Ready to Finally Get Out of the Day-to-Day and Build a Business Designed for What's Coming?
You've got big goals for this year, and an even bigger vision you want to bring to reality...
You're ready to make an even bigger impact and a whole lot more profitability...
And there's a Rich Fulfilled Life™ outside your business you actually want the space to live...
You can't do any of that when you're still the person everything depends on...
When expenses keep climbing faster than revenue...
And when you're trying to figure out what to do with AI that actually gives you more freedom instead of more overwhelm or things to validate.Â
Getting your business to this level took a whole lot of dedication and commitment and it's something to be celebrated.
And yet... if you're here, you likely find yourself still putting out fires, fielding questions your team should be answering, and still watching the business grow in complexity faster than it grows in freedom.
There IS a path out of this, despite what you've already tried that didn't work.
One that redesigns the underlying structure so the business runs and scales without you at the center of it.
The structure is redesigned with AI agents built into it so your team manages the agents, the agents run the business, and you lead the business to its vision.
That's what we do together inside Scale with AI.
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YES, THAT'S WHAT I WANTSmall Business Is Changing, Rapidly and Continuously.
And there is a divide that is widening between the businesses designed for where it's going vs. stuck in where it's been.
AI is reshaping how businesses run and grow, what it costs to deliver results, and what clients expect.
The founders who get ahead of it will run leaner, spend less, and scale further than ever before.
The ones who don't will watch their competitors do exactly that, while their own business gets heavier, more expensive, and harder to sustain with every passing quarter.
This isn't a trend to watch. It's a shift that's already happening, and the window to get ahead of it instead of react to it is narrowing.
The founders who come out on the other side of this won't be the ones who figured out which AI tools to use. This isn't about ChatGPT vs. Claude.Â
They'll be the ones who redesigned how their business operates from the ground up, with lean teams leading AI agent teams that handle the work, and a structure built to run and grow without depending on one person to hold it together.
Scale with AI is how you build that business before the market decides for you.
This Is Not Another AI Program
The market is full of programs teaching prompting, custom GPTs, and AI tool skills. Those have their place... however Scale with AI is categorically different.
This isn't about learning AI for the sake of learning AI (although you WILL learn it)...
This is about sustainably scaling your business to multi-7Â and 8 figures, extracting yourself from daily operations, and elevating deeper into visionary leadership along the way.
AI is simply the tool that gives you the leverage to do so at a pace and investment that was not previously accessible to most small to mid-sized businesses.
This is not a prompting course.
The agents are built on the Lean Scaling System™, not good prompt engineering.
They work because of the 3 decades of proven operational and growth logic built into them, not because of how well you or your team can write a prompt.
This is not a Custom GPT program.
Custom GPTs have their place but this is so much more than a chatbot trained on your content or data.
What you're building here are highly-trained AI agents that run your business and grow it, maintaining your systems, handling ongoing ops work, repurposing your content, upleveling your client experience, and surfacing the data your team needs to make smart decisions, all without it landing back on your plate.
That's a fundamentally different technology doing a fundamentally different job.
This is not about learning to build from scratch.
You're not starting with a blank screen and figuring out how to architect AI systems from the ground up. You're installing the Lean Scaling System™ in AI agent form, a proven operational and growth framework that's been running inside 7-8 figure service businesses for decades, personalized to your specific business during the program.
The foundation is already built and the agent is already trained. Your team customizes it to be completely yours.
This is not a short program with a long tail of figuring it out yourself.
Every agent gets installed live in a weekly workshop with an implementation support call to make sure what was built gets tailored to how your business actually works.
The Visionary Collective runs alongside it so the leadership evolution happens in parallel with the systems build.
Instead of leaving with homework, you leave with agents fully trained, deployed, and running.
How Is an AI Agent Team Different From What You've Been Using?
The way most founders are using AI still requires them to do the majority of the work themselves, even if it reduces how long it takes.Â
An AI agent team is different. Instead of responding to your questions or direction, your agents execute ongoing work inside your business, without anyone having to prompt them every time.
Here's what that looks like in practice:
Your Business Performance Reporter means your leadership team starts every week with a clear picture of how the business is performing without anyone having to spend hours pulling numbers together.
Instead of making significant decisions based on gut feel and memory because the data exists somewhere but nobody has time to turn it into something useful, your team has a weekly performance snapshot waiting for them, KPIs, trends, and what needs attention, surfaced automatically.
The founder stops being the person who notices when something is off. The business tells you.
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Your Content Repurposing Agent takes every podcast episode, video, or article you create and multiplies it across formats and channels automatically. The thinking you put into one piece of content keeps reaching people long after you made it, without anyone on your team having to start from scratch every time.Â
These aren't tools your team has to remember to use. They're systems running inside your business continuously, led by your team, handling the work that currently lives on too many plates and finds its way back to you.
And once they're built, they're yours.
We do the heavy lifting of pre-training and pre-building them.
Your team does the personalization in our live weekly workshops and the ongoing continuous refinement as your brand evolves.
The Old Way of Scaling Is Getting More Expensive and Less Sustainable Every Year
| The Old Way of Scaling | Lean Scaling AI Model |
|---|---|
| Bloated team with more headcount than outcomes | Lean team of strategic thinkers leading AI agent teams |
| Founder as the hub everything routes through | Founder leading the business from the visionary seat |
| SOPs nobody uses because nobody maintains them | Living systems that maintain themselves automatically |
| Decisions waiting on one person before work can move | Team making decisions with AI agent support |
| Expenses climbing faster than revenue | Leaner expenses with AI handling execution work |
| Quality dependent on founder involvement | Consistent quality built into the system |
| Team doing execution work that doesn't require human expertise | Team doing high-value work that AI can't do |
| Growth creating more complexity and more dependency | Growth creating more freedom and more capacity |
The businesses that continue to scale sustainably will be the ones who strategically integrate AI to handle what used to require so much more headcount and so much more of the founder.
Introducing Scale with AI
Install the Business That Runs Without You
Scale with AI is a 4-month experience where founders of service-based businesses scaling to multi-7 and 8 figures install the Lean Scaling System™ into their business in AI agent form, across two focused 6-week sprints that your team leads and owns.
Your team doesn't get replaced. They get elevated.
Instead of spending their time doing the operational and growth work that keeps the business running, they lead AI agent teams that handle that work.
They become the directors, the quality setters, the people making the calls that require human expertise and relationship.
That's what a Lean Dream Team™ looks like going forward. Fewer people doing more important work, leading AI agent teams that handle the rest.
Everything runs inside our environment. Your agents keep running, improving, and serving your business as long as you want them to.
How It Works
Scale with AI runs as two 6-week sprints, each one installing a complete AI agent team into your business.
Sprint One builds your Scalable Ops Agent Team, the agents that run your business day to day without you holding it together.
Sprint one runs June 15th - July 24th
Sprint Two builds your Scalable Growth Agent Team, the agents that grow your business consistently without you driving every piece of it.Â
Sprint two runs August 24th - October 9th
In between is an Integration Period, with weekly implementation calls continuing so your team can catch up, refine, and fully embed your Scalable Ops Agent Team.Â
This is also when the BONUS Substack AI Agent Intensive takes place.
The Integration Period runs July 25th - August 23rd.
By the time both sprints are complete, your business has 11 AI agents running inside it, your team leads them, and you lead the business.
The Build
Sprint One: Your Scalable Ops Agent Team
6Â weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3pm ET, June 17th -Â July 23rd
5Â agents. Your business running without you holding it together.
Built on the Lean Business Operating System™ and the Lean Eff-ing Business System™
Week 1: Installation and Setup
Relevance AI configured, Claude connected, your knowledge base structured, and the base agent framework installed and personalized to your business. You leave this session ready to build.
Week 2: Company Success Playbook Builder and Maintainer
Your single source of truth for how the business operates, built and maintained automatically so it's always current and your team always has what they need without asking you.
Replaces 3 to 5 hours of founder questions per week and $2,000 to $5,000/month in maintenance costs.
Week 3: Role Success Kit Creator
Every team member gets clarity on exactly what they own, what success looks like, and how to operate independently, so direction stops routing back to you.
Reduces failed hire risk worth $15,000 to $40,000 per hire and cuts onboarding time from weeks to days.
Week 4: SOP and Workflow Creator
The right processes documented the right way using the 100-80-20 framework, so they actually get used and the work stops requiring your involvement to move forward.
Eliminates 2 to 4 hours per week explaining how things should be done.
Week 5: Waste Analyzer
Regular analysis of where your business is leaking time, money, and profit, with specific recommendations surfaced automatically without anyone having to go looking.
Finds $3,000 to $8,000/month in hidden waste that never gets found because nobody has time to look.
Week 6: Business Performance Reporter
Weekly performance snapshots with your key metrics and trends delivered without anyone having to compile them, so decisions get made on data instead of gut feel.
Recovers 3 to 6 hours per week and eliminates the cost of slow decisions made without the information to make them well.
By the end of Sprint One your Scalable Ops Agent Team is running inside your business, your ops team member is leading it, and the operational work that used to find its way back to you is handled.
Sprint Two: Your Scalable Growth Agent Team
6 weeks, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3pm ET, Aug 25th - Oct 8th
5Â agents. Your business growing without you driving every piece of it.
Built on the Lean Marketing Operations System™ and the Luxe Client Experience System™
Week 1: Installation and Setup
Growth agent framework installed, connected to your marketing and client platforms, and personalized to your business voice, standards, and client experience.
Week 2: Content Repurposing Agent
Your long-form content multiplied across formats and channels automatically so you get maximum reach from everything you create without anyone starting from scratch.
Replaces $2,000 to $5,000/month in content specialist costs and recovers 3 to 5 hours per piece of content created.
Week 3: Marketing Performance Reporter
Clear marketing analytics across channels delivered without anyone having to compile them, so your team always knows what's working, what isn't, and where to focus next.
Recovers 4 to 8 hours per week and eliminates the ROI drag from investing in marketing without knowing what's working.
Week 4: Client Onboarding Agent
Every client gets the experience your business promises, not just the ones you personally oversee, using the Luxe Client Experience framework built in.
Reduces early client churn, cuts 4 to 8 hours of team time per new client, and protects full contract value.
Week 5: Client Communication and Results Tracker
Proactive client communication maintained and at-risk clients flagged before they disengage, without anyone having to manually stay close to every account.
A 10% retention improvement on a $2M business is $200,000 in annual revenue.
Week 6: Referral and Testimonial Agent
A systematic and reliable referral and testimonial process so your best clients consistently become your best source of new business.
Referred clients close at 3 to 5x the rate of cold leads. Most businesses are leaving 80% of this on the table.
By the end of Sprint Two your Scalable Growth Agent Team is running alongside your Ops Agent Team, your growth team member is leading it, and your business is growing consistently without you driving every piece of it.
The Support
Every week for 8 weeks per sprint, your team is building and your business is changing.
Every Week:Â 90-Minute AI Agent Implementation Lab
In a live hands-on workshop, you will install and personalize one agent per week so it is live and running in your business by the end of the session.
Your agent comes pre-trained and ready to be adapted to your specific context and use cases for your business.
Every Week: 60-Minute Implementation Support CallÂ
You have an opportunity each week to get real-time feedback, context-specific guidance, and hands-on support so every agent is tailored to how your business actually works. This is where the nuance happens, where what you built in the workshop gets refined and made fully yours.
Twice Monthly: Visionary Collective for YouÂ
Exclusively for you as the founder, you get access to 2 think tank calls per month with Crista and a small circle of your peers.
Because getting out of the day-to-day isn't only about having the right systems, team, and technology. It takes a leadership and identity evolution, and that part doesn't happen automatically.
The freedom and space you want so badly can be very disorienting when you're not used to it. Realizing your business no longer needs you to run and grow is one part exhilarating and one part terrifying and can cause you to question A LOT.
The Visionary Collective is where you work through the real challenges of this transition alongside a small group of founders navigating the same evolution.
This is where the leadership and identity shift happens so that when the agents are running and your team is running them, you're ready to actually stay out of the day to day and let them.
Twice Monthly:Â SOL Collective for Your Team
Your team is being asked to lead in a whole new way, in some cases at a level different from where they've operated before. SOL Collective is where that development happens.
Through SOL Unfiltered, Crista's private audio feed on strategic leadership, and a monthly Strategic Leadership Think Tank call, they will understand the real challenges of leading a scaling business without the founder driving everything.
This is what turns your team into the strategic thinking leaders your business needs to scale successfully without you.
Two agent teams. One high-impact agent installed every week. And one founder getting out of the day-to-day for good.
The Key That Most Programs Skip Entirely
Most AI programs build the systems and leave you to figure out the leadership shift on your own. Scale with AI doesn't...
Because we've watched too many founders implement the structural changes that should free them only to still end up back in the middle of everything because nobody helped them make the identity shift that makes stepping back actually stick.
The Visionary Collective and SOL Collective exist because getting out of the day-to-day for good requires both the right structure and the right leadership with both you and your team evolving at the same time.
That's what makes this permanent rather than another change that eventually finds its way back to you.
Bonus 1: The Substack AI Agent Intensive
August 20th, 11am - 5pm ET
Between sprints, while your Scalable Ops Agent Team is embedding into your business, you get a live 1-day intensive with Crista dedicated entirely to your Substack.
Substack is one of the highest-leverage owned platforms a founder can build right now, and most founders either aren't on it yet or aren't using it anywhere near its potential because creating consistent long-form content takes time they don't have.
The intensive has two parts:
- Substack Scalable Growth Strategy: First, you and Crista work together to establish your Substack strategy, your positioning, your publication cadence, and how Substack fits into your broader content and growth ecosystem.
- Substack AI Agent Setup: Then you install a fully-trained Substack AI agent that you will personalize to your specific voice, topics, and publishing goals so that creating and maintaining a consistent Substack presence stops being something you get to when you have time and starts being something that begins driving growth now.
You leave the intensive with a strategy and a personalized agent that makes executing it significantly simpler.
This intensive will be open to the public at $1,500.
Scale with AI members get it included at no additional cost.
Bonus #2: Lean Dream Team™ Hiring Kits
We give you access to frameworks for designing and building your human Lean Dream Team™ including everything you need to find, hire, and onboard them.
Includes the 2 core operational and growth related roles your business needs to scale without you.
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"The hiring section alone saved us countless hours of work and re-work. I can't recommend this program enough!”
This Is a Long-Term Relationship, Not a One-And-Done Program
Leveraging AI to simplify and scale your business is not something you invest in once and set it and forget it.
Technology advances rapidly and the way you run and grow your business is constantly evolving.
Most programs end and you're on your own to figure out how to keep using or adapting what you built.
Scale with AI is designed with your sustainable success in mind.
Your agents live inside our environment which means that when something needs updating because:
- your business grows and evolves (which it will)...
- AI agent capabilities expand (which they will)...
- the market changes again (which it will)...
- you want to add a new agent from our growing library...
Your team isn't left to figure it out alone or be stuck reacting to something they didn't see coming.
We're in there with you.
After the program ends your agents keep running on a simple monthly subscription that covers ongoing access, maintenance, and updates.
As we continue building new agents you'll have the option to add them to your environment as standalone installations, expanding what your team leads and what your business handles automatically over time.
The goal isn't to simply learn AI skills, it's to build a business that runs without you and keep it running that way.
The Math Is Pretty Simple
You get two AI agent teams handling critical aspects of operations and growth for under $150/mo once they are installed.
When you look at what the agents replace across both teams, you're looking at 100x that in headcount, tool costs, and recovered founder and team time for a typical business at your level.
The investment pays for itself before Sprint One ends and ROI compounds quickly.
Your Investment
Scale with AIÂ is a high-touch engagement designed for founders who are ready to get out of the day-to-day and build a business that can scale successfully without them.
Your business will have 11 AI agents running inside it, with your team leading them, and you freed up to focus on being the visionary leader your business needs most.
Investment: $1,500/mo x 6 months
or $8,500 pay in full (save $500)
then $297/mo ongoing
Includes Visionary Collective for the founder, SOL Collective for your implementation team, 12 weekly live workshops, and 4 months of weekly implementation support calls throughout, and the Substack AI Agent Intensive.
Your agents keep running inside our environment after the program ends on a simple monthly subscription that covers ongoing access, maintenance, and updates so they always remain ahead of technology changes and advancements.
Cohort runs June -Â October
Is Scale with AI Right for You?
It's a great fit if:
- You're running an established service-based business with a team in place (contractors or employees)
- You're ready to make the system, team, and technology shifts to free yourself from the day to day and leverage AI capabilities
- You're future-forward and want to lead the changes you see happening in small business instead of reacting to them
- You're ready to invest in building the foundational structure that will sustain new AI advancements
It won't be the right fit if:
- You want to learn AI as a shiny new skill versus leverage it to simplify and scale your business
- You're in early growth or still finding product market fitÂ
- You're looking for quick tactics rather than foundational change
- You don't have a team member who can participate in the sessions and own the agents after and are uninterested in doing this yourself until you do
Hi, I'm Crista Grasso.
A scaling strategist, operations alchemist, and Founder of the Lean Scaling Co & Strategic Ops Institute.
I've spent more than 30 years helping businesses scale, spanning the largest Fortune 500 companies and smaller service-based businesses that are genuinely my passion.
The biggest difference between today's most successful businesses in the world and small to mid-sized businesses drowning in complexity with a ceiling on their scalability?Â
Corporations shifted how they work. They figured out how to evolve from rigid, old-school models into something leaner, more agile, and more sustainable (I know because I led this change).
And yet small businesses are still being taught the overly complicated and antiquated models corporations no longer even follow, trying to scale with frameworks that were never designed for a fast-moving, founder-led business in the first place.
So I built something that was.
The Lean Scaling System™ is designed specifically for businesses like yours, agile, high-growth, and needing to pivot on Tuesday and implement by Thursday, not massive organizations with thousands of people and glacial decision-making.
Thousands of business have been able to make scaling more simple and sustainable leveraging the Lean Scaling System™ and AI accelerates and expands what's possible.
SCALE WITH AI is the most advanced implementation of the Lean Scaling System, because reimagining your Lean Dream Team™ with AI agent teams built-in means getting your business to truly run and scale without you at a pace and cost that has not been possible before.
I'll be in the room with you for every workshop and every Visionary Collective call, and my team will be with you every step in between.