Counsel for operators who have to decide fast and be right

Get your time back. Build the business that stands up without you.

Right now every decision routes through you. That isn't a business, it's a cage you built and called one. We build the systems and mentor the operator together, until the thing stands on its own and the weather moves around it.

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Est. 2012Central Coast NSW · worldwideFoundation $350/moOperator $710/mo · by invitationBuild retainers from $3,500/mo
Systems
an overnight build agent runs our own work
Engine
a proprietary local-SEO engine behind every build
Registry
the full shipped ledger, dated and checkable
Door
application only · earned, not bought

The receipt

You are not hiring an advisor. You are building with another entrepreneur.

The proof is checkable. No 10x promise, no 'price rises soon'. Ever.

The operator

  • Scaled a service brand: revenue doubled in 18 months.
  • A hire group grew from two locations to the eastern seaboard on the software backbone he built, and is still running it 8 years on.

The mentor

  • Trained senior executives and general counsel at AMP, UBS and CBA, including a bank treasurer.
  • Mentors multiple eight-figure co-founders, a world champion, an ex-Olympian, and top builders. 1,500+ sessions, 900+ in the last 12 months.

The builder

  • DA Notice, live at danotice.com.
  • Context Co-Pilot, live and free on the Chrome store.
  • 15+ sites and landing pages delivered.
  • A 20-suburb local-SEO build, live and crawlable.
  • The internal systems this business runs on: an overnight build agent, a multi-model review engine, a governance bridge.
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The shift

From routing every decision through you, to a business that runs without you.

Where time-poor founders get stuck

  • Every decision routes through you
  • No systems, so nothing scales without you
  • Working in it, never on it
  • Your time and your agency, gone

What we build with you

  • Systems that run without you in the room
  • A business that scales past its founder
  • Your calendar, and your head, back
  • Freedom of time, and impact that compounds

Ways to work together

Counsel that ships. Three shelves, one operating system.

Foundation

$350per month

Private mentoring, monthly. We build your systems with you.

Start Foundation
By invitation

Operator

$710per month · by invitation

Fortnightly private sessions and active build alongside you. The reserved tier.

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By invitation

Build Retainer

$3,500 / $6,200 / $8,000per month · staged scope

Diagnostic, Build, Handover. A full engagement, application only.

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Start small: Orientation $17, or the Core community $125 per year.

Build projects from $17,000. The protocol explains what gets a yes.

Founding rates, honoured silently. No urgency, ever.

Selected work

Two builds, told straight.

Product · liveDA Notice: a council-approval alert service, idea to live in 28 hoursProduct · liveContext Co-Pilot: a private AI side panel for Chrome, free on the store
  • Business systems design
  • Local SEO engineering
  • Rank-and-rent builds
  • AI implementation
  • n8n automation
  • Static site engineering
  • Lead-capture funnels
  • Chrome extensions
  • Overnight build automation
  • Multi-model review

About

About Nate

Five years mentoring founders. Then he taught himself to build, and shipped real systems and products in under two months.

More with less. Still early days. Mentor first, builder second, the same operating system across both: see the problem clearly, build the system, hand it back.

The build arm is crow_code_.

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