make/save fee or we worked free
Standard bet
The AI Week · make or save $15,000 in ≤6 months
- Best when you’re leveling up — typically ~5+ employees
- Five days: map waste, install, train live
- Phone AI, leads, CRM, reviews, site glue as scoped
- Exit Value Sign-Off locks the math
- Travel/hotels/food client-paid if on-site
Bigger company · bigger bet
Pro bet · $5M+ companies
AI Week Pro · make or save $30,000 in ≤6 months
- For companies doing over $5M / year
- About 10+ employees (more seats, more systems, more $ at stake)
- Same five-day immersion — deeper multi-team install
- Bigger guarantee: we bet $30k of outcome
- Travel/hotels/food client-paid if on-site
- Everything in Standard — scaled to your org
Not sure? See if you qualify — we’ll tell you which bet fits. Or start free: Labor Leak Checklist.
The AI Week
Five days. One fixed price. I install, train your people live, and leave you with systems that keep working.
Day 1
Map the waste — including each person
First half: labor leaks, money leaks, tools you already pay for. Then we meet employees one-on-one — what they actually do all day, where time dies, what should be automated. Highest-ROI installs locked before we build.
Days 2–5
Build, automate daily flow & train live
Phone, leads, CRM, reviews, site, automations — wired to how you run. We automate as much of each employee’s daily workflow as possible so they stop retyping and start producing. Your people train with the systems as they go live — not a classroom after the fact. Goal: maximize each person’s efficiency and the return on what you already pay in payroll.
Us vs the usual AI pitch
What buyers actually compare after reading the top 10 “AI consulting for SMB” lists.
| Typical SMB AI shop | Steve Holland AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5k–$25k project or retainer | Fixed $15k or $30k bet |
| Time | 4–12 weeks | 5 days |
| Free start | Strategy call | Labor Leak Checklist PDF |
| Guarantee | Hours saved / vague ROI | Make or save the fee you paid |
| Skin in game | You pay either way | We bet the week |
| Filter | Anyone with a card | $15k or $30k ($5M+/10+) — qualify first |
Ready? Don’t start with a novel.
Best path: free checklist → qualify → 15-min pre-qual. Or send this and we’ll route you.
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