For founders of £1M+ businesses

How to find the most profitable AI opportunities hiding in your business.

This 12-minute video breaks down where AI actually pays off, and why the biggest wins are the products you build for your customers, not the tools you bolt on inside.
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Free · 30 minutes with Lee Russel

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The problem
Nine out of ten businesses fail to get a return on their AI spend.

They spend the money without ever finding the right problem to point it at. Twelve months later there is not one AI project anyone can point to that moved the needle. The money is gone, the team is sceptical, and the competitors who got it right are pulling away.

The root cause
They pick tools before they pick problems.

Someone sees a demo. Someone reads a case study. And the team starts building around a technology instead of a business outcome. The businesses that get a return start from the other end, with a problem worth solving, and they work back to the tech last.

What the 10% do
They find the right problem first.

Every business has three kinds of AI opportunity: cost savers, money makers, and moonshots. Any of them can be the right first move. The skill is knowing which one creates the most value for your business right now. Most businesses stop at cost savers, using AI to shave their own overheads. That is applying AI selfishly. The ones that pull ahead build AI their customers pay for.

Why the order matters
The right first move creates momentum.

Start with the highest-leverage opportunity and the results compound. Each project builds on the last, and within months you have an AI capability your competitors cannot copy. Get the sequence wrong and you get a graveyard of pilots that do not connect to anything.

The proof
This is what it looks like when you get it right.

One client built an award-winning AI platform that reached six figures of annual recurring revenue within 30 days of launch. Another turned a single AI tool into their highest-converting sales asset. A third attracted acquisition offers off the back of one platform build. Different businesses, same process.

Next step
Book a free 30-minute Moonshot Game Plan call.

Thirty minutes with Lee Russel. He will map the AI product hiding in your expertise: what to build, who it serves, and the path to launching it. The game plan is yours whether you work with MVL or not.

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The process

How we take you from expertise to launched AI product.

1.
The Game Plan call

Thirty minutes with Lee. No pitch. An honest conversation about the product your expertise could become, and whether the business case actually holds. You leave with a game plan you can act on either way.

2.
The MVV. Prove the vision.

A design sprint with a hackathon at its heart. You come out with a working prototype your customers can touch, running real AI, plus a delivery plan and a fixed price for the build. Buying signals before build budget.

3.
The Moonshot. Build it.

Our senior team builds the full product from £30,000, milestone by milestone, and you watch it come to life inside the project every week.

4.
Keep building.

Launch is the first step, not the finish line. A dedicated team keeps designing and shipping sprint by sprint, so the product grows in value month after month.

Results

What we've built
across all three categories.

Cost saver
Days → Mins

same team, more revenue

Rawstone Consulting

Rawstone's team was losing days on manual carbon footprint analysis for every client. MVL built an AI system that does it in minutes with higher accuracy. Same team, more capacity, more revenue.

Money maker
6-figures per project

oversubscribed

Visual Fusion

Visual Fusion used to charge $10,000 for a preview of what a finished animation would look like. MVL turned that into AI software that generates it live on the first client call. Now it closes bigger deals for free.

Moonshot
6-figure revenue

in 30 days

Hey Monika (award-winning)

Training new bookkeepers used to take months. MVL built Hey Monika, an AI platform where trainees practise on simulated clients that behave like real ones. The platform hit six figures of annual recurring revenue within 30 days of launch and is now fielding acquisition interest.

"Minimal Viable Launch's custom development approach allowed us to integrate advanced features tailored to our business needs, enhancing our user experience and operational efficiency. Our investors love the new investor portal!"

Maëlle Pradeau

Octopus Energy

Lee Russel
Founder, Minimal Viable Launch

Lee has spent the last ten years building AI software, including leading the machine learning team at Qoria, a global listed tech company. Bestselling author and AI strategist, he now runs the senior team at Minimal Viable Launch, building custom AI software for businesses, including Daniel Priestley's Dent Global. One thing you should know. We don't believe in using AI to cut staff. Your people's judgement is the raw material for everything we build. The businesses that win are the ones where that judgement gets multiplied, not replaced. If you're looking to halve your headcount, we're not your people.

The process

How we find and build your
highest-leverage AI opportunities.

This is for you if
  • You run a business doing £1M+ a year

  • You are the expert in your field, not a technologist, and you have no plans to become one

  • You've tried AI tools but can't point to one that moved the needle

  • You want to build something your customers use and pay for, not another internal tool

THis is not for you if
  • You're looking for a quick ChatGPT hack, not a real system

  • You just want to cut costs without investing in what comes next

  • You have an in-house dev team and want extra hands to direct. We lead builds, we don't staff them

  • You're pre-revenue or still validating your core offer

Book your
Moonshot Game Plan call

Founder, Minimal Viable Launch

Thirty minutes with Lee Russel. He will map the AI product hiding in your expertise and hand you a game plan you can act on, whether you build it with MVL or not. You spent years becoming the expert. Come and see what that expertise looks like as a product.

Book your Moonshot Game Plan call

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