Tier 00
Discovery call
Free
We get on a call. I ask about the work, your team, what's grinding. You leave with two or three quick wins you can run yourself — whether we work together or not.
Quick-win shortlist
Jake Podkowka
AI Systems forsmall teams.
I find where your business is leaking time, build the systems that stop it, and run them with you.
or text me — (315) 316-2694
- 12hrs / wk
recovered from admin work
Guaranteed - 100%
owned by you — systems, data, accounts
- 1person
you work directly with Jake
- 2–6weeks
from first call to shipped build
How we work together
Four tiers. Earned, not assumed.
Trust is earned in layers. Every tier proves its own ROI before the next one starts — so you never sign for a transformation you haven’t already seen working.
The funnelDiscovery → Roadmap → Build → Retainer04 tiers
Tier 01The foundation
Production Roadmap
$2,500
A short, deep engagement. I shadow your team, map every workflow, and put a dollar figure on every leak I find. You receive a client-branded interactive microsite — your business, instrumented — with prioritized ROI on every fix.
Guaranteed to surface 12+ hrs/wk of recoverable work — or the Roadmap is refunded.
Client-branded microsite
Tier 02
Build
Scoped in your Roadmap
I build the systems. Real automations, agentic workflows, CRM integrations, memory, knowledge. Not decks. Not prototypes. Production systems with humans in the loop where it matters.
Shipped systems
Tier 03
Retainer
Set after your Build
Once it's working, it has to keep working. I stay on as your AI ops partner — tuning, observing, extending. The systems get smarter every month, not staler.
Ongoing partnership
You can stop at any tier. Most clients run the Roadmap first and decide from there — the $2,500 comes off the Build if we keep going.
It’s not a subscription.
It’s an asset.
Common questions
A deck is a recommendation. The Map is a working artifact — and I'm the one who builds what it identifies. No handoff to a developer. No "now go find a vendor." Same person, start to finish.
Productized services ship the same system to every buyer. I build custom systems shaped to your specific workflows. Not a template. Not a subscription. An asset that compounds.
A SaaS gives you a canvas. You still have to design the workflows yourself and pay per seat forever. I design the workflows for your business, ship them, and they're yours.
The Map gives you back at least 12 hours a week — or it's refunded. A day and a half of work, every week. If I can't surface that much in 1–2 weeks sitting with your business, you don't pay.
You own everything. Every workflow, prompt, memory layer, and integration lives in your accounts, on your data. Cancel the relationship and the systems keep running. There's nothing to repossess, no licensing fee, no off-switch on my end.
Days, not quarters. The Map is 1–2 weeks. The first Build is 2–6 weeks. You see working systems inside your business within the first month.