01livesince 4 September 2026
Lever the operations practice
Operations, made cheaper to run. A process a business does by hand every week, rebuilt with AI so it takes less time and makes fewer mistakes. First client under way.
What it is
- A business already runs a process by hand, every week. I rebuild it.
- Same rules, same output, less of their time, fewer mistakes.
- AI is the tool, not the product. Nobody is sold a model.
- Sonar senses; Lever moves. The name is the thesis: small input, right point, large output.
- Lever is the working name. The public name is not decided.
How it runs
- One engagement at a time. Always from an existing process, never a blank page.
- The rules belong to the client. Confirmed in their words before anything runs.
- Money, staff, customers: a person approves before anything goes out.
- Each client gets an isolated setup. It cannot see another client’s data, or mine.
- Every correction the client makes is kept. The same correction is never needed twice.
- First engagement: payroll for a small education business. Hours in, payslips out, the owner releases. Pay rules still being confirmed.
Where it goes
- The test: did the client’s process get better? Less time, fewer errors, less dependence on one person’s memory.
- Lever is the core of what I’m building. Sonar researches for it; Beacon, the content engine, will bring strangers to it.
- No numbers yet, so no claims yet.
- Second client, public name, a mark: not decided. My call.