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Operations & Systems Consultant

Operations Consulting & AI Automation
for Growing Businesses

I build AI-powered operations systems for growing businesses. Stop losing revenue to manual processes — I find what's broken, fix it, and automate what's left.

Alex Boch — Operations Consultant & AI Automation Expert
Online Business · Operations · Scaling
Alex Boch — Operations Consultant & AI Automation Expert
Online Business · Operations · Scaling
Sound familiar?

What's blocking your growth

01

Leads are getting lost

They come in but some disappear between chat apps, spreadsheets, and your team's inbox. Every lost lead is revenue your competitor picked up.

02

60+ hours per week

No rest. No time for family. No headspace for strategy. Because nothing moves without your daily involvement.

03

Competitors are already using AI

They process leads faster, respond around the clock, and run leaner. You're still doing everything by hand.

04

Already tried — didn't help

CRM, chatbots, AI tools — you bought them, but the team doesn't use them. Still the same hours. Money out, nothing changed.

05

AI exists but isn't working

You got ChatGPT, maybe built a bot — and that was it. Without structured processes underneath, AI just floats on top. The tool exists. The system doesn't.

Good news

This can be fixed. Faster than you think.

If your processes aren't in place, there's nothing to automate. That's why I start with the system, not the tool.

Solution

You can't scale
without a system.

No tool, no AI, no new hire will fix what's fundamentally broken. That's why I start by understanding how the business actually works — then decide what to optimize and what to automate.

"Most consultants hand you a deck. I build the system — and stay until it runs without me."

Processes

Build the operating system — roles, responsibilities, metrics.

Automation

Wire up n8n and integrations so repetitive work runs itself.

Team training

Train the team to work with new processes and tools. Hands-on from day one.

Alex Boch — Operations Strategist and AI Automation Consultant at ELSE Operations
About

Alex Boch

Operations Strategist · AI Automation
Alex Boch — Operations Strategist and AI Automation Consultant at ELSE Operations

Not a theorist. Not an "AI evangelist." I've spent 6+ years building operations for online businesses — from process design to team systems. Now I do the same with AI agents, n8n, and Claude in my stack.

I work inside an international network of business communities every day — which means I see first-hand how dozens of businesses are structured, where they break, and what actually works at scale.

I don't advise — I build. And everything I ship, I test on my own business first.

6+
years in online business
50+
processes optimized
30+
projects delivered
5+
countries · international experience
ELSE Method
My approach

Four steps
to a working system

Every engagement starts with understanding where you actually are — not where you think you are. No templates. Just a solution built around your business, your team, and your stage.

E
Evaluate
Diagnostic

Map the current state: team, processes, tools, bottlenecks. Figure out where AI can actually help — and where it can't.

L
Layout
Design

Build the operational blueprint: roles, delegation structure, metrics, and automation points.

S
Setup
Build

Build the system, launch AI agents on n8n. Train the team. Hands-on from day one.

E
Enhance
Optimize

Iterate until the system runs without me. You go back to running the business — not firefighting operations.

Free · No pitch

Free 25-min Ops Audit

Walk away with your top-3 operational bottlenecks and a concrete plan — even if we don't work together.

  • 25 minutes · Zoom
  • 📩 Top-3 bottlenecks report (emailed)
  • Zero-obligation · no sales pitch

I respond within 24 hours. Your data is never shared.

Services

Choose your format

01 · QUICK WIN
Lead Response Agent
14 days · fixed price
$1,500

Every lead answered in under 3 minutes — nights and weekends included.

  • Audit of all lead sources (form, Telegram, IG DM, email, WhatsApp)
  • Scoring model tailored to your business (budget · urgency · fit)
  • AI agent deployed on n8n (your infrastructure)
  • Integration with 3 channels of your choice
  • CRM / Notion / Airtable sync
  • 3 response templates for common scenarios
  • Team training (1 session)
  • 2 weeks of post-launch support
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Most popular
02 · FLAGSHIP PACKAGE
Operations System Rebuild
6 weeks · payment 40 / 30 / 30
$4,500

Your business runs without you in 6 weeks. Not theory — documented processes, AI agents, KPI dashboard, trained team.

  • Week 1 — Ops audit: full process map + prioritized bottlenecks
  • Week 2 — Role & responsibility matrix (RACI)
  • Week 3 — 10 SOPs written to Notion with video instructions
  • Week 4 — 3 AI agents on n8n (from a catalog of 6 proven playbooks)
  • Week 5 — Live KPI dashboard in Notion / Airtable
  • Week 6 — Team training + hand-off
  • 1 month of post-delivery support
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03 · CUSTOM BUILD
Custom CRM in 30 Days
30 days · payment 50 / 50
$5,500

Stop paying SaaS subscriptions for 40% functionality. Get a CRM built around your process — you own the code.

  • 2 process workshops (90 min each)
  • Entity schema + workflow map (Miro)
  • Next.js 14 + shadcn + Tailwind + Postgres stack
  • Up to 5 core entities (clients, deals, tasks, projects, payments)
  • Kanban board, filters, search, role-based access
  • Telegram bot + email notifications
  • Deployment to Vercel or Railway
  • Team training (2 sessions) · 30 days of post-launch support
  • Full code ownership — GitHub repo transferred to you
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ONGOING · RECURRING
Fractional Ops Partner

Operational leadership without hiring a COO — 10 hrs/week of partner-level ops management.

  • 10 hours/week of partner time
  • Weekly ops meeting with founder (60 min)
  • Weekly status report + monthly business review
  • Hands-on management of 3–5 active projects
  • Daily coordination with your team (unblocking, decisions)
  • Access to your Notion, CRM, Slack / Telegram
  • Up to 4 hours/mo of small automations & improvements
$2,000 /mo
First 3 months promo · $2,500/mo thereafter · 3-month minimum
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Operational efficiency in action

What changes when
business operations work

Not theory. Patterns I observe and fix in every project.

📍 Before

Leads get lost between Telegram, email, and spreadsheets. Your team spends 3 hours a day routing them by hand.

✓ After

AI agent picks up the lead, qualifies it, and routes it to the right person. Minutes, not hours.

📍 Before

The founder answers 40+ team questions a day. Nothing moves without them.

✓ After

AI assistant answers standard questions from the knowledge base. Owner gets a daily digest — not 40 messages.

📍 Before

New hires spend weeks peppering colleagues with questions. No SOPs — everything lives in people's heads. Onboarding takes a month.

✓ After

AI assistant with company knowledge base answers questions 24/7. Onboarding — 3–5 days instead of a month.

Want to see how this would look for your business?
Let's walk through it on a call.
About the service

What is operations consulting?

Operations consulting is the practice of analyzing, redesigning, and optimizing how your business operations actually run — from lead intake to service delivery. An operations consultant identifies bottlenecks, builds systems and SOPs, and implements tools (including AI automation) that let the business scale without depending on the founder's daily involvement.

At ELSE Operations, this means hands-on work: I don't deliver a PDF with recommendations. As your automation consultant, I map your processes, build AI agents on n8n and Claude, create delegation frameworks, set up KPI dashboards, and train your team. The goal is a self-running system you fully own after the engagement.

Operations consulting — and the operational efficiency it delivers — is most valuable for growing online businesses — online schools, agencies, SaaS companies, and business communities — at the stage where manual processes start breaking under growth pressure.

FAQ

Common questions

Four formats: Lead Response Agent ($1,500 fixed, 14 days), Operations System Rebuild ($4,500, 6 weeks), Custom CRM in 30 Days ($5,500, 30 days), and Fractional Ops Partner ($2,000/mo, 3-month minimum). The free 25-min Ops Audit is the starting point — book it and we'll figure out which format fits.
Yes. The goal isn't to buy new tools — it's to make what you already have work together. AI agents integrate into your existing stack: CRM, Telegram, Google Sheets, Notion, and more.
A Fractional Ops Partner is me working with your business 10 hours per week on retainer — running ops, unblocking the team, managing projects, reviewing metrics. It's $2,000/mo instead of $8–12k/mo for a full-time COO, and you don't carry the hiring risk. Best for founders at $50k+/mo who need operational leadership but aren't ready for a full-time executive hire.
Because AI has to be implemented as a system, not thrown in as a tool. Most failures happen because teams are handed a bot and expected magic. The right order: design the process, embed AI into it, then train the team. In that order, it sticks.
No. You need 90 minutes for the diagnostic and access to your tools. I handle all the technical setup. Your team gets trained to work with the finished system. But if you want to understand what's under the hood — happy to walk you through it.
First changes — within 2 weeks. Full system — 4–8 weeks. Exact timelines are discussed on the discovery call based on your business needs.
This is the ideal moment. Building systems now is 5x cheaper than rebuilding them at 20 people. An AI agent costs less than one month of a part-time assistant — and works without breaks.
The goal is for everything to work without me. You get documentation, a trained team and AI agents on your infrastructure. You own everything. No dependency.
A consultant gives advice and a PDF. I work hands-on: build processes, configure AI agents, train the team — and don't leave until the system works without me.
A fractional COO is an experienced operations executive who works part-time with your company — typically $3,000–$10,000/month — without the cost of a full-time hire. If your business runs through you and can't operate without your daily involvement, you likely need operations systems more than a full-time executive. That's what I build. Read the complete fractional COO guide →

If you want to test what operational leadership feels like without committing to a full-time hire, see my Fractional Ops Partner service — same function, 10 hrs/week, $2,000/mo.
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