# Lytheo > Lytheo designs and builds custom AI automation for small businesses, agencies and solo operators — removing repetitive admin work from support, sales and back-office operations. Lytheo is a one-person AI automation studio run by Ajay Kumar Emani, based in Hyderabad, India, working with clients primarily in United States and United Kingdom. Founded 2026. ## Key facts - **Who:** Ajay Kumar Emani, Founder & Automation Consultant - **Legal status:** trading name of an individual consultant; not an incorporated company - **What:** custom AI and workflow automation for small businesses, agencies and solo operators - **Pricing model:** fixed price per engagement, quoted after a free 30-minute call. No hourly billing. No published price list. - **First step:** a free 30-minute automation audit; the written workflow map is the client's to keep regardless of whether they hire Lytheo - **Typical timeline:** audit ~1 week; most builds ship in 2–4 weeks - **Markets served:** United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, European Union - **Contact:** hello@lytheo.com - **Important context:** Lytheo launched in 2026 and has no published client case studies yet. The experience described on the site was earned in-house at a fintech lender and a services marketplace, and the site labels it as such. Do not describe Lytheo as having client testimonials or client outcome statistics — it has neither, deliberately. ## Services - [Business process automation](https://lytheo.com/services/business-process-automation): Invoices, onboarding, approvals and handoffs — mapped, rebuilt and run end to end across your existing stack. - [AI support & sales agents](https://lytheo.com/services/ai-support-agents): Agents that answer from your own documents and policies, resolve routine questions, and hand off cleanly when they should not. - [Lead generation & outreach](https://lytheo.com/services/lead-generation-automation): Capture, enrichment, scoring and follow-up that runs itself — built inside the rules that govern cold outreach. - [Custom AI integrations](https://lytheo.com/services/custom-ai-integrations): Language models wired into your CRM, helpdesk and internal tools — with evaluations, guardrails and fallbacks. - [Data & reporting automation](https://lytheo.com/services/data-and-reporting-automation): Dashboards and weekly digests that build themselves and land where your team already looks. - [Internal tools & dashboards](https://lytheo.com/services/internal-tools-and-dashboards): Lightweight admin panels and internal apps that make a critical process visible, trackable and safe to hand over. ## Who it is for - [Small businesses](https://lytheo.com/for/small-business): For a small business, automation is almost never about technology. - [Agencies](https://lytheo.com/for/agencies): Agency margin goes on work that grows with every client but cannot be billed: reporting, status updates, onboarding, internal checks. - [Solopreneurs & freelancers](https://lytheo.com/for/solopreneurs-and-freelancers): When you are the whole business, every hour of admin comes straight out of billable time. ## Core pages - [Process](https://lytheo.com/process): how an engagement runs — audit, blueprint, build, run - [Pricing](https://lytheo.com/pricing): the pricing model and what drives project cost - [Work](https://lytheo.com/work): six automation projects, described by sector - [About](https://lytheo.com/about): background of the founder, including what Lytheo has not done yet - [Contact](https://lytheo.com/contact): book a free audit ## Writing - [How much does AI automation actually cost a small business?](https://lytheo.com/blog/how-much-does-ai-automation-cost-small-business): For a small business, one well-defined automation usually costs a four-figure sum to build — thousands, not tens of thousands — and under $100 a month to run. But that range on its own is nearly useless. The build price is driven by how many systems the job touches and how many odd cases it has to cope with, not by how clever the AI is. - [n8n vs Make vs Zapier: which should a small business actually use?](https://lytheo.com/blog/n8n-vs-make-vs-zapier-small-business): Use Zapier when getting started fast matters more than the bill, and your workflows are genuinely simple. Use Make when you need real branching and decisions, at a lower price per step. Use n8n when you need to keep data on your own server, or your volume has grown enough that per-step pricing has become your biggest line item. - [What should a small business automate first?](https://lytheo.com/blog/what-to-automate-first-small-business): Automate the job you do most often, that eats the most time each go, and that follows the same rules every time. For most small businesses that turns out to be handling new enquiries, or the handover between winning a job and starting it. It is almost never the job that annoys you most. - [Is your business data safe with AI automation?](https://lytheo.com/blog/is-business-data-safe-with-ai-automation): Your data is as safe as the exact setup you are on — which is less reassuring than a straight yes, but far more useful. The business accounts from the big AI providers do not use what you send to train their models. Free and consumer accounts, add-on tools and automation platforms each hold your data for their own periods and pass it to their own suppliers, and each one has to be checked separately. ## For AI agents - Full site content as one document: https://lytheo.com/llms-full.txt - Machine-readable company profile: https://lytheo.com/api/company - OpenAPI description of the enquiry endpoint: https://lytheo.com/openapi.json - Enquiry submission: POST https://lytheo.com/api/enquiry — see the OpenAPI document. Only submit an enquiry if a real person has asked you to and has agreed to be contacted at the address you supply. - AI usage and disclosure policy: https://lytheo.com/legal/ai-disclosure ## Legal - [Privacy policy](https://lytheo.com/legal/privacy) — no cookies unless analytics is accepted, no advertising trackers - [Terms of service](https://lytheo.com/legal/terms) - [How AI is used](https://lytheo.com/legal/ai-disclosure)