# Blue Lab Ventures

> You do the work. We do the admin, with AI. Blue Lab Ventures does the admin for owner-run businesses of every kind and size: quotes, bookings, suppliers, invoices, chasing payment, reviews and bids, inside the email, spreadsheets and WhatsApp the business already uses. A real person is responsible for the work, and nothing is paid, sent, signed or deleted without the owner's yes.

The first step is a free look at the business: what we can find from public information, without asking the owner anything. It covers whatever the business shows publicly, which usually includes how customers find it and what AI assistants say about it, who it competes with, how easy it is to get hold of, what it promises against what its reviews say, and what we would do first, and anything else it shows, from its prices to who it is hiring to where it seems to be heading. It arrives within a day for a small business; for a larger one we say when. The owner keeps it whether or not anything follows.

If it is useful, there is a conversation, then the audit: one of us comes into the business for half a day to three days, depending on its size, while we read its records with the owner's permission. The owner ends with a business file in plain English that they keep, describing how the whole business works (how it wins work, does it and gets paid, who does what, and where the owner wants it to go), every place the business loses time or money ranked and priced, and a first step. We start where it pays most, drafting only at first, and take on more as the owner is ready. The owner answers us in a simple chat on their phone, by voice note or text (two minutes to set up, nothing else new), and chooses when they hear from us and which numbers to watch. Their own time to start is usually under an hour of short replies and one sign-in, with the visit separate.

Cost: the first look is free. South Africa first, in rand. Then one of three, in writing before the owner agrees: the audit, R25,000 for most businesses (larger ones quoted in writing), taken off the first month within thirty days; run by us, R18,500 a month including the first piece of admin taken on and run (for a mover, carrier confirmations before every move), nothing up front, stop any month; in your own workspace for a business with a team, R45,000 a month with the foundation and the first piece inside, six months to begin; each further piece of admin taken on and kept running (same-day quotes, chasing invoices) R7,500 a month on top, because it runs every month; or, where it fits, no fee: running cost only plus 25% of counted first-year gains, convertible to a stake on written terms.

Not a fit: a business held back by the physical work rather than the admin, or an owner who wants software to run themselves. We are new: no outside-client results, measured savings or automatic booking are claimed. We are starting with our own family's businesses. Based in Bridgend, Wales and Johannesburg, South Africa.

## Offer and identity

- [Service offer](https://bluelabventures.com/offer.json): The free look at a business, in Service Offer v0. Booking is unconfigured and no action endpoint is available.
- [Organization and services](https://bluelabventures.com/structured-data.json): The organization and its services in schema.org JSON-LD.
For a business with a team or an IT function, the same work is set up inside the client's own workspace with the client's permissions and audit trail; the client's people decide who approves what.