Who I help
Automation for solopreneurs and freelancers
When you are the whole business, every hour of admin comes straight out of billable time. The real damage is not the hours, though. It is that selling stops while you deliver, and delivery stops while you sell. Automation here is about keeping enquiries warm and the back office ticking during the weeks you are buried in client work.
You probably recognise this
Where the time actually goes
None of these is dramatic on its own. Together they are why the week disappears.
- Your pipeline goes quiet every time you are busy delivering
- Proposals and invoices get sent late because you were doing the actual work
- Enquiries wait a day for a reply, and some of them do not wait
- You rebuild the same proposal and onboarding sequence from scratch each time
- Chasing an unpaid invoice is a task you keep moving to tomorrow
Where to start
In this order, usually
Ordered by payback, not by how interesting they are to build. The first one on this list is where I would put your budget if you only had budget for one.
And when it is not worth it
Why trust a new studio
No client logos yet. Commitments instead.
Lytheo is new, and pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to lose your trust. So here is what goes into every engagement agreement — enforceable, not decorative.
You own everything
Code, workflows, prompts and documentation transfer to you in writing on final payment. Everything runs in accounts registered to you. There is no Lytheo platform you must keep paying for to keep what you bought.
The audit is free, and yours regardless
You leave the first call with a written map of your automatable workflows and what each is worth — whether or not you hire me. If the honest answer is that nothing is worth automating yet, you get that in writing too.
One fixed price, agreed up front
No hourly billing. No change fees for my own misestimates. The price moves only if you change the scope, and only with your written agreement first.
You pay against working software
Milestones are demonstrable systems, not percentages of elapsed time. Nothing is invoiced before it ships.
Your data stays yours
Enterprise API tiers where your inputs are excluded from model training. Least-privilege access. An NDA signed on request before you tell me anything sensitive. On exit, credentials revoked and my working copies deleted.
No lock-in, no notice period
Care plans run month to month. Cancel whenever you like, keep everything, and I hand over cleanly to whoever comes next.
Questions
Solopreneurs & freelancers — common questions
It depends on the workflow, and the honest answer is that not every solo business should buy a custom build. Where it makes sense is when a specific repeated process is directly costing you billable hours or revenue — an unanswered enquiry, a late invoice. Where it does not, I will say so on the free call. Engagements are quoted as one fixed price, so you never find out mid-project that it costs more than it saves.
The path from enquiry to booked call, almost always. It is the point where a busy week costs you actual revenue rather than just time, it runs often enough to be worth building, and it keeps working during exactly the periods you are too busy to sell. Invoicing and payment chasing are usually second.
Yes — it is built with that assumption. Workflows live in your own accounts, they are documented in plain English rather than technical notes, and you get a recorded walkthrough. Most solo clients make their own small changes afterwards and come back only when they want something genuinely new.
Ready to get the hours back?
A free 30-minute audit call. You leave with a written map of your automatable workflows and what each one is worth — whether we end up working together or not.
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