AI automation consulting for founder-led companies, $2M–$50M

Find the work that's burning money. Build the system that does it.

The month-end close that takes a week. The invoices nobody chases. The three people re-keying the same numbers into QuickBooks and the CRM. I time those, price them, and build the automation that takes them over. Fixed price, written plan first, and I do the work myself.

Book a 20-minute call See the assessment

A business owner on the phone at a desk with a laptop

22products built and run by one engineer

2 weeksto a scored roadmap with fixed quotes

4–8 weeksto a working build, fixed price

$0equity, lock-in, or surprises

Who this is for

This might sound familiar.

Four ways a company with real systems and real payroll leaks money to manual work. Each one is a workflow I can time, price, and take over.

The close takes a week

Reconciliation is someone clicking "OK" five hundred times. Stripe, the bank feed and QuickBooks never quite agree, so a person makes them agree.

Invoices age past sixty days

Reminders go out when someone remembers. Collections are a spreadsheet and an awkward call. Cash sits in other people's accounts.

Three systems, one person in the middle

The CRM, the accounting system and the job system don't talk, so a human copies between them. Every copy is a chance to be wrong.

"We tried AI and it didn't work"

It categorized wrong, matched wrong, or totaled wrong, and the team stopped trusting it. That's an engineering problem with an accounting check, not an AI problem.

Three ways to work together

Diagnose, build, or keep it running.

Every price is on the page before you call. Most engagements start with the assessment, and its fee comes off the build.

Start here

AI Operations Assessment

$4,500 · two weeks · fixed fee

Every workflow in the company scored by hours and cost. The top three designed to the screen. A 90-day plan you own, and the fee credited to a build within 60 days.

What's in it →

Automation Build

From $5,000 · most $15k–$45k · 4–8 weeks

Billing that closes itself. Invoices that chase themselves. Systems that stop needing a person to re-key between them. Fixed quote before we start. You own the result.

What gets built →

Keep It Running

$500–$1,500 a month · cancel any month

Monitored, fixed when a vendor changes an API, extended as the business changes. A monthly report in plain words.

How it works →

Not this size? If you run a one-truck shop, Parsons Cloud is the same software self-serve at $15 a month, and the AI receptionist sets up in an afternoon.

Proof, not a pitch deck

The résumé is a phone number.

This site, this inbox and that number run on Parsons Cloud, a platform of 22 products I built and operate alone. Call it. The receptionist that answers and books you a slot is the one I install for clients.

(833) 700-7551

Phones, email and billing, in production

The receptionist on that line, the agent drafting replies to hello@, the Stripe-backed billing with a nightly tie-out. Real users, every day, no staff.

An engineer who has closed books

Accounting background, ten years of platform operations. Anything I build that moves money reconciles to a source and logs it.

The first case study is the firm itself

What was automated, what a human still approves, what it costs to run, and what broke along the way.

Read it →

How it goes

A fixed sequence, priced before each step.

Week 0A 20-minute call

You describe the problem in your words. I tell you whether it's my kind of work and what the next step costs. If it isn't, I say who to call.

Free

Weeks 1–2Diagnose

I sit in the systems, time the manual steps, and price every workflow. A scored list, the top three designed, a fixed quote for each.

$4,500, credited

Weeks 3–10Build

Built on your accounts, run beside the manual process for a full cycle, then cut over with the numbers checked.

Fixed quote

OngoingRun

Monitored, fixed when vendors change, extended as the business changes. A monthly report in plain words.

$500–$1,500 a month

Two people reviewing a printed report at a table

Who you're hiring

The person who does the work.

I work with founder-led companies doing $2M–$50M a year: big enough to have real systems and real payroll, small enough that the founder still feels every wasted hour.

Software engineer by trade, accountant by training, ten years of platform operations. In 2025 I built Parsons Cloud alone: the auth, the billing, the phone lines, the email, the AI. In 2026 I started building the same machinery into other companies, on fixed prices, with the numbers checked by someone who has closed books.

When you hire me you get the person who does the work. No account manager, no pitch deck, no team you never meet.

More about Mike See the platform

Common questions

Prices, ownership, and what happens if it doesn't work.

Everything a buyer usually has to get on a call to find out.

Insights

Who is this for?

Founder-led companies doing $2M–$50M a year: ten to two hundred people, real systems (QuickBooks or NetSuite, HubSpot or Salesforce, a job or practice system), and staff spending hours a week moving numbers between them. If that's not you, Parsons Cloud at $15/mo probably is.

What does it cost?

Assessment $4,500, fixed, two weeks. Builds from $5,000; most land between $15,000 and $45,000 on a fixed quote. Keeping it running is $500–$1,500 a month. Advisory by the hour is $250. Every number is on this site before you call.

Who does the work?

I do. Mike Parsons: software engineer, accounting background, ten years running platforms. No account manager, no offshore team, no hand-off.

Do I own what you build?

Yes. Code, configuration, credentials, documentation. Built on your accounts (your QuickBooks, your Stripe, your CRM), not mine. If you leave, it keeps running.

Why not just use ChatGPT?

For writing, do. The work here is different: it touches money and records, and it has to be right every time. That's an engineering problem with an accounting check, not a prompt.

We tried AI and it didn't work.

Almost always the failure was on numbers: categorization, matching, totals. Here's why, and why an engineer who did accounting fixes it differently.

What if the assessment says there's nothing worth building?

Then it says so, in writing, and you keep the scored list. About a third of the value of an assessment is the things it tells you not to do.

How do I know you can build this?

Call (833) 700-7551. The AI that answers, books you a slot, and texts the confirmation is running on a platform I built and operate alone: 22 products, phones, email, billing, CRM. That's the résumé.

Contact

Tell me the problem.

A sentence or two is plenty. I reply within one business day with a straight answer: whether it's my kind of work, and what the next step costs.

Call(833) 700-7551The AI receptionist answers day or night, takes your details, and books a slot on my calendar. It is the same one I install for clients.

Emailhello@parsonsai.coRead by me, answered within one business day.

HoursWeekdays 9–4 PacificBased in the U.S., working with clients anywhere.

TermsFixed prices, no equityPaid by card or invoice. Assessment fee credited to a build.