Raymond Shaw
Founder — Huntley Solutions
I got into this because I was curious about AI. That curiosity led me into business operations.
I started asking GTA business owners if they were using AI, if they'd want it integrated. Most said no or "we tried something but it didn't work." So I started asking better questions: where are you wasting time? What manual task do you repeat 20 times a week? What would free up 5 hours if it just… worked?
That led me down the rabbit hole of workflow automation, n8n, API integration, and operations consulting. I started pitching. I've pitched over 30 websites — barbers, hair salons, construction companies, landscapers, retailers. I've pitched workflow automations to marketing companies — daily intelligence digests, weekly report systems that pull data from multiple sources and summarize automatically. I've pitched implementation support for book project founders and operations consulting on task delegation for a film production team.
Most of those pitches haven't closed yet. I've landed one paying client so far — a flooring company in Toronto where I built a Google Reviews integration, migrated their hosting, and set up an automated lead capture system that pipes contact form submissions into Google Sheets and emails the owner instantly. That workflow is running live right now, has been for months.
I've also built content generation systems, review management workflows, and video production automation — most still in testing, waiting for the right client who sees the value.
That's the reality of starting. I'm not running a 20-client agency. I'm early, learning by pitching and building, turning this into something that stands on its own.
What I've learned through all the pitches and research: businesses don't fail because of bad execution. They fail because no one agreed on what success looks like before the work started. Vague objectives, scope creep, surprise invoices — that's what kills projects.
So now I lead with written scope. Every engagement starts with a document: what's in, what's out, what success looks like, what it costs. If I can't write it down clearly, I don't start.
I'm nowhere near successful in this space yet, but I'm ahead of where I started. If you're a GTA business owner tired of paying for ambiguity, let's talk.