Your technical department, on a rolling retainer

Hire a CTO. No contract. No equity.

Every business now needs software, systems and AI. Almost none can justify a CTO and an engineering team to get there. We are that team: the knowledge, the bandwidth and the build, on a rolling retainer instead of a payroll.

Before, on your desk
KBB SystemKBB System
KBB System
Live
New chatToday, 14:29
Afternoon. What needs doing?
Which projects do I have near Canary Wharf?
KBBSystem
  1. 1
    Searches the property database
    One Park Dr, 2-bed£1.15m
    Wardian, 1-bed£680k
    South Quay Plz, 2-bed£1.24m
    Landmark Pin, studio£520k
    10 Park Dr, 2-bed£1.19m
  2. 2
    Reads the CRM notes from Sales
    Sales note, 12 Sep: wants a two-bed up to £1.2m, ready by spring, prefers a river view.
  3. 3
    Ranks three matches and drafts the proposal
    One Park Drive92
    10 Park Drive81
    South Quay Plaza74
  4. 4
    Moves the lead and replies on WhatsApp
    Nurtured›QualifiedSent 14:32
✓Proposal sent to Paul J.Qualified14:32
Ask anything about the business
Follow-up 14 chasedAds review waiting on your OKCold email 41 replies scored
After, off your desk
Proposal
Canary Wharf two-bed shortlist
Generated and sent 14:32. Opened 14:41
Lead
Paul J., Canary Wharf
Nurtured›Qualified
Market report
Price per square foot, E14
6 named sources. PDF, 4 pages
Daily brief
Telegram, 07:00
3 leads are waiting on you
Invoice
#218, chased twice
Paid Thursday
Voice agent
On a call with a lead
"Hi Sara, you asked about the Canary Wharf two-bed. Are you free Thursday at four for a viewing?"
OOwner
SSales
MMarketing
Example: property, London Numbers and names are illustration. Click any input card to see the pain behind it. The screen in the middle signs in, opens a new chat, takes the owner's question and works it. Other industries get their own set of cards next.
The part nobody sells

You already pay for the AI. Nobody has shown your team how to use it.

ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini. The models exist and most businesses already pay for one. What you cannot buy is a team that uses them, a number that says what it is worth, and an order to do it in. That is the work.

TodayThe tools you pay for
  • ChatGPT Business5 seats × $20−$100
  • Claude Team5 seats × $20−$100
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot5 seats × $21−$105
  • Gemini in Google Workspace5 seats × $14−$70
Every month, 5 seats each−$375
OutputNone yet

List prices per seat, billed annually, excluding tax, checked 3 Oct 2026. Copilot is an add-on to a Microsoft 365 plan; Gemini comes with a Google Workspace Business Standard seat.

With usYour team
  • Trained
  • Trusting it
  • Using it daily

"The hardest part of this isn't the technology. It's the change: rewiring how work gets done, and getting people to trust it. That's where most efforts stall, and it's not something you can buy."

Microsoft, To our customers, 23 September 2026

Adoption

We train the team and stay until it is used, not until it is installed.

Return

Every opportunity gets a number before it gets built: the time it wastes, the revenue it loses, the revenue it unlocks.

Priority

Fifty ideas is easy. What to do first is the job. We rank by impact and effort and start with the quick wins.

How it works

We learn the business before we build a thing.

Nobody can prescribe the right system for a business they do not understand. So we start with yours: how leads arrive, who follows up, where time goes, what the numbers say. Sales and lead generation first, because that is the lifeblood.

  1. 1

    Discover

    The fit call. Are we right for you, and you for us. What you want from AI, and whether a team is ready for it.

    A yes or a no, in one call.
    KBB SystemDiscovery call with an owner
    Walk me through a lead. From the moment it lands to the moment someone speaks to them.
    About $15,000 a month on Meta. Thirty pieces of content a week. Four SDRs on the phones. We get volume. We do not get the right people, and we close about 6%.
    So the spend works and the follow-up does not. A 6% close on that volume means the qualifying happens too late. What is the stack?
    Meta, Gmail, Calendly and HubSpot.
    Meta GmailCalendlyHubSpot
    Do you record your sales calls?
    No.
    Then that is the first opportunity. Four SDRs on the phones, and nobody can hear what the 6% said yes to.
    Opportunity 1 found

    A scripted example of the fit call. Figures are illustration.

  2. 2

    Diagnose

    The AI diagnostic. We interview the people who do the work, map how it actually gets done, find the friction, and ask the honest question first: is AI even the right fix here. Each opportunity gets a return in three parts: the time it wastes, the revenue it loses, the revenue it would unlock. Then we rank everything by impact and effort, with the numbers to back every line, because this is where data-driven decisions start.

    A roadmap you own, either way.
    Paused so you can read it. Move away to carry on.
    Sample diagnostic, illustrative figures. Hover to pause at the end of a chapter.
    Sample diagnostic Illustrative figures
  3. 3

    Install

    KBB System goes in and wraps around the business: one system that knows how you work, connected to your sales, your finance, your inbox, your calendar and your documents, with your data brought into one place. Where an off-the-shelf tool fits, we use it. Where it does not, we build. Always with your stack, not against it.

    A new way of working: every tool reports into one system, and at 7am it hands you the business on one page.

    The system, live, with your team on it.

    Sales first. Speed to lead, the follow-up nobody owns, the list bought years ago that is still being worked, the holes in the bucket. We plug those before we chase new traffic.

    GmailOutlookCalendarStripeXeroFirefliesMetaYouTubeInstagramCRM
    KBB System
    Morning briefRuns daily at 07:00
    1,240views
    3,410visits
    860profile visits
    214clicks
    • Email47 new, 6 need you
    • Stripe£8,420 taken this week
    • Fireflies4 client meetings: two asked about payment plans
    • Sales calls9 calls, 3 viewings booked. Most common objection: timing
    • Proposals3 sent, 2 opened
    • CRM14 new leads, 5 hot

    Numbers are illustration.

  4. 4

    Adopt and evolve

    We stay, and the system keeps getting better. Workshops for the team, training, a ticket line for fixes, and a monthly sit-down with your CTO for the next idea, because once a team sees what the system can do, the ideas do not stop.

    And AI does not stand still: the system we build today is not the one you will have in three months. We take the noise of new tools off your desk and bring you the ones that matter, with the impact and the return in numbers. A new CRM, a custom tool, a dashboard that finally tells you what is happening: we decide together what is worth building next.

    A system that is better every month.
    1. ManualYour team does it
    2. AssistedAI drafts, your team sends
    3. SupervisedAI does it, your team approves
    4. Hands-offAI does it and reports
    AI agents

    We create AI agents that do the work for you, so you can move 100 times faster with the same overhead.

    • Follow-up agent: 14 chased today
    • Research agent: 3 briefs ready
    • Reporting agent: brief sent at 07:00
    • Ads agent: 2 ad sets to cut
    Illustration
    KBB SystemMonth three, a ticket
    Can we stop keying invoices by hand? Finance loses most of Friday to it.
    Live
    Yes. Xero and the CRM both have what we need. It goes in the build.
    Seven to ten days. You will hear from us when it is live.

    A scripted example. Timings are illustration.

    We are data people. Every recommendation comes with its number, and deep research is one of the tools we bring.

    What it costs you todayHours, errors, missed leads
    What it returnsTime back, revenue recovered
    Where the growth isThe next opportunity, sized
What we build

Systems your business runs on. Workflows that give the hours back.

Every one of these exists because a business needed it. Some are live with clients today, some are in build, and some we bring in on request.

Systems 8
More leads

Websites and landing pages

A site or a campaign page built fast, so you can test pages against ad results instead of guessing.

Liveclient
Faster follow-up

Custom CRM

A CRM shaped to how your sales team actually works, for when the off-the-shelf ones do not fit.

Livefor a sales team
More leads

Cold email outreach

A list you own, each prospect researched on LinkedIn and emailed personally, over 2,000 a day, with booked calls landing in your calendar.

Liveagency
Less admin

Project management tools

Boards and trackers built around the team's real work, not a template someone else designed.

Available on request
Clearer numbers

KBB System install

The system wrapped around the whole business. It knows how you work and it sees your numbers.

Liveagency, client
Clearer numbers

Dashboards and reporting

Live dashboards over your own numbers, so the question 'how are we doing' has an answer.

Liveagency
More leads

Dormant lead reactivation

Works the leads you already paid for, with follow-up and a nudge to sales, before you buy any more.

In buildclient
Faster follow-upWeekend follow-up

AI voice agent

A receptionist that answers, qualifies and books, evenings and weekends included.

Available on request
Workflows 12
Better proposals

Proposal generator

A meeting goes in. A branded, hosted proposal comes out, with an alert the moment it is opened.

Liveagency
Better proposals

Pre-sales research

Everything worth knowing about a prospect before the call: their site, their search data, their rivals.

Liveagency
Less admin

Data entry

The keying between systems that eats an afternoon, done by the system instead.

Livefor a sales team
More leads

List building

A prospect list built for your business, enriched and verified, instead of a generic one bought from a broker.

Liveagency
Faster follow-upWeekend follow-up

Customer support agent

Answers customer questions in the channels they already use, and hands the hard ones to a person.

Available on request
Better proposals

Company profiles per client type

One source of truth, and a version for each audience you sell to.

Liveclient
Less admin

Code generation

Small internal tools written to order, for the jobs no software vendor will ever build for you.

Available on request
More leads

Ads review agent

Reads your ad accounts every day and says which sets to cut and which to scale. A person approves.

Available on request
More leads

Trending reel generator

Rebuilds a trending format from your own footage, tests it, and posts the winners.

Available on request
Better proposals

Trade show proposal generator

The meeting transcript in, the matching case studies pulled, the proposal sent before you are back at the hotel.

Liveagency
Less admin

Micro workflows

The small automations: contracts sent, documents filed, reminders that fire themselves.

Available on request
Clearer numbers

Deep research

A market, a competitor or a question researched across the web, video, forums and papers, with the sources shown.

Liveagency

And where a solution needs a specialist, we bring one in.

We have access to a network of specialist AI developers, software developers, data scientists, machine learning developers and consultants who have shipped these for businesses like yours.

Voice qualification and bookingDormant-lead reactivation across phone, SMS and emailInbound call handling and job creationProposals generated from a meetingManagement reporting across departments
Mustafa Alkatib, founder of KBB System
  • FounderTwo businesses, both built from nothing.
  • SalesSold high-ticket projects face to face, in a showroom.
  • MarketingRan the ads, the content and the channel.
  • DataA master's in data science. Numbers before opinions.
  • BuildWrites the systems himself: CRMs, dashboards, sites.
  • AIHands-on with agents and automation, in production, not slides.
The founder

I ran a business before I built systems for one.

2022

A master's in data science at Queen Mary, London: neural networks, machine learning, the maths behind the models. Finished before ChatGPT existed. It is why every recommendation we make comes with a number.

2022 to 2025

Co-founded a kitchen showroom in London and ran it for three years, leading sales and marketing: the content, the website, the ads, the shop floor. The manual work ate the high-leverage work: sales, content, a presence people found.

2025

Started freelancing: AI, put to work inside other people's businesses. Rebranded an entire company using AI alone, no designer, no agency. Built a CRM and a sales process for another. Took on the data work most agencies will not touch: data architecture, a warehouse over the numbers, sales systems wired together, and the pages that ads send people to. By the end of the year it was obvious. This is a business, and the job is helping businesses put AI to work for one plain reason: more sales, and better conversion.

Now

KBB System is the second business, and it runs on its own system. Cold email that books the calls. Proposals written from the meeting. Meeting notes and client work delivered by the same system we install. We use it to win clients, keep clients and deliver for clients, and then we sell it to you. The proof it works is the conversation you are in: the system found you, wrote to you and booked the call.

The vision

Rather than buy a tool off the shelf, I built the one that fitted, and then the next one. That is what a CTO does: decides what to build, then ships it. I did it for my own business first. I live in sales and marketing, and I now have tools nobody had ten years ago for exactly that work: proposals written, a cold email campaign running, content made, a client's work delivered. Whatever I can imagine, the tools I have, the systems I built for myself and the agents that work for me can build. That is what we install for you.

A CTO in your corner.Your time back.Custom software tailored to how your team operates.No payroll, no lock-in, no equity.
linkedin.com/in/malkatib
Before KBB System

Mustafa co-founded a kitchen showroom in London and ran it for three years, leading sales and marketing.

The side of the business that brings people in and generates cash flow.

High-end German kitchens, Quooker taps, Marazzi tiles, Italian marble and slabs imported from China. Real sales. Real marketing. Real supply chain.

Instagram: 0 to 5,500 followers in a year
  • Reel cover: Mustafa beside a marble kitchen island, titled 20mm vs 30mm worktopReel
    20mm or 30mm worktops?
  • Reel cover: Mustafa presenting a stone slab, titled Artecasa Interiors x CosentinoReel
    Artecasa x Cosentino
  • Reel cover: Mustafa talking to camera on the showroom floor, titled Common mistakeReel
    The common mistake
  • Reel cover: Mustafa by a basin display in front of a marble wall, titled RAK x Artecasa sanitarywareReel
    Sanitaryware with RAK
  • Reel cover: Mustafa standing among stone sample racks, titled Stone samples at ArtecasaReel
    Stone samples
  • Reel cover: Mustafa in front of kitchen units, titled Our kitchen service A to ZReel
    Our kitchen service, A to Z
  • Reel cover: Mustafa turning a large green marble-look slab, titled Marazzi slabsReel
    Marazzi slabs
  • Reel cover: a dark kitchen with a stone splashback, titled POV: our German kitchensReel
    POV: our German kitchens
  • Reel cover: Mustafa holding up a large tile on a display stand, titled Tile sizesReel
    Tile sizes, explained
  • Reel cover: Mustafa in the showroom, titled Marazzi Taj MahalReel
    Taj Mahal worktops
  • Mustafa checking a tablet beside a camera on a gimbal and a ring light
    Setting up a shoot
  • Mustafa setting up a camera on a marble worktop in front of a book-matched marble wall
    Filming a worktop walkthrough
  • Mustafa gesturing towards a wall of tall stone slabs
    Presenting the slab wall
  • Mustafa laying out stone samples on a dark worktop under pendant lights
    Samples ready for a client meeting
  • Mustafa walking through the showroom towards the stairs
    On the showroom floor
  • A camera on a gimbal in the foreground, Mustafa standing by a dark kitchen display
    Filming the kitchen displays
  • A finished kitchen with a marble island, a chandelier and dark wall units
    A finished kitchen
  • A finished bathroom in white marble with a glass shower and a wall-hung basin
    A finished bathroom
Sales and marketing first

We start where the money starts.

Most businesses are short of demand, not capacity: they could deliver far more than they sell. So when you work with us, you get sales and marketing first and AI second. I learned why on a showroom floor.

  1. An old-school trade

    Kitchens ran on referrals. Customers arrived through interior designers and architects, and those relationships take years to build. I opened the showroom at 22, straight after a master's in data science, wanting to bring technology into a stale industry.

  2. Nobody sends work to the new kids

    No designer or architect wants to send a client to a brand-new showroom run by 22-year-olds with no construction background. Waiting for referrals meant waiting for years.

  3. Budgets were tight

    People could not afford the product, so we had to innovate. We cut out the middleman and went straight to the customer. I did not want to rely on anyone else to bring me traffic. I wanted to own it.

  4. So we owned the traffic

    +5,500 followers

    I started our Instagram in January 2024 and grew it to 5,500 followers in a year. All organic, all founder-led content, all of it bringing people through the door.

  5. Then I ran the ads myself

    I could not find staff I trusted with the ad account, and the agencies that wanted the work were not getting the results I was. So I ran the ads and the sales floor at the same time.

  6. That is where AI came in

    I needed a receptionist. So I built an AI voice receptionist that answered the phone at weekends and while I was out on site, and booked meetings from the Instagram traffic. It was the first time I saw what AI is actually for.

Short of demand, not capacity

What your team can deliver
What comes through the door today

The gap we close

We build the system that brings the demand in, then give you the bandwidth to handle it: enough to double your ad spend without dropping a lead.

However your customers find you, we make that channel work harder.

  • Cold email
  • Networking
  • In-person events
  • Meta ads
  • Google Ads
  • Organic content
  • YouTube
  • Affiliates
More leadsLeads closer to your ideal clientA higher close rateMore revenue

Real showroom. Real ad spend. Real customers through the door. I ran a showroom and put the technology into it myself. So the advice you get starts with lead generation and revenue, and the system is built around that.

FAQ

Questions we hear often.

Do we need to replace our CRM or our tools?

No. We start from what your team already uses and connect it. We build something new only where nothing fits.

Who is this for?

Businesses with a team and leads already arriving: a brokerage, an agency, a consultancy, a showroom, a firm that sells something expensive to people who need looking after.

What does the diagnostic actually produce?

A roadmap: every opportunity we found, what each is worth in time and revenue, how hard it is, and the order to do them in. You keep it whether or not you work with us.

How soon is something live?

The first solution is usually live within weeks of the diagnostic, because we start with the quick wins. The system itself is built in stages, so your team is never handed everything at once.

What does "no contract" mean?

A rolling monthly retainer. Cancel any time. What we built stays with you.

What if the AI gets something wrong?

A person approves before anything goes out, until the numbers earn it more rope. Manual, assisted, supervised, hands-off: we move along that line together, never in one jump.

What does it cost?

We price after the diagnostic, because the diagnostic sets the scope. Some businesses need a few workflows; some need substantial custom development. The diagnostic tells you what the opportunity is worth, and what it will take, before you spend on building it. From there it is a rolling monthly retainer.

Where is our data?

In your accounts. We connect to your systems; we do not copy your business into ours.

Your technical department, on a rolling retainer

Hire a CTO. No contract. No equity.

Every business now needs software, systems and AI. Almost none can justify a CTO and an engineering team to get there. We are that team: the knowledge, the bandwidth and the build, on a rolling retainer instead of a payroll.

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