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.
Three lines,
one thesis.
What operators need is intelligence that runs inside the work itself.
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Arbory
Product · in buildA voice-first executive assistant and coach. iOS and web. You talk; it captures, drafts, remembers, schedules. Switchable personas. Shipping 2026.
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Build Sprints
Service · $1.5K–$2.5KTwo 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.
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Content Engine
Platform · M&A firstVertical-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.
Arbor is running the auto-publishing M&A blog for William & Wall, a sell-side advisory firm. Voice-matched posts, founder-approved, on cadence.
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.