Ada
Runs the monthly workshops for local business owners.
She has her own email address, ada@startuptosold.com, and sends every welcome and reminder herself.
Your part-time chief AI officer.
We're operators first, not tech people. We fix how your business runs, then bring in AI where it helps: set up, your team trained, and help every month.
Chuck Temple, two exits.
With Noah Alper, founder of Noah's Bagels, our advisor on strategy and growth.
Swipe to look around. Tap anyone to meet them.
Business first. AI where it helps.
Most AI help starts with the tools. We start with how the work moves through your business, because that is where the time goes.
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Find what is stuck
We look at how the work really moves: who does what, and where it waits on you.
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Fix how it runs
Clear owners, clear steps, and your information in one place.
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Add AI where it pays
ChatGPT or Claude set up properly, or agents like ours. Then we train you and your team to use them.
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Stay with you
A set number of hours each month. You bring what is stuck, and we fix the next thing.
Most of the work is in the first two steps. AI is how it goes fast.
For a five-person shop or a seventy-person firm.
A small service business
The business stops waiting on you.
- Email, booking and follow-up that run on their own
- An AI that knows your business
- Your evenings back
A firm with a team
The AI you pay for, actually used.
- Two or three shared uses per practice
- Clear rules for what AI may touch
- Training for the people not using it yet
Based in Albany, California. Local first, clients anywhere.
The team that runs our company.
Here are six of our AI agents. We add more all the time. A new one takes about ten minutes.
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Nora
Runs the monthly builders lunch.
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Sofia
Writes to owners who fit and books calls with Chuck.
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Priya
Finds local owners who fit the audit.
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Otto
Fixes the jobs that run on their own when they break.
Holly is at reception. Ask her how the office works.
Ways to start.
Smallest step first. Most clients start with a call or an hour, and stay on.
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Free AI assessment, 10 minutes
Tap through a few questions and answer a few more from Sofia, our AI assistant. You get a written report by email: where you are with AI today and where to start.
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A 30-minute call
Tell us what is stuck. We tell you honestly whether we can help, and what we would do first.
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AI training hour, $60
One hour on a screen share with Chuck, intro price. We set up your ChatGPT or Claude, tune up what you already use, or start your AI second brain. You leave with it working.
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Your part-time chief AI officer
A set number of hours every month: setup, team training, and the next thing to fix. Builds, and your own office of agents like ours, happen here.
For Will Tams, who runs Road to 4.0, a pickleball coaching business in the East Bay, we built the signup, payment and reminder system the business runs on: 539 sessions hosted and 4,531 players served so far.
Operators who use AI.
Not AI people learning business. Chuck Temple built and sold two companies and ran operations as a COO. He builds the systems himself and stays until your team uses them.
Noah Alper founded Noah's Bagels. He works with Chuck as Senior Business Advisor, on strategy and growth.
- Startup to Sold, Chuck's book (Inc.)
- Taught at UC Berkeley Extension
- MBA, UC Davis
Chuck TempleFounder, Startup to Sold
Start with one call.
Thirty minutes. Bring the thing that is stuck, and leave knowing the next step.