About Vela Operators
We've spent our careers inside growing companies, not in agency conference rooms. We know what breaks at $2M, $5M, and $10M, because we've watched it from the chair you're in.
Meet the operators
Two operators and one agent we built ourselves. We don't sell AI we don't run.
You don't have an effort problem. You're working long hours, your team shows up, the product works. Somewhere between $2M and $10M though, things stall. And from the chair you're in, it's hard to see why.
We started Vela because we kept watching the same thing play out. Owners spending on ads while the website was broken. Hiring salespeople with no pipeline. Fixing the wrong thing over and over. Agencies happy to take the order.
Most consultants in this space grew up inside agencies. They're good at executing tactics. They're not trained to find the actual problem first. So they take what you ask for and run with it. Sometimes that helps. Often it makes things worse.
We came up inside companies. We've run the ops, scaled the revenue, felt what happens when the growth system isn't there. We show up as business thinkers first, executors second. If the thing you asked for isn't the thing that'll fix it, we'll tell you.
"We don't just take the order. We find the actual problem and fix it."
AI is a force multiplier on a working system. Drop it into a broken one and you get the same broken business, faster. So we diagnose first, and when the fix is an AI employee, an agent that owns a boring, repetitive job end to end, we build it and stand behind it. We run our own business on one. That's one of the ways we fix things, not the only one, and never where it's theater.
The AI page has the long version, with the specific places we use it and the things we won't do.
Every engagement starts with a diagnosis. No matter how sure you are about what's broken. We've seen too many times that the thing you thought was the problem was downstream of the real one.
From there we build: website, lead gen, pipeline, and AI employees where they earn their keep. Then we optimize. Cost per lead down, margins up, numbers visible. You own everything we build.
Owner-operators between $2M and $10M who've built something real and hit a ceiling they can't see through from the chair. People who've tried agencies and walked away frustrated. People who want a thinking partner, not a vendor.
If that sounds like you, let's talk.