You're paying for a system.
You just don't have one.

I'm Pedro Vallejo. I map how your company actually runs, put a number on what the gaps are costing you, and build the system that runs it. Four companies so far, in title, marketing, legal and field service. Three of them kept me on after the first project. Before that, a national platform for a Fortune 500 field organization.

  • monday.com Bronze Partner (2023–2026)
  • 3× certified
  • 15 years running operations
  • Built and shipped enterprise software for a Fortune 500 company

The problem

You already know the symptoms.

Nobody can answer "where does this stand?"

Not without asking two other people first. Status lives in someone's inbox, someone's head, and a spreadsheet one person maintains.

Every new hire learns by shadowing.

Because the process isn't written down. What your best person does well, they do invisibly, and it leaves when they do.

Growth means headcount.

Not because the work grew. Because the coordinating did. You're hiring people to keep the plates spinning instead of to serve more clients.

None of this is a software problem. It's the absence of a system. Software is just where the system lives once it exists.

The deliverable

A system of operation.

Every engagement produces the same two things, sized to your business.

The map

Every request, handoff, trigger, owner and report in your company on one page. Most clients have never seen their own operation laid out before. That's usually the moment the conversation changes.

The system

Built on tools you already pay for, or ones I'll recommend and configure. Work enters once, routes itself, and reports on itself.

What "built" actually means: intake forms that feed your system with no re-keying. Projects with one accountable owner and a real date. Tasks carrying estimated effort, so you can see next month's capacity before you sell it. Dashboards leadership opens without being asked. Written process, so the next hire reads instead of shadowing.

On AI

AI didn't fail you. Your process did.

Most owners I meet have already bought seats — a copilot, a chat tool, an agent that was going to handle intake. Nothing measurable came back. That isn't an AI problem. You can't automate a process that was never defined, and most aren't.

I've built the working kind. AI agents handling website chat and inbound call qualification at a law firm, against a custom knowledge base. AI-generated summaries inside an enterprise platform used across a national field organization.

Both worked for the same reason: the process existed first, in writing, with owners and data flowing between systems. That's the part nobody sells you, and it's the part I build.

Track record

Four systems, four industries.

Butler Title

Real estate closing agency

  • +0%annual sales
  • 2–3 days → 1 hourto collect client information
  • 20–30% → 97%task compliance

Closings couldn't start until full buyer and seller information arrived, and the firm was emailing PDFs and hoping. I built automated branded intake that fires on status change, feeds straight into case management, and I stood up their first CRM on top of it.

Information arrived as PDFs, if it arrived at all, and every field was re-keyed by hand. Task status was tracked nowhere. Leadership had no view of revenue, deal count or workload.

I built branded intake forms that deploy automatically the moment a closing changes status, feeding directly into monday.com and Qualia with no manual entry. Every closing became its own project with an accountable owner and a real date. I stood up their first CRM — Pipedrive — integrated with monday.com, Mailchimp and Qualia, plus a marketing attribution model tracing a lead source through to a closed order, and leadership dashboards for revenue, deals closed and workload distribution.

They've re-hired me three times since.

Modernized Marketing

Marketing agency, five departments

  • 0hours recovered per month
  • faster from request to execution
  • 0%less messaging traffic about tasks

Client requests arrived with no central tracking and crossed five departments with no shared identifier. I measured what the gap was costing before touching anything, then built the system that closed it, in 90 days.

Nobody could say what had been asked for, what was pending, or what had shipped. Leaders had no way to know whether the team had capacity for what they'd just sold.

I measured it before touching anything: 1.5 hours lost per employee per day on prioritization and alignment alone, over 150 hours a week across the company. Then I built six workspaces, 32 trackers, four dashboards, 51 integrations and roughly 1,352 automations running weekly. A single job ID follows a request across every department. Projects carry one accountable owner; tasks carry estimated effort, which feeds a capacity forecast by person and by week. Delivered in 90 days and 180 implementation hours.

Started as a monthly advisory retainer. Became a $22,500 build four months later.

Good Guys Law

Personal injury firm

  • 0 daysto launch
  • Replaced a per-seat platform
  • $99–$139per user, per month, eliminated

The firm was about to pay per user, per month, for a legal platform that still wouldn't fit how they worked. I studied it for two months, rebuilt its core on a platform they already owned, and added AI agents for chat and call intake in two languages.

Lead intake, matter lifecycle, engagement document generation in English and Spanish, source attribution, document structure and automated CSAT — rebuilt on monday.com and launched in 100 days, then optimized over the following months. On top of it, AI agents handling website chat and inbound call qualification against a custom knowledge base.

One person, start to finish. This is the engagement I point to when someone asks whether I only configure software.

Florida Coastal Services

Yacht service, HVAC, water remediation

  • $0build
  • $0per month, retained since
  • 0systems delivered in one engagement

No financial reporting, no project management, nothing written down, and HR run ad hoc. I delivered dashboards, an operational map, project and inventory systems, and a searchable knowledge hub they still run on.

Financial dashboards covering P&L, open and overdue invoices, and expenses by vendor and category. A full operational map. Automated intake with PDF delivery. A monday.com architecture for projects, account intake, team and inventory. A knowledge hub holding a digitized, compliant employee manual with a policy publishing flow.

$8,000 project, then $3,000 a month ongoing. Framed as owner-level involvement without equity dilution — which is what most companies this size actually need and can't hire for.

The method

Five stages.

  1. 1

    Discover

    Interviews, a technology and data-flow audit, and the map of what exists today.

  2. 2

    Establish

    Improvements run through a value-versus-effort matrix, so we agree what to do now, what to do next, and what to never do.

  3. 3

    Strategize

    The target system designed: structure, ownership, naming, triggers, reporting.

  4. 4

    Execute

    Built, tested, rolled out.

  5. 5

    Train and sustain

    The stage most projects skip. Documentation, training, and ongoing control, so the system survives contact with your team.

Investment

What it costs.

Operations Audit

$6,500

Two weeks

Interviews, your operations map, the three biggest bottlenecks quantified in hours and dollars, and a prioritized build plan with costs. Yours to keep either way. Credited in full against implementation if we go further.

Most common

System of Operation

from $22,500

90 days

Designed, built, integrated, documented, rolled out. Scope sets the number. The audit sets the scope.

Advisory

$1,500 or $3,000

a month

Roughly 10 or 25 hours. Owner-level involvement without equity dilution. No contract, cancel anytime.

Smaller targeted builds start at $3,000 for existing clients. And if you'd rather start with advisory and build later, that's how two of the four engagements above began.

Getting started

Nothing happens fast, and that's deliberate.

No proposal after one call. I don't know enough yet, and neither do you.

  1. First

    A 30-minute call

    I ask how work enters your business, who owns it, and how you know it's finished. If nothing here is worth fixing, I'll tell you on that call.

  2. Then

    The audit, two weeks

    Interviews, your operations map, and the three biggest gaps priced in hours and dollars. You own it whether or not we go further.

  3. After

    Your decision, with numbers

    You'll have a build plan with real costs. Most clients start there; some take the map and do it themselves, which is a fine outcome.

Pedro Vallejo, founder of Mechanismo

Background

Who you'd be working with.

Fifteen years running operations — Chief Operating Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Director of Operations, Head of Operations. P&L, headcount, and the consequences of a system that doesn't work.

I also build. In 2026 I led delivery of a national field-operations platform for a Fortune 500 company and personally architected and shipped it onto their own enterprise cloud infrastructure. Leadership analytics spanning six levels of their organization, from field managers to corporate.

That combination is the whole point. Most operations consultants hand you a deck and leave the building to someone else. Most developers need to be told what to build. I do the diagnosis and the build, and I've been the person accountable for the result afterward.

monday.com Bronze Partner (2023–2026), 3× certified. Ten years on the platform. English and Spanish. Based in South Florida, working anywhere.

Common questions

Questions.

That's the most common place I start. A tool without a system underneath becomes a second place to lose things. Most of my work is replacing a setup, not introducing one.

Usually not. I start from what you already pay for, and I'll tell you plainly when something needs replacing and what it costs either way.

Discovery is a handful of interviews, an hour each. The build is mine. Rollout needs your team for training and about two weeks of adjusting. It should cost less of your attention than the status quo does.

Yes, when it's warranted, and I'll tell you when it isn't. Most operational problems are solved faster and cheaper by configuring and connecting what already exists. That's the recommendation you want from someone who can do both.

The system is documented and it's yours. Advisory exists if you want me around. It isn't a condition of anything.

Next step

Start with a conversation.

Thirty minutes. I'll ask how work enters your business, who owns it, and how you know it's finished. You'll get a straight read on whether there's enough here to be worth fixing — and if there isn't, I'll say so.

Book a 30-minute operations review