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Figure out where AIactually belongsin your business.

We help business leaders identify where AI creates the most leverage, build a practical implementation plan, and integrate it into the way their teams already work.

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What actually happens.

We start by understanding how your business works today. Then we identify the few opportunities where AI can reclaim meaningful time, improve the quality of work, and deliver lasting value.

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Review

Understand how your business works today.

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Roadmap

Prioritize the AI opportunities with the greatest business impact.

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Build

Implement the best solutions, tailored to your business.

Sound familiar?

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You've tried ChatGPT.Mostly for answers. Rarely as part of your workflow.

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Everyone keeps talking about AI.Nobody tells you where to start.

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You know AI matters.You just need a practical plan.

AI changes every week.

The hard part is keeping up and knowing what actually matters.

Every week brings new models, new tools, and new opinions. We continuously evaluate what's changing so you don't have to. Then we recommend the few opportunities that are actually worth your time.

Workflows, in practice.

KNOWLEDGE SEARCH

Ask one question. Get one answer.

BEFORESearching folders, PDFs, emails and meeting notes.AFTEROne answer, grounded in your own knowledge. Ask one below.

EmailGoogle DriveNotionSlackIndustry articlesPodcastsSaved links
ONE STRUCTURED SOURCE

Your second brain

A living knowledge base that compounds instead of resetting. Indexed, linked, current.

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TRY ONE · ASK SOMETHING YOU'D ACTUALLY ASK AT WORK
EXECUTIVE BRIEFINGS

Start every meeting already prepared.

BEFORESearching emails, documents and notes before every meeting.AFTERA concise briefing built from your own information, ready before the day starts.

The point is not doing more. It is holding less.

Brief delivered.
PREPARING MORNING BRIEF...MONDAY
  • ✓Overnight email summarized. 3 replies drafted for the Hartwell thread, the invoice question, and Friday's intro.
  • ✓Supplier briefing generated. April price letter, last year's freight clause, the ops note on June deliveries.
  • ✓Contract renewal flagged. Meridian auto-renews in 12 days. Two points worth renegotiating.
  • ✓Recruiting follow-up prepared. 2 candidates went quiet. Drafts queued for your sign-off.
OTHER HIGH-IMPACT WORKFLOWS
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Meeting intelligence

Manual notes and forgotten action items become searchable, summarized and actionable.

BEFOREManual notes across meetings.

AFTEREvery decision and follow-up, searchable in seconds.

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Financial modeling

Models and analyses built from your own data, not a blank spreadsheet.

BEFOREThe same model rebuilt each quarter.

AFTERUpdated from live data, ready for review.

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Research

Hours of reading condensed into briefs your team can act on.

BEFOREHours of reading across articles and reports.

AFTERA one-page brief with sources.

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Reporting

Recurring reports assembled from live data, not weekend hours.

BEFOREWeekend hours, same report.

AFTERDrafted automatically by Monday morning.

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Customer follow-up

Every open thread tracked, drafted and ready for sign-off.

BEFOREThreads tracked in someone's head.

AFTERLogged, drafted, queued for sign-off.

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Business intelligence

Questions about your own numbers answered in plain language.

BEFOREExporting spreadsheets to answer one question.

AFTERAsk your numbers directly.

Advice grounded in operating experience.

Johnny Wong
Johnny WongCOO, Pattern VenturesLINKEDIN ↗

Johnny has spent 13+ years building and scaling venture-backed companies from the operator's seat. Today he serves as COO and AI Product Lead at Pattern Ventures, leading firm operations while designing the AI systems behind its investment, research and operational workflows.

His approach is grounded in practical application, not theory. Every recommendation is shaped by hands-on operating experience: better decisions, less cognitive load, workflows people actually adopt.

Depending on the engagement, we bring in additional engineering and technical specialists. You always have one strategic partner, backed by a broader team for implementation.

Time back every week
Small improvements compound quickly.
Weekly reporting3 hours → 20 minutes+2.5 hrsTIME RECLAIMED / WEEK
Meeting preparation90 minutes → 10 minutes+80 minTIME RECLAIMED / MEETING
Financial analysis4 hours → 30 minutes+3.5 hrsTIME RECLAIMED / ANALYSIS
Legal review3 hours → 30 minutes+2.5 hrsTIME RECLAIMED / CONTRACT

Tell us how your business runs. We'll tell you where AI fits.

If we don't think AI will meaningfully improve something, we'll tell you. Sometimes the right answer is improving the workflow before introducing another tool.

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