01 / Hero

You've used ChatGPT.Now what?

Or maybe you haven't really used it yet — and that's the perfect place to start.

Dan Rios
Customer · Business owner · Marketing director · Automation builder · AI · Custom systems
I've worked from every one of these angles — AI came late, not first. So when I tell you what your business needs, it's not from a deck.
20+ years running businesses·Trusted by NFL alumni·Builder, coach, consultant·Active developer — I integrate with what you use, or build from scratch·Currently building StaffCloud — the AI operating layer for service businesses·
02 / Where you fit
The on-ramp

Where do you want to start?

Most people I meet have already played with AI — made a couple cool things and closed the tab. The ones who pick it back up are pulling ahead; the ones who don't are about to find out what that costs.

Two paths, depending on what you want — and if you're not sure which, that's exactly what the Game Plan is for.

I want to get good at AI myself.

I set you up with your own team of AI specialists — inside the tools you already use — and get you running them. Start light, go as deep as you want.

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I want it built into my business.

The systems your operation runs on — lead-routing, intake, reporting, follow-up. Built for you, run for you, or built together as partners.

How I work with businesses →

I'm not sure where to start.

That's the most common spot — and the best one. You don't need to know what you need. We start with a Game Plan and I tell you straight.

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03 / The offer
The offer

I want to make you better with AI.

There was no class. You're not behind — you're early.

Ovie Mughelli, MBA

I think you're the missing piece from us doing seven figures a month.

Ovie Mughelli, MBAFounder, ONO Consulting2x NFL All-Pro · Ravens, Falcons
04 / You bring you

You bring you.

Your inbox. Your proposals. Your week. That's the raw material.

05 / What it looks like
The concrete outcomes

What ends up running differently.

Four outcomes every client ends up with — in different mixes, on different timelines.

Reporting that doesn't depend on you remembering
  • Conversion by source, live
  • Pipeline by revenue line, at a glance
  • Capacity and utilization without the spreadsheet
  • The numbers your CPA wants, ready before they ask
Legal protection that runs itself
  • Compliance checks before contracts go out
  • Audit trails on the things that need them
  • Document retention without the manual sort
  • The small mistakes that cost real money — flagged first
A business consultant on call
  • Knows your numbers, capacity, and patterns
  • Answers the “should I take this deal” call at 11pm
  • Briefs you before every meeting
  • Doesn't have a billing meter
You and your team, moving twice as fast
  • Inbox triaged before you sit down
  • Proposals drafted in your voice in 20 minutes
  • Research that took an afternoon takes 15 minutes
  • Same multiplier, every person you employ

This is what better with AI actually looks like.

06 / The window
The thing nobody says

The thing nobody says about AI right now.

Will AI take some jobs? Yes.

Will it take all jobs? No.

The honest answer is the one nobody's saying: the workforce is already shrinking. Demographics, retirement, the cost of good talent — every owner I work with feels it. The ones winning the next decade aren't replacing their people. They're making the people they have exponentially more capable.

That's the leg up.

The owners who don't engage aren't going to disappear overnight. They're going to spend the next year watching competitors close deals faster, follow up tighter, ship campaigns sooner, and run leaner teams — and they won't be sure why.

AI literacy is the new digital literacy. Five years from now it's table stakes. Right now, it's the moat.

The window to build it is open. It won't be open forever.

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07 / About
Dan Rios
The person behind it

About Dan.

I'm Dan Rios. 20+ years running businesses — customer, owner, marketing director, automation builder, AI. I work with pro athletes and the agencies that insure them, and I'm building StaffCloud — the AI operating layer service businesses are going to run on.

I take a small number of new engagements each quarter. I don't pitch on discovery calls — I tell you what I'd do. If we fit, we work together. If not, you walk away with a plan you didn't have an hour ago.

Based in San Antonio.

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08 / How we start
Personal · 1-on-1

Use AI like the 1%.

Four ways in, just you — or your whole team. Sorted by how far you want to go, not by what you think you need; figuring that out is my job on the call.

AI Game Plan

$1,497

Start here if you're not sure

We sit down, I map how you actually work, and you leave with a written plan: exactly which AI specialists your business needs and what they'll do. Credited in full toward your setup if you move forward within 14 days.

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Done-With-You

Starting at$5,997

Everything in the Setup, plus I stay on for 3–4 weeks — weekly working sessions and tuning — to make sure it actually sticks across your whole team.

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Stay Sharp

Starting at$997/month

Where the journey continues

Your business changes; your AI should too. Every month I build you new specialists, tune what's running, and keep you ahead. Up to 2 new or updated specialists per month, plus tuning and async support. Month-to-month.

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Those prices are for your 1-on-1 setup — you, and your team, running AI. Building it into the business itself is a custom build, scoped on a call. For your business →

Any setup can grow into Stay Sharp. Not sure where you fit? Start with a Game Plan, or just book a call.

09 / For your business
For your business

Run your business like the 1%.

That's you, personally, above. This is the operation — the systems your business runs on, built in, not just used by you. Every engagement starts with a Game Plan; from there, three ways in.

Just get it built

The Build

I build the systems your business runs on — lead-routing, intake, reporting that updates itself, follow-up in your voice. The whole operating layer, done for you. You get the keys and a walkthrough.

Scoped on the call.
AI leadership, ongoing

Fractional CAIO

I run your AI function — a Chief AI Officer without the hire. Strategy, new builds, tuning what's live, and keeping you ahead as the business and the models change.

Scoped on the call.
Build it together

Equity Partner

Equity or revenue share — I'm in the room on the strategic calls, not just the integration tickets. For founders who want me with skin in the game. Selective; a few at a time.

Scoped on the call.
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See how I work with businesses →