Fer Patel
Fer Patel
AI Strategist & Advisor
Montréal, Canada
About

I know the old way well enough to recognize the new one.

I spent six years in the HighLevel world. Ran agencies on it, then went inside as Director of Special Projects & AI, one of a handful of people ever brought in to shape platform strategy from the inside.

Along the way I founded GHL Experts, grew it to 4,000+ agencies supported, and sold it to Extendly. I shipped eleven products for that ecosystem. Most of them still run, and they live at allthingsghl.com. Gold SaaSPreneur Winner. Top 20 AI in Marketing Champion. MBA, for what that is worth.

So when I say I moved my focus to Votel, it is not because I got bored. It is because I wanted an AI-first platform, and I finally found one.

Why Votel, in plain terms

The way I built for six years was assembly: a page builder here, a workflow there, a calendar, a form, a phone number, an AI add-on bolted to the side. It worked. It also meant every client project started from a blank set of settings screens.

Votel starts from a description. You tell it what the business needs and it produces the site, the funnel, the agent that answers the phone, and the follow-up that runs behind it. Then you edit. The unit of work changed from "configure a feature" to "describe an outcome." Once you have felt that difference it is hard to go back.

Two things I want to be clear about. First, HighLevel gave me a career, and I am not going to spend this site taking shots at them. Second, this is an independent site. Votel does not run it, edit it, or approve it. The links to Votel are affiliate links, and they are marked.

What I am doing here