a Sagan program · currently in private beta

Your best QC guy
has done this
for thirty years.
He isn't yours forever.

A seven-figure custom pool business runs on one guy's thirty years of judgment. He's the reason jobs come out right. He's also sixty-something, his back is going, and he's started asking about Florida. An AI agent captures his protocols — every callback, every correction, every "that's a no-go because" — so the business doesn't stop the day he does.
gunite inspection · rebar spacing · plumbing pressure · skimmer placement · bond beam · tile line · deck pitch · equipment pad · startup chem ·  gunite inspection · rebar spacing · plumbing pressure · skimmer placement · bond beam · tile line · deck pitch · equipment pad · startup chem · 
the real risk

The business
can't outrun
one man's phone.

He built the standard. Every subcontractor calls him before they pour. Every foreman texts him photos before signoff. He knows exactly what "right" looks like, and nobody else does.

On a good week this is a mild annoyance. On a bad week — he gets sick, he takes his first vacation in a decade, his truck won't start Tuesday morning — this is a business that slows to a stop. Or worse, a business that keeps moving without the check.

01
Every judgment call routes to him

The rebar looks close. Is it? The gunite cure looks grey. Is that normal? Every answer is in one head. The crew waits.

02
Training a successor is impossible

He can't write it down because it's situational. You can't pair a junior with him long enough, because he's the one keeping jobs moving.

03
Rework quietly eats margin

One skipped check, one missed plumbing test, one off-spec bond beam. The fix lands on your P&L two months later and the customer stops referring.

the stakes, in numbers

The bus factor
on a $7–8M business
is one.

BUS FACTOR
1
JOBS IN FLIGHT
100%
YEARS TO REBUILD
~5
PER SILENT MISS
$25k+

If one person doesn't pick up, work stops or work ships wrong. Another hire doesn't solve it. A replacement takes five years to train, and he decides in under two minutes what happens on every active job.

how it works

We don't replace him.
We clone his checklists, his rules of thumb,
and the questions he'd ask before signing off.

step 01
His QC, transcribed

Two weeks on-site with him. Every callback becomes training data.

step 02
Protocols, not guesses

Structured checklists per phase. The house standard, machine-readable.

step 03
Crew-facing app

Foreman uploads photo and question. Gets a house-standard answer in under 30 seconds.

step 04
Only the edge cases

Low-confidence calls route to you. Everything else ships with the standard applied, automatically.

ai agent · field console · job #2417
foreman@site:
sent 4 photos · "gunite looks grey, it's been 22 hours, crew wants to tile. ok?"
agent:
hold. this gunite is under-cured for the house standard. greying at 22h on a 6/12 pour is normal, but the QC lead calls 28h minimum before tile prep — per the 2023 rule after the peeling job on LaGrange Rd. recheck at 14:00. if surface is still cool to the touch and moisture dark, push to tomorrow AM.
agent:
flagging for the owner: photo 3 shows a visible honeycomb at the skimmer throat. automatic callback under the house standard. crew should patch before tile. sending the photo now.
elapsed: 00:00:14 · owner notified: yes · crew signoff: held
honest qualification

Is this for you?

built for you if
  • You own a $7M+ a year custom build business
  • Every QC judgment routes through one irreplaceable person
  • You've tried to train a successor and it didn't stick
  • He can tell you what "right" looks like — but can't write it down
  • Rework costs you five figures a year, minimum
not for you if
  • You do standardized, commodity work where a template solves it
  • You have a trained QC lead already doing this well
  • You're uncomfortable letting an AI apply a judgment call he'd make
  • The business runs on two or three projects a year
pricing

Straightforward.
No retainer. No surprises.

to build
$500
One-time. Scoped, built, and deployed in about two weeks.
then
usage-based
You pay when the agent runs. No seats, no subscription floor.

Full rate card and terms live on the program site → shipyourweekendproject.com

waitlist · private beta

The business
doesn't wait
on one phone call.

A small cohort of owners is being onboarded this quarter. Join the waitlist and you'll hear back when a slot opens.

Join the waitlist