Your expertise, built into AI systems that work without you in every step.
AI can build almost anything now. The hard part is knowing what’s worth building. I start with what you know and where it already makes money, then build the systems that run it, and teach your team to use them.
Colin Taylor. I take on three to four clients at a time, and work with each one directly.
Why now
Every competitor in your market has the same AI tools, at the same price, on the same day. Their content is starting to sound like yours, and your prospects can’t tell the difference, yet. What still separates you is meaning: your expertise, your voice, your judgment. *AI amplifies whatever it runs on.
Generic prompts
Faster work that sounds like everyone else.
One founder’s habits
Great work from you, uneven work from your team.
Your expertise, codified
Your standard, across the whole firm.
What changes first
First, you become the only one who does what you do.
When AI can imitate the surface of anyone’s work, sounding better isn’t a strategy. Being the only one is. I draw out what makes your work yours and turn it into a Category of One position: the place in your market that AI can’t copy and competitors can’t claim.
You don’t need a named methodology to start. Drawing it out of you is the core of the work.
Same tools, same language
- We help leaders build high-performing cultures.
- Transform your culture with data-driven insights.
- Unlock your team’s full potential.
- Empowering leaders to drive engagement.
“Most consultants measure culture after it dies. I spot dehydration 9–12 months before it shows up in metrics.”
A real client’s Category of One positioningThis is what survives what’s coming. Every new model makes the crowd cheaper to imitate. A category of one gets harder to imitate with every client you serve.
The Asset Alchemy Method
Extract before you amplify.
Three phases. Each one leaves you owning something, and each one feeds the next.
Phase 1
ReConnect
Arrive at clarity
I draw out what you already know: your thinking, your proof, your voice, and the revenue it’s leaving on the table.
Phase 2
ReImagine
Arrive at confidence
I shape it into a named method, and the messaging and offers your best clients buy with, aimed at where their needs are heading.
Phase 3
ReDesign
Arrive at control
I build the systems that run it, teach your team to use them, and keep them current as your market changes.
Where it goes
Your expertise, running across your firm.
At its fullest, your expertise lives in a private app your team signs into on any device. Every output starts from your method, your voice and your approved facts.
A firm that depends on its founder is a job. A firm whose expertise runs without them is an asset.
- Scale
- New hires work inside your method from day one.
- License
- Certify others to deliver your method through the same system.
- Sell
- A documented system with a record of use is what buyers look for.
What a buyer pays depends on your numbers, your market and the deal. A sale should always involve an M&A advisor.
Your name stays yours
Every line traces back to you.
Most AI will invent a story or a statistic to make a draft sound better. Under your name, one invented claim costs more than all the time it saved.
The systems I build only write from your method, your approved facts and your own words. Where a draft needs something only you can supply, it asks instead of guessing. And nothing goes out until you approve it.
Quiet teams are a warning sign. Research shows 68% of disengaged employees quit within a year.
Invented. The first prospect who checks it stops trusting the rest.
When they go quiet, that’s the first thing I look for. I usually see it how many? months before it shows up in the numbers.
From your voice note and your method
Needs you. No approved figure for how early you see it.
Example with sample content.
“Total messaging overhaul. 72 content assets. A few hours of conversation. That’s it.”
Jon PetersRetirement advisor, 35+ years
Case study
One founder’s thinking, version by version.
How 35 years of a culture consultant’s pattern recognition became a system that produces work only she could have produced.
Act 1
How the thinking became a system
Her method no longer matched how her expertise had evolved. We did the deep work of drawing her core methodology out of 35 years of pattern recognition, named it, and turned it into rules a system could follow.
Act 2
Why the output is hers
Every draft is built from her framework and voice, then tested against one question: could a generic consultant have written this? If so, it’s revised.
Act 3
How it works without her in every step
She brings the idea and approves the result. The system handles structure, drafting, checks and repurposing. The result: 40+ hours a month reclaimed, and $250K–$1M in multi-year contracts.
“Now I realize I’m in the clarity business. Colin showed me what I couldn’t see because I was too close.”
Shelley D. SmithFortune 500 culture coach
Your expertise could be the next system. Find out where it’s trapped.
Why not just…
Automations, an “AI operating system,” or an agency?
| Compared on | Automations | “AI operating system” | Agency or ghostwriter | Asset Alchemy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built on | Generic steps | Your notes and prompts | Their interpretation of you | Your expertise, codified |
| Who can use it | Whoever set it up | Mostly one person | Them | Your whole team |
| Guardrails | None | AI checks its own work | Their editor | An independent check against your real material |
| Keeps up with your market | No | If you update it | Slowly | Built to capture what’s changing |
| What you own at the end | A workflow | A folder of prompts | Nothing | An asset you can scale, license or sell |
Who this is for
Active Influentials shape their market. Passive Invisibles echo it.
We live in an era of new knowledge at high speed, and it’s accelerating by the day. Your market is splitting in two, and the gap between the two sides widens every week. Buying the same AI tools doesn’t close it.
Active Influentials: a strong fit
- See AI as the chance to get their best work out faster and serve clients at a higher level
- Lead a firm of 3 to 15 people built on their expertise
- Have expertise clients pay a premium for, even if it’s never been written down
- Sell engagements worth $10K or more
- Are the bottleneck, and ready not to be
Passive Invisibles: not a fit yet
- Treat AI as a threat to wait out while their best work stays in their head
- Run the playbook they had two years ago
- Want cheap automations or a one-off tool
- Want AI to publish without human review
Who you’ll work with
Built by running it on myself first.
I take on three to four clients at a time, on purpose. Drawing out someone’s judgment takes real attention, so you get mine in full, not a slice of a crowded calendar. You bring the expertise. I do the technical work, so you get the benefit of AI without becoming the person who has to build it.
“AI didn’t create the trapped-knowledge problem. It just made the cost of staying trapped terminal.”
Common questions
What you’re probably wondering.
How is this different from hiring an AI consultant?
Most start with tools. I start with what makes the tools work: your undocumented expertise. The technology comes after the extraction.
Why not just use the AI assistant I already pay for?
Keep using it. On its own, it only knows what you type into it, and you’ve probably noticed how often its drafts sound like everyone else’s. What I draw out is how your firm decides: your method, your proof and your voice. Once that’s written down, your assistant works from it, and it stays yours whichever assistant you use.
Will this add more work to my plate?
No. The process runs on strategic conversations, not homework. You bring the expertise. The extraction, documentation and system-building happen around what you already know.
Do I need to be technical?
No. The technology is handled for you. Your job is to bring the judgment and the context.
What if it doesn’t work?
The Profit Compass Blueprint comes first, so before you commit to anything larger, you see an estimate of the dormant revenue in your business, built from your own numbers. The Foundation Sprint is built to identify that revenue within the first 30 days and start capturing it. If it isn’t identified by day 30, the clock on your 90 days stops, at no extra cost, until it is.
How fast does this move?
The Profit Compass Blueprint is delivered within 24 hours of our session. The Foundation Sprint runs 90 days, and the dormant revenue is identified within the first 30.
Start where you are
Two ways in. Both start with your expertise.
Still working out where AI fits?
The D.I.B.S. scorecard
Six minutes. See where your expertise is trapped, and what it’s costing you.
Free
Your results are sent to this address. No payment, no sales call.
Ready to see your own numbers?
The Profit Compass Blueprint
A one-hour diagnostic with me, using your real numbers. You get your Profit Compass, a 90-day plan, and a clear answer on what your system would be built from, delivered within 24 hours.
$1,497, fully credited toward the Foundation Sprint
Book the BlueprintBefore you commit, the Blueprint estimates the dormant revenue in your business, using your own numbers. For most firms I work with, it’s $20K to $50K. The Foundation Sprint is built to identify that revenue within the first 30 days and start capturing it. If it isn’t identified by day 30, the clock on your 90 days stops, at no extra cost, until it is.
I take on three to four clients at a time. The person you talk to is the person doing the work.