Hatchmark — a productized AI practice

The deliverable, on retainer.Not another subscription.

Hatchmark is a done-for-you AI service practice for operators who'd rather pay a premium for a finished asset stream than hire a manager or learn a new tool stack. We pick a narrow vertical, package one specific deliverable, and ship it on a monthly retainer — priced per deliverable, never per hour.

  • One niche, three to five anchor clients.
  • ChatGPT, Claude, Zapier, QA layer.
  • 50–60% delivery / 80–90% advisory margin.
  • No software product. Ever.

Practice · 03

Lead flow — Dentistry

v 1.4

October deliverable

142 booked calls · 18 closed

$3,200

flat monthly retainer

S
Scrape3 verticals · 1,820 leads
Q
QualifyGPT filter · 412 routed
S
SequenceClaude-written · 5-step
B
BookHuman QA · calendar held
Shipped on the first Monday.Margin tracked daily

Approach

A small firm that runs like a product.

We are not a marketplace. We are not a model. We are a productized service — run on clean roles, standard deliverables, and the audit trail a regulated operator needs.

25–35

retainer clients at steady state

$3–4k

monthly retainer per client

50–60%

delivery margin on productized work

80–90%

advisory / build margin

  1. Principle 01

    One vertical per practice.

    Every Hatchmark practice launches in a single niche before a second vertical is layered on. The first three to five anchor clients define the SOPs.

  2. Principle 02

    Deliverable first, not hour first.

    The engagement is sold and measured by the asset shipped — content pieces, booked calls, edited videos — never by the time spent producing it.

  3. Principle 03

    Models and humans, both.

    ChatGPT, Claude, and Zapier handle the production throughput. A lean QA team owns voice, edge cases, and the things AI still gets wrong.

  4. Principle 04

    Systemize before you scale.

    A practice graduates from pilot to steady state only when its steps are written down, automated, and reproducible without the founding team in the loop.

Deliverables

One of these. Pick the one that pays for itself fastest.

Each practice runs one deliverable at first. The second vertical lands only after the first is systemized — so margin grows on ops, not on headcount.

  • 01

    Content engine

    A monthly stream of long-form articles, social posts, and email sequences — written, edited, and scheduled to your brand voice.

  • 02

    Lead flow

    Outbound sequences, scraped prospect lists, and qualification playbooks tuned for one narrow vertical you actually close.

  • 03

    Video assembly

    Short-form and explainer edits from your raw footage — captioned, cut, and posted on a fixed monthly cadence.

  • 04

    Support desk

    First-response coverage for inbound tickets using your existing macros and knowledge base, with weekly escalation reviews.

  • 05

    Books and proposals

    Positioning decks, case studies, and capability docs written and laid out for the deals you most want to win.

  • 06

    Voice

    Inbound call handling and outbound reactivation with a script, a routing rule, and a recap handed back to your CRM.

Economics

Seven-figure run rate, no software shipped.

Twenty-five to thirty-five retainer clients at three to four thousand a month is the path. Pricing per deliverable — not per hour — is what holds the margin open as production costs fall.

$7.5M

Annualized run rate at the target firm size

3:1

Lifetime retention target on advisor-tier clients

$0

Software product shipping budget. By design.

Margin · by tier

Productized delivery

Content, lead flow, support

50–60%

Advisory / build

Strategy + custom automation

80–90%

Volume discount

Negotiated; rarely used

−15pts

Process

Four stops. No surprises.

Every practice moves the same way. The cadence is what makes the unit economics predictable; the variables are the niche and the deliverable.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    One 60-minute call. We pick the vertical, the deliverable, and the volume.

  2. 02

    Anchor

    Three to five clients onboarded. We learn what good looks like before we standardize.

  3. 03

    Systemize

    The work moves from manual to documented to automated. Margin moves with it.

  4. 04

    Compound

    The next vertical layers on. The next deliverable arms into the same chain.

Talk to Hatchmark

One practice, one niche, one deliverable.Let's pick yours.

We onboard a new practice when the diagnosis call tells us the niche, the deliverable, and the first three to five anchor clients. The call is sixty minutes. It is not a sales pitch.

  • Bring your niche and your deliverable. We'll bring the math.
  • We respond within one business day.
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