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5-day AI Operations Audit

Find your
$4K/month leak.

Most owner-led businesses leak $4,000+ a month to slow lead response, scheduling friction, and invoice chasing. The AI Operations Audit finds yours, ranks them by ROI, and shows you exactly what to build first. Five days, fixed price, free if we don't find at least three.

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The Problem

You built a business.
Admin is running it.

  • 01Leads go cold. By the time you're off the job, in a meeting, or off a client call — the inquiry has already moved on to whoever responded first.
  • 02Admin consumes the day. Follow-ups, scheduling, invoicing, coordination — hours that should be spent on the work you're actually good at.
  • 03Your site works against you. An outdated or missing web presence means clients can't find you, don't trust you, or can't book you when they're ready.
  • 04Nothing connects. Your tools don't talk to each other. Data lives in three places. The same information gets entered twice. Errors happen.

"I started this business to do the work I'm good at — not to spend my evenings buried in admin."

— Field service owners, across every trade

What It Actually Costs

The hidden tax of slow operations

Companies that respond to inbound leads within 5 minutes are 100× more likely to qualify the lead than those who wait an hour. Most owner-led businesses are nowhere close to that window — and every late reply is revenue going to whoever answered first.

Source: Oldroyd, McElheran, Elkington · The Short Life of Online Sales Leads · Harvard Business Review, 2011

What We Build

AI implementation
that ships.

The portfolio is narrow on purpose. Most of our work is AI operations — the audit, the sprint, and the systems we build from them. Web design exists for the AI clients who also need a site that integrates with what we're shipping.

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Lead Offering

The AI Audit

5-day diagnostic + Implementation Sprint
$1,500 founding rate

AI Operations Audit

Know exactly where AI saves you 10+ hours a week — in 5 days. A fixed-price diagnostic of your operations with ROI math on every opportunity, a prioritized roadmap, and an optional sprint to build the top 2–3 automations.

5–7 day delivery, 8–12 hours of your time
Branded PDF + Loom walkthrough + debrief
Founding rate: $1,500 (2 of 2 remaining)
If we don't find ≥3 viable opportunities, it's free
See the audit →
Second offering
$5K–$12KDESIGNBUILDTESTTRAINSHIPFIXED SCOPEYOU OWN IT

The Implementation Sprint

2–4 weeks · audit-to-production

AI Implementation Sprint

Build the top 2–3 automations from your audit into production. Fixed scope, fixed price, ownership transfer at the end so it stays yours when the sprint closes. The natural second step after the audit — though the sprint can also start from your existing spec.

2–4 week delivery, fixed scope
Production code + ownership transfer
Three pricing tiers ($5K / $8.5K / $12K)
Optional retainer to evolve the system
See the sprint →

Also available

Website Design

From $1,800 →

Custom sites, fixed scope, 1–2 weeks. Built to integrate with your AI systems.

The Arc

What the first
six months look like

Audit ships first. Sprint follows. By month six the operation runs cleaner than it ever has — and you're back to the work you built this for.

MONTH 1Audit ships+ baselineRoadmap + ROI math + 90-day planMONTH 2Sprint kickoff+ clarityDiscovery + future-state designMONTH 3First system live+ $4K/moTop-leak workflow shipped + handed offMONTH 4Second system live+ $7K/moAdjacent workflow on the same railMONTH 6Compounding return+ $11K/moReports auto-generate · ops runs itself

How We Work

One conversation.
Fast from there.

Every LvlUp engagement — whether automation, web design, or something else — follows the same principle: understand the problem first, then build the right solution fast.

01

Audit Fit Call

30 minutes. You tell us about your operation. We confirm whether the AI Operations Audit is the right fit and what it would look like for your business — no pitch, no pressure.

02

Scoped Proposal

Within 24 hours: exact deliverables, exact price, exact timeline. You know what you're getting before committing to anything.

03

Built & Delivered Fast

Most engagements are live within 1–2 weeks. You see real output — a working automation, a live site — before we close.

04

Grows With You

Every engagement includes post-launch support. Retainer plans available to keep improving, expanding, and adapting as your business evolves.

For the AI Audit

Five days from kickoff to deliverable. Fixed price, fixed scope, ROI math on every opportunity — and the audit is free if we don't find at least three.

See the audit →

For Web Design

Starts with a scoping call. First draft in days, live site in under two weeks — with SEO, booking integration, and mobile design built in.

See the full process →

About

20+ years of building.
Now building for you.

Ken Jackson

I'm Ken Jackson — founder of LvlUp Agency, based in Austin, TX. Today I build AI operations systems for owner-led businesses: workflow automations, internal tooling, and the kind of practical AI integrations that actually save hours per week instead of generating decks about saving hours per week.

Recent work includes a federal agency knowledge platform, an AI-native event production system, a real-estate data ingestion pipeline, and Cipher — a personal AI life-assistant I'm building to push the limits of what the Anthropic API can do.

Before LvlUp, I spent 20+ years inside the system. VP of Engineering at Camp Gladiator (launched a virtual fitness product in 60 days, scaled to 50 states + 15 countries during COVID). VP of Product at Volusion (owned the roadmap for a $4B GMV ecommerce platform serving 50,000+ merchants). Founding partner at an Austin tech venture (active company, name withheld) — built a 30-engineer consultancy, a TWC-certified coding academy, and a product incubator from zero.

LvlUp is where all of that meets the businesses that need it most: owner-led companies with real operational complexity and zero access to enterprise-grade AI capability — until now.

20+ Years in TechAI ArchitectureWorkflow AutomationProduct Strategyn8nOperations DesignAustin, TX

Founder · LvlUp Agency (current)

AI operations consultant and builder. Recent work spans federal agency knowledge systems, AI-native event platforms, automation for trades and field service, and Cipher — a personal AI life-assistant I'm building to test the limits of what's possible with the API.

VP of Engineering · Camp Gladiator

Launched a virtual fitness product in under 60 days. Expanded from 12 states to all 50 and 15 countries. Led 18 engineers through a 400% user surge.

VP of Product · Volusion

Owned the roadmap for a $4B GMV ecommerce platform serving 50,000+ merchants. Full P&L responsibility for a $5M product organization.

Founding Partner · Austin tech venture (active, name withheld)

Built a 30-engineer consultancy, a TWC-certified coding academy, and a product incubator. Took 5 early-stage products to market in year one.

You Talk to the Builder

No account managers. No handoffs. The person who designs your system is the person who builds it — and the person you call when something needs to change.

Apply for the audit

Five days.
One clear plan.

2 founding-rate spots remaining at $1,500. Apply, take the 30-minute fit call, and if we're a fit we kick off the audit next week.

See the AI Audit →