The goal isn't to save a few minutes per task. It's to increase revenue per employee.
Start with a working review, not a pitch. Leave with a clear first project, fixed scope, and the numbers behind it.
A focused working session that turns operating friction into a prioritized first step, with the evidence to decide what is worth fixing now.
Best for owners and operations leaders who know something is off but want clarity before committing to a project.
A focused four-hour working session to identify where AI can reduce manual work in one real workflow. We map how the work runs today, identify practical improvements, and show where AI, automation, or better operating structure could help. The goal is not a tool demo. Your team leaves with improvements it can begin using immediately.
$5,000 flat. Includes standard intake preparation and delivery for one team of up to 15 people across up to two departments. Delivered virtually via Zoom or onsite within the Washington, DC–Baltimore metro area. Outside the region, travel expenses may apply and are approved in advance.
Operations Review
After the Operations Review, you should have a clearer view of:
You get practical clarity before you commit: the costliest points of friction, the first change worth making, and why it should come first.
Sound familiar?
You were supposed to run the business, not hold it all together. But somewhere along the way, everything started routing through you. You know the feeling if:
The owner whose business runs without them in the room is the one every other operator notices. That's not luck. That's an operations decision.
That's not a talent problem. It's an operations problem, and it's fixable.
WHERE DOES YOUR BUSINESS STAND?
A free 5-minute self-check that scores where owner dependency is creating risk and shows you the one thing to fix first. No call required.
Start the Flow CheckFounders
who've quietly become the bottleneck in their own business
Owners building toward a sale or raise
making the business worth more and less dependent on them before investors look under the hood
Mid-sized operating teams
where growth has outpaced the systems holding it together
Multi-location operators
tired of every site doing things differently
Professional services firms
where too much depends on a few key people
Private Equity-backed portfolio companies
tightening up before the next growth push
How Daloy works
Every engagement moves through the same three stages. You always know where you are and what comes next.
Before we talk scope or cost, we do a focused review of how your business operates today. It's a 45–60 minute working conversation, not a sales call.
Fixed-scope projects that unblock how work moves, standardize how it gets done, and put AI on the repetitive parts. Priced up front. Scoped to deliver a clear return.
We stay embedded through the rollout: training, troubleshooting, adjusting as the work lands. Then we hand over the keys. Your team is trained to run and extend everything we build. The playbook is yours, the system is yours, and it's built to hold without us in the room.
You get the business that runs without you. That's the point.
The math
A lot of what you're about to hire for is probably information moving: copying between systems, chasing status, formatting reports, scheduling. The boring stuff a system can handle. See what should stay with people, and what a system could do instead, before you post the job.
After the Operations Review
Most work starts with one focused operating problem, not a broad change program.
Common first projects include:
Each project is scoped clearly, priced up front, and built so the team can actually use it.
Living Plan Board
One shared view of every operational initiative, who owns it, what is due, and where work is stuck. It changes as the work changes, so the operating plan remains useful long after the kickoff meeting.
Outcome: Priorities stay visible, owners stay accountable, and progress no longer depends on another status meeting.
Cross-Location Operations Snapshot
Sales, staffing, inventory, and operating signals from every location brought into one clear view. Leadership can see where performance is drifting without chasing spreadsheets or calling each manager.
Outcome: Problems surface early enough to act, not weeks later when they appear in the numbers.
AI-Supported CRM
A built-in assistant lets your team update deals, retrieve pipeline context, and identify next actions in plain language. Less data entry, fewer stale records, and no separate reporting ritual.
Outcome: Leadership gets a reliable view of the pipeline without constantly reminding the team to update it.
Every one of these ends the same way: the owner gets to focus on what's next, not what's on fire.
See what we buildHow we work
Daloy does not start with tools. We start with how the business actually runs.
That means looking at where work slows down, where responsibility gets unclear, where teams repeat the same manual steps, and where leadership lacks visibility. Only then do we decide whether the answer is a better workflow, a clearer operating rhythm, targeted technology, or some combination of those.
Not a strategy deck. Not a tool demo. A practical operating improvement your team can actually use.
Who's behind Daloy
Daloy is led by Jeff Lontoc. He began his career as a software engineer and computer programmer in the U.S. Air Force, then spent more than two decades in senior consulting leadership roles across Deloitte, PwC, and Guidehouse, leading work in AI and data analytics, workforce planning and analytics, and operational effectiveness.
Today, Daloy applies that big-firm consulting experience, technical fluency, and operating discipline to growing businesses that need better workflows, clearer systems, and practical AI they can actually use.
More about Jeff and DaloyStart here
If work feels heavier than it should, the first step is not a big transformation project. It is a focused look at where the business is carrying operational drag, what should be fixed first, and whether AI or automation can help. The Operations Review is free for operating businesses with 10+ employees or 2+ locations.
The assistant in the corner of this page is a working Daloy build. Ask it what we do, what things cost, or whether we fit your business. It answers from this site, it is honest about what it does not know, and when it makes sense it will point you to a real person. That is how we build agents for clients too.
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