Your business is running. It's running you.
You built something real. Now let's make it unshakeable.
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90 minutes. One custom tool. Total clarity. Learn more
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A brain-informed operational rebuild for the business owner who never fit the template Learn more
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A fully automated operations infrastructure. Custom built. Done for you. Learn more
The Hot Mess Collective is a systems-operations studio for small business owners who are done duct-taping their business together and ready to build something that actually runs.These are not templates. This is not a course. Those can be found here.
Here, we do the actual work — audits, builds, automations, and the kind of strategic thinking that makes everything downstream easier.
Three ways in. Pick the one that matches where you are
The Hot Mess Triage
You know something's off. You're working harder than you should be for the results you're getting, and somewhere in the back of your head you know the problem isn't effort — it's infrastructure. You just don't have time to stop and figure out exactly what's broken. That's what this is for.
What it is:
Hot Mess Triage is a focused 90-minute diagnostic session where we get into the actual operations of your business — what's working, what's held together with string, and what's costing you the most time and money right now. You leave with a custom tool built specifically for the gap we identify: a system, a template, a workflow, a framework. Something you can use immediately.
This is not a consultation. This is a build session.
What you get:
- 90-minute live or async deep-dive into your current operations
- One custom tool built to spec during or immediately following our session (Notion dashboard, intake form, automation workflow, SOPs, content system, or whatever your business actually needs)
- A written summary of your top 3 operational priorities with a clear sequence for addressing them
- 7 days of follow-up support via voice memo or Loom
Delivery options:
| | Live | Async |
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| Format | 90-min Zoom session | You submit a voice memo walkthrough + I build and deliver back |
| Investment | $397 | $497 |
| Timeline | Scheduled within 5 business days | Delivered within 72 hours of submission |
| Best for | You process out loud and want to think through it together | You're slammed and want to hand it off and get something back |
CTA: Ready to triage? → [Apply for Hot Mess Triage]
Built Different
A brain-informed operational rebuild for the business owner who never fit the template. You've bought the courses. You've tried the systems. You've downloaded the templates. And every single time, somewhere around week two, it falls apart — not because you're lazy or undisciplined, but because the system wasn't built for how you actually think.
You're not broken. You're just running on infrastructure that was built for someone else's brain.
Built Different is for the business owner who is done trying to squeeze themselves into a standard operating model and ready to build one that actually fits.
What it is:
Built Different is a high-touch operational rebuild intensive for small business owners with non-standard cognitive approaches — ADHD, AuDHD, cPTSD, high-masking, sensory-sensitive, executive-function-variable — or anyone who has simply never found a system that sticks because none of them were designed with your wiring in mind.
We do a full operational inventory of your business, demolish what isn't working, and rebuild your core systems — communications, delivery, content, client management, or whatever your specific business needs — using frameworks that account for how you actually function. Not how productivity culture says you should.
What you get:
- Full operational audit across your business's core functions
- Custom systems rebuild across 2-3 priority areas
- Brain-informed SOPs and workflow documentation
- Automation recommendations and builds where applicable
- Ongoing Voxer or async support throughout the engagement
- Final delivery: a working operations manual for your business, built in Notion or your preferred tool
Delivery options:| | Live Intensive | Async Build |
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| Format | 3 sessions over 2 weeks + async support | Full async — you submit, I build, we iterate via voice memo |
| Investment | $2,500–$4,500 (scoped to your business) | $3,000–$5,000 (scoped to your business)
| Timeline | 2-week engagement | 3-week delivery |
| Best for | You want to be in the room while we build | You need someone to take the wheel entirely |
Investment is scoped after your intake. Range reflects business size and complexity.
CTA: Is this you? → [Apply for Built Different]
AI Chief of Staff
A fully automated operations infrastructure. Custom built. Done for you.
You've heard that AI is supposed to make your business run itself. You've tried the ChatGPT prompts, the automation tutorials, the "simple" workflow videos. And you're still doing everything manually because making it actually work together, for your specific business, with your specific tools and your specific needs, is a completely different skill set than anything those videos covered.
That's not a failure of effort. That's a scoping problem.
What it is:
AI Chief of Staff is a fully custom operations infrastructure build — an integrated system of AI tools, automations, and workflows designed specifically for your business. Not a template. Not a starter kit. An actual build.
Depending on your business and scope, this can include: a custom AI agent or assistant trained on your business context, automated intake and client communication workflows, content generation systems, operations dashboards, email and calendar integrations, a 3–5 page foundational website, and the documentation to maintain it all without needing to know how any of it works under the hood.
You bring the business. I build the machine.
What you get:
- Scope call to map your business's operational needs and existing tools
- Custom AI + automation infrastructure build (scope defined in discovery)
- Full documentation and SOPs for maintaining your systems
- Async Loom walkthroughs of everything we built
- 30 days of post-delivery support
Investment: Custom scoped. Starting at $5,000. Discovery call required.
This offer is open to any industry. Particular depth in cannabis, beauty/hair, real estate, wellness, and compliance-sensitive verticals.
CTA: Let's scope it. → [Apply for AI Chief of Staff]
Not sure which one?
If you know something needs to change but you're not sure where to start, Hot Mess Triage is the right entry point. We'll figure out the rest together.
If you already know you need a full rebuild, Built Different or AI Chief of Staff — depending on whether you need the human layer, the machine layer, or both.All three offers begin with an intake form. Fill it out honestly. That's where the work starts.
CTA: [Take me to the intake →] (links to Typeform)