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About Chris Kelley

Houston businesses shouldn't lose hours
to work a good system can handle.

I'm Chris — Sugar Land–raised, Rice-educated, and based in Houston. For 10+ years I've been building the operational systems behind startups and small businesses. Now I do it for Houston contractors and service companies directly: find where the hours are leaking, close the gap, and get you back to the work that actually pays.

10+years in operations
250+businesses helped
8–15 hrssaved per week, avg. client
Chris Kelley — AI Automation Consultant, Houston TX

I work with Houston contractors, trades businesses, and small service companies who are good at what they do but losing hours every week to stuff that should already be automatic. We start with a Workflow Audit — a 90-minute session where we map exactly where the time is going — and build from there. Most clients get 8–15 hours back per week within the first month.

The same pattern shows up almost everywhere I look: smart people doing manual work a well-built system could handle in seconds. Follow-ups falling through the cracks. New clients waiting days for a response that should have gone out in minutes. Data being re-entered by hand that was already sitting somewhere digital. I've spent 10 years finding those gaps and closing them.

That decade started in 2014 when I launched Spoonr, an on-demand food delivery app in Houston — before DoorDash was a household name. Spoonr let customers anywhere in the Houston region order from any restaurant, solving the delivery-zone gaps that left huge parts of the city with no options. I learned more running that company than anything I'd done before: what it takes to build operations from nothing, where things fall apart under pressure, and what the gap between a good idea and a working business really looks like.

When Spoonr wound down I stepped into operations roles at other companies. VP of Operations at a delivery startup. Director of Onboarding at a healthcare staffing platform, where we took monthly shift completions from 1,360 to nearly 11,000 in a single year. Then Customer Success at Subkit, a creator commerce platform, where I managed 250+ small businesses across a $2M+ ARR book through 2025 — my job was getting people to their first dollar fast, and keeping them there.

I grew up in Sugar Land, played baseball at Rice, and have lived in Houston most of my life. Chelsea's an RN. We have three kids, two cats, and two dogs.

“It wasn’t until Chris reached out that I saw the possibilities. Since implementing my new model I’ve finally been able to make money while I sleep instead of re-inventing the wheel every day.”

M.H. · Retail business owner

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Where it all came from.

2009

Rice University — B.A. Sports Management & Business

Played baseball for the Rice Owls. Named to the Conference USA All-Academic Team. Sugar Land, TX roots.

2014

Founder & CEO — Spoonr

Built an on-demand food delivery platform for Houston — letting customers order from any restaurant, anywhere in the region, regardless of whether that restaurant had delivery. Solved the delivery zone problem before the big players did.

2017

VP of Operations — Laundry Genie

Built operational procedures, managed the delivery fleet, and developed commercial partnerships for an on-demand laundry delivery startup.

2019

Director of Onboarding — NurseDash

Led a team of six, sourced 19,000 applicants, onboarded 2,500+ nurses, and grew monthly shift completions 880% — from 1,360 to 10,880 — in a single year. Cut average onboarding time from 26 days to 12.

2021

Founder — Cacti Web Agency

Freelance web design for small businesses. Built affordable, growth-focused websites for clients who needed results, not overhead.

2022

Customer Success Manager — Subkit

Managed 250+ creator and e-commerce businesses across a $2M+ ARR book of business. Built onboarding playbooks, launched workflow automations, and maintained a 90%+ renewal rate through 2025.

Now

Founder — Chris Kelley Consulting

AI automation and workflow consulting for Houston contractors and small businesses. Workflow audits, custom automations, AI agents. First result in 7 days, guaranteed.

The 5-Minute Fix — my field notes blog.

I publish what I'm seeing on the ground — the patterns, the quick wins, and the mistakes that cost people hours every week. No fluff, no AI-hype theater. If you want to see how I think about this work before we talk, start here.

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If you're a Houston contractor or small business
losing hours to admin work, let's talk.

30-minute call. I'll tell you exactly what I'd fix first — and what I'd expect it to be worth.

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