I'm an engineer turned freelancer.
For the first 6 months, I built "perfect" solutions.
Automated everything. Connected to every API. Built custom dashboards.
Result?
No clients. Just beautiful, useless systems.
Then I flipped the approach:
Start with one painful, repetitive task
Automate only that (cheap & fast)
Put a simple web page in front of it
Sell it before building anything else
Now I build AI automation + web design for other engineers who want to sell services, not just tools.
One client (mechanical engineer turned consultant) was spending 8 hours/week manually sorting lead data.
I automated it in 2 days. He now closes 3x more proposals because he actually has time to talk to clients.
If you're an engineer trying to start or scale a business side-project:
DM me "ENGINEER" and I'll show you how I can automate one bottleneck + build a landing page for it, fast and without perfectionism.
No retainer needed. Just one problem solved.