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An exited founder embedded inside founder-led businesses. I audit how work actually moves through the company, build the workflows that fix it, and ship the software my recommendations rely on. No deck. No engineering tickets on your team's backlog.
Every five minutes you take to respond to a hot lead, you halve the chance of converting it. AI agents that reply in seconds, qualify, and book the call.
RFP responses, proposal drafts, CRM hygiene, pipeline reporting. Most revenue teams reclaim 8–10 hours per rep per week.
Routing, response drafting, end-to-end deflection on common queries. One I shipped recently handles 63% of tickets without a human.
Internal apps your team actually uses. Built in Claude Code, n8n and Replit. Zero tickets on your eng backlog.
Invoice generation, dunning, reconciliation, AR follow-up. The boring back-office work that quietly costs you cash.
Campaign workflows, content production, SEO ops, lifecycle email. About half my Builds end up here.
I walk in, audit how work actually moves through the business, rank the opportunities by £-impact, and ship the workflows that fix them. The software is built and deployed by me — your engineering team stays on product.
No deck. No "scored action plan." Working software your team uses next week.
Engagements are scoped to the problem. Sometimes that's a short embedded sprint with one workflow shipped. Sometimes it's a longer engagement when the issues run deeper than workflows alone can solve. We figure that out on the first call.
Post-Series A startups where ops is bottlenecked and headcount keeps climbing. Bootstrapped businesses pushing past £5M, feeling the strain in sales ops, support and finance. Founder-led businesses that have run the AI experiments and watched every one die in pilot.
The stage label doesn't matter. The problem does.
Your default fix is headcount. You want a strategy deck, not working software. You're looking for a management consultant who'll embed for six months and charge accordingly.
I'm for founders who'd rather see one workflow running in production than ten on a roadmap.
Saher Shodhan is an exited founder, senior operator, and hands-on builder. He's been in the founder seat, not the advisor seat. That's the difference.
A decade scaling operations where things break daily — Uber India launch team, Head of Ops at Urban Company, founded and sold Traktion (acquired by IDX, 2023), Interim COO during Cloud Cycle's European expansion.
Technical for an operator. Builds workflows and internal tooling himself in Claude Code, n8n, Replit and Webflow. When an ops problem needs software, it gets shipped — without your engineering team lifting a finger.
Based in London. Fixing operations across Europe.
Implementation. I do the work inside the business — not advise from the outside and hand over a framework. If you just want a slide deck, I'm not the right fit.
Three differences. I embed for focused execution rather than open-ended retainers. I'm an exited founder, not an operations generalist. And I build the workflows and tooling myself, instead of adding tickets to your engineering backlog.
Founder-led businesses at any stage — post-Series A startups, bootstrapped companies scaling through £5–10M, businesses that just took on investment for the first time. The stage label doesn't matter. The problem does.
About half what I ship lands in operations — speed-to-lead agents, support triage, internal tooling, finance and AR workflows. The other half is sales and marketing — pipeline ops, content engines, lifecycle email, RFP responders. The common thread isn't the function. It's that the answer is software your team uses next week, not a roadmap.
London. I work with founder-led businesses across Europe, drawing on direct experience launching and scaling markets in Europe and Asia.
No. But you do need to be open to using AI and software to fix problems instead of just adding headcount. I build the workflows and tooling myself — you don't need engineering resources for it. If your default answer to every operational problem is "hire someone," this probably isn't the right fit.
Pick a time. We'll work out whether your problem is one I can fix. No pitch, no pressure — and if it isn't a fit, I'll tell you inside the first ten minutes.