Feast or famine
A strong quarter, then a quiet one. The next engagement depends on someone else remembering to mention you.
For Fractional CFO practices
Qualified sales calls on your calendar. No prospecting on your part.
The AI Growth Engine is an outbound sales system we run for you. We find business owners who match your ideal client, start the conversation, and an AI SDR books the qualified ones straight into your calendar, 24/7. You take the calls.
30-minute call. No obligation. You leave with a clear answer on fit.
Led by Jacob Krogue, CPA, who helped scale a Fractional CFO firm from 8 to 30+ clients.
The problem
Referrals built your practice. They don't make growth predictable.
Referral clients are often your best clients. But you don't control when they arrive, and that makes it hard to plan capacity, hiring, or revenue.
Selling is a second job
Done properly, outbound means list building, writing, follow-up, and scheduling every week. For most owners, those hours come straight out of billable work.
Stop-start outreach doesn't work
Outreach gets pushed aside the moment client work picks up. Without consistent follow-up, good conversations go cold.
How the AI Growth Engine works
We run the system. You approve it once, then take the calls.
A complete outbound sales process, built around your practice and managed by us from start to finish.
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Define your ideal client
Together we set the target: industries, company size, decision makers, and exactly what "qualified" means to you.
Your time: one 60-minute kickoff
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Build and approve
We build the prospect lists, set up the sending infrastructure, write the messaging, and train the AI SDR on your services.
Your time: review and approve the messaging
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Outreach and replies
Outreach goes out at a steady pace. The AI SDR answers replies within minutes, screens out poor fits, and books qualified prospects.
Your time: none
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Calls and reporting
Qualified calls appear on your calendar, each with a brief. You get regular reports, and we keep refining what works.
Your time: take the calls
We use the same system ourselves
The AI Growth Engine books our own discovery calls too. If you heard from us before you found this page, you have already seen it work.
Your reputation
Built to protect your name, not spend it
Your reputation is your business. The system is designed so that every prospect sees a professional, relevant message, and nothing reaches your calendar unless it meets your standard.
You approve the messaging
Nothing goes out until you have signed off on the positioning, the tone, and the messages themselves.
Your main inbox stays separate
Outreach runs from dedicated sending domains, so your primary email address and its deliverability are never at risk.
Measured volume
Small, targeted batches to well-researched prospects. No mass blasts, and no buying lists of random contacts.
A person behind the AI
The AI SDR works within rules you set. Anything sensitive or unusual is passed to a person instead of being answered automatically.
What's included
Everything is managed for you
Nothing to hire, train, or manage. Your part is a 60-minute kickoff, approving the messaging, and taking the calls.
We find the right prospects
- Ideal client profile and targeting
- Researched prospect lists
- Sending domains set up and monitored
We start the conversations
- Outreach written in your voice
- Consistent, timely follow-up
- AI SDR trained on your services
We book the calls
- Replies handled and qualified, 24/7
- Calls on your calendar, each with a brief
- Lead details sent to your inbox or CRM
Plus regular reporting, and we keep testing and refining what works.
Straightforward terms
- A one-time setup fee, then a flat monthly management fee
- A 90-day initial term, the time it takes to test and refine properly, then month to month
- You own everything we build for you: prospect lists, messaging, and sending domains
Who it's for
Built only for Fractional CFO practices
We focus on one kind of firm, so the targeting, messaging, and qualification are built around how your clients actually buy finance leadership.
A good fit if you
- Run a Fractional CFO practice with a clear service offering
- Want more new clients without hiring a salesperson
- Have capacity for new engagements
- Would rather spend your time on clients than on prospecting
Probably not a fit if you
- Are still defining what you offer and who you serve
- Cannot take on new clients in the next few months
- Prefer to run outbound in-house
Founding partner program
We're taking on 3 founding partner practices
We're a new firm, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Our first three practices get 50% off the setup fee and their monthly rate locked for 12 months. In return, we ask for honest feedback and, if the results are there, a case study.
Who you'll work with
Built by someone who has scaled a Fractional CFO firm
You work directly with Jacob Krogue, founder and CEO, not a rotating account team.
Jacob was the founding employee at a Fractional CFO firm and helped grow it from 8 clients to more than 30, both delivering client work and building the operations behind it. The firm was later acquired.
He is a CPA with a master's degree in accounting from BYU, one of the top-ranked accounting programs in the country. After starting his career in public accounting, he now leads an accounting and finance team at a SaaS company in Boston, where he also leads the finance team's AI transformation.
For the past three years he has co-hosted the AI Rebels podcast, interviewing AI founders and business leaders. That gives him a practical, early view of which AI tools are ready for real work and which are not.
"I've seen up close how a Fractional CFO practice grows, and how much of the owner's time goes into finding the next client. I started AI Operations Partners to take that work off your plate."
Beyond lead generation
New clients first. Then a cleaner practice.
Once your pipeline is running, we can help you find and apply AI and automation in your day-to-day work, such as client onboarding, recurring reporting, and internal admin. Every recommendation starts from your actual workflows, not from a tool we want to sell.
FAQ
Common questions
What does "fully managed" mean?
We handle strategy, technology, copywriting, sending, reply handling, and ongoing optimization. You approve the targeting and messaging at the start. After that, your main job is taking the calls that land on your calendar.
How does the AI SDR work?
The AI SDR is an AI assistant trained on your services, your ideal client, and how you describe your practice. When a prospect replies, it responds promptly, answers common questions, checks fit against criteria you set, and offers times from your calendar. Anything outside its rules goes to a person.
Will prospects know they are talking to AI?
The AI SDR never claims to be a person. If a prospect asks, it says plainly that it is an AI assistant working with your practice, and it can bring a person into the conversation at any time.
Who decides what "qualified" means?
You do. We agree the criteria at kickoff, such as company size, industry, role, and timing. Only prospects who meet them are offered time on your calendar.
How long until I see results?
Setup takes 2 to 3 weeks before outreach goes live. How many calls get booked depends on your market, your offer, and the targeting, so we set realistic expectations together on the discovery call. We do not promise specific numbers.
What does it cost, and is there a long contract?
There is a one-time setup fee and a flat monthly management fee, scoped to your target market and outreach volume. After a 90-day initial term, it is month to month. We share exact numbers on the discovery call, once we know what your practice needs.
Find out if outbound will work for your practice
In a 30-minute discovery call, you will get:
- A review of your ideal client and how you position your services
- A realistic view of how a managed outbound system would work for your practice
- A straight answer on fit. If it isn't right for you, we will say so.