The road between those two sentences had 7 stops and it was not a straight line. Contigi exists because people kept asking me to walk it with them.
Lovable cost me weeks and produced nothing I could use. At the time it felt like proof I was not cut out for this. Looking back, it was just tuition.
No paid course. No computer science degree. No developer on payroll. What it actually took was persistence, common sense, agency and good taste. None of those are technical and I think that is the part people get wrong about all of this.
After months down the rabbit hole, I had built my first AI hire: an AI executive assistant, Jane Cross, who knew my property business, my wife's holistic decluttering business, my balloon-shows business, my people, my network and my voice. Then I moved up a level, called her from the new setup and watched her spin up a whole team of agents to get the work done.
That was the moment. I had crossed a glass ceiling I did not know was there and I knew two things at once: this is how I want to run my business and helping other people through that same ceiling is what I want to do next. That decision is Contigi.
I am a landlord and a property investor. I run Buckswell, a UK property business based in Hampstead Garden Suburb, North West London and I built my AI team for one reason only: to help me with my own job while I run endless property viewings, due diligence and the managing of letting agents, tradesmen, brokers, solicitors and customers, plus my family life, my wife's business (FreeYourSpace.co), my son's sidekick (nittaiballoonguy.com) and my own sidekick (BalloonHero.co.uk).
Yes, I do have my VA in the Philippines and I do have proper systems, but I knew that most of the things I do while spending time on my screens I can delegate. So I started to build AI agents to fulfil each role within my business and life environment.
No product plan. While learning on the go through trial and error, I became an expert in AI agent creation. When I focus on saving time and improving my productivity, the AI agent helps me work smarter and this affects all other aspects of my life.
But when you tell people a team of AI agents runs my life and business, they do not nod politely. They ask me to show them. Then they ask me to build them one.
Contigi is that request, taken seriously: I sit next to you, face to face or online and you finish the day with a working AI assistant of your own.
To summarise my take on all the AI hype: I think AI is here to stay, but there is so much information overload, with too many scary headlines, clickbait and unnecessary noise, that it pushes people away from actually learning how to use AI to their own benefit. For me, this means using AI to save you time and I mean a lot of time and to help you think better and plan, whether in your business or your personal life.
So do not believe the hype; learn how to use AI the simple way.
Join me and I will help you cross that bridge.
See you soon.
If you are somewhere between stop one and stop three and it feels like nothing is working, that is not the verdict. That is the road.
Get in touch and I will help you cross it.