I had an initial mapping session with a new client, a brilliant consultant and leader in her field. We quickly went through her business, 2026 strategy, revenue goals, timelines, founder/team bottlenecks so I could spot where we could integrate Claude for the greatest time, profit and revenue gains.
Immediately ideas for how to customize Claude to get work done faster/easier came flooding in. So much so that we scoped her first Claude agent co-build and estimated it would get her back at least 50 hours a month.
Then, we applied my favorite kind of math...
50+ hours/month at a ~$500/hour billable rate = $300K back to her bottom line annually with time added back to her weeks!
And, that’s just the first tool we came up with. We haven’t even started with building her Claude hub customized to her business.
I’ve done a lot of cool things over the decades, but this just may be the most measurably fulfilling of them all.
Time to start considering what would you do with way over 50 hours/month back in your business (and life). Would you start taking Fridays off just in time for Spring/Summer? Build out that new service/program you’ve been sitting on? Plan an extra vacation? Take your team on a retreat?
It’s a compelling reframe on how you’re factoring in AI to scale your business in 2026, is it not?!