Patrick Mattis

I help AI agencies hire devs without budgeting for the rebuild. DM me FIT for the 45-min hiring test: link.mattisaiconsulting.ai/widget/booking…

Since 2014, 6 devs hired. Cheapest is £35/hr. Average tenure: 4 years. No midnight rewrites since. The hourly rate isn't the cost. The hourly rate is the deposit on the rebuild. Follow @MattisPatrick.

I hired a cheaper one in 2011. Same outcome. The third time, I changed the rule. Stopped hiring on rate. Started hiring on a 45-min written test. One brief. One realistic scenario. Anyone who could ship a working answer = £40/hr. Anyone who couldn't = nothing.

The first dev I hired on rate alone was 2009. £8/hr. 3 months in, project was 4 weeks late. 6 months in, I was rewriting his code at 11pm because the client deadline didn't move.

I help AI agencies fix the rebuilds the cheap dev caused. DM me FIT: link.mattisaiconsulting.ai/widget/booking…

3.2x. The average ratio of rebuild cost to original build cost across 47 cheap-dev rescues I've run since 2024. The dev rate looked cheap on the invoice. The rebuild paid for the difference 3 times over, on someone's emergency timeline.

I help AI agencies stop hiring rebuilds disguised as cheap dev hours. DM me FIT or book a call: link.mattisaiconsulting.ai/widget/booking…

Agency hired an £8/hr dev on Upwork. Demoed in Loom. Marked it done. 11 weeks later: agent had silently stopped 2 days earlier. No alerts, no retry, no log. Fix: 2 weeks at £40/hr = £3,200. Original build: £640. The £8 dev was the most expensive line on the project.

I help AI agencies turn delivery into a documented asset. DM me CEILING: link.mattisaiconsulting.ai/widget/booking…

The asset of an agency isn't the people. Not the LLM. Not the tooling. It's the documented delivery that lets the next person do the same work without you in the room. Until you have that, you don't have an agency. You have a job with extra steps.

I help AI agency founders document delivery so they stop being the bottleneck. DM me CEILING or book a call: link.mattisaiconsulting.ai/widget/booking…

An agency founder told me on a call last week: "I can see that I'm the bottleneck. So I need to outsource that really." The bottleneck isn't the work. It's the founder doing work nobody else was allowed to learn. Follow @MattisPatrick for more.

I was the bottleneck of my own business for nine years. I told myself it was because the work was hard. It was actually because the work was undocumented.

I help AI agencies productise delivery so the same build ships twice. DM me CEILING for the 7-doc kit: link.mattisaiconsulting.ai/widget/booking…

Linear revenue. Exponential cost. One bespoke build at a time is the structure that caps every founder-led agency. Sell more, work more, margin shrinks, weekend gone. The fix isn't selling less. It's shipping the same build twice.

I help AI agencies break the £30k MRR ceiling by productising delivery. DM me CEILING or book a call: link.mattisaiconsulting.ai/widget/booking…

An agency owner told me, "if I just sold one more deal I'd hire a junior." He was at £400k. Maxed. The reason he couldn't hire wasn't money. It was that he couldn't describe the job. We spent 3 weeks documenting one delivery end to end. UAT pack. Runbook. Handover. 6 months later: 4 concurrent deliveries, 1 junior, 1 PM. He sold the next deal in November. Hired in December. The order finally made sense.

I help AI agencies break the £8k MRR ceiling by productising delivery. If your last quote took 4 hours, DM me CEILING or book a call: link.mattisaiconsulting.ai/widget/booking…

Process is the asset. Not the people. Not the LLM. If your last quote took you 4 hours, you have a delivery problem dressed up as a sales problem. DM me CEILING for the 7 documents that broke that agency past £8k. Follow @MattisPatrick for more on shipping AI that actually scales.

The pattern I see in every founder-led agency that breaks past it: They wrote down the delivery first. Acceptance criteria template. UAT pack. Runbook template. Handover doc.