Now booking · 2 lighthouse engagements · Q3 2026

The applied AI studio for founder-led operators.

We design, build, and embed the AI agents, workflows, tools, and platforms that move a founder-led business forward — and we empower the people behind it to outsize their impact.

What we do

Implement the AI that runs the business.

Agents, workflows, tools — built in, owned by you.

Where we engage

$10M–$250M, founder-led.

Sharpest work at $10–50M. Below $10M is off-the-shelf territory.

Now

Booking Q3 2026.

2 lighthouse engagements open.

Why we exist

The next era of American business won't be built by the biggest companies. It'll be built by the fastest.

For the first time, the capabilities that used to belong only to the largest enterprises are within reach of a company doing twenty million in revenue. That changes who gets to win.

The founder-led businesses that move now — that treat AI as a way to build something larger, not merely run something cheaper — will define the next decade of American business. We built LeapFactors to stand with them.

Our mission is to help founder-led operators seize this moment: to accelerate their growth, expand what their teams can do, and secure the future of the businesses that hold their communities — and the country — together. Not by chasing the technology, but by putting it to work in the hands of the people who already run the place.

That's the leap. We exist to help you take it.

Why now

9 of 10

net new American jobs come from small businesses. The cohort holds the country together.

SBA Office of Advocacy · BLS · 2025

$2T

in AI value capture sits in the mid-market — roughly the size of Canada's economy.

WEF · Jan 2026

40 58%

SMB AI adoption in a single year. Almost no one is fluent yet — fluency is the edge.

U.S. Chamber · 2025

What we do

Three modes. One studio.

Engagements enter at one mode and grow into another. The hairline runs across all three because they share a studio, a senior, and a way of working.

01

Advise.

We point you at the right levers.

Senior counsel that drives to execution. We help you focus on the business outcomes that actually move when AI starts working — and on the next concrete move.

  • A prioritized opportunity register for a founder making a first real AI investment.
  • Twelve-month roadmaps that align leadership before budget commits.
  • Independent technology selection — build vs. buy, which vendor, what to skip. No reseller commissions.
  • Fractional AI leadership without a full-time CAIO hire.
02

Build.

We ship.

Production AI products, tools, and prototypes — built with your team, deployed into the work, owned by you when we leave.

  • Voice agents that answer after-hours calls and book jobs into dispatch — every missed call is $350–$450.
  • Agentic quoting, spec-checking, and order intake for specialty manufacturing and distribution.
  • Drafting, research, and compliance agents grounded in a professional-services firm's own work.
  • A guest-comms and scheduling layer for multi-location operators that their vertical SaaS doesn't ship.
03

Embed.

We sit alongside.

Forward-deployed pods inside your business. Same person in the boardroom and on the build, for the length of the engagement.

  • Board-mandated AI initiatives with no internal lead — we run the agenda for three to six months.
  • Stalled-pilot recovery: ship it, or kill it cleanly and rebuild.
  • Senior craft inside a multi-unit operator standing up AI across locations.
  • A professional-services firm embedding AI into delivery before competitors do.

Who we serve

Founder-led operators. Built to leap.

We work with founder-led, owner-operated U.S. companies. Operators big enough to feel where AI could change the business, small enough to move on it in weeks, with the person who decides already in the room. Most of our sharpest work lands with companies in the lower mid-market — and we engage up-market from there too.

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A dispatcher or owner on the phone in a real back office, work trucks visible through the window.

Home services & trades

HVAC · plumbing · electrical · landscaping

Pick up every call. Quote every job. Pay the agent back in a week.

  • After-hours voice agents into dispatch
  • Quoting, estimates, and follow-ups
  • Review and reputation ops
  • Routing and route-density planning
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Three partners around a real conference table, mid-strategy. Mixed daylight, papers on the table.

Professional services

Accounting · legal · agencies

Take what your senior partners know — and make it firm-wide.

  • Drafting and first-pass review
  • Research, precedent, and recall
  • Compliance and risk checks
  • Client ops and status comms
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Founder on the shop floor, hand on a part, looking up. Industrial lighting, no staging.

Light manufacturing & distribution

Specialty mfg · regional distribution

Take the desk work out of the operation. Keep the line moving.

  • Quoting and spec-checking
  • Order intake and data entry
  • AP / AR exception handling
  • Spec lookup and technical Q&A
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Multi-unit operator walking the floor, talking with a shift lead. Working-hours light.

Multi-location operators

Restaurants · fitness · retail · hospitality

Add the layer your vertical SaaS doesn't ship.

  • Guest comms and response
  • Scheduling and coverage
  • Cross-location anomaly spotting
  • Ops consistency across units

What makes us different

Four convictions. Most of this category holds the opposite ones.

01

People-first.

We design for adoption, not just deployment.

Workflow design, change, and team capability are core technical work — not soft accessories bolted on at the end. The systems we ship are systems your people actually use.

02

Beyond automation.

We chase what wasn't possible before.

Cost-cutting is table stakes. The interesting work is the new value — the products that didn't exist, the customer experiences that weren't feasible, the way of running the business that AI now makes real.

03

Studio, not consultancy.

We ship things, not slides.

We build under our own name. We have a portfolio of LeapFactors-owned products. We are operators, not slide-makers. If a project ends without something running in production, we didn't do our job.

04

Forward-deployed craft.

Same person in the boardroom and on the build.

The senior who scopes the work is the senior who delivers it. No pyramid. No "we'll bring in our team." When you hire LeapFactors, you get the people you met in the first call.

A note from Aaron

If you've read this far, you're probably the right kind of skeptical. The studio is small on purpose, the work is real, and the easiest way to figure out if we're a fit is a thirty-minute call.

No deck. No pitch. We trade notes on what you're working on, and by the end both of us know.

— Aaron

Founder · LeapFactors

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