Studio Entrepreneur - Services Businesses

HA Studio; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity upside

Job summary

Human Agency is seeking a founder/operator to launch and run a physical services business in Boston, MA, from day one. You will build the brand, hire the first tradesperson, set up operations, and deliver real services to real customers in the Boston market.

You will architect AI-driven operating systems for scheduling, diagnostics, and customer management, while owning hiring, P&L, and growth. Equity upside and travel for client engagements are part of the role.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a business from zero to revenue.
• Comfort with physical-world operations (trucks, schedules, crews, client sites).
• Ability to architect AI-enabled workflows and systems.
• Evidence of shipping products or launching projects.
• Experience hiring and managing teams in ambiguous settings.

Responsibilities

• Launch and run the business end-to-end as CEO from day one in Boston market.
• Design AI-driven operating systems for scheduling, diagnostics, and customer management.
• Own hiring and managing a lean team of tradespeople; use AI to source and onboard.
• Run P&L with accountability for profitability and sustainability.
• Document the model and scale it to other markets and verticals.

Job description

About Human Agency

We're scaling rapidly and have a growing pipeline of opportunities that demand exceptional talent across disciplines. Our mission is to bring on individuals, from creative producers to technical experts to entrepreneurial leaders, who can help us realize this next chapter of growth.

Location: Boston, MA

Type: Full-Time

We are a company of doers. Leaders roll up their sleeves, teams work flat, and everyone contributes to what ships. Titles don't insulate us from feedback or basics. We invite critique, learn quickly, and keep raising the bar. The best ideas win here, no matter where they come from, because clients trust us to deliver the strongest outcomes every time.

Our clients' missions, products, and bottom lines are sacred. We immerse ourselves in their world, becoming stewards of their goals and partners in solving big problems. Every product, strategy, or asset we create must be both beautiful and functional; practical, usable, and designed for real-world impact.

Humans are our most valuable resource, and we only grow by hiring people who push us forward. Across strategy, engineering, design, data, and operations, we seek out teammates who raise the bar and make us better. Always hire up, never down.

We partner with organizations of all sizes to explore, design, and implement AI strategies that are secure, scalable, and human-centered. We believe AI should amplify human potential, not replace it, and we build with that conviction in every engagement. From advisory and tooling to implementation and education, we meet clients where they are and help them integrate AI in ways that align with their mission and values. Our goal is to empower teams to work smarter, move faster, and unlock new possibilities through thoughtful, responsible innovation.

And through it all, we lead with purpose, love, and adventure. We do meaningful work with people we care about, and we make the ride an adventure worth taking. Because at Human Agency, who we are and how we work are one and the same.

The Opportunity

The roll-up economy in physical services is fundamentally broken. Private equity is buying HVAC companies, landscaping crews, and electrical contractors at absurd multiples because they believe the moat is scale. We think the moat is smaller than everyone assumes, and AI changes the entire equation.

You're going to prove it by running one yourself. Not advising. Not theorizing. Running. You'll launch and operate a physical services business in Boston from day one, treating AI as your entire back office. One exceptional tradesperson supported by intelligent systems for scheduling, diagnostics, customer management, hiring, and growth. You're the operator. AI is your COO.

This is a venture studio build, not a consultancy project. We have initial demand lined up to support breakeven at launch. Your job is to make the unit economics work, prove the model scales, then help us replicate it. If you're the kind of person who sees a broken market and wants to show everyone how it should be done, this is your shot.

What You'll Own

• Launch and operate the business end-to-end. You're CEO from day one. Build the brand, hire the first tradesperson, set up operations, and deliver real services to real customers in the Boston market.
• Build AI-driven operating systems for everything non-technical. Scheduling, customer intake, diagnostics, job tracking, review generation, hiring pipelines, and quality control all run through intelligent tooling you design and deploy.
• Own hiring and managing a lean team of trade professionals. Use AI to source candidates, assess fit, onboard efficiently, and scale the team as demand grows. You manage people, but AI handles the workflows around them.
• Run the P&L with full accountability. Revenue, costs, margins, cash flow — you're responsible for making this business profitable and sustainable from the start.
• Prove the model and scale it. Once the unit economics work and the systems hold, document what you've built and help us replicate it in other markets and verticals.

Who You Are

Experience & Skills

• You've started or run something before — ideally from zero to revenue. Could be a business, a project, a side hustle. You know what it takes to get something off the ground and keep it running.
• You're comfortable in the physical world. This isn't software. You're managing trucks, tools, schedules, customer homes, and real humans doing skilled labor. That doesn't intimidate you.
• You understand AI deeply enough to architect systems around it. You don't need to write the models, but you know how to design workflows where AI does the heavy lifting and humans do what humans do best.
• You've shipped things that matter. Show us a business you ran, a product you launched, a project you led from concept to outcome. Evidence beats credentials every time.
• You've hired and managed people in ambiguous contexts. You know how to evaluate talent, set clear expectations, and hold people accountable without micromanaging.

Mindset & Traits

• You see broken markets and want to fix them yourself. You're not interested in writing a think piece about what's wrong with the roll-up economy — you want to go build the alternative.
• You thrive in high-agency, low-structure environments. Nobody is going to tell you exactly what to do. You figure it out, make the call, and move forward.
• You default to action. When you see a problem, your first instinct is to fix it, not to wait for someone else to handle it. You'll set up the Google Business profile, post the Craigslist ad, and take the customer call yourself if that's what it takes.
• You're intellectually honest about what's working and what's not. You run experiments, track results, admit when something isn't working, and iterate quickly.

Compensation & Logistics

• Based in Boston, MA with in-market presence required
• Full-time role with equity upside tied to business performance
• Some travel for client engagements and offsites
• Compensation is competitive and discussed during the process

Equal Opportunity Commitment

Human Agency is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diverse perspectives and are committed to building inclusive, high-performing teams where everyone can do their best work.