You use AI every day. Your business still runs through you.

NXT Step teaches owners with a small team to build AI agents for the jobs that eat their best hours. The agents do the work. You make the calls.

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We built and tested it inside a real agency. Ours runs on it every day.

Every block has a switch. Tap one and turn it off.

Writing emails a little faster won't buy back your week.

Paste, fix, paste back. Every single time.
One whole job, handed over for good.

Most owners use AI one prompt at a time. Paste something in, fix what comes out, paste it back.

The real gain comes from handing over a whole job. Give AI your facts, your tools and your rules, then let it run that job every day while you check the parts that matter.

One job at a time, you build a business that runs without you in every step.

Same AI. Same sentence. Very different answer.

First plain AI, then the same AI with your STACK behind it.

AI AssistantPlain AI chat
Handle my email.
Happy to help! Paste the emails you'd like me to answer and I'll draft replies.
Pasted 3 emails
“Thanks for reaching out! Most websites run about $2,500 and take 2 weeks.”Made-up price, in writing
“So sorry, Owen! I've processed your $3,000 refund.”Outside your refund policy
“Tuesday at 2pm works great. I'll send an invite.”That slot is already booked

Tomorrow you paste them in again. Three leads from Monday still have no reply.

Your STACK
Handle my email.

Done. I went through 42 new emails this morning.

  • S6 lead replies drafted with your real prices, in your voice
  • TChecked your calendar and offered Thursday at 10, the next open slot
  • AOwen's refund is waiting for you. Nothing went out without your OK.
  • CThis also runs on its own every morning at 7, with a receipt
  • KDana can run it from the folder while you're away
1 needs you: Owen's refund
Offer Owen store credit instead.
Drafted and waiting in your outbox. It sends when you say OK.

You made one call. Everything else is handled.

Example replies are illustrations.

The five layers that let a job run without you.

The sentence you type never changes. What sits under it grows, one layer at a time, until the job runs without you.

S

Source

What it knows

It knows your prices, policies and voice, so it stops making them up.

T

Tools

What it can reach

It reads your inbox, CRM and calendar itself. No more copy and paste.

A

Approvals

What it can't do alone

It can't quote a price you never set. Money and refunds wait for your OK.

C

Cadence

What runs on its own

It runs every morning before you sit down and leaves a dated receipt.

K

Keys

Who runs it

Your office manager runs the job. You only see the pile marked “needs you.”

See it live for free, then build your own in 8 weeks.

Start here: free

Hands-On to Hands-Off

A live webinar. Watch us build an AI agent. First it botches a real inbox, then each STACK layer fixes one mistake, on a business like yours. Bring one job you hate doing.

Mon Nov 2Noon MountainLive on Zoom
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Then: build it
Handled.

Build AI agents that do the work. You just approve it.

8 live weeks. Your first agent running by Week 5, then more agents across sales, ops and finance. Founding cohort capped at 25 companies.

SWk 1
TWk 2
AWk 3
CWk 4
KWk 5

Weeks 6 to 8: stack it across the rest of the business.

Your first agent runs by Week 5, or your money back.
8 live Tuesday sessions
Office hour every week
Recordings for 12 months
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Meet Reno

He runs his own agency on the system he teaches.

Reno owns Badmouth Digital, a design and development agency that builds websites, apps and marketing systems for local businesses and online brands.

Behind the client work, the agency runs on a STACK: facts in folders, skills for the work, guardrails on prices, jobs on a schedule, and a short pile each morning that needs a human.

NXT Step is where he teaches owners to build the same thing for their own business.

Meet him live on Nov 2

How many hours could you hand off?

Try the free hands-off calculator. Pick your kind of business, or load a sample company, and change any number to match your week.

  • Which jobs can move to your STACK first
  • The hours you'd get back each week
  • The salary you'd save if you were about to hire
Open the calculator

Takes about five minutes. Uses your own numbers.

Sample: a field services company
SQuote requests3 hrs back
TScheduling service calls2.4 hrs back
CFollow up on open quotes1.6 hrs back
CInvoice reminders1.4 hrs back

+ 4 more jobs

Back in your week12.7 hrs

About $18,491 a year at $28 an hour.

What a handled morning looks like.

This is a real one from our agency. On October 12, seven agents ran between 7 and 8 AM and nobody touched them. Each one left a receipt: what ran, what it did, and the one thing it saved for a human.

Our agency, Oct 12, 7 to 8 AM

7:01 New buyers taggedSorted into the CRM
7:19 Buyer list syncedDone
7:30 Live sites checked12 checked, 1 out of date
7:35 Client hours checkedDone
7:40 Task board rebuiltReady for the team
7:50 Business map rebuilt55 projects mapped
7:50 Hours totaledPer client, ready to bill
1 needs you: a live site doesn't match its code. Everything else is handled.

Watch Reno build it, week by week.

Live builds, real receipts from our agency, and the jobs we hand off next. Short and practical.

The weekly newsletter

One job you can hand to AI, every week.

Short, practical and built for owners with a small team. Each issue picks one job and shows you how to hand it off.

  • The job, and the hours it eats in a typical week
  • The skill and guardrails that run it
  • A real receipt from our agency when it ran

One email a week. Unsubscribe any time.

Example issue
NXT StepNewsletter name goes here

This week's job: chasing what you're owed

Two hours a week, gone to awkward reminders. This issue shows you how to hand it off without sounding like a robot.

SThe facts it needs: terms, amounts, tone
AThe guardrail: no threats, no new terms
CThe schedule: every Monday, 9 AM

Build your first agent. You control the switches.

Free live webinar, Mon Nov 2 at noon Mountain.

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