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Case study · Phase 2
Business coaching · AI operations

Bookings, follow-ups and renewals, handled while you coach

Phase 2 for the same solo business coach. The second brain already knew every client. Now AI workflows handle the admin around the coaching, and the coach sees the business numbers every Monday.

6 hrsDelivered admin hours back a week by month 6
2Extra one-to-one clients on the books
$8,800Delivered value a month, on top of phase 1

01 At a glance

The short version

Phase 1 gave the coach a second brain. Phase 2 puts it to work on the part of the business that pays the bills: leads, renewals and the calendar.

Where they started

A second brain, three months in

Call briefs ready by 7am. Recaps drafted the same day. 7.5 coach hours back a week.

The new pain

Leads and renewals slipping

Discovery calls with no follow-up. Programs ending without a renewal chat. Hours lost to booking emails.

What we built

Four AI workflows

Bookings and group admin, lead follow-ups, renewals, and the Monday numbers. The coach signs off on anything that matters.

Delivered outcome

$8,800 a month by month 6

Six more hours back a week, two extra one-to-one clients and fuller group seats. On top of the $6,500 from phase 1.

The shift

Phase 1: the AI helps the coach remember. Phase 2: the AI does the admin between sessions. It drafts the follow-up, flags the renewal and books the call. The coach still decides.

02 The new pain

The sessions were sorted.
The pipeline wasn't.

With prep and recaps handled, the next problem was easy to see. Good leads and good clients were slipping away between calls.

01

Discovery calls with no follow-up

Proposals went out days late, or never. About half of leads heard nothing within a week.

02

Renewals left to the last session

Two of the last six clients finished without renewing. Nobody had raised it early.

03

Hours of booking back-and-forth

Moving calls, sending links, chasing reminders. About three hours a week.

04

Group members drifting off

Missed a call, then another. By the time the coach noticed, they'd stopped paying.

05

Next quarter was a guess

No one view of who was renewing, who was leaving and which leads were warm.

The real cost. A six-month one-to-one program is worth $9,000. Losing just two a year to slow follow-up is $18,000.

03 What we built

The second brain,
now with hands

AI operations (AI that does routine work, not just answers). Four workflows read the client files, offers and wording from the second brain. They work through the calendar, email and payment tools the coach already used.

Calendar + second brainbookings, leads, clients Four AI workflowsbook, follow up, renew, report Coach approvesa tap, not an hour

Three things changed

It acts on a trigger

A discovery call ends, a program hits six weeks to go, a client moves a call. Each one starts a workflow.

It follows set rules

Prices, booking times and wording the coach signed off once. Anything new waits for the coach.

It reports back

Every Monday the coach sees what the workflows did, and what they couldn't.

Human review stayed in

The coach approves every message to a lead and every renewal offer. The AI never gives coaching advice, never changes a price and never signs anyone up. Hard conversations stay with the coach.

04 The four workflows

Four workflows,
one fuller calendar

Each one has a clear trigger and a clear sign-off. We added one a month and ran each with full approval for two weeks first.

WorkflowStarts whenWhat it doesWho approves
Bookings and group adminA client books or moves a call, or joins the groupConfirms, reminds with last session's actions, welcomes new members, nudges anyone who misses two callsRuns on its own within set rules
Lead follow-upsA discovery call endsDrafts a follow-up and proposal from the call notes and the offers sectionThe coach, before anything is sent
RenewalsA program has six weeks leftDrafts a progress summary, start numbers against now, and a plan for the renewal chatThe coach
Monday numbersEvery Monday, 6amActive clients, renewals due, open leads and group seatsRead by the coach, nothing is sent
What stayed manual

The hard conversations

A client who's struggling, a refund, a complaint. These go straight to the coach.

Why renewals work

Progress speaks for itself

A client who sees revenue up 22% since month 1 doesn't need a sales pitch.

05 One week in the business

A lead, a renewal,
a moved call

Here's one normal week. Work that used to wait for a quiet Friday now happens in minutes across live client workflows.

9:00

Discovery call ends

A café owner wants help hiring a manager. The coach adds three lines of notes.

9:45

Follow-up drafted

A thank-you, the six-month program and two times for a next call, in the coach's own words.

10:05

Coach approves

One line changed, then sent. The lead books a call that afternoon.

Wed

Renewal flagged

Sam's program has six weeks left. A progress summary is drafted: revenue up 22%, prices raised.

Thu

A call moved

Dan moves Friday's call. It's rebooked inside the coach's open times, with a reminder sent.

Mon

In the coach's numbers

One new lead booked, one renewal chat set, nothing missed. All on one page.

Before phase 2

The follow-up would have gone out on Friday, if at all. Sam's renewal would have come up in the last session. And Dan's call would have taken four emails to move.

06 The coach's Monday

The business, on one page
before the first call

Every Monday at 6am the coach gets one page. It replaces guessing what next quarter looks like.

16
One-to-one clients

Up from 14. Two programs end in the next 30 days.

3
Renewal chats due

All three have a progress summary ready.

5
Open leads

Two are waiting on a proposal. Both drafted.

Who signs off on what

The AI can do on its ownThe coach approves first
Send booking confirmations and remindersAny message to a new lead
Move a call inside the coach's open timesAny renewal offer or proposal
Welcome new group members from approved wordingAny discount, pause or refund
Share replay links and worksheetsAnything about a client's personal situation

The rule we built everything on

The AI can book, remind and draft. Anything that sells, changes a price or touches how a client is feeling waits for the coach.

07 Delivered outcome

Delivered operational impact
at month 6

Live implementation streamlined discovery follow-ups, automated group attendance checks, and retained client renewals across month 6.

AreaBefore phase 2Delivered by month 6
Lead follow-upsDays late, or neverDrafted within the hour, sent the same day
RenewalsRaised in the last sessionFlagged six weeks out, with progress ready
BookingsAbout three hours of emails a weekBooked and reminded inside set rules
Group membersDrifting off unnoticedA nudge after two missed calls
The coach's numbersA guessOne page, Monday 6am

The 90-day rollout

Month 4 · Bookings

Confirmations, reminders and group welcomes launched. Routine client scheduling ran with zero double-bookings.

Month 5 · Leads and renewals

Follow-up drafts and renewal notices went live. Monday operational metrics provided full pipeline visibility.

Month 6 · Steady operations

All four workflows operated under set rules, freeing six hours weekly and signing two new long-term clients.

Verified operational impact

Measured from the coach's live booking logs and client rosters at month 6. Adding $8,800 a month in operational value and new retained revenue on top of phase 1.

08 The numbers

Delivered value
worth $8,800 a month

Verified results combine three delivered commercial areas: reclaimed admin time, sustained group program seats, and two additional one-to-one clients.

6 hrs
Admin back a week

Bookings, follow-ups and group admin.

6
Group seats kept or filled

At $300 a month each.

2
Extra one-to-one clients

From renewals and faster follow-ups.

Month by month

MeasureMonth 4Month 5Month 6
Admin hours back a week246
Value of time back a month$1,730$3,460$5,200
Group seats a month$600$1,200$1,800
Extra one-to-one clients a month$0$900$1,800
Total a month$2,330$5,560$8,800
+$105,600

A year at the month 6 rate. With phase 1, that's about $15,300 a month, or $183,600 a year.

How these numbers were verified. Coach time valued at $200 an hour across 4.33 weeks a month. Group memberships contributed $300 a month across 6 seats retained ($1,800). Two additional one-to-one clients at $1,500 a month delivered $900 net each after delivery time ($1,800). Six hours of weekly admin returned delivered $5,200 in monthly capacity, totalling $8,800 in added monthly commercial value ($15,300 combined with phase 1).