About · Jessa Ogilvie
The practice I always wanted to run.
Small by design. Engagements are scoped before they start, and you own everything when we're done.
What this practice is.
I'm Jessa. I run a small consulting practice for small businesses and independent operators: coaches, designers, event teams, agencies, and everything in between. Based in Connecticut, working with clients across the US. The work splits between Studios (brand identity and custom websites) and Labs (AI setup and workflow automation). Every engagement is scoped in writing before any work starts, and the source files come with you when we're done.
In a different life I product-manage an AI platform that serves thousands of users daily. The consulting practice runs alongside that, deliberately small, focused on the same kinds of problems at smaller scale. The AI toolkit I help Labs clients build is the same one I run my own work on.
Why this works.
A custom memory system holds context between sessions. AI agents handle my research and the heavy artifact-building that would otherwise eat my evenings. The setup pays for itself in hours saved every week. That's the most honest evidence I have that Labs work is worth what I charge.
The translator problem.
Most small business owners already know AI is the leverage. They've tried ChatGPT or Claude, they've watched bigger firms get faster, and they want in. What they're missing is a technical translator: someone who can map their actual work to what these tools do well.
Without one, you spend hours in chats that don't quite capture what you meant, get answers that are almost-but-not-right, and walk away frustrated. That's the gap Labs sits in. I don't sell prompt libraries. I read what you do every day and tell you which thirty-minute slice of your week, with the right tool and context, would actually compound. Most of the time the answer is two or three workflows you'll keep using every week.
On AI.
I use AI heavily and I take the costs seriously.
The costs side gets less honest treatment in the AI consulting market. Energy footprints aren't abstract, jobs are being displaced that didn't need to disappear, and people are acting on model outputs that are confidently wrong every day. None of that goes away by refusing to use the tools. It goes away when the tools are used deliberately, with specific lines drawn.
Here are mine. I work in Claude rather than ChatGPT because Anthropic's trust-and-safety posture matches what I'm willing to put my name on. Client data stays out of any tool whose terms I haven't read. I won't help anyone use AI to replace humans whose work could be amplified instead. When a model output looks confidently wrong, I say so, every time.
If your view of any of these trade-offs is meaningfully different from mine, the first call is the right place to find that out.
Three things I won't do
What's not on the menu.
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"Just a logo."
A mark without a system is just a sketch. I won't ship a logo unless it comes with the type and color it needs to actually do its job.
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"A marketing-site chatbot."
Labs is for AI that does real work inside your practice. A widget pretending to answer questions on a sales page is a different kind of build, and I don't take that kind on. If that's the goal, we won't have fun together.
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"Long-term retainer with no scope."
Both arms ship scoped, written-down work. If you want help later, you rebook. I won't be your forever-vendor.
Let's talk.
Book a 15-minute call to see if there's a fit, or write me directly.