of a US owner's work week goes to small admin tasks.
Source: Time etc survey by Censuswide, Sept 2023, 251 US owners.
Leverage Engine for Personal
Less work waiting on you.
An AI assistant built around your week. Quotes, inbox, meetings and invoices, handled before you sit down.
Free, plain talk, no tech pitch.
The problem
When it all runs through you, the business waits on you.
Quotes to chase, an inbox to sort, notes from three meetings and an invoice that still has not been paid. None of it is hard. All of it waits for you. Most owners keep doing it themselves because it feels faster than handing it off.
don't hand admin off because it's "faster to do it myself."
Source: same survey.
Your morning, before and after
Six piles in. One brief out.
Before
Today: it all waits on you
Inbox, calendar, quotes, follow-ups, invoices and meetings. Six piles, one person sorting by hand.
After
With your assistant: one brief
Your assistant goes through the same six piles first. What matters is sorted, drafted and waiting in one place when you sit down.
Start with one of four workflows
Pick the task that eats your week.
It drafts, you decide. Nothing goes out unless you approve it.
Quote and estimate follow-up.
No quote goes quiet.
Inbox sorted, replies drafted.
What matters, on top.
Meetings into tasks and follow-ups.
Nothing said gets lost.
Unpaid invoice nudges.
Drafted for you to send.
How it works
Start with one week. Build from there.
The Leverage Engine for Personal is four steps. You only move to the next one if it fits.
- 01
Discover (free)
We walk through your week together. We look at the tasks that cost you the most, the ones you never get to, and what AI could take on. The biggest bottleneck goes to Blueprint.
- 02
Blueprint
We talk through your tools, what starts each task, what done looks like and where AI takes over. You get a map of your week, a pick for your assistant and a clear plan. Text, app, desktop or voice, whatever fits how you work.
- 03
Build
We build your assistant around up to three workflows. We test it, train you on it and run a small trial so we can adjust before you rely on it. Thirty days of support after launch are included.
- 04
Grow
We tune your assistant month to month with regular check-ins, monitoring and small tweaks. When one task is handled, we move to the next one that waits on you.
One loop, one week. Then the next task that waits on you.
Small businesses already feel it
AI gives time back. Your assistant puts it where it counts.
5 hours
a week of owner time saved (median), small businesses using AI. Those hours go to higher-value work.
Source: SBE Council, Small Business Technology Use Survey, March 2026 (US).
Questions owners ask
Plain answers.
Works with the tools you already use
- Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft
- ChatGPTOpenAI
- ClaudeAnthropic
- GeminiGoogle
- + any other AI tool
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Will it send things without me?
Only what you approve. It drafts, you send.
What tools does it use?
Your own AI assistant account. You subscribe and invite us as admin, so it stays yours.
What if we stop?
Whatever we've made, you keep.
Which is right for you?
Is the work yours, or your team's?
This page is about your own week: the inbox, quotes and follow-ups that wait on you. If the work that needs fixing belongs to your team, there's the Leverage Engine for Teams. Same method, one team workflow at a time.
See Leverage Engine for Teams
Your next step, with Mike Redmer, founder
Tell Mike the task
that eats your week.
Mike has started, run or sold six or more businesses. He knows what it is like when every decision lands on your desk. A Discover call is a plain conversation about your week and the one task worth fixing first.
- 6+businesses started, run or sold.
- 7 figuresof revenue at a software agency he acquired.
- $1Mservice line in year one, at a 40%+ margin.
- $100K+a year in savings he helped deliver.
Book a free Discover call
Free, plain talk, no tech pitch.