Maintenance answered. Arrears chased. Statements sent. Before your team opens the laptop.

Yo-Da Lai is a forward-deployed AI engineer on the Gold Coast who builds the exact system a property agency needs — not a product to adapt to. It never touches anything you don’t want it to — and anything it does handle sits behind a strict approval gate. There is deliberately no product name: every system is built for the agency it runs in, around the software already in use. Teams get back up to 5 hours a day per staff member. No technical staff needed.

Four workflows, installed one at a time

Maintenance intake — a tenant reports a leaking toilet at 7am; by the time the PM opens their laptop it's logged, photos requested, and two tradie options are waiting. One tap approves.
Arrears follow-up — day one late: a polite nudge in the agency's voice; day five: firmer, still professional; at the legal threshold a person takes over. No PM writes a chasing message again.
Enquiry triage — "When's my inspection?" "Where's my statement?" answered instantly from the agency's own records; only questions needing judgment reach a human.
Owner updates — monthly owner reports drafted from what actually happened; the PM reads, edits a line, sends.

Proof: run on the builder's own rentals first

Yoda's own rental portfolio is run by an AI consultant he built — rent and bills tracked as they fall due, inspections planned, lease renewals priced against nearby listings, help when a place goes to market. Every workflow offered to agencies has already survived his own properties. The same systems run inside other AU and NZ businesses — Loantec (finance brokerage lead follow-up) and Youknow Clothing (marketing saves up to 5 hours a day (marketing team)) — and advisory engagements mapped the operations and sequenced the automation path for Saint Clare (luxury interiors) and Tongue & Groove (multi-city Australian flooring brand). Different industries, the same jobs: follow-ups, replies, reporting.

Guarantee and pricing

The workflow I automate will take your team up to 60% less time within 60 days — and if the time savings don’t show, I keep working free until they do. One workflow live in 7–14 days, from A$4,900 fixed; ongoing tuning from A$990/month, cancel anytime. Exact pricing is quoted in writing before any work starts. The free 15-minute build review maps an agency's three biggest time leaks — the map is theirs to keep either way.

More from Yo-Da Lai

Case studies: Loantec · Youknow Clothing · Saint Clare · Batchit · Jimmi Jackson. Back to the full portfolio · ClawConnect pricing and live deployments. Book a free build review at yodalai.xyz or email yoda@yodalai.xyz.

Yo-Da Lai — Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Yo-Da Lai designs, builds, and deploys AI employees and automation systems inside real businesses — handling customer replies, invoice follow-ups, research, reporting, CRM updates, and admin workflows — so small teams save hours every day without hiring more staff. 5 AU & NZ businesses run these systems live, built on his flagship AI staff platform, ClawConnect.

What an AI employee is

An AI employee is a software system that takes over a specific, repeatable job in your business — answering customer emails, chasing unpaid invoices, updating your CRM, routing leads, or pulling together a weekly report — using your own business knowledge rather than generic answers. It runs around the clock and connects straight into the tools you already use, like Gmail, Slack, WhatsApp, and your CRM. Human approval is built in for anything sensitive: the system pauses, explains what it wants to do, and waits for a person before it sends or triggers. Every action is logged, so you can always see exactly what happened. Most go live within 7 to 14 days of the free audit call, with no technical knowledge needed on your side.

Who Yo-Da Lai is

Yo-Da Lai is a forward-deployed AI engineer based on the Gold Coast, Australia. He works like a forward-deployed engineer: he finds where work gets stuck inside a business, then ships whatever creates leverage — an AI agent, an internal tool, a workflow automation, a dashboard, a CRM, or a product MVP. He is the founder and CEO of ClawConnect, and works with founders and operators across Australia, New Zealand, the US, and the UK.

Live deployments

ClawConnect — AI staff platform saving client teams up to 5 hours a day per employee.
Jimmi Jackson — consulting engagement: research and trend workflow mapped for a 1.34M-subscriber YouTube operation.
Youknow Clothing — complete e-commerce automation across customer, order, and marketing workflows.
Loantec — finance brokerage redesign plus lead follow-up and conversion automation.
Saint Clare — consulting engagement: ops map and the systems path to a custom CRM with an AI assistant for a luxury interiors brand.
Batchit — AI ad campaign generator compressing creative production from days to minutes.
Hermios — lightweight CRM replacing multi-tool stacks for small teams.
Senna AI — AI compliance platform for Australian startups (ASIC-ready, ATO-integrated).
Orca Lab — non-custodial copytrade engine running live with real trading volume.
MxJ Productions — consulted on building an internal AI company brain.
Tongue & Groove — consulted on the AI operations path across sales, showroom, logistics and finance.

Ways to work and pricing (AUD)

Free Automation Audit — a free 15-minute call, no pitch. You leave with your three biggest time leaks mapped and a simple next-step roadmap, whether or not you ever hire the AI staff. AI Employee Sprint — from A$4,900 fixed, paid upfront before work begins (a 50/50 split is sometimes offered on automation builds). Design, build, test, and deploy one AI employee into a real workflow, live in 7 to 14 days. AI Ops Retainer — from A$990/month, cancel anytime. The full ClawConnect platform starts with a A$1,500 30-day pilot — one department live, credited in full against implementation if you continue within 60 days — or is A$6,000 to implement, paid in full upfront (hosted instance and A$1,300 in credits included) plus Growth at A$997/month or Scale at A$2,500/month, cancel anytime. Prices are quoted before any work starts.

Trust and safety

Every system is built with human control in mind. Sensitive actions require human approval before anything sends or triggers, escalation rules hand tricky cases to a person instead of guessing, and full logging records every action so you can see exactly what happened. Systems are trained only on your approved business knowledge — your docs, processes, and FAQs — not the open internet. The goal is to remove repetitive work while keeping people in control wherever judgment matters.

ClawConnect and contact

ClawConnect is the AI staff platform behind every build — see pricing and live deployments. Based on the Gold Coast, Australia; serving AU, NZ, the US, and the UK. Email yoda@yodalai.xyz to book a free automation audit. Please enable JavaScript to view the full portfolio and book online.