Erik Laine
For founders & business owners
Every part of your business. One consultant.
If you’re new to business, we can help you launch. If you’ve been in business, we can help you scale.
Most owners piece their business together from five vendors who never talk to each other. Erik Laine is a full-service consultant: your website and CRM, AI that answers your phones around the clock, an AI workspace your team actually uses, and a funding plan to pay for growth. Planned, built, and managed by one operator who stays accountable for all of it.
The right kind of partnership
For people building something that matters.
This fits owners who are done duct-taping their business together. It probably sounds familiar:
You are the system.
Every lead, reminder, and follow-up runs through you. Work stalls when you get busy, and nothing moves unless you push it.
Five vendors. No one accountable.
A website person, a phone service, a marketing tool, a credit guy. Five logins, five invoices, and nobody who sees the whole picture.
You want an operator, not a vendor.
Someone who has run businesses, builds the whole thing with you, and stays accountable for whether it works after setup.
The full service / Everything under one roof
Most owners hire five vendors. You get one operator.
A web designer who never sees the CRM. A phone service that never talks to the calendar. Tools bought, installed, and abandoned. The full service connects the whole operation, so each part makes the others work better.
Systems & follow-up.
Your website, CRM, and follow-up automation, built as one system. Leads land in one place, get answered fast, and never fall through the cracks again.
AI voice & agents.
An AI voice agent trained on your business answers every call, day or night, books appointments live, follows up by text, and logs everything in your CRM.
Workspace & training.
Your AI workspace, set up step by step, with lessons and guides your team can actually follow. People learn the tools instead of just owning them.
Funding & capital.
A free AI funding plan that sequences business credit applications the right way, plus a done-for-you option through funding partners when you want it handled.
AI video & image creation.
Video ads, product videos, and images created with AI and directed by a human. Fresh content for your site and your social channels without a camera crew, a studio, or a week of waiting.
Social media, handled.
Your content posted across 14 social media platforms on a schedule, automated end to end. Every comment and message from all 14 lands in one unified inbox, so nothing gets missed and nothing needs babysitting.
AI ad management.
The AI manages your ad campaigns for you. It watches performance around the clock and moves your budget to what is working: the right ads, the right audiences, the right platforms, without you logging in to check.
Dashboards, workspaces & hubs.
Custom AI dashboards, workspaces, and hubs built around how your business actually runs. Your numbers, your pipeline, your projects, and your team in one place, updated live.
One system runs every channel your customers use: social, ads, blogging, and messaging. See the full catalog at Business Hub OS.
Consulting / One engagement
Start with consulting. The system comes with it.
You do not buy a stack of separate products here. We start with your business, then recommend and build the Business Hub OS solutions that fit. The products and services we put to work are part of the consulting amount, not add-ons sold on top of it.
We look at the whole business.
Systems, phones, follow-up, team, and the money to grow, reviewed together instead of in pieces. You hear honestly what we would do first, and what we would leave alone.
We recommend and build.
Website, CRM, AI voice and chat, follow-up automation, content, workspace: the Business Hub OS solutions your business actually needs, chosen with you and built as one system.
We keep it moving.
Training, reviews, and steady adjustments as the business changes. One consultant accountable for the whole stack, not five vendors pointing at each other.
Every engagement runs on Business Hub OS: the workspace, the learning hub, and the voice agent, set up and trained in for your team.
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a checkout. If the fit is not right, we will tell you.
Selected work
The companies we work with.
Some of the businesses and organizations we build, advise, and operate with right now. Open any card to see what we built together.
Franchise Pro
Franchise consulting that matches buyers with the right opportunity.
Benefit Connect
Health insurance platform connecting agents with people who need coverage.
Pegasus Surfaces
Kitchen and bath surfaces, countertops, and remodeling materials.
Bookkeepers Growth Network
Growth network and operating system for bookkeeping firms.
Argent Reach
Partner and referral venture connecting local businesses.
RE/MAX Results
Real estate brokerage team in the Twin Cities.
I have been on your side of the table
Ran the businesses. Built the systems. Now, helping you.
Erik Laine is Anton Hocking’s partner in Manifestic, the company behind Business Hub OS: Anton out front with the clients, Erik building the systems underneath — websites, CRM builds, AI agents, automations. His own AI automations are what pulled Anton into AI in the first place.
The pattern Erik works from is the one this whole practice runs on: every business needs a system, and the pieces only pay off when they connect. Today he consults the way he builds, full service: he maps the operation, builds the systems, voice, and workspace around how the business actually runs, lines up the funding to grow it, and stays in the rhythm while it takes hold.
Read Erik’s full story ↗Keep it simple
Start with a conversation. Build from there.
Talk about your business.
Where are you headed, what is in the way, and is this the right fit? A real conversation before anything gets sold.
Get the roadmap, then the build.
Systems, voice, workspace, and funding, built in the order that pays back fastest. One plan, one builder, no vendor telephone game.
Make progress a habit.
Training for the team, regular reviews, steady adjustments. The operation keeps improving after the launch, not just at it.
Your next chapter starts here
Your business. Let’s talk about what’s next.
A thoughtful conversation about the whole operation: the systems, the phones, the team, and the money to grow it. No pitch deck. No pressure. One consultant who will tell you honestly what he would do first.
Prefer to reach out directly? Email erik@manifestic.ai or call or text 612-669-6355.
Erik works with a small number of owners at a time so the work stays hands-on. If the timing is not right, the conversation is still worth having.