Vector Foundations: The OS that runs your business, plus AI inside your actual day-to-day.

Who this is for

You’re running a real business. You just need it to stop running you.

You run a coaching, consulting, fractional, or small agency business, somewhere between $80K and $200K.

You’re tired of duct-taping the business together with five disconnected tools, three half-finished templates, and a ChatGPT tab.

You want a real system to run the business on. Not another course to watch at 1.5× speed.

You want AI inside your actual workflows: prospect research, proposals, content. Not a generic prompt pack to fill in yourself.

You want a peer who’s been in your seat to ask when you get stuck, not a forum full of people still figuring it out.

You want a clear, working setup by the end of week one. Not by the end of month three.

What you get

Four things that work together. Not four more things to manage.

The core

The Vector OS™

A connected operating system that lives in your Notion workspace and runs every function of your business, out of the box, on day one.

Business Design: offers, pricing, ICP, positioning
Lead Generation: prospecting, outreach, pipeline
Sales: CRM, qualification, follow-up, post-call rhythm
Client Delivery: onboarding through done
Operations & Management: reporting, cadence, the discipline that holds the rest together

Templates, recorded walkthroughs, and a clean install path. Your data, your pipeline, your business rhythms, all in one place that finally talks to itself.

Growing library

AI inside your real workflows

The How I… demo library shows you step by step how to put AI inside the work you’re already doing, not as an experiment, but as a running part of your day.

Run prospect research before every sales call (10 minutes → 90 seconds)
Turn a sales call recording into a proposal draft by end of day
Generate meeting prep, follow-up notes, and CRM updates from one Loom
Write nurture and re-engagement sequences from your own content
Repurpose one piece of content into a week of LinkedIn posts in your voice

New demos added every month. Each one is short, specific, and runnable. Copy the pattern, plug in your business, ship it the same day.

Monthly

Monthly implementation sprint

One focused build per month, themed and async. Past sprints: audit your offer stack, install your CRM rhythm, ship your first AI workflow, score and prioritize your prospect list.

Members work in a shared thread. Ian gives feedback at the group level so you see how other founders are solving the same problem you are.

Weekly

1:1 office hours with Ian

Every week Ian opens a window of bookable 1:1 sessions. Grab a slot when you need one. Use it on a stuck workflow, a pricing question, an OS configuration, or a proposal you want a second set of eyes on. Real working time, one-on-one.

Your first week

Not theory. A working system, running, by Friday.

Most subscriptions take a month before you see why you signed up. Foundations is built so day one looks like this:

Day 1

OS in your workspace

The OS template is duplicated to your Notion workspace. A walkthrough video runs you through the core objects: clients, pipeline, projects, tasks, meetings. 60 minutes and you’re oriented.

Day 2

First AI workflow running

Pick one demo from the library. Most founders start with prospect research or meeting-to-proposal. Set it up. Run it on a real piece of work today.

Day 3

1:1 with Ian

Book a slot in this week’s office-hours window. Bring whatever came up while you were setting things up. Use the time on whatever’s actually in your way.

Day 5

A real pipeline. A running workflow.

Your CRM has your actual pipeline in it. Your first AI workflow has run on at least one real piece of work. The gap between AI and your actual day is already closing.

What this replaces

You’re already paying for something. This does more.

Most solo founders at this stage are spending on some combination of these. Foundations replaces the lot.

A $30/mo ChatGPT subscription

Useful for one-off prompts. Doesn’t run your business, doesn’t connect to your pipeline, doesn’t survive your next “what was that prompt I used last time?”

Foundations is the workflow layer between AI and your real work. The prompts live inside your OS. They run on your actual business data.

A $2,000 online course

Hours of videos you’ll mostly skim, a workbook you won’t open twice, no system at the end of it, and no one to ask when you get stuck.

Foundations is the working system itself, plus access to the person who built it to answer your real questions.

A $10K/year mastermind

Energy for a week, no systems, no AI, no work product. Good for inspiration. Doesn’t change how Monday morning operates.

Foundations gives you the system and a working room and a peer who’s actually been there.

A $2K/mo VA

Helpful for delegation. Doesn’t think with you, doesn’t design your offer, doesn’t build your AI workflows.

The OS plus AI inside it handles the kind of leverage a VA can’t: thinking, drafting, pattern-recognition across your whole pipeline.

Building it yourself

Possible. Most founders spend 6–12 months on it and end up with three half-finished systems and a stack of tools nobody actually uses.

Foundations is what you’d build if you’d already done it once. $500 a month to skip that road.

Who runs this

Built and run by the operator who’s done it inside real businesses.

Ian Crafford

Founder · Vector Business Advisors

Ian has spent 15+ years as a founder and COO, building and scaling service businesses from the inside. Three client companies have landed on Inc.’s fastest-growing list. The OS, the demos, and the frameworks inside Foundations are the same ones his clients run inside six-, seven-, and eight-figure service businesses, packaged so you can run them yourself, with weekly office-hours access to Ian when you need it.

Vector exists to give founder-led service businesses the operating infrastructure that most founder-led businesses never build. Foundations is the entry point: the OS and the AI workflows, installed in your workspace, running in your business, without needing a six-month engagement to get there.

When Foundations isn’t the right fit

Honest self-sort.

You want done-for-you delivery.

A custom OS install, a website built, your campaigns written. Foundations is self-install with scaffolding. If you need it built for you, that’s a different conversation.

You want unlimited or always-on access to Ian.

Foundations gives you a weekly 1:1 office-hours window, not on-demand availability. For deeper, ongoing access, the Vector Accelerator is the right home.

You’re looking for a tactic.

Foundations is a system. If you want one quick fix and to move on, this isn’t your tool.

FAQ

Questions founders ask.

How fast does it pay back?

First week. The OS is in your workspace on day one, your first AI workflow is running by day two, and most members recover 2–3 hours of busywork in their first five days. The math on $500/month works out to about $16 a day. Most founders make that back in the first AI workflow they run.

Do I need to know anything about AI?

No. The demos are step-by-step. If you can follow a pattern and swap in your own business details, you can run any of them. The whole point is to make AI something you actually use, not something you need to become an expert in first.

What tools do I need?

Notion (we provide the workspace template). One AI tool of your choice: Claude, ChatGPT, or both. Optional: Make.com or Zapier if you want to chain workflows together. That’s it.

Will the OS work for my specific business?

Foundations is built for solo founder-led service businesses: coaches, consultants, fractionals, small agencies. If that’s you, yes. If you’re running a 50-person agency or a product business, a different tool fits your shape better.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Month-to-month with 30 days’ written notice. Your OS workspace stays yours when you cancel. You keep everything you’ve built inside it.

Is there a refund?

No refunds for partial months. The optional Jumpstart install is non-refundable once the kickoff call is held.

How is this different from the Vector Accelerator?

The Accelerator is a 6-month done-with-you engagement: Ian builds the OS alongside you, you get monthly 1:1s, unlimited office hours, Loom async support, and a 200% ROI guarantee. It’s the full installation with Ian in your corner the whole way through.

Foundations is the monthly membership track: you self-install the OS with the walkthrough videos, you get the AI demo library, the monthly sprint, and weekly 1:1 office-hours windows. More self-directed. A third of the price. The right entry point for founders who want the system without the full engagement.

The OS that runs your business. AI inside your actual work.