More ambition than hours
You could learn this from a room or a course, eventually. You'd rather compress a year of trial and error into direct time with someone who already made the mistakes.
1-on-1 coaching · with Kolby Brink
Your AI buildout.
Coached 1-on-1.
Private coaching with Kolby Brink, a working AI strategist with 50+ systems built: your business, your stack, your builds, with his eyes on all of it.
But unlike hiring an agency, the capability stays when the engagement ends, because the person who built it is you.
What this is
1-on-1 coaching is the closest thing to having Kolby on your team. You work directly with him on the automations your business actually needs: he helps you scope them, build them, unstick them, and harden them, and along the way you absorb the patterns he uses on client builds every week.
It is built for operators who want the fastest possible path from “I know AI matters” to “my business runs on systems I built.”
Who it's for
Built for three kinds of operators
A specific mountain
There's a build you can see clearly: the payroll pipeline, the content engine, the client-onboarding machine. You want it shipped, and you want to be the one who shipped it.
The bottleneck
Your business already leans on things only you can do. Private coaching turns your scarcest hours into systems, so the business stops queueing behind you.
“What used to take me half a day now runs on its own. That's 10 hours a week I get back.”
Why 1-on-1, not another course?
Your time is the expensive input
At your stage the constraint isn't information or motivation. It's that every hour you spend going the wrong way is an hour the business paid for. Direct coaching exists to delete wrong turns.
Specificity
Courses teach categories. You need this CRM connected to that invoicing tool with your rules in between. That's not a chapter in anyone's curriculum. It's a working session.
The bottleneck compounds
Every week the business waits on you is a week of queued decisions, delayed builds, and busywork that keeps landing on your desk. The exit is systems, built fast, by you.
What changes
Wrong turns get deleted.
You build the right thing the first time, because someone who's shipped fifty of these scoped it with you.
Your pace, your stack, your priorities.
Nothing generic survives a 1-on-1 session.
The bottleneck breaks.
Your scarcest hours turn into systems the business keeps.
You inherit the patterns.
Not just the finished build: the way a working strategist scopes, tests, and hardens automations.
How it works
Four steps, no fluff
1
Apply.
Short form: where you are, what you want to build.
2
We talk.
A call to confirm fit both ways. Format and pricing get straight answers on that call.
3
We build.
Direct working time with Kolby on your automations, plus his review on what you build in between.
4
You ship, then ship again.
The engagement is judged on working systems in your business, nothing softer.
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Who's coaching
Why this works.Undivided attention on your real builds. No pace but yours, no examples but your business. That's the mechanism.
Who's coaching. Kolby Brink is the founder of Cutting Edge Analytics and the AI strategist for a content agency, where he runs AI operations day to day. Former data analyst. 50+ automation systems built for businesses, 10,000+ hours of manual work eliminated. He builds every week, and coaches the way he builds.
And you can do this.You don't need to be technical. You need a business with real workflows and the willingness to build. The technical parts are what the coaching is for.
What you get
Kolby, on your builds
- Direct 1-on-1 working sessions with Kolby
- Scoping, build support, and review on your actual automations
- His patterns, templates, and stack recommendations, applied to your business
1-on-1 time is the most constrained thing I sell, so pricing and current availability are covered on the call. You'll get a straight number there, not a follow-up sequence.
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Apply for 1-on-1
Two questions, two minutes. I keep 1-on-1 capacity small because it only works with real attention. If the fit isn't right, you'll hear it from me on the call, along with where I'd point you instead.
Common questions
+How much does it cost?
It's covered on the fit call, along with current availability. Straight number, on the call.
+How is this different from group coaching?
The group room runs at the group's pace on the group's builds. 1-on-1 runs at your pace on your builds, with all of the attention pointed at your business.
+Do I need to be technical?
No. You need a business with real workflows and the willingness to build. The technical parts are exactly what the coaching is for.
+Is this done-for-you?
No. If you want it built for you, that's the Systems door. 1-on-1 exists so that you become the person who builds.
+How fast will I see results?
The first working automation is the first milestone, and everything about the format exists to make that fast. Exact speed depends on the build you pick first.