Businesses that run on documented systems sell for more. Ghost ships don't.
Owner-run businesses can sell for half of what they should, because the pricing logic, client quirks, and unwritten rules all live in one head. Automating with AI and documenting as you go fixes both problems at once: the business runs better now, and a buyer inherits an operating system instead of a mystery.
The 4-session playbook extraction
Run these as recorded working sessions, with your team, or with a vetted agency from the directory doing the extraction and the automation build together.
01The client map
→Who are your top clients and why do they stay?
→Which client gets exceptions, and what's the real rule behind them?
→Who would leave if you left?
02Pricing logic & the money engine
→How is pricing actually decided (not what the sheet says)?
→Which jobs make money, which are favors?
→What gets discounted, when, and why?
03Vendors, tools & the unwritten rules
→Who gets called when a vendor fails?
→Which supplier relationships live in your phone?
→What breaks if a specific person takes two weeks off?
04Daily workflows → automation map
→Walk one normal day, hour by hour. Every decision made from memory
→Which of those decisions can an AI system make with the rules written down?
→What's the first workflow a buyer's team could run without you?
Want it done for you?
Get matched with an agency that documents while it automates, pick "Automate to sell" as your goal and we'll route you to partners who deliver the playbook with the build.