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Technology and AI advice

A wave of AI is moving through every business. Let's find your anchor.

As someone who waited tables for six years before reverse engineering systems for Air Force intelligence, I learned two things early: the goal of any operation is what shows up at the table, and you have to understand how a system works before you can make it better. You decide what changes, and I teach you to do it yourself.

Book a conversation How it works

Why it's hard to do alone

No software company pays me. I work for you.

Every tool comes with someone selling it, and your work doesn't stop while you compare. Most owners build their systems just well enough to keep up. Getting further means stepping back to rework them, and that's where people get stuck.

I do the research and the comparing, so you can stay on the work only you can do. I'm the technology advisor you don't have on staff. The changes are yours to make, in your own accounts.

How it works

Four steps. Start at the first. You're worth the whole distance.

  1. The Fingerprint Session. Ninety minutes to put into words where you are with technology and where you want to go.
  2. The Tech Stack Review. What your tools cost, what you use, and where two do the same job.
  3. The Diagnostic. How work moves through your business, and a plan for what should change.
  4. Coaching, from any step. You make the changes, and I coach you through them, mostly by message and video.

AI is one option, never a requirement.

Book a conversation The steps in detail

Highlights

Built in production, not on a slide.

  • Under four months From a standing start to daily use: a custom AI operating system for a regulated financial-services practice.
  • 45 days to 3 A software release cycle, cut with the team that ran it.
  • $10,000 a month Wasted operations spend, found and eliminated.
  • RFID-tracked forklift fleets Business analyst on the software that runs them in major warehouses.
JoNell (Homer) Melo, seated, in a white hoodie

Who you work with

JoNell Melo

What lights me up is people. Learning how each one approaches a problem, and seeing what they grow into. I work with people in every industry, and you work with me directly from the first conversation on.

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