Built fifteen things. Half work.
“Everything I automate dies in about two weeks.”
AI was meant to save time. Babysitting it became the job.
For owners doing real revenue · Built with your team · Owned by you
You've tried AI. Nothing's easier yet. We fix that.
You started using AI to save time. It gave you another job.
For owners who caught the AI bug, built 15 projects, half of which work some of the time, that want simple working AI systems that actually save time.
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2 minutes · saved as you go · no sales sequence
[ 01 ] · The five pains
Five reasons AI hasn't paid off in your business yet.
Not because you're bad at it. These are the five things owners with the AI bug say every week, in their own words. Most have three of them at once.
It doesn't know the business.
“ChatGPT gives me generic stuff.”
You re-paste the background into every prompt and still get a stranger's answer.
The team won't use it.
“We bought the tools and nobody touched them.”
The team nodded, then went back to the old way. Nobody trained them, so nothing changed.
No idea where to start.
“Which tasks are actually worth automating?”
Everyone has ideas. Nobody has a map.
The bottleneck just moved.
“AI didn't remove the bottleneck, it moved it.”
Faster drafts, same approvals, same week.
Today
YOU
FOLLOW-UPS
REPORTING
ADMIN
APPROVALS
CONTENT
Every task still ends on your desk
After the build
YOUR SYSTEMS
FOLLOW-UPS
REPORTING
ADMIN
CONTENT
YOU
✓ APPROVED
Same jobs, done before you sit down. You approve, the team runs it.
[ 02 ] · How we fix each one
One program. Each pain gets its own fix.
Three months. Built inside your business, with your people, until it runs without anyone babysitting it. Here is what happens to each of the five.
Reliable beats clever
Pain 1, it broke. The systems are boring on purpose: one job each, a check at every step, a human approval where money or a customer is involved. Nothing counts as done until it has run for weeks without anyone touching it.
Outcome: the thing you automated stays automated.
It learns your business first
Pain 2, generic answers. Before any build, your business gets loaded into a workspace: what you sell, how you talk, your rules, your numbers, your files. Every system after that starts from you, not from a blank prompt.
Outcome: answers that sound like your business, first time.
Your team runs it
Pain 3, the team won't use it. The people who will run it build alongside, on the tools they already open every day. They learn to run it and extend it. Adoption is the standard of finished, not the demo.
Outcome: it works on a Tuesday when you're not there.
We map before we build
Pain 4, where to start. It opens with a map of how the business actually runs, then a short list of the jobs worth handing to a system first: the ones eating your week or leaking revenue. Nothing gets built because it is cool.
Outcome: a short list, in order, with a reason next to each.
Measured on the business, not the demo
Pain 5, the bottleneck moved. Every build is tied to a number before it starts: hours back, response time, revenue, whatever it is for you. If the bottleneck moves, the next build follows it. The goal is an easier business, not a busier one.
Outcome: you can point at what changed.
[ 03 ] · Read this before you apply
Built for owners with a real business and a team.
This is for you if
- ✓You run a business doing real revenue, with people on the team.
- ✓You have already tried AI and it did not stick.
- ✓You want AI running parts of the business, not answering questions.
- ✓You will put the people who run the work in the room.
- ✓You would rather have systems running than another course finished.
This is not for you if
- ×You are pre-revenue or just starting out. Use the free guides, they are good.
- ×You want a magic prompt that makes money by Friday.
- ×You want videos to watch instead of systems to run.
- ×Your team will not touch it and you are fine with that.
- ×You expect the business to get easier without changing how work flows.
[ 04 ] · What's your time worth
Put a number on the babysitting.
Pick what an hour of your time is worth and how many hours a week go to work a system should be doing. The number is yours, not ours.
Your rate × your hours × 52 weeks. Your own inputs, not measured savings.
An hour of your time is worth
What that work costs you every year
$260,000
at $250 an hour, 20 hours a week, 52 weeks
[ 05 ] · Real owners, real messages
Don't take my word for it.
Every quote here is a real message from a real owner, word for word. Nothing was written for this page.
★★★★★Video message
“Cooper's advice came at the perfect time. Our company's better than ever.”
★★★★★Video message
“First time ever running Meta ads, agents taking care of everything, and we’re already getting qualified leads through the door. I’m using Claude every day now. It’s giving me more insight than any of my vendors ever have.”
★★★★★Real message“I've spent years being intimidated by AI. Cooper made it feel approachable, fun, and genuinely exciting to understand. One session in, and it felt like I'd hired three new staff members for my business. If you run a small business and keep putting off figuring this out, Cooper is who you want teaching you.”
★★★★★Real message“Built an AI chief of staff running on my Gmail, second brain setup, agents handling parts of my real estate ops.”
★★★★★Real message“Super duper amazing. I build the entire product in seven days and ready to ship out.”
★★★★★Real message“You have a way of delivering info right to the spot which is of great help.”
★★★★★Real message“Made incredible progress in last two days.”
★★★★★Real message“You are a blessing for the whole community. Keeping up with all news and trends is nearly impossible so having someone like you helps sooo much.”
★★★★★Real message“Love your content and the AI accelerator. I got it when you first launched.”
Cooper Simson · Actionable AI
[ 06 ] · Who you're working with
Cooper Simson
Works with business owners, entrepreneurs and teams every day, setting up and installing the AI systems that run parts of their business.
- Day in, day out: installs AI systems inside real businesses, with the owner and the team who run them.
- Six years building with AI, long before it was a job title.
- Helped build a venture studio from an idea to 12 companies and $8M in revenue in a year and a half.
- Founder of Actionable AI. A daily newsletter read by 30,000+ operators and 125+ playbooks published free.
- 1,400 to 118K followers in six months by publishing one working system a day.
[ 07 ] · What happens after you apply
Two minutes now. A straight answer after.
Step 1 · 2 minutes
You apply
- Thirteen short questions, one per screen
- Saved as you go, so nothing gets lost
- Real questions about the business, no junk fields
Step 2 · Personally
I read it
- Read by me, not an SDR, not a bot
- Fit first, not budget
- If it is not a fit, you hear that too, plus where the free guides are
Step 3 · If it fits
We talk
- One short call to map what would run first
- You leave knowing exactly what the first build is
- Then the program starts, with your team
[ 08 ] · Applications open
Ready to turn AI into a tool that works for you, wins back your time and makes you more money, instead of another job? Apply now.
Two minutes. Saved as you go. Read personally.
Apply now →Not ready? The free guides stay free at theactionableai.com/guides