At the start of 2025, I had big plans.
More content.
More clients.
A bigger team.
A stronger personal brand.
The strategy was simple (and flawed):
Put in more hours → grow faster.
On paper, it made sense.
My plan for 2025 looked like this:
Post more content manually
Reach out to prospects manually
Build and manage a team manually
Grow a newsletter audience manually
Handle clients manually
Take sales calls manually
Manage operations manually
The only thing that was automated?
Outbound.
(No prize for guessing — that’s my specialty.)
Everything else depended on one thing: my time.
What I completely failed to account for was life.
At the start of 2025, I had a 1-year-old son (now 2).
Yes, my wife and I hired a nanny.
But no nanny works 24×7.
And if you’ve ever lived with a 1–2 year old, you know this:
They are a ball of unlimited energy.
Running around the house.
Trying to grab everything.
Putting things in their mouth that they shouldn’t.
Mentally switching between founder mode and parent mode all day is exhausting.
I was still getting leads because my outbound systems were automated.
I was still serving clients with my team.
But that was the ceiling.
Every time I tried to hire more people, add new systems, or push growth harder, things started breaking.
For a few months, I felt overwhelmed.
Stuck.
Honestly, like I was moving backwards.
I even started doomscrolling a lot — so much that I had to install an app called StayFree just to remind myself how much time I was wasting.
That’s when I knew something had to change.
One day, I sat down and did a proper reflection.
No tools.
No dashboards.
Just thinking.
And the answer was right in front of me the entire time.
AI.
Not AI for content.
Not AI for experiments.
But AI is a replacement for me inside the business.
AI has the potential to replace you in your business.
Meaning — it doesn’t matter if you’re changing your kid’s diaper, attending a networking event, or traveling with family.
Your business can still run on ‘autopilot using AI’.
Marketing continues.
Sales follow-ups happen.
Leads get researched.
Systems keep moving.
Even if you can only work 3–5 hours a day as a solo founder.
If you’ve hired a team or an agency but ops, client servicing, or execution still eats up your time, AI now gives you a way out.
You can finally remove yourself from repetitive execution and focus on what actually matters to you.
Over the last three to six months, I have personally implemented AI systems across my business to achieve exactly this.
No large team.
No dependency on people being “available.”
No constant context switching.
AI is the best expert available today.
And if you master using AI for your specific use case, you can literally buy back time.
Time you can then reinvest into family, health, and high-leverage work — while still growing your business.
In my next few posts, I’ll share practical strategies and real-world workflows I’m using to get more done in less time with the help of AI.
All so I can spend more time with my 2-year-old without slowing down the business.
And if you’re in a similar phase of life or business, and if you relate to this post, you’ll be able to do the same using AI.
But let me prove this to you rather than just ‘talking.’
I recommend that you follow me on all socials and be on the lookout for my content, as that is the first thing I have ‘automated using AI.’
Once you see how I can go from not being visible to consistently using AI, you will start to truly believe that AI is the answer to most of your personal or business problems (which are interrelated)
Until my next post,
Ankit Modi
Co-Founder at Six Figure Consulting
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