Business growth and operations
Where revenue leaks and hours go: pricing and margins, cash flow, capacity, and process fixes that often pay for themselves before any technology.
AI & Business Strategy Consultant
Jay Patel
I help solo founders, small business owners, and enterprises grow revenue and run leaner. I find where money is leaking and time is being lost, then design and deliver the fix, from strategy to working systems.
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Areas of work
Full-scope support across strategy, operations, and technology. If it is slowing the business down or costing you customers, it is in scope.
01Services
How I can help
Every engagement is scoped to a measurable outcome: more revenue, lower costs, or hours returned to the business.
Speed to lead
Every new inquiry answered in under a minute, qualified, and booked on your calendar. Plus win-back campaigns for old leads.
Learn moreAI search visibility
When customers ask ChatGPT or Google AI who to hire, be on the list. I test six AI assistants and fix the gap.
Learn moreWebsites, 3D and interactive
Sites and landing pages built to convert, from clean and fast to 3D scenes and scroll-driven stories.
Learn moreAutomation, internal tools and custom AI
CRM, quoting, reporting, and AI assistants connected to the systems you already use, where they earn a return.
Brand content and ad creative
UGC-style video ads and AI brand personas for paid social, at the volume real testing needs.
02Selected work
Built and shipped
Products and systems I have designed and delivered. Select any one for a closer look.
Live A SaaS I built
Akwiz
Recovers revenue lost to failed card payments. When a subscriber’s card declines, Akwiz follows up automatically until the payment is updated. Designed, built and run end to end.
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Akwiz
Recovers revenue lost to failed card payments. When a subscriber’s card declines, Akwiz follows up automatically until the payment is updated. Delivered end to end: product, Stripe integration, email delivery, accounts, and billing.
- Detects failed Stripe payments as they happen
- Automated, multi-step recovery emails to the customer
- Read-only Stripe connection, set up in minutes
StripeSupabaseReactEmail automation
Visit akwiz.io
Lapsed
A done-for-you customer reactivation program for local service businesses. A five-email, three-text sequence that brings past customers back without paid advertising.
- Targets customers who have not returned in months
- Five emails and three texts, written in the business’s voice
- No ad spend: works the customer list the business already has
EmailSMSCopywritingSegmentation
How speed to lead works
Custom CRM
A purpose-built CRM that replaces a $30 to $100 monthly subscription. Deal pipeline, contacts, and a dated next step on every opportunity, with AI able to read and update it directly.
- Pipeline from first contact to closed deal
- Alerts when a deal stalls for 14 days
- CSV import and export, data stays in-house
PythonSQLiteJSON API
Lead Engine
Identifies businesses that match a target profile, extracts contact details from their websites, removes duplicates, and loads a clean list into the CRM. Hours of manual prospecting reduced to a single run.
- Finds businesses by niche and location
- Pulls emails, phone numbers, and LinkedIn profiles from their sites
- Deduplicates and loads straight into the CRM
Web scrapingData enrichmentAutomation
AI Search Audit
Scores how ready a website is to be found and cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s AI answers across ten criteria, then generates the fixes and a client-ready report.
- Ten-point AI search readiness score
- Generates llms.txt, structured data, and meta tag fixes
- Branded report with a prioritized checklist
SEOStructured dataPythonReporting
See a sample report
Interactive Websites
Websites that people remember: 3D scenes, scroll-driven storytelling, and motion that guides visitors toward an inquiry. The tiles on this page, and the demo beside this text, are built the same way.
- 3D graphics, scroll animation, and interactive elements
- Designed to hold attention and turn visitors into inquiries
- Fast on mobile, accessible, and search-friendly
Three.jsWebGLGSAPMotion design
See live 3D examples
Brand Content & Ads
Short-form video ads and brand creative built for paid social. UGC-style spots, consistent AI brand personas, and product visuals, produced at the volume real creative testing requires.
- UGC-style video ads with multiple hooks per concept
- AI brand personas that stay consistent across every ad
- Product shots and static creative sized for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube
UGC videoAI personasHook testingMeta & TikTok
Client Reports
Takes a metrics export and produces a branded, client-ready performance report with KPI summaries and trend charts. The same report regenerates every week or month without manual formatting.
- Imports metrics straight from a spreadsheet export
- Branded layout with KPI tiles and trend charts
- Repeatable on any schedule, no manual formatting
PythonData visualizationReporting
Custom AI Tools
Custom AI assistants, agents, and integrations designed around how an organization actually works. They connect to the systems already in place, so teams get answers and automation inside the tools they use every day.
- Assistants and agents that read data and take action in your existing systems
- Integrations with CRMs, ERPs, databases, and internal APIs
- Permission-scoped access, testing, and full documentation for internal teams
LLM agentsModel Context ProtocolPythonAPIs
03Where this usually starts
Common challenges I help with
If one of these sounds like your operation, it is a good first conversation.
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“We know we should be doing something with AI, but nobody can tell us where to start.”
02
“Inquiries come in and sit for hours before anyone gets back to them.”
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“We bought an AI tool, used it for two weeks, and quietly stopped.”
04
“We spend money on marketing and cannot tell what is actually working.”
04Revenue leak calculator
What is slow follow-up costing you?
Move the sliders to match your business. The slower a lead hears back, the less likely it is to buy.
Typical response time
Estimated revenue left on the table
$0/ year
$0 a month · 0 missed sales
Illustrative estimate. Leads contacted within an hour are far more likely to convert than those contacted later (Harvard Business Review, “The Short Life of Online Sales Leads”).
05Approach
How I work
A clear path from first conversation to finished work, with no surprises on scope or price.
- 01
Discovery call
We talk through the problem, the goal, and what success looks like. No cost, no obligation.
- 02
Written scope
A fixed-price proposal with deliverables and timeline, agreed before work begins.
- 03
Build and deliver
Delivered in stages with regular check-ins, so each stage proves its value.
- 04
Handover
Everything documented and handed to you or your team. Support available, never required.
Fixed priceAgreed in writing before any work starts.
Senior-level throughoutThe person who scopes it delivers it.
You own everythingCode, accounts, and documentation are yours.
06Background
Business first,
technology second
I bring a business and strategy background to AI implementation.
My early work was in campaign strategy, then financial services, where accuracy and discretion were the baseline. I also grew up around several family-owned businesses, with hands-on experience across acquisition, operations, and sale: practical exposure to where a business generates margin, and where it quietly loses it. The result is work that is commercially grounded and measured by outcomes, not experiments.
07Questions
Before we speak
Where are you based, and who do you work with?
Jay Patel Consulting is based in Chicago, at 211 W Wacker Dr, Ste 120, Chicago, IL 60606. I work with solo founders, small businesses and larger organizations in Chicago and the suburbs, and remotely with clients anywhere in the US.
What do you specialize in?
Speed-to-lead automation that answers every new inquiry in under a minute, AI search visibility (getting recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI), 3D and interactive websites, workflow automation with tools like Make.com and n8n, and custom AI assistants connected to the systems a business already uses.
Do you only work on AI projects?
No. Much of the work is growth and operations: a website that converts, a follow-up process that stops leads going cold, cleaner reporting, a pricing review. AI is one tool among several, used where it clearly outperforms the alternatives.
Do I need to know what I want built?
No. Most conversations begin with a description of what is slow or frustrating rather than a specification. Working out what is worth building, and in what order, is part of the engagement.
How are engagements priced?
Fixed price against a written scope, agreed before any work begins. Larger projects are divided into stages so the commitment stays proportionate to what has been proven so far.
Who owns what you build?
You do. Code, accounts, credentials, and documentation are handed over on completion. Nothing is structured in a way that creates an ongoing dependency on me.
What happens to our data?
It stays yours. Systems are built inside your own accounts and infrastructure wherever practical, and anything shared during an engagement is treated as confidential.
08Contact
Work with me
Tell me what you want to improve, and I’ll come back with a clear recommended next step.
[email protected]Based in Chicago, working with clients anywhere. Email is the fastest way to reach me. For a quick question, text (312) 869-9631, or book a 20-minute intro.
