A&Y Partners

We are a small consultancy for owner-operated businesses.

We learn how a business actually runs, build the automation to clear away the manual work and stay on to ensure it works. Most of the companies we work with are doing fine but their growth is an afterthought, because everyone is buried in paperwork keeping the business moving forward.

We take on a handful of companies at a time and choose them based on where we can make the biggest impact.

Aryeh & Yoni

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The problem

The ceiling is almost always internal.

Most small businesses that look maxed out are not. The people who could grow the business are busy keeping it running, and that work has deadlines while growth gets overlooked. Owners conclude that the business has become as big as it gets. They are usually wrong.

The fix is easy to get wrong. The common failure is automating the wrong parts of the business. Efficiency in the wrong place does not save money, it removes the reason customers chose you.

The work

Every business is different. The method is not.

What we build is different every time. How we get there is not.

01

Find it

We take the time to understand your business and map out where bottlenecks hide.

02

Build it

We start with the solution that will have the biggest impact, then move to the next, and so on.

03

Run it

We implement it and keep it running. Our work is not complete until it is part of the real business process and running correctly.

04

Grow it

Capacity is only worth what you do with it. Then we help you grow the business where you want to take it.

None of it happens at once. Change everything in a small business simultaneously and the old way stops working before the new way is trusted. So we put one piece in, watch it run through a real cycle, fix what it got wrong, then start the next.

One piece at a time, proven in a real cycle, before the next one starts.

Fit

You should not hire us if

#If this is youWhy we are wrong for it
01You want software you can buy off the shelfWe are not a product. Everything is built for your business, and teaching you how it works is part of the job.
02Your data cannot sit with Google, Microsoft, OpenAI or AnthropicWe build on their infrastructure.
03You have already decided what you want builtWe do not default to AI. What is right in one business might ruin another. We will not know which until we understand yours.
04You want it all fixed by the end of the quarterRolling everything out at once is how a small business breaks. One piece at a time, proven, then the next.

The judgment

The hard part is not building it. It is knowing what to build.

Owners rarely arrive with a wishlist. Work you have done the same way for twenty years stops looking like work. Whoever knows what is possible has never seen your operation, and whoever knows your operation might not know what is possible.

So we give you a straight answer in three parts:

  1. What can be automated and should be
  2. What cannot
  3. What could be but should not

That last line sits somewhere different in every business. Working out where yours sits is the key to getting this right.

How we are built

Small on purpose.

We are not trying to build a big firm. We work hands on with a handful of businesses at a time, because the model depends on being embedded in each one, and that is the first thing to break when a firm grows.

So we are selective. We take the businesses where we are confident we can move the numbers, and say so early where we are not.

Start here

Show us your worst week.

Let's talk about where the time goes, and an honest answer on whether we are right for it.