AI AUTOMATION

AI systems that grow revenue and margins inside real companies.

Your team is good. The systems underneath them haven’t kept up with the growth. I design and implement the AI and automation that answer leads faster, follow up every time, and take the manual work out of operations, run with the discipline of a nuclear submarine.

A few minutes. No sales pitch.

Jeff Barnes

Where growth leaks

  • Lead response

    Leads that wait hours for a reply go cold and buy from someone faster.

  • Sales follow-up

    Deals stall when follow-up depends on someone remembering to do it.

  • Conversion

    Good prospects slip through when every rep runs the process their own way.

  • Upsells & retention

    Customers who would buy more never get asked, and some quietly leave.

  • Manual operations

    Skilled people spend their week copying data between systems.

  • Reporting

    Leaders wait days for numbers they need to make today's decision.

WHY SUBMARINES

On a nuclear submarine, a crew brings a reactor online by following the procedure, step by step, in the right order. Nobody has to be a hero. The system carries everyone. I learned that in the engine room of the USS Jefferson City and wrote it down in All Hands on Deck. AI only works the same way: procedures first, then automation, then people and agents who run it.

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How we work together

Advisory

For $5M–$20M companies. I diagnose where revenue and margin leak, build the roadmap, and hold the plan accountable. A few hours a month on retainer. Your team or vetted partners do the build.

Enterprise

For Fortune 500 companies and PE portfolio companies. I architect the automation program across teams and systems, and stay on as the lead architect on retainer.

Embedded

For VC-backed companies. I work in the trenches with your team to design and ship the systems. Retainer plus equity. Limited slots.

Engagements start at companies with $5M+ in revenue or $2M+ in EBITDA, reviewed case by case.

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Jeff Barnes

WHO YOU’RE WORKING WITH

I started fixing engines in an auto shop, then served on Navy nuclear submarines doing quality assurance under SUBSAFE. At HSB, part of Munich Re, I led mobile technology that made inspections 30% faster. Since then I’ve designed the systems underneath companies growing fast, and now I do it with AI.

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