Scale Yourself Solo

You have two jobs.
Let’s get rid of one.

You’ve built something real. But half your week disappears into work that doesn’t need your brain, your relationships, or your judgement. I build bespoke AI systems designed around how your brain actually works — so you can stop doing the work that drains you, and get back to the work that defines you.

Take the AI Leverage Audit — £97How it works ↓
Steve Connell, founder of ExponentiallyBuilt by Steve — ex-Google · ex-Microsoft · 11 years solo tech consultancy

Off-the-peg software forces you to work its way. For the first time, AI makes it possible to build tools that work yours — around your workflow, your brain, your business. Bespoke, not template.

Sound familiar?

If you’re a solo operator, at least one of these will land.

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You’re brilliant at your work. Your week doesn’t reflect that.

The work that earns you money is a fraction of what you actually do. The rest — quoting, chasing, admin, reporting — eats the time that should go to the work only you can do.

🎭

You’re one person doing the work of four.

No team to hand things to. Just you — switching between being exceptional at your core work and forcing yourself into a completely different mode for the back office. The context-switching alone is exhausting.

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Your brain doesn’t fit the tools. And it’s not your brain’s fault.

You’ve tried the apps and systems. They were almost right, but not quite. Not because you’re bad at tech. Because they were built for a different kind of brain — someone else’s workflow, someone else’s way of thinking.

You don’t need another app. You need something built for you.

You don’t have time to learn platforms or watch tutorials. You want someone who understands how you work, builds what you actually need, and hands it over done. That’s it.

The Brain-First Build

A bespoke process. Three steps. Working in days, not months.

1

I diagnose why other tools haven’t worked

A free call where we figure out what’s really going on. Not just what takes time — but why you haven’t been able to fix it. How you naturally work. What your brain does brilliantly and where it hits friction. This is the bit nobody else does.

2

I build around you

Voice-first if you think out loud. Mobile if you’re in the field. No spreadsheets if spreadsheets make you glaze over. The tool gets built to match your brain — not fight it.

3

You breathe

I deploy it, walk you through it, and we iterate for 30 days — because you only know what you really want once you start using it. The quoting that took your evening? Done in two minutes. You finish work. And you’re actually finished.

Not sure where to start? The AI Leverage Audit is Step 0 — it shows you exactly where your highest-leverage opportunities are before we build anything.

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Real tools. Real people. Real time back.

The voice note that replaced two hours of admin

Problem

A self-employed professional was losing track of daily achievements across a hectic week. Important wins were slipping through the cracks, and turning those into social media content meant hours of end-of-week review.

Built

A Telegram-based capture tool. No typing, no logging in. Just send a quick voice note during the day. Audio gets transcribed, AI identifies what matters, tags and categorises everything, stores it automatically. Every Friday, a summary email arrives with the top three achievements and ready-to-post content ideas.

Result

Daily logging: 10-second voice note. Weekly review: zero. Content ideas generated automatically.

Brain-fit: They’re a verbal processor. A voice-first tool matched their brain.

The tradesman who stopped working until 9pm

Problem

A tradesperson was spending 5+ hours every week writing up quotes after long days on the job — at the kitchen table at 9pm, when he should have been with his family.

Built

An automated quoting tool that turns quick job notes into professional, ready-to-send quotes. Capture on site, on your phone, the way that comes naturally.

Result

5+ hours saved per week. Quotes sent same-day. Evenings reclaimed.

Brain-fit: He works with his hands all day. A mobile-first quick-capture tool matched how he actually operates.

Thousands of transactions sorted in minutes, not hours

Problem

A self-employed professional had years of bank statements but no clear picture of spending. The idea of going through thousands of spreadsheet rows was never going to happen.

Built

A spend analysis tool. Import transactions, categorise a handful manually. After 10–20 quick categorisations, the AI learns your patterns and fills in the rest — thousands of transactions sorted in minutes.

Result

Complete visibility on spending. Hours of manual work replaced by minutes of guided input.

Brain-fit: A minimal-input system where the AI learns from examples matched their working style.

What clients say

I knew I was wasting time but I couldn’t see where. The audit showed me three areas I could hand off immediately. I got six hours a week back within a month.

HB

Harriet B.

Self-Employed Consultant

I’d been putting off my admin backlog for months. The audit named it, scored it, and gave me a specific plan. The ROI was obvious before I’d finished reading it.

ER

Espen R.

Fractional CFO

I’ve tried every productivity system going. This was different — it was specific to how I actually work. I stopped doing three things that same week.

GH

Gudmundur H.

Independent HR Consultant

I was drowning in client work I loved and admin I hated. Steve built me something that handles the admin automatically. I didn’t realise how much mental energy it was taking until it stopped.

JR

Joao R.

Business Development Consultant

Steve Connell

Built by someone who gets it

20 years being the human face to transformational technology — at Google, at Microsoft, and running my own consultancy. I’ve lived every problem I now solve: the context-switching, the work that drains you but can’t be ignored, the cognitive cost of being the whole business in the same day.

I’m a verbal processor, personal development obsessive, and someone who’s always built their own systems rather than adopting someone else’s. AI unlocked my ability to do that for other people. For the first time, it’s possible to build tools genuinely specific to how you think — not how the author’s brain operates.

Availability: I work with a small number of clients at a time so I can give each one proper attention.

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Start Here or Go All In

Two ways to work together. Pick the one that fits where you are right now.

Start Here

Scale Yourself Solo:
AI Leverage Audit

£97£197

First 100 audits — then £197

Take the audit and you’ll walk away knowing exactly where AI could transform your working week, what it’s costing you not to act, and precisely where to start. In under 15 minutes.

  • Personalised AI Leverage Score (0–100%)
  • Personal Impact Score — the cost beyond business
  • Category-by-category breakdown
  • Specific automations for YOUR business
  • Priority action plan — where to start first
  • Instant results, no call required
Take the Audit — £97

Results in under 15 minutes.

Close the Gap

Scale Yourself Solo:
Bespoke Build

From £4,995

Close your gap. I drop into your business, build the AI systems done for you — fast-tracked, fully handed over. You own everything. No ongoing dependency.

Limited availability — as demand increases, so does the price.

  • Free discovery call — we figure out exactly what to build
  • Bespoke system designed for your cognitive style
  • Deployed into your workflow — not handed over as homework
  • Personal walkthrough and 30 days of iteration
  • Your environment, your accounts — everything handed over
  • Fast-tracked delivery — bespoke clients get full attention
Book a Discovery Call

A 20-minute conversation to see if we’re a fit.

If your audit doesn’t show you at least one thing you can change this week, we’ll refund you. No questions.

Fancy a chat?

If you’d like a quick 20-minute call — super chilled, no pressure — just to figure out whether there’s a fit in working together, I’d love that. Pick a time below.

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Email: hello@exponentially.tech

Based in the Cotswolds, UK — working with people everywhere