I run a small operations consulting firm. My clients are established businesses with good revenue and systems held together with tape. I go in, map what's broken, and build the automations, CRM workflows, and AI agents that fix it.

I'm at the point where I can't build everything myself. I'm looking for one person to take over a large chunk of it.

You do not need experience in all of the below. Read that again, because it's the part people get wrong. This is a long list on purpose — it shows you what the work looks like over a year, not what I expect you to walk in knowing. If you're excellent at automation and curious about the rest, apply.

The one thing that isn't optional: you have built real automations. Not "I watched a course on Zapier." You've built something that ran in production, broke, and you fixed it.

What you'd actually do

Building — roughly half your week:

- Build and maintain automations across several client accounts, workflows, custom properties, pipelines, deal stages

- Write custom API integrations when no native connector exists

- Build AI agents that do real work — a social media agent, an executive assistant agent, an intake agent — and refine them until they're good enough to sell as products

- Use Claude Code, Cursor, or similar to ship small internal tools. Replit or Base44 is fine. Writing the code yourself is better.

Documenting and productizing — the other half:

- Record what we build, what broke, and why. Turn it into SOPs and onboarding videos.

- Take agents we've built for one client and turn them into repeatable products we sell to many

- Watch token usage and cut it down. I want someone who treats API spend as a problem to solve.

- Build slide decks and presentations that look genuinely good

- Write a weekly newsletter

- Keep my website current

- Draft client proposals

- Research new tools and report back on what's worth adopting

I'll train you on everything I know and record all of it. In exchange I need you to organize it and turn it into the training material for whoever comes after you.

What I'm looking for

- Real automation experience, built and maintained, not just used

- Comfortable with APIs, webhooks, JSON, and reading documentation you've never seen before

- You use AI tools at a level that would impress other technical people. You've pushed past the chat window.

- Strong written and spoken English. You'll be writing things clients read.

- You document without being asked

Nice to have, not required: Self-hosted agent frameworks, a software engineering background, LinkedIn or content experience, design skills.

On being replaced by AI

You'll be building systems that automate work — including some of your own. I want to be direct about this: that's the job, and it doesn't put you out of one. Every process you automate frees you for harder work. I need human judgment on all of it, permanently. Someone who thinks this way is exactly who I want.

The setup

40 hrs/week, paid hourly, tracked. I need 3–4 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern time — the rest of your day is yours to schedule. Two-week paid trial at full rate, then we both decide.

This is long-term. I'm building a team, not filling a gap.

How to apply

Put the word BLUEPRINT at the very top of your application. I read every application, and this tells me you read the whole post. No keyword, no reply.

Then send me:

Your portfolio or proof of work. Screenshots of scenarios you built, a Loom walkthrough, a GitHub repo, anything real. This matters more than your resume.

For each of these, tell me one word — built it, maintained it, or never touched it: Make.com · Zapier · n8n · HubSpot · Brevo · Claude Code · MCP servers · custom API integrations

Describe one automation you built end to end. What triggered it, what the steps were, and what happened the first time it failed.

What's the most complicated thing you've handed to someone non-technical, and how did you document it?

Your hourly rate and hours available per week.

Keep it short. I'd rather read four honest paragraphs than a formatted resume. If you've never touched half the tools on this list but you're strong at automation, say so plainly and apply anyway — I'd rather hire someone honest about gaps than someone who claims everything.