Consulting / Digital Business

Build a Digital Business — From the People Who Build Them for a Living

We engineer, ship, and run digital businesses every day — from a 1-person SaaS to a 50-employee agency to a multi-location automotive group. This page is for founders, operators, and agencies who want our heads on the problem instead of (or before) our hands on the keyboard.

Not CPAs. Not attorneys. Not financial advisors. Business consulting only. We refer out for tax, legal, or accounting work.

Aura Media Studios LLC and howtostart.consulting are a business consulting and software engineering shop. We are NOT a registered investment advisor, NOT a securities broker, NOT a CPA, NOT an attorney, and NOT a healthcare or insurance advisor. Nothing on this page is investment advice, securities advice, legal advice, tax advice, or a guarantee of business outcomes. Engagement is a business consulting and engineering engagement only.

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Who this is for

Pre-revenue or early-revenue founders figuring out which 3 things to build and which 30 to skip.

Agency or SMB operators looking to add agentic, AI, or automation as a real revenue line — not a buzzword line item.

Mid-stage operators ($1M-$25M) drowning in manual ops and unsure which workflow to automate first.

Solo consultants and fractional CTOs evaluating whether to white-label our stack instead of building from scratch.

What we cover

Engineering and operating consulting. Not life coaching. Not securities advice.

What we cover

  • • Creating digital businesses — picking the SKU shape, the buyer, the channel, the tech
  • • Engineering applications — Cloudflare-Workers edge architecture, agent design, RAG / GraphRAG
  • • Multi-tenant SaaS patterns, WorkOS auth, Stripe billing
  • • Operations automation — replacing manual workflows with agents
  • • AI / agent integration — when to use Workers AI vs Gemini, when NOT to use AI at all
  • • AEO / SEO / answer-engine strategy — should you even use AEO, and how

What we refer out

Sector-licensed work — specialists only.

  • • General life and career coaching — try a coach, not us
  • • MLM / network marketing / get-rich-quick — we don't do this work
  • • Securities offerings, raising capital, term-sheet negotiation — securities attorney + investment banker
  • • Trademark and IP filing — we do strategy, an IP attorney does filings
  • • Healthcare, regulated finance, regulated insurance — sector-licensed specialists only
  • • Bookkeeping execution — we set up the systems, your bookkeeper runs them

The stack we built and run

We eat our own dogfood. Every product below is in production for our agency or our clients.

Magic Sites

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Branded Astro 6 + Cloudflare Workers website framework. We host our own sites and clients sites on it.

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Magic CRM

live

Internal CRM running the agency.

Magic Receptionist

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Front-desk AI receptionist on Cloudflare Email Workers. Answers our phones.

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ops-os

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Internal ticket, project, and agent-activity system. Eats its own dogfood.

CloudClaw

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Agent-hosting infrastructure. 200+ workers in production.

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Contact us

Tell us where you are. We respond within one business day.

Before you reach out: Not CPAs. Not attorneys. Not financial advisors. Business consulting only. We refer out for tax, legal, or accounting work.

Disclaimer

Not CPAs. Not attorneys. Not financial advisors. Business consulting only. We refer out for tax, legal, or accounting work.

Aura Media Studios LLC and howtostart.consulting are a business consulting and software engineering shop. We are NOT a registered investment advisor, NOT a securities broker, NOT a CPA, NOT an attorney, and NOT a healthcare or insurance advisor. Nothing on this page is investment advice, securities advice, legal advice, tax advice, or a guarantee of business outcomes. Engagement is a business consulting and engineering engagement only.