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Agents that work.

I am Jai, the agent dealer for operators with real work and no patience for AI theater. Bring me one messy workflow. I will map it, wire it, and ship the first agent loop your team can direct.

Offload the repeat work. Stay in your zone. Keep the judgment.

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Cityblock Health The United Nations Equinox Convene HashiCorp Pluralsight Yotpo Queens Economic Development Corporation Parsons Bryant Park Corporation Beacon DX University of Connecticut

Train one workflow.

  • Even if you do not know what to automate first.
  • Even if your data lives across email, docs, spreadsheets, PDFs, screenshots, and team memory.
  • Even if you are skeptical because the last AI idea turned into more work.

This is not a course, dashboard, or giant transformation plan. We pick one recurring workflow, diagram the inputs and outputs, build the first loop, and leave you with a system your team can keep directing when your attention has to be somewhere else.

People who have sat across from Jai

They describe relief.

These testimonial clips come from the same Chai With Jai proof archive as the media channel. They show the range: founders, service providers, real estate, community leaders, and practice owners.

Seema Kothari - Real Estate

Built confidence using AI in client work

Real estate operators need systems they can trust under client pressure.

Nicholas Stebenne - Marketito

Found the next move after years of friction

The win was not inspiration. It was a clearer path he could execute.

Careen G - Synergized Strategies

Sharper systems for making ideas executable

Strategy starts to matter when the operating loop is concrete.

Toya - Future Entrepreneur

Moved from scattered courses to real agency

The fear dropped once the work became something she could see and use.

Parul Kumar - The Devi Circle

Clarified how AI can support community building

Community work needs thoughtful systems that protect the human signal.

Kathy Mills - kamil graphics

Turned AI curiosity into practical client tools

Creative services need tools that support the work without flattening judgment.

Ngozi Odita - AFRICANXT

Made the business case for AI more concrete

Leaders need the use case, the audience, and the practical reason to move.

Anne Flanagan - Anne Flanagan LLC

Rebuilt planning around environment and leverage

Getting time back starts by changing the system around the work.

Samina Quraishi - Comuni Acupuncture

Saw what was possible for a healthcare practice

A practice owner does not need more abstraction. She needs usable possibility.

Proof before the mechanism

The first proof is emotional: the fog clears.

Before someone buys the system, they need to believe the work can become visible. These are the moments that stop the scroll because they sound like the problem.

"Your class took away my fears and doubts that AI was unattainable."
T Toya, QEDC student
"You don't know what you don't know until someone comes along and teaches you what the possibilities are."
SQ Samina Quraishi
"Two and half years of work and nothing to show for it. Three months later, I threw my first successful event."
NS Nick Stebenne
"The win was not another idea. It was finally seeing the next move."
CWJ Chai With Jai proof archive

What you are actually buying

Agents need a harness.

An agent is not a chatbot with better vibes. It is a model calling tools in a loop until the job is done. The difference between a toy and leverage is the harness around that loop.

What is an agent?

A model that can use tools, inspect results, decide the next step, and keep going. That is why work starts feeling different: the system can act while you steer.

I help pick the harness.

The harness is the operating surface: tools, files, memory, approvals, guardrails, and budget. Codex may be right for local work. Claude Code may fit a repo. AI Studio may fit prototyping. The use case decides.

The work becomes data.

I study the workflow like an anthropologist: what people call things, where files live, who reviews exceptions, and what output counts as done. That model becomes the agent's context.

What this fixes

The system needs to see the work.

The first win is not magic. It is making the recurring mess visible enough that Codex, automations, and your team can all follow the same map.

Before 20 tabs

Email, PDFs, spreadsheets, receipts, customer notes, and one person who remembers how it all fits together.

The setup 1 map

Inputs, outputs, owners, exceptions, and the weekly rhythm get written down before the machine touches anything.

After Run it

The workflow becomes a repeatable loop: process the work, surface the exceptions, and hand off the artifact.

This still works even if

No perfect plan needed.

You do not need to arrive polished. You need one real problem worth making easier.

You do not know what to build

We start by choosing the workflow that would actually make next week lighter.

  • No tool tourism
  • No fake roadmap
  • One useful loop first

Your data is scattered

Email, calendar, docs, Stripe, Shopify, CRM, finance: the mess is the raw material.

  • Find where context lives
  • Connect the minimum needed
  • Keep the first build narrow

You are skeptical of AI hype

Good. This is not a course, dashboard, or prompt pack. It is a shipped workflow.

  • Built with your tools
  • Tested against real work
  • Useful before it is fancy

What if next week looked different?

Your week keeps moving.

The future is not a giant AI transformation. It is a week where your judgment stays scarce, but the operating loop keeps moving.

Jai focused while working at a laptop
Not less ambition. Less drag between your attention and the finished artifact.
Monday

The apprentice has the context

The workflow map, source files, review rules, and output format are already loaded. You do not restart from memory.

Wednesday

The machine runs the first pass

Research, reporting, follow-ups, receipts, proposals, or content ops move forward while you stay with the higher-leverage work.

Friday

You review exceptions, not the whole mess

You make the calls only a human should make. The system hands back the packet, list, draft, or next action.

What people say after working with Jai

The fear drops when the work becomes visible.

People come in overwhelmed, stalled, or skeptical. The win is not motivation. The win is a visible next step they can keep using.

For the skeptical owner

I need the fog to clear

"Your class took away my fears and doubts that AI was unattainable. This class really changed my mindset. I feel empowered."
Toya - QEDC student
Where this fits

For the person who knows AI matters but keeps freezing because every tool feels like another obligation.

For the practice owner

I need someone to show me the real options

"You don't know what you don't know until someone comes along and teaches you what the possibilities are."
Samina Quraishi - acupuncture practice owner
Where this fits

For the buyer who does not need a prompt pack. They need a guide who can translate messy business context into choices.

For the stalled builder

I need this to become executable

"Two and half years of work and nothing to show for it. Three months later, I threw my first successful event."
Nick Stebenne - founder, Marketito
Where this fits

For the person carrying a real ambition that has become emotionally expensive because the next step stays unclear.

How the work actually feels

Not AI theater.

The page needs to sell the result, but the work sells itself when you can see the shape: a person with context, a guide with a whiteboard, and a system that gets smaller.

Jai mapping a workflow on a whiteboard
The first move is not prompting. It is drawing the workflow until the real handoff appears.

We start with the work, not the tool.

What comes in? Who touches it? What has to come out? Where do exceptions go? If the answer is fuzzy, the build gets bloated. If the answer is clear, the first useful loop is usually closer than people think.

That is why the setup begins with a practical map instead of a software shopping list.

A spike phase visual for testing workflow constraints
The spike is where we test the smallest version before overbuilding the system.

Then we cut the scope until it can ship.

In the Windows case, the tempting answer was a cloud app with a database. The useful first answer was smaller: shared folder, weekly batch, local Codex run, Outlook handoff, manager review.

Smaller is not less ambitious. Smaller is how the business earns the right to expand.

Proof, not theory

One method. Different leverage.

The lesson from high-performing long-form offer pages is proof density: show the reader which proof is for them. A project manager sees cleaner handoffs. A creative director sees clearer steering. An owner sees value capture before another tool gets added.

For project managers Friday 5 PM

Windows batch automation

A shared-folder receipt workflow became a weekly Codex job with manager review, Outlook handoff, and guardrails.

Open the use case
  • Inputs: scanned receipts, invoice PDFs, delivery schedule, fleet data.
  • Outputs: marked-up invoice, compliance packet, exceptions for review.
  • Why it matters: fewer late catch-up batches and cleaner accountability.
For creative directors 3

Use cases shaped in one session

Receipt matching, operations control room, and report automation became a directed build sequence instead of a vague AI brainstorm.

Open the use case
  • The creative job was sequencing: decide what to build, what to cut, and when to steer.
  • The language shifted from "make an app" to "build a control plane on top of Codex."
  • The result was a prototype path the operator could keep shaping from phone and desktop.
For business owners $28K

Value capture surfaced

One starter workflow was only 20 minutes a week. The bigger shop-office pattern pointed to a full day a week across two managers.

Open the use case
  • Two shop managers reclaiming one day a week creates a practical value story.
  • That story makes the IT ask concrete: sandbox, Microsoft integrations, and safe local execution.
  • The proof is not "AI can automate." The proof is "this is worth governing."
For skeptical teams Guardrails

Casino avoided

The work stayed local, scoped, and documented: no premature Render app, no unnecessary database, no fake enterprise transformation.

Open the use case
  • Start with failure modes, security, governance, and operations guardrails.
  • Keep the first win on the existing machine and network folder.
  • Use the prototype to earn the next IT conversation.

From the proof archive

The pattern is not new.

The best proof is not a beautiful prompt. It is a person who can finally see the next move, save time, or ship something that had been stuck.

Four hours a night back

Anne stopped burning evenings on planning, guilt, and administrative churn.

Two and a half years unstuck

Nick turned a stalled idea into a real event with a path he could execute.

Onboarding became repeatable

Seema moved from scattered training to a system people could actually follow.

A global build got smaller

Yves avoided a bloated platform path by turning the concept into a working artifact.

The usual AI advice

Tools are not leverage.

Generic tool advice is not leverage until it is attached to a real operating loop. The mechanism has to start with the work itself.

Old advice

Try more prompts

Prompting is useful, but it does not decide inputs, owners, review points, or business risk.

Old advice

Buy another automation tool

A tool can move data. It cannot tell you which workflow deserves to exist or when the scope is getting bloated.

What we do instead

Train one agent on one workflow

We map the work, wire the smallest useful loop, test the handoff, and document what your team should steer next.

Jai mapping a business workflow on a whiteboard
The mechanism is not another AI highlight reel. It is a smaller, governed loop that can actually run.
Jai mapping a business workflow on a whiteboard

Who is building with you

Operators need directors.

You are not buying a generic automation. You are working with Jai: part engineer, part teacher, part creative director for messy business workflows. I slow the work down just enough to find the real lever, then I help you ship the first thing.

My job is to translate between the person who knows the business and the machine that can do the work, without letting the machine expand the scope into nonsense.

Jai speaking on an AI panel at the United Nations
UN panel
Jai teaching practical AI in a classroom
Classroom
UN WebTV clip of Jai speaking about AI
Public media
Portrait of Jai Bhagat
Guide profile

The mechanism

Engineer. Teacher. Director.

Most AI projects fail because someone lets the tool expand the scope before the work is understood. I do the opposite. I start with a whiteboard: inputs, outputs, who touches the work, what the review queue looks like, and what failure would cost.

Then I shift gears. Engineer: make the folder, script, UI, or agent harness real. Teacher: explain what the machine is doing so your team can trust it. Director: keep steering the build toward the business outcome instead of the AI casino.

Recent Windows build

Shipped local.

In one working session, Pete scoped a Windows-based operations workflow for Post Road Ironworks: receipts, invoices, trip reports, Excel schedules, shared folders, Outlook, and Codex running on the machine already inside the business.

20 min

Starter workflow scoped

Receipt and invoice matching became the test case because it was concrete, recurring, and already painful.

1 day/wk

Bigger pattern found

The larger prize was shop managers getting time back for forecasting, planning, and operational improvement.

Local

No premature cloud app

The build was narrowed to a shared network folder, Friday batch job, local Codex run, and Outlook handoff.

3 tracks

System seeded

Fuel compliance, operations dashboard, and report automation were separated into buildable tracks with docs.

What you get

Not advice. A working first loop.

After checkout, we turn one annoying workflow into something you can run, review, and keep improving.

Consultation step for choosing the highest-value workflow
01 - Consult
Spike step for testing source material and constraints
02 - Spike
Build step for shipping the first useful workflow
03 - Build
Enable step for handing off the workflow and next action
04 - Enable
01

Workflow diagnosis

We pick the recurring task with the clearest pain and highest chance of immediate use.

02

Context map

We identify the docs, accounts, customer language, and business rules the system needs.

03

First build

A follow-up flow, report, list, scanner, proposal helper, or content loop goes live.

04

Handoff

You leave with the working path, next-best build, and a clean way to keep improving.

Why this is priced this way

A small first win beats another giant AI plan.

Most people do not need a $10K automation transformation before they have one workflow they trust. They need the first useful loop: the thing that proves AI can help their actual week instead of creating another weekend of setup.

That is why the setup is $500. It is enough room to think, connect, build, and hand off one real operating loop without turning this into a bloated consulting engagement.

  • If the first loop is enough, stop there.
  • If the next build is obvious, buy one hour or a 10-hour block.
  • If the work needs a human operator every week, I will say that instead of pretending a system replaces judgment.

Start here

Set it up once. Buy time when you need it.

Build block

10-Hour Retainer

$850 / 10 hrs

Prepay a block when you know there are multiple workflows worth shipping.

  • $85/hour, prepaid against the block
  • Best for an active month or launch sprint
  • Use it across any work you need
Pre-buy 10 hours

Small ask

Single Hour / Deposit

$85 / hr

One focused hour for a stuck workflow, review, or next step.

  • Focused working session
  • Useful for review, debugging, or one stuck workflow
  • No commitment beyond the hour
Buy an hour

Plain-English guarantee

You will leave clearer, or I keep working until the next step is documented.

If you give me the access and context the workflow needs, the setup ends with either a useful first loop or a documented build plan with prompts, source links, and the next action needed to finish it fast.

  • No vague "AI strategy" handoff
  • No mystery dashboard you cannot maintain
  • No pretending the first build is done if the next action is still unclear

Ask first

Send me the mess.

Not sure what to buy? Send the workflow. I will tell you if the $500 setup is the right move or if this should just be an hour.

Skip to checkout

Questions before buying

Before you pay.

Simple answers, because the offer should not require a sales call to understand.

Is this an OBM?

No. An OBM runs the week. This removes repeat work with a built system. If you need a person managing the business, hire the person.

What access do you need?

Only what the first workflow needs. Usually email, calendar, docs, and one business tool.

What do I get for $500?

One connected setup and one useful loop shipped: a follow-up flow, report, customer list, scanner, or similar workflow.

What happens after setup?

You can stop, buy one hour, or buy a 10-hour block. The next build should be obvious by then.

Fit check

Fit check.

This is for people with real work, real customers, and too many loose ends.

This is for you if

  • You run a real business and admin is eating your best hours.
  • Your data lives in tools you do not want to babysit.
  • You can point to one workflow that would be worth fixing first.

This is not for you if

  • You want a course, a dashboard, or a deck.
  • You cannot give access to the tools the workflow needs.
  • You want someone to run the whole business week to week.

From me to my people

Let's get your systems running.

From me to my people: $500 to ship the first loop, $85/hour when there is more worth building.