AI Consulting · San Diego & Nationwide
Stop learning AI.
$50K-hire output,
zero payroll.
I install AI systems that hand business owners back 20+ hours every week: built with you in live sessions, first system live by Day 7, yours to keep. No course, no 6-month learning curve. The hours come back to sales, growth, and your next offer.
30-min call · no pitch · you keep the roadmap either way
The 10-Hour Guarantee. Save at least 10 hours in your first month or your entire investment is refunded. You keep everything we built.
"I was skeptical about AI consultants. Most just talk. Christian actually built systems. I use what he created every single day."
You didn't start a business to answer email
You're successful. You're also the bottleneck. Every owner I talk to is living some version of the same three problems:
"I'm drowning in busywork."
Emails, proposals, reports, scheduling, follow-ups. The $500-an-hour work keeps losing to the $15-an-hour work, and you are doing both jobs.
"Everyone says learn AI. Nobody says when."
ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, agents, automations. You do not have a spare evening this week, let alone a spare quarter to become a prompt engineer.
"I can't hire my way out."
The next hire is $50K+ a year before training, management, and turnover. You need the output without the overhead.
Here's what nobody tells you: this is not an education problem. It's an installation problem.
You don't need to understand the technology any more than you need to understand plumbing. You need the pipes in the wall, working.
That's the work I doI don't teach AI. I install it.
Most AI help comes in two flavors: courses that make AI your second job, and consultants who leave you a slide deck and a handshake. I do neither. We install working systems together, and you keep them.
"Most AI education falls into two camps: too technical for business owners, or so simplified it's useless. I sit in the middle. I translate AI into business outcomes without losing the nuance that makes it actually work."
Mapped to your workflows
No bolted-on tools. We map how your business actually runs, then wire AI into the 15-20 highest-ROI spots. Your best processes get enhanced; your worst ones get retired.
Installed in live sessions
We build the prompts, the automations, and the SOPs together on scheduled working calls. I handle the documentation, refinement, and cleanup between them. By Day 7, the first system is doing real work.
Yours to keep
Everything documented, recorded, and trained into your team. If you can copy and paste, you can run what I build. I have taught 64-year-olds who still use flip phones.
The guy doing the installing
I'm Christian Johnston. Before AI consulting I spent years in software development and business process automation, adopting machine learning early enough to know what it could and couldn't do. When the models got good enough to do real work, I went all in.
Along the way I started teaching AI publicly as That One AI Guy: 50K+ followers, 1M+ content views, 150+ free prompts published. The nickname that stuck was "The AI Translator." The installs came from the same discipline: San Diego businesses in biotech, defense, tourism, and real estate, and owners nationwide. 50+ of them so far.
"The biggest mistake companies make is automating before understanding their workflows. AI should enhance your best processes, not replicate your worst ones."
Provenance
Software & automation
Systems engineering before AI was the product.
Early ML adoption
Frameworks for practical deployment, ROI over demos.
AI consulting · 2+ years
Full-time installs for owners, San Diego & nationwide.
That One AI Guy · 50K+
Teaching the same systems in public, 1M+ views.
Your install
The next one on the bench.
Four weeks from "someday" to installed
The same installation process I've run across 50+ businesses. Your first working system ships inside the first 7 days.
WEEK 1
Audit
We map your workflows end to end and find the 15-20 places AI can buy back your time. You get a roadmap ranked by ROI.
WEEK 2
Install
Live build sessions. Your AI stack set up, custom prompts written, automations wired into the tools you already use.
WEEK 3
Optimize
We tune everything against real work, train your team (up to 5 people), and turn every system into an SOP with video walkthroughs.
WEEK 4
Handoff
Final review, complete documentation package, 30 days of Slack and email support. You run it without me.
What installed looks like
A 12-person marketing agency. The owner was working 60-hour weeks, drowning in client communication, proposals, and meeting prep.
In 4 weeks we installed AI systems that now handle 90% of email drafting, meeting transcription, and proposal generation.
Installed in 4 weeks"Christian saved us 25 hours/week. We went from drowning in admin to having systems that run themselves. Best investment I made this year."
hour work week
down from 60
minutes per proposal
down from 4 hours
of drafting handled
email, transcripts, proposals
person agency team
the client in this story
Built for owners, not developers
STR & hospitality operators
Agencies & service firms
E-commerce & DTC brands
Consultants & creators
If your week is full of repeatable knowledge work, there is an install for it.
One program. Everything installed.
You just read what one install did: a 60-hour week cut to 40. This costs less than one month of the $50K-a-year hire you were about to make. And the 20 hours a week it frees are not empty time: they are your sales calls, your growth projects, your next offer.
4-week done-with-you installation
AI Transformation Program
or 3 × $1,097/month
The next hire
$50K+ a year
plus training · management · turnover
The install
$2,997 once
works nights · weekends · never quits
Included bonuses
$1,588 value · free
The 10-Hour Guarantee
If you don't save at least 10 hours in your first month, I refund your entire investment. You keep everything we built. I take the risk. You keep the systems.
The typical install saves 15-25 hours a week. The floor is set at 10 so it's a promise I can put in writing for every business, not just the average one.
Every week unbooked is another 20 hours you worked that a system could have. The call is free, and you keep the roadmap either way.
"The ROI was insane. We calculated $180K in annual time savings. Christian paid for himself in the first week."
Bigger team? Enterprise Retainer: $5,000/month, 3-month minimum. 8 hours of consulting a month, quarterly audits, priority 24-hour support, dedicated Slack. Ask about it on the call.
Questions owners actually ask
Q-01
How fast will I see results?
Most clients have working AI systems handling real tasks by Day 7. The full 4-week install typically saves 15-25 hours per week.
Q-02
How much of my time does it take?
About six hours of scheduled calls across the four weeks: a 90-minute kickoff, four 60-minute working sessions, and a final review. The building, documentation, and cleanup happen between calls, on my side.
Q-03
Do I need technical skills?
If you can copy-paste and click a mouse, you can use these systems. I have taught 64-year-olds who still use flip phones. Everything I build is designed for business owners, not developers.
Q-04
Why not just hire someone?
An employee is $50K+ a year, plus training, management, and turnover. An install is one project that works nights and weekends and never quits.
Q-05
Why not just take a course?
Courses make AI your second job. This is an installation: the homework gets done, and you keep the working systems. You end with running automations, not a certificate.
Q-06
What if it doesn't work for my business?
The 10-Hour Guarantee: if you don't save at least 10 hours in your first month, I will refund your entire investment. You keep everything we built.
Q-07
Which tools will I end up with?
Whatever fits your workflows: ChatGPT or Claude for the thinking work, Zapier, Make, or n8n for the plumbing. Recommendations based on what works, not what's hyped.
Q-08
What if my business isn't one of those four segments?
The segments are where I work most, not a boundary. If your week contains repeatable knowledge work (email, documents, scheduling, reporting), the Week 1 audit maps exactly where AI buys your time back. The free call tells you whether there's enough there, and if there isn't, I'll say so.
Q-09
Won't AI output sound generic and embarrass me with clients?
Not if the system is built on your workflows and your voice. The 10+ prompts are custom-built for your business, then tuned against your real work in the optimization weeks before anything runs unattended. You approve what goes out while we calibrate; generic is what you get from a course, not from an install.
Q-10
What happens when the tools change?
Every system ships documented: complete SOPs plus video walkthroughs, so your team can maintain and adjust it without me. During the 30-day support window I handle changes with you. If you want ongoing coverage after that, the Enterprise Retainer exists, but the documentation is built so you are not dependent on it.
Q-11
What does it cost to run after handoff?
The tools run on their own standard subscriptions, in accounts you own directly. You keep the prompts, the automations, and the documentation. There is no ongoing fee to me unless you choose the Enterprise Retainer.
Leave the call with your AI roadmap
30 minutes on Zoom. I audit your workflows, show you your three biggest AI opportunities (there are usually 15-20), and you leave with a roadmap ranked by ROI for your business, plus tool recommendations. You get the recording and a summary document. All of it is yours whether we ever work together or not.
No pitch, no pressure · direct calendar access
If it isn't the most useful 30 minutes you've spent on your business this quarter, we part as friends and you keep the roadmap.
20 hours a week is 80 hours a month. That is what "someday" costs.
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