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Wilkins N.

AI Systems & Automation | Fractional COO for Growing Businesses

Most founders I talk to have the same week. Every quote, approval, late invoice and new hire still goes through them, and the tools they pay for don't talk to each other. I build AI systems and automations for growing businesses in any industry, and I work beside founders as their fractional COO. The systems take the routine work off your desk: the missed call that gets a text back, the morning list of who is waiting on you, the follow-up that goes out without anyone having to remember it. The decisions stay with you. Every system I build does one of three jobs: brings in more customers, makes each customer worth more, or lowers what the business costs to run. If I can't name which one and put a number on it, I don't build it. I built my own first. At 6:15 every morning an AI system I built in Claude Code reads my calendars, inboxes and project files and hands me one ordered list. It drafts. I decide and send. What I've done for clients, with the numbers: → A cleaning company: crew payroll went from over 80% of revenue to 46% in one quarter, by scheduling on routes and removing a management layer that wasn't pulling its weight. → The same company: owner involvement down about 90%, with the schedule set two weeks ahead instead of the morning of. → A private lender: loan servicing built from scratch, with automated borrower emails, insurance and tax lapse monitoring, and a release register that tracks the 90-day window after every payoff. → A YouTube production operation: 60 to 80 videos a month across 20+ channels, then cut to a focused 5 channels with better quality and margin. → A six-location seasonal operation: 1,000+ customer operations at 91% on time, and the owner went from 10+ hours a day to 30 minutes a week in 90 days. How I work: 1. An Operations Leak Audit. We walk through one ordinary week of your business: every request, handoff, report and invoice. I write down each place the work waited on you, in the order I would fix them. You keep the page whether we work together or not. 2. One system first, with a number on it: what it moves, where that number sits today, and where it should be in 60 days. 3. Then ongoing work beside you as your fractional COO. I stay after the build to decide with you what gets automated next, who owns each process and which calls stay yours, until your team runs it without you. I build with Claude Code, n8n, Jobber, HubSpot and the tools you already pay for. If your business only moves when you're in the room, send me a message with the one thing that keeps landing on your desk. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.

🇰🇪Nairobi, Kenya$40/hr100% JSS5.00 (11)Since Nov 2019
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$25

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#161,973 / 412k
🇰🇪Country#1,107 / 3,243
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $149

Total earnings
$22k

Billed in all: $22k

World#133,355 / 412k
🇰🇪Country#864 / 3,243
Per project
$666

$149 in the last 6 months

World#157,079 / 412k
🇰🇪Country#1,066 / 3,243
Projects, last 6 months
1

Across 2 contracts

50% fixed50% hourly
World#128,092 / 412k
🇰🇪Country#813 / 3,243
Projects in all
33

Across 36 contracts

67% fixed33% hourly
World#89,874 / 412k
🇰🇪Country#770 / 3,243

Earnings, last 30 days

$22.5kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$22,000$22,250$22,500$22,750Oct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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