For homeschool conventions and Christian education events

I'll Find at Least $25,000 Hiding in Your Family File and Put an AI Employee to Work Bringing It In... or Your Money Back

First I find exactly where the money is. Then I build AI employees that work 24/7 to bring it in. Live in about two weeks, from $2,500.

That's my AI front desk. It books you a time with me.

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Joshua Boswell, founder of Strahes Consulting

Trusted by

  • Corel
  • Sony
  • Google
  • Toshiba
  • Microsoft
  • General Motors
  • Collectorz
  • Agora
  • AWAI
  • StreetAuthority
  • Weiss Research

Your families already love the event. Some just need to hear from you again.

Last year's families. Expired memberships. Past exhibitors. I've been hired to consult with over 317 companies, from Sony Media to St. Jude. Every single one had unrealized profit, and needed three things to get it.

  1. Discovery to find the profit.
  2. A plan to go get it.
  3. The systems and manpower to get it done.

But most owners are too busy to pin down #1 and #2. So they bolt AI onto #3... and get mediocre results faster, for more money.

We find the profit, make the plan, then deploy ASIEs to get it done.

What's inside your Profit Engine

  • Your Profit Roadmap. We identify your top 3 unrealized profit opportunities, ranked by what each one is worth.
  • 80/20 System Design. A step-by-step plan to go get that money, built around how your business really runs.
  • ASIE Built and Deployed. We don't just consult. We deliver your AI system and all the training needed.

25 years of finding money companies missed

Found in their marketing and operations.

  • St. Jude

    $22 to $34

    Average gift.

  • TechnicalLead

    $20K to $300K+

    Monthly revenue, after a 90% drop. We rebuilt the pricing and the offer.

  • Collectorz

    $3M to $15M

    In 24 months.

  • Corel

    $24M campaign

    With a 29.4% buy rate.

"They got to the root of problems we didn't even know we had."
Conrad Feagin, CEO, TechnicalLead
"Joshua... immediately tripled his client's business in less than three months."
Perry Marshall, author of 80/20 Sales and Marketing
"I wish we could hire you as one of our national sales guys. The way you word stuff, and the results we're getting, is just incredible... some of the best I've seen."
Gordon Braun, Toshiba

What's an ASIE?

Autonomous Super Intelligent Employee

An AI employee that does one job well, 24/7. Like...

  • A follow-up rep who reaches last year's families.
  • A renewal rep who calls every expired member.
  • An exhibitor rep who invites every past exhibitor back.

Dozens more to choose from

Hear one at work

Call (832) 430-6855 right now

That's my AI front desk. It books you a time with me.

How it works

Your Profit Engine, up and running in about two weeks.

  1. Discovery.

    You, me and your key people walk through how the business really runs and dig into your real numbers.

  2. Deep 80/20 planning.

    We focus on operations and marketing, find high-leverage ways to capture your unrealized profit, and map it out in your Profit Roadmap.

  3. Build and launch.

    We build and deploy your first ASIE so you see results right away.

What I need from you

  • Between 30 minutes and 3 hours of your time in all. That's an interview, usually 30 to 45 minutes, and a walkthrough of your Roadmap when it's ready, which you can take straight to your board.
  • Short conversations with a few of your key people, like whoever runs registration, the exhibit hall or your volunteers, only where they help.
  • Access to the whole event, like registration and attendance by year, your membership list, exhibitor and sponsor records, hotel block reports, past emails to families and your books. A non-disclosure agreement keeps all of it confidential, including every family's information.
  • Nobody on your staff or your volunteer team has to build or maintain anything, or switch the registration system you use now.

Pick your Profit Engine

Every option includes your Profit Roadmap and the build. Your Profit Roadmap decides where each ASIE works.

  • 1 ASIE

    $2,500

    On your #1 opportunity.

    • Discovery with you and your key people
    • Your Profit Roadmap, your top 3 opportunities ranked by what each one is worth
    • 80/20 System Design that fits your operations
    • 1 ASIE built and deployed on your #1 opportunity, with all the training needed
    • Backed by the 10x promise

    $1,250 to start

    $1,250 on delivery

  • 2 ASIEs

    $5,000

    On your top two opportunities.

    • Discovery with you and your key people
    • Your Profit Roadmap, your top 3 opportunities ranked by what each one is worth
    • 80/20 System Design that fits your operations
    • 2 ASIEs built and deployed on your top two opportunities, with all the training needed
    • Backed by the 10x promise

    $2,500 to start

    $2,500 on delivery

  • 3 ASIEs

    $7,500

    Biggest jump, shortest time.

    • Discovery with you and your key people
    • Your Profit Roadmap, your top 3 opportunities ranked by what each one is worth
    • 80/20 System Design that fits your operations
    • 3 ASIEs built and deployed on your top three opportunities, with all the training needed
    • Backed by the 10x promise

    $3,750 to start

    $3,750 on delivery

Your fee carries forward. Add more ASIEs within 60 days of your Roadmap and every dollar you paid counts toward them.

Hosting runs about $100 to $500 a month after delivery.

Terms. Start with a 50% deposit, refunded if we miss 10x. The other half is due on delivery. Pay by card here, or email hello@strahes.com to pay by ACH or invoice.

Not sure how many you need, or need your board's yes first? That's normal.

Call (832) 430-6855. My AI front desk will work through it with you and book you a time with me.

Rather type? Ask Joshua AI anything about the Profit Engine.

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My promise to you

If we don't find 10x your Profit Engine fee in unrealized profit opportunities, you get every dollar back.

You pay half to start. You approve the 10x at your Roadmap readout, before we build anything.

On a $2,500 Profit Engine, if we don't find at least $25,000, we refund your deposit and the Roadmap is yours.

Every dollar we count names the process it comes from and ties to a number from your own books. Nothing gets counted twice. You and I sign off on the total together.

Claim 1 of 10 spots before December 31.

Your Profit Engine, up and running in about two weeks. From $2,500.

Start with a 50% deposit. Refunded if we miss 10x.

What happens when I build the employee

None of these clients is a homeschool convention, and I won't pretend otherwise. But look at the first one... one AI system I built mentored 37,000 students, each on their own learning path. If one system can do that, following up with every family in your file is well within reach. Every number here is from a real client.

CopywriterMarketer

37,000 students

Mentored on their own custom learning paths by one AI system I built.

BrickROI

40 days

From zero to built, branded and selling.

"Another team burned six months and $57,500 of mine with nothing to show for it. Joshua had my whole platform built, branded, and selling in under 40 days. He doesn't just write code, he understood my business and built exactly what it needed."
Founder, BrickROI

AI Beauty Consulting

10 hours to 30 minutes

For every client assessment, with no drop in quality.

"Every client assessment ate more than ten hours, and I was the only one who could do them. Joshua built me an AI system that runs the whole thing in my own voice, and now it takes about thirty minutes with no drop in quality. He handed me back my business."
Susan Kuse, Founder, AI Beauty Consulting

TabulaWorks

1 system

Runs an entire company's daily operations.

"Joshua engineered the AI operating system that runs TabulaWorks. The daily operations and follow-up that used to eat our team's evenings are all carried by the system now. It runs without us, and it's why we can serve the clients we do. He understands the business as well as the engineering, which is almost impossible to find."
John Hare, Co-Founder, TabulaWorks

The work hasn't changed. I find the money.

What's new is that I can now build the employee that goes and gets it.

Is this a fit for your event?

This is a fit if...

  • You own or direct the event, or you sit on the board that decides.
  • Families already come, exhibitors already buy booths, and you know more of them should be coming back.
  • Follow-up slips through the gaps... registrations started and never finished, memberships nobody renewed, exhibitors nobody asked back, a registration system that doesn't talk to your member list.
  • You want it found and fixed before your next convention, not studied for months.
  • Your staff and volunteers are stretched thin, and you'd rather give them help than one more tool to learn.
  • The convention funds the rest of your year's work, and you'd like it to fund more.

It's not a fit if...

  • You just want help picking a new registration platform. I'll happily point you to one.
  • You'd rather nobody looked at your registration and exhibitor numbers. That's fair. This needs them.
  • You want AI for its own sake, not to bring more families back.
  • You want a machine to carry the relationships your families count on. Those stay with you and your volunteers.

Questions and answers

Will an AI be calling our families?

Only if you want it to. You decide how it reaches your families, by email, text or phone, and you approve its messages and scripts before any family hears from it. It speaks for your event, in your voice, and it never pretends to be a person. If a family asks it to stop, it stops. It doesn't take the place of you or your volunteers... it does the follow-up nobody has time for, so more families hear from you.

I answer to a board. How do I bring this to them?

That's normal. Send your board this page, or the one-page PDF at the bottom of it. Any of them can call my AI front desk at (832) 430-6855 with questions and book a time with me. Your board keeps its say after you start, too. You approve the 10x at your Roadmap readout, before we build anything, and your board is welcome there. If we can't show at least 10x your fee, we refund your deposit and the Roadmap is yours.

Our family file has our children's names in it. Who sees it?

Only the people doing the work, under the same non-disclosure agreement as everything else. We use only what a job needs, usually a parent's name, contact details and when the family last registered. Your list is never sold, shared or mixed with anyone else's. If we stop working together, you get all of it back, and I verify every copy is deleted.

We're a ministry, not a business. Is a Profit Engine really for us?

Yes. Here, profit simply means money your event could be bringing in and isn't yet... families who didn't come back, memberships that lapsed, exhibitors who didn't rebook. It's counted the same way whether a ministry or a business runs your convention, and every dollar ties to a number from your own books. For a ministry, finding it is good stewardship.

Our convention is months away. Why start now?

Because the money moves long before the doors open. Exhibitor renewals, sponsorships, memberships and the early-bird push all happen in the months ahead. And much of the follow-up runs all year... families who didn't re-register, members whose renewal slipped by, exhibitors nobody called after the hall closed. Your Roadmap tells us which job to work first, and your Profit Engine is up and running in about two weeks.

We're a smaller event, run mostly by volunteers. Is there really 10x in it?

That's exactly what your Roadmap answers, and the promise covers you while we find out. Event money comes in waves... registrations, renewals, booths and sponsors. Much of it rides on follow-up that lands on volunteers in the busiest weeks of the year. You approve the 10x at your Roadmap readout, before we build anything. If it isn't there, you get every dollar back.

Is this an AI pitch?

No. The diagnosis is my judgment, from 25 years of finding money for companies like Corel and Microsoft. AI is the tool that does the follow-up once we know where the money is. If the best move for your event doesn't need AI, I'll tell you... even if it's a personal letter from you to last year's families.

Why not have our volunteers do this?

If a volunteer can do it every week, all year, let them. But volunteers give what they can, and in the weeks before the convention, follow-up is the first thing to slide. An ASIE does that one job every day, so your volunteers can spend their hours with families.

What's an ASIE?

An Autonomous Super Intelligent Employee. It's an AI employee that does one job well, 24/7, alongside your staff and volunteers or on its own. Think of a follow-up rep who reaches last year's families, or an exhibitor rep who invites every past exhibitor back.

How long does it take?

About two weeks for your Profit Engine to be up and running, with your Roadmap and your first ASIE. If something's bigger than two weeks allows, we trim the scope and keep the date.

How much of my time does it take?

For you, between 30 minutes and 3 hours in all. That's an interview, usually 30 to 45 minutes, and a walkthrough of your Roadmap when it's ready. For your team, short conversations, only where they help. Nobody has to build or maintain anything.

What if you don't find anything?

Then you get your money back. You approve the 10x at your Roadmap readout, before anything is built. If we can't show at least 10x your fee, we refund your deposit and the Roadmap is yours.

How do you count the 10x?

Every dollar we count names the process it comes from and ties to a number from your own books. Nothing gets counted twice. Recurring revenue counts only for as long as your average customer really stays. If they stay three months, a saved subscription counts as three months. If they stay twelve, it counts as twelve. If a fix should keep customers longer, I count that only when your own data can prove it. You see every line, and you and I sign off on the total together.

What does hosting cost?

About $100 to $500 a month in total, not per ASIE, starting after delivery. Simpler builds cost less, complex ones a little more. That keeps your ASIEs running.

Where does my data go?

Read-only access where possible. We sign a non-disclosure agreement, so everything you share stays confidential. Your data stays yours, and nothing is shared or mixed with anyone else's. I keep none of it unless your hosting needs it or we agree to it. If we stop working together, you get all of it back, and I verify every copy is deleted.

How many ASIEs do I need?

Start with how many jobs are costing you money... families who didn't come back, memberships or member schools that lapsed, exhibitors who didn't rebook. One clear job, one ASIE. Two or more, the bigger options. More than three, or conventions in several cities, we'll scope it with you on a call. Not sure? Call my AI front desk or talk it through with Joshua AI, and we'll size it together.

What happens after?

That's up to you. Some owners run with the Roadmap themselves. If you want more ASIEs built, your fee carries forward. Start within 60 days of your Roadmap and every dollar you paid counts toward them. Either way, your ASIEs come with your own admin screen, so you can adjust them as you go and upload new files to keep training them.

Why only 10?

Because I keep it small so each one gets my full attention before December 31.

The employees your convention could never hire.

Every job below helps bring families, members, exhibitors and sponsors back, or keeps money your convention already earned from slipping away.

Each ASIE takes a job nobody has the hours for, like following up on unfinished registrations or filling volunteer shifts, and runs it start to finish, all year... so your staff and volunteers have more time with families.

Think of these as ideas. Some fit a big statewide convention, some a smaller regional event, and your Roadmap picks the ones worth the most in your own books.

The job nobody wants.

Unfinished registrations, lapsed memberships and booth balances are the work nobody wants, so they wait until convention week or never get done.

Operations

The money you already earned, leaking back out.

  • A booth balance chaser who follows up with every exhibitor on every balance, form and deadline, politely and on time
  • A hotel block reminder who reminds every out-of-town family to book in your block, so you don't pay for empty rooms
  • A shift filler who asks past volunteers to fill every open shift and reminds every volunteer the day before

Sales & Marketing

The money you never earned in the first place.

  • A follow-up rep who reaches last year's families who haven't registered yet, with a warm welcome back before the early-bird deadline
  • A registration finisher who checks in with every family who started registering online and never finished
  • A renewal rep who reaches every member whose membership lapsed, in your voice, with an easy way to renew

The job you could never justify a salary for.

A registrar or a sponsorship manager on staff would pay for itself, but your board could never justify the salary.

Operations

The money you already earned, leaking back out.

  • A playbook writer who writes down how your longtime volunteers really run each part of convention, before they step down
  • A registration forecaster who forecasts attendance from every day's registrations, so you print, staff and plan for the crowd that comes
  • A sponsor benefits keeper who makes sure every sponsor gets every logo, ad, booth and mention you promised them

Sales & Marketing

The money you never earned in the first place.

  • An exhibitor rep who invites every past exhibitor back, with this year's floor plan, before their favorite spot is taken
  • A sponsor renewal rep who sends every sponsor a thank-you report on what they made possible, and an early invitation back
  • A support group rep who sends every co-op and support group leader in your state the dates, flyers and news to share

The job no human could ever do.

Nobody can check every payment, read every comment and remember every workshop recording, every day, all year long.

Operations

The money you already earned, leaking back out.

  • A payment auditor who checks every registration, refund and booth payment against what actually reached your bank, not a sample
  • A list matcher who matches every family across your registration, membership and email lists every night, so nobody slips through
  • A room planner who tries every room and time slot for every workshop, so popular speakers get the big rooms

Sales & Marketing

The money you never earned in the first place.

  • A recordings guide who knows every workshop recording by heart and offers each family the sessions that answer their questions
  • An exhibitor scout who spots every new curriculum, publisher and homeschool business the day it launches, and invites them to apply
  • A feedback reader who reads every survey and email from every year and shows you what keeps families from coming back

Which ones sound like your convention? Your Roadmap tells us which to build first.

Some of last year's families are still waiting to hear from you. Let's go bring them back.

Pick your Profit Engine and start with a 50% deposit. In about two weeks, your first ASIE is at work on your #1 opportunity.

Want to talk first? Call (832) 430-6855. My AI front desk books you a call with me.

Terms. Start with a 50% deposit, refunded if we miss 10x. The other half is due on delivery. Pay by card here, or email hello@strahes.com to pay by ACH or invoice.

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