A note from the desk

Jake Leyden

For M&A advisors · Real estate principals · Agency owners · Professional services

I ship AI into the actual workflow of operators. Phoenix based; founder of Arbor Intelligence. One product in build. A short client list. Writing the rest in public.

Book a 30-min call30 minutes · no pitch deck

Three lines,
one thesis.

What operators need is intelligence that runs inside the work itself.

  1. 01

    Arbory

    Product · in build

    A voice-first executive assistant and coach. iOS and web. You talk; it captures, drafts, remembers, schedules. Switchable personas. Shipping 2026.

  2. 02

    Build Sprints

    Service · $1.5K–$2.5K

    Two to four week engagements with owner-operators. We sit at the desk with you, design the workflows AI should run, and ship them into your tools. You own the system after.

  3. 03

    Content Engine

    Platform · M&A first

    Vertical-specific auto-publishing content pipelines. Voice-matched, SEO-aware, founder-approved. Live in M&A advisory; more verticals queued.

The short
version.

I am twenty-four, based in Phoenix, and spend my days building AI systems that owner-operators actually use. The work is hands-on. I write the prompts, wire the integrations, and stay until the thing is running on its own. The bet: the next decade of small business gets unrecognizable. The people who win get an operator-grade AI stack early.

Arbor is the brand for all of it. One product in build, a short list of build-sprint clients, and a content engine shipping into vertical industries. If any of that sounds like your problem or your curiosity, the calendar below is the fastest way in.

Current Work

Arbor is running the auto-publishing M&A blog for William & Wall, a sell-side advisory firm. Voice-matched posts, founder-approved, on cadence.

On the Call

Thirty minutes. No deck.

You walk me through where AI keeps getting stuck in your work.

I tell you what I would build first, and what it costs.