Shodhan Advisory · London

I run operations
from inside the seat.

Fixed-price AI builds for founder-led businesses. Shipped in weeks, not months. Start with a £750 audit — credits against any build.

−60%
reduction in install costs
−50%
reduction in support costs
increase in lead qualification times
Sold
Traktion → IDX · 2023
Previously worked with
Traktion Uber Urban Company Cloud Cycle Housekeep Zeelo Flylane
Products

Three builds. One audit. All shipped, not pitched.

The audit tells you what to build. The build ships in 2–4 weeks. The retainer keeps it running. Fixed scope, fixed price, no consulting hours.

01 · AI Opportunity Audit

A 6-page written audit. No call required to start.

An operator's view of what AI can do for your business in the next 12 months — and what it can't. Three things to ship in 30 days, a 12-month plan, and a section on what I'm explicitly not recommending.

Fill out a short brief. I do the analysis. You get the audit back, written and ranked by £-impact. No deck, no follow-up pitch.

If you've watched every AI experiment die in pilot, start here. The audit is the cheapest way to find out whether one of these builds would actually pay back for you.
02 · Speed-to-Lead Agent

Every five minutes you wait, you halve the chance of converting.

Inbound form fills, demo requests, replies to outbound — qualified, routed and booked into the calendar without anyone on your team touching them. First response in seconds, not hours.

If you're spending money on leads and watching them go cold, this is the build.

What gets built
Inbound capture — form fills, replies, chat triggers
Qualification logic — ICP scoring, intent signals, disqualification rules
Calendar booking — direct slot offering, no back-and-forth
CRM integration — full context written back to your CRM (1 system)
Routing — by territory, vertical, or account owner
Reply drafting — first-touch responses in your brand voice
Tested against real lead data before go-live
Retainer: £1,000/month — qualification tuning, response refinement, CRM sync monitoring, adding new lead sources (up to 2/month). Up to 4 hours of iteration per month. Monthly performance report included.
→ The most ROI-positive build I ship. The maths is simple: if you spend anything on leads, this pays back in weeks.
03 · Company Brain

Your data lives in five tools. Your team trusts none of them.

One place your team can ask anything about the business in plain English. "What's our MRR by segment last month?" "Which accounts are at risk?" "How many tickets did we close on the Pro plan?" — answered from your live data, not a stale dashboard.

If your team spends an hour a day in spreadsheets just to answer questions, this is the build.

What gets built
Data source integration — 5 sources included (CRM, finance, support, docs, custom)
Schema mapping — your data, normalised and queryable
Natural language query interface — ask anything, get structured answers with sources
Permissions — role-based access by team or seniority
Slack integration — query the brain in any channel
Daily/weekly digests — auto-generated for leadership
Tested against real questions from your team before go-live
Retainer: £1,500/month — connecting new data sources (1–2/month included), maintaining integrations, prompt tuning, usage monitoring. Up to 5 hours of iteration per month. Monthly usage report included.
Additional data sources beyond the initial 5: £800 each.
→ The stickiest product I build. Once your team uses it daily, it becomes infrastructure.
04 · WhatsApp Support Agent

Your customers message on WhatsApp. This agent handles 60% of them.

FAQs, order lookups, booking changes, policy questions — handled instantly, 24/7, in your brand's voice. The hard ones get escalated to a human with full context. No lost threads. No "let me check and get back to you."

If your team is spending half their day answering the same ten questions, this is the build.

What gets built
WhatsApp Business API setup and configuration
Knowledge base ingestion — your FAQs, policies, pricing, product info
Conversation flows — up to 10 core intents
Order/booking lookup — integrated with 1 backend system
Human escalation — hard questions get routed with full context
Brand voice calibration — sounds like your team, not a robot
Tested against real customer queries before go-live
Retainer: £800/month — knowledge base updates, escalation tuning, performance monitoring, adding new intents (up to 2/month). Up to 3 hours of iteration per month. Monthly conversation report included.
→ I shipped one recently that handles 63% of tickets without a human. The client didn't hire the support person they were about to post for.
How retainers work

These systems don't stay static. Neither does the retainer.

Every build includes a monthly retainer. Here's why: AI systems that nobody monitors start hallucinating, breaking integrations, and giving stale answers. I don't ship things that embarrass you three months later.

The retainer is a fixed monthly fee with a fixed number of iteration hours. No timesheets, no surprise invoices. If your needs grow, we re-scope.

Annual option: pay 10 months upfront, get 12 months of cover.

Monitoring
I watch the system's outputs and catch issues before your team does.
Tuning
Prompts get refined, qualification logic sharpened, knowledge bases updated.
Maintenance
When your CRM updates, when APIs change, when tools add features — I handle it.
Iteration
New channels, new intents, new data sources added over time.
Monthly report
What the system did, how it performed, what I changed.
Annual option: pay for 10 months upfront, get 12 months of cover. Same retainer scope, two months free.
Pricing summary

Fixed scope. Fixed price. No consulting hours.

AI Opportunity Audit
Price£750
RetainerNone
Annual
Speed-to-Lead Agent
Build£6,000
Retainer£1,000/mo
Annual£10,000/yr
Company Brain
Build£8,000
Retainer£1,500/mo
Annual£15,000/yr
WhatsApp Support Agent
Build£5,000
Retainer£800/mo
Annual£8,000/yr

10% discount on the second build for existing retainer clients.

Who this is for

Founders running £1–10M businesses who'd rather ship one working system than sit through ten meetings about AI.

This works if

  • You're spending money on leads and watching them go cold
  • Your team answers the same customer questions fifty times a week
  • Your data lives in five different tools and nobody trusts any of them
  • You've tried AI experiments and watched every one die in pilot
  • You want production software next week, not a roadmap next quarter

Not the right fit if

  • You want a strategy deck, not a working system
  • Your default fix for everything is "hire someone"
  • You need a six-month consulting engagement with weekly steering committees
Recently shipped
Custom Intercom agent · live order context
handled support end-to-end with policy + scoring loop
63%tickets handled
Exec performance dashboard
unified team metrics into one leadership view
£40kSaaS leak found
Results

Numbers from the seat. Not from the deck.

60%
Unit cost reduction at Cloud Cycle — ConTech/SaaS.
deployment redesigned · gross margin established for next round
Pipeline growth for an EdTech platform after a strategic pivot to AI.
helped open london office · distance learning → ai pivot
+20%
Transaction volume on a consumer services marketplace.
supply-demand mechanics rearchitected · real liquidity driven
Organic traffic growth for a B2B insurance company.
full SEO and content engine rebuilt from the ground up
£0
Engineering tickets needed for any workflow I ship.
claude code · n8n · replit · your engineers stay on product
1.2M
Daily rides at Uber India at peak — scaled from 19 at launch.
launch team operations · zero-to-one to national scale
About

Technical enough to build the things I recommend.

Saher Shodhan, founder of Shodhan Advisory

Saher Shodhan is an exited founder, senior operator, and hands-on builder. He's been in the founder seat, not the advisor seat. That's the difference.

A decade scaling operations where things break daily — Uber India launch team, Head of Ops at Urban Company, founded and sold Traktion (acquired by IDX, 2023), Interim COO during Cloud Cycle's European expansion.

Technical for an operator. Builds workflows and internal tooling himself in Claude Code, n8n, Replit and Webflow. When an ops problem needs software, it gets shipped — without your engineering team lifting a finger.

Based in London. Fixing operations across Europe.

Track record
2024 — now
Shodhan Advisory · Founderoperational advisory for founder-led businesses
2023 — 2024
Cloud Cycle · Interim COO−60% unit costs · 3 EU markets · ConTech/SaaS
2018 — 2023
Traktion · FounderB2B marketplace · bootstrapped · acquired by IDX
2016 — 2018
Urban Company · Head of Ops & Strategic PartnershipsNew Delhi · reported to CEO
2013 — 2015
Uber India · Operations Manager, launch team19 → 1.2M rides/day
Education
Sciences Po, Paris · MSc International Project FinanceEmily Boutmy Scholar
Common questions

What founders ask before reaching out.

How long does a build take?

2–4 weeks depending on the product. WhatsApp agent is fastest (2 weeks). Company Brain takes longest (3–4 weeks).

Do I need to be technical?

No. You need to give me access to your tools and be available for a couple of 30-minute check-ins during the build.

What tools do you use?

Claude, n8n, Replit, WhatsApp Business API, and whatever CRM/tools you already use. I don't introduce new tools your team has to learn.

Can I get multiple products?

Yes. Most clients start with the audit, build one product, then add a second 2–3 months later. 10% discount on the second build for existing retainer clients.

What if I want something not listed here?

Start with the audit. If your highest-leverage opportunity is outside these three products, I'll scope it custom. But 80% of what founder-led businesses need falls into one of these categories.

Can I cancel the retainer?

Monthly retainers cancel with 30 days notice. Annual retainers are non-refundable but transferable. I've never had a client cancel — the systems pay for themselves.

What happens if something breaks?

Retainer clients get a response within 4 business hours for critical issues. Without a retainer, you're on your own — which is exactly why every build includes one.

Start here

The audit tells you what to build. The build ships in weeks. The retainer keeps it running.

The cheapest way to find out whether one of these systems would pay back for you is to start with the audit.

£750 · No call required to start.
Or if you already know what you need:
Book a call

30 minutes. No brief required. Just a conversation.

Pick a time. We'll work out whether your problem is one I can fix. No pitch, no pressure — and if it isn't a fit, I'll tell you inside the first ten minutes.