3 weeks
Inside your Slack, WhatsApp and ERP. On site as the upgrade.
We live inside your business. Then we build.
The Residency: we live inside your business for 3 weeks, then build the software it actually needs. A map of every recurring task, a first automation live by day 5, a custom internal suite under your name on your accounts, and a documented day a week back in your calendar by day 21. Or we keep working free.
Free, 20 minutes. You do your normal Monday morning on a screen share, Ishan watches, then names the three places your week leaks. 4 slots a week.
Day 5
The Day-One Win: your highest-frequency task, automated and live.
Day 21
A documented day a week back in your calendar. Guaranteed.
Who it is for01 / THE OWNER
If a question has to reach you before it gets answered, this is for you.
Owner-run businesses with 10 to 200 staff, where the owner is still the person every question routes through. The quote, the reschedule, the WhatsApp order, the invoice query: all of it lands on your phone, and the business stops when you do. Goldman Sachs found 76% of small businesses now use AI and only 14% have it embedded in core operations (Goldman Sachs 10KSB, March 2026). That gap is your evenings.
01
Clinics and practices
Momentus Athletics, Canada. The owner was also the practitioner, so admin ate clinical hours. We built the client portal they run the practice on. Paid in full, live today.
02
D2C and retail
BigSmall Gift Studio and Axiom Jewellery, India. A kit builder for the first, an admin panel and price intake system for the second. Seasonal order chaos turned into screens the team actually uses.
03
B2B deep-tech
phine.tech, Austria. A 5G lab startup where the founder's week was proposals, docs and lab scheduling. Diffuse pain is the hardest kind to see from outside. That is why we live in it.
How it works02 / WEEK BY WEEK
Watch first. Build second. Hand over third.
Most consultants interview you and build from what you said. We build from what we watched. Those are different businesses.
01
Shadow Week
days 1 to 5
Read-only access by day 2. We sit in your Slack, WhatsApp, inbox and ERP, plus a daily screen share. Every recurring task gets logged: how often, who, how many minutes. By Friday you have the Shadow Map, one page, and it is yours even if you stop here. This week is the $500 AI Game Plan, credited 100% into the residency.
02
The
Day-One Win
Also by day 5. The single highest-frequency task on the map, automated and live inside the tools you already run. Nobody's day changes until this ships. Fast beats clever.
03
Build
days 6 to 15
The Owner Bottleneck Removal first: a tool or agent with guardrails that answers the routine questions from your own rules, so they stop reaching you. Then the Branded Internal Suite: custom internal software under your name, on your accounts, with a handbook. No tool migration. We build into what you have.
04
Rollout
days 16 to 21
Live training per role, one-page SOPs, and two weeks of hand-holding inside your chat. Your staff use it because they watched it get built around their day.
05
Handover
day 21 on
Monitoring, docs, and the Hire-Avoided Sheet: which role you no longer need to fill, with the loaded cost. Autopilot keeps it running from $500 per 4-week cycle, with a senior human on call. Optional, never required.
The six modules03 / WHAT IS INSIDE
The Residency.
Six modules, each tied to one thing owners actually say to us. No strategy deck, no workshop. Those cost you money and return a PDF.
Shadow Week $500 (credited 100%) → The Residency from $8,000 → full residency plus build $12,000 → Autopilot from $500 per 4-week cycle.
A day a week back
by day 21, or free.
by day 21, or free.
Two 30-minute owner sessions a week and system access by day 2. That is your whole side of the deal.
ModuleThe problem it kills
The Shadow Map"I don't know where the time goes."
Included
The Day-One Win"Consultants talk, nothing ships."
Included
The Owner Bottleneck Removal"Everything routes through me."
Included
The Branded Internal Suite"I don't want someone else's Zapier spaghetti."
Included
The Team Rollout"My staff will not use it."
Included
Keep-It-Running Handover"It will break the week you leave."
Included
Bonus: Ops Map Ownershipthe map is yours even if you stop after week 1
Yours
Bonus: First Quarter on Autopilotthree 4-week cycles, when paid in full
Included
Bonus: The Hire-Avoided Sheetthe role you no longer need, with its loaded cost
Included
Starting pricefrom $8,000
Show me your Monday →
Day 2204 / WHAT YOU KEEP
What is on your desk when we leave.
01OwnershipCode, accounts, data, all in your name. Zero lock-in, written into the engagement.
02The handbookWhat each tool does, who runs it, what to do when it breaks. Written for your team, not for us.
03The Shadow MapThe one-page log of where your hours went. Use it to hire, delegate, or call us back.
04The Hire-Avoided SheetThe role you were about to post, and what it would have cost you loaded.
05Autopilot, if you want itFrom $500 per 4-week cycle. Monitoring plus a senior human on call. Three cycles are free when you pay in full.
Price05 / NUMBERS
Published, because nobody else in this lane does.
Every number below is the same number on our pricing page. A discount removes modules. It never lowers the rate on the same scope.
flat$500
Shadow Week (the AI Game Plan). The map, the Day-One Win, a fixed quote. Credited 100% into the residency.
from$8,000
The Residency. Three weeks embedded, bottleneck removal, rollout, handover.
full$12,000
Full residency plus build: the Branded Internal Suite included. Half on signing, half on day 21 if you prefer.
from$14,000
On site, in your country, in your office. Same modules, Ishan at the next desk.
from$500
Autopilot, per 4-week cycle, after handover. Never sold on its own.
For scale: a day a week back is about 50 owner-days a year. Price that yourself. The full 2026 market table, 28 published prices from audits to embeds, is in how much an AI consultant costs.
The guarantee
A documented day a week back in your calendar by day 21, or we keep working free until it is there.
Two conditions, both yours to keep: you attend two 30-minute owner sessions a week, and you grant system access by day 2. That is it. A claim costs us days, so we only sign businesses we can actually do this for.
2 seats at a timeIshan can be inside two companies at once and not a third. When both are taken, this page says so. We will not fake this one.
First Monday ruleOne seat opens the first Monday of each month. Sign before that Monday and the First Quarter on Autopilot bonus attaches to your seat. Sign after and it does not.
Start the same weekNo kickoff deck, no onboarding month. Access on Tuesday, map on Friday.
What we are not06 / THE ALTERNATIVES
Not an officer. Not a Zapier shop. Not a deck.
01
Not a fractional AI officer
Chief AI Officer sells an embedded CAIO at $54,000 per 90 days (source). AE Studio's Embedded AI Operator is $10,000 a week with a 3-week minimum, so $30,000 to start (source). Both are built for PE portfolios and mid-market back offices. A 30-person firm does not need an officer. It needs the week back.
02
Not a Zapier shop
Automation agencies wire one workflow and leave you with spaghetti on someone else's account. We map first, build into your tools under your name, and hand you a handbook. If a Zapier-grade fix is the honest answer, the Shadow Map will say so and you pay $500, not $8,000. Compare the lanes in the best AI automation agencies for small business.
03
Not a strategy deck
We dropped the workshop and the 40-slide roadmap on purpose. RSM found 70% of mid-market AI users recognise they need outside help (RSM 2025); what they got from most of it was a document. You get a Day-One Win by Friday of week one. Consultant vs hiring a team, the short answer.
Proof07 / SHIPPED
Built from what we watched, not what we were told.
Of 13 firms we checked in this lane, one publishes named results for the offer itself. Here are ours, with the honest caveat that none were sold as a residency. They were built the residency way: inside the client's chat, around the client's day.
Clinic · Canada
Momentus Athletics client portal. Paid in full, live, running the practice.
D2C · IndiaBigSmall Gift Studio kit builder. Custom ordering flow built around how their team actually packs a box.
Retail · IndiaAxiom Jewellery admin panel and price intake. Catalogue, pricing and images managed by staff, not by us.
OurselvesThe automation log: how DappaSol runs its own follow-up, with the numbers, updated as they change.
The follow-up you get after the Monday walkthrough is sent by the system on that log page. Read how to make your business run without you for the method, and ops automation if you only want one workflow wired, not the whole residency.
Questions08 / FAQ
The five things owners ask, plus three.
Will you disrupt my team?
No. Week one is listen-only. Your cost is two 30-minute sessions a week, and nobody's day changes until the Day-One Win ships. Your staff see a quiet observer, then a tool that removes a task they hated.
I don't want someone watching everything.
Read-only access first, and the Shadow Map is reviewed with you before anyone else sees it. It is yours to keep, even if you stop after week one. The watching is why the build fits. Everyone who skipped it built the wrong thing.
We tried Zapier and it fell apart.
That was building before mapping. The map comes first here, then we build into the tools you already run, under your name, on your accounts, with a handbook. If a simple automation is the honest answer, the map says so and you stop at $500.
What do we own after?
Everything. Your accounts, your name on the suite, the code, the data, a handbook your team can follow. Autopilot is optional and never required to keep what we built running.
Why not just hire a person?
An ops hire in Canada or the US runs $40,000 to $60,000 a year loaded, by our estimate, and starts at zero knowledge of your business. The Residency is one build from $8,000, then $500 a cycle if you want us on call. And you still have the Shadow Map if you hire later. It makes the job description.
Remote or on site?
Remote by default: we live in your Slack, WhatsApp, inbox and ERP with a daily screen share, across time zones. On site in your country is the upgrade, from $14,000, same modules, Ishan at the next desk for the Shadow Week and the rollout.
What access do you need?
Read-only access to your chat, inbox, and operating systems by day 2, upgraded to build access only where the map says we are building. A daily 20-minute screen share with whoever runs the morning. Two 30-minute owner sessions a week. Nothing else.
What happens after day 21?
Handover: monitoring, docs, the Hire-Avoided Sheet, and the guarantee check against your calendar. If the day a week is not documented, we keep working free until it is. Then Autopilot from $500 per 4-week cycle if you want a senior human on call, with three cycles included when you paid in full.
Show me your Monday · free · 20 minutes · 4 slots a week
Do your Monday.
We'll watch.
Run your normal Monday morning on a screen share and Ishan names the three places your week leaks. No pitch. If the Residency is not the answer, you leave with three fixes and we leave you alone.
Got it. Ishan will reach out to you shortly. Email ishan@dappasol.com if you would rather write first.