The road between those 2 sentences had 7 stops, and it was not a straight line. Contigi exists because people kept asking me to walk it with them.
The road, honestly drawn. Stop 2 is the one I would not skip.
Lovable cost me weeks and produced nothing I could use. At the time it felt like proof I was not cut out for this. Looking back, it was just tuition.
No paid course. No computer science degree. No developer on payroll. What it actually took was persistence, common sense, agency and good taste. None of those are technical, and I think that is the part people get wrong about all of this.
After months down the rabbit hole, I had built my first AI hire: an AI executive assistant, Jane Cross, who knew my property business, my wife's holistic decluttering business, my balloon-shows business, my people, my network and my voice. Then I moved up a level, called her from the new setup, and watched her spin up a whole team of agents to get the work done.
That was the moment. I had crossed a glass ceiling I did not know was there, and I knew 2 things at once: this is how I want to run my business, and helping other people through that same ceiling is what I want to do next. That decision is Contigi.
I am a property investor. I run Buckswell, a UK property business based in North West London, and I built my AI team for 1 reason only: to help me with my own job while I run endless property viewings, due diligence, and the managing of letting agents, tradesmen, brokers, solicitors and customers. No product plan, no agency ambitions, just my own inbox, my own deals, my own follow-ups.
But when you tell people a team of AI agents runs your business, they do not nod politely. They ask you to show them. Then they ask you to build them 1. Contigi is that request, taken seriously: I sit next to you, face to face or online, and you finish the day with a working AI assistant of your own.
If you are somewhere between stop 1 and stop 3 and it feels like nothing is working, that is not the verdict. That is the road.
Get in touch and I will help you cross it.