AI Chief of Staff for Solo Consultants

Independent consultants charge between $150 and $300 per hour, yet roughly 20% of their working week disappears into tasks worth $15/hour at best. Booking calls. Following up on unanswered proposals. Wrangling client documents across platforms. The result? Around $20K annually in lost revenue poured into work that doesn't demand their specialized knowledge. Billable eliminates that operational drag. It coordinates meetings without endless back-and-forth emails, nudges prospects who've gone silent on proposals, maintains order across client files in Google Drive and Notion, and manages calendars with the intuition of a dedicated assistant who actually understands how consultants work. It's context-aware automation that converts administrative overhead into revenue-generating hours. The initial build leverages ChatGPT via API to craft meeting confirmations, rescheduling requests, and proposal follow-ups drawn from email threads and calendar context. Google Calendar and Gmail connect through public APIs for fundamental read/write operations. One Zapier integration handles Calendly scheduling links. Roll it out to 10 consultants billing $150+/hour, onboard each one personally through Zoom, and observe exactly where friction appears. The core metric: weekly hours reclaimed relative to subscription price. Pricing starts at $29/month for essential scheduling and follow-up automation. The $99/month tier unlocks the complete toolkit—client file management, invoice reminders, and proposal templates. The addressable market includes 2.1 million solo consultants, reachable through Facebook communities, productivity-focused YouTube channels, and LinkedIn ads targeting freelancers searching "how to manage consulting clients." Scheduling automation serves as the entry point. It's the universal pain every consultant recognizes immediately. From there, the product expands into proposal templates, client onboarding workflows, invoice reminders, and project status tracking. Motion and Reclaim have staked their claim on calendar optimization. Billable captures everything in the consultant's workflow that surrounds the calendar.

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