I raised six figures and everyone assumed that meant I'd made it, but most of my days looked nothing like what people imagine building a startup looks like. I was buried in operations, chasing my own team to get things done, patching things together instead of actually talking to investors or closing the partnerships that would move the business forward. Chigzio sat down with me, figured out exactly where my week was disappearing to, and built a system that took the operational weight off me completely. I got back over 20 hours a week almost overnight. Since then I've closed multiple six and seven figure partnerships, because for the first time I was actually spending my time on the parts of the business only I can do.

I'm good at what I do, I know that, so being stuck under 10k months for as long as I was never made sense to me. What Chigzio pointed out was that I was spending almost all my time delivering for the clients I already had and none of it bringing new ones in. There was no system behind me, just me trying to do everything myself. They ran a proper diagnostic, built out a system around getting leads onto my calendar, and within the first month it was full of sales calls without me lifting a finger to chase anyone. I'm consistently crossing 10k months now and I've just hired my first team member, something I couldn't have imagined a few months ago.

My podcast was doing well, people were listening, sharing it, telling me it changed how they thought about going into tech. But almost none of that turned into actual bookings or paying clients, and for a long time I assumed that meant my content wasn't good enough. Chigzio sat down with me and found the real problem wasn't the content at all, it was everything that happened after someone found me, the touchpoints and the system behind it that just weren't there. They built that out completely. Now the same episodes and content I was already making turn into short form, into leads, into actual paying clients, without me doing any of it manually.

I wanted to move from Airbnb into serviced accommodation because I could see the bigger opportunity, but I couldn't even get there because I was drowning just keeping my existing properties running. Guest messages, compliance, things falling through the cracks, it was constant and it was all on me. Chigzio built an entire system that handles all of it end to end, the guest messaging, the compliance alerts, escalations, even bringing in new properties for me. My time on operations went from around 4 hours a day to 40 minutes checking a dashboard. In a few months I've added 20 more units to my portfolio and I'm now actually in a position to look at funding and keep expanding, which felt impossible before.

I've got four properties across two locations and for a while they were doing well, but as more operators came into the market I started noticing my occupancy dropping and couldn't work out why. It wasn't that my properties were worse, it was everything around them, the marketing, the backend, how the operation actually ran day to day. Chigzio went through all of it, found what could genuinely be improved, and put a real plan together instead of just telling me to spend more on ads. Everything's optimised now and my properties are actually positioned to convert instead of just sitting there hoping someone books.

Running a Meta ads agency, I could get results for clients all day, but I had no system for bringing leads into my own business, and I was drowning trying to deliver client work at the same time. I didn't even really know where my time and money were leaking, I just knew something wasn't working. Chigzio mapped out my entire process, found exactly where things were falling apart, and fixed it. They built me a dashboard to actually manage my operations properly and ran campaigns that brought leads straight into my own business. They also helped me nail down my offer and exactly who I should be targeting, which honestly I hadn't properly figured out myself.