I've spent the last decade on the ground inside businesses across the country — finding what's broken, what's costing owners money, and what to do about it.
I'm Justin Corneliusen — a senior business analyst and consultant based in the U.S., equal parts operator and advisor. I run a real estate portfolio, trade public markets with a systematic approach, and build AI-driven automation systems. I don't just tell business owners what to do. I'm in the arena doing it myself, every day.
That range isn't a distraction — it's the point. The cognition from analyzing a thousand businesses sharpens how I evaluate real estate. The discipline of managing a portfolio sharpens how I advise on operations. Everything I do compounds because the systems talk to each other.
When clients hire me, they're not getting a consultant who read about it in a textbook. They're getting someone who operates across multiple asset classes — and brings that perspective to their business.
I serve as a senior analyst at a national advisory firm, specializing in small and mid-market businesses — diagnosing operational inefficiencies, building exit strategies, and recovering revenue that owners didn't know they were leaving on the table. If something is broken in your business, I've probably seen the same problem ten times before and know what the fix looks like.
I work directly with a national team of tax attorneys and CPAs to build whole-life wealth strategies for business owners. Strategic tax planning, asset protection, business structuring, estate planning, succession — coordinated into one plan, not scattered across five advisors who don't talk to each other.
Because I already know your business from the consulting side, we're not starting from scratch. The operational insight is already there — we just build the tax and protection strategy on top of it.
Buy-side, sell-side, and deal structuring for business owners ready to acquire, merge, or exit. Valuation, due diligence, and negotiation — managed end to end. Most owners do this once. The pattern recognition from hundreds of businesses is what keeps deals from falling apart.
I build automation systems that eliminate manual bottlenecks, surface buried insights, and let business owners focus on decisions instead of data entry. My background spans autonomous agent pipelines, large language model integration, and production-grade workflows — not proof-of-concepts, but deployed systems that run autonomously in production.
I develop, acquire, and manage a portfolio of short-term and long-term rental properties through Grasshopper Management. Every property is a business — I treat it that way from site selection through revenue optimization. This isn't a side project. It's an active portfolio that gives me firsthand experience with the same operational challenges my clients face: cash flow management, vendor coordination, capital allocation, and market timing.
I trade public markets — crypto and equities — with a systematic, quantitative approach. The same framework I use to evaluate a business applies here: find the signal, build the system, execute with discipline, remove emotion from the equation. This discipline sharpens how I think about risk, timing, and capital allocation across everything I do.
Most consultants specialize in one thing. I run six interconnected disciplines — and that's the edge.
The pattern recognition from walking the floor of a thousand businesses makes me a sharper real estate operator. The discipline of trading public markets makes me a better advisor on capital allocation. The systems thinking required to build AI automation makes me faster at diagnosing what's broken in an organization.
I don't compartmentalize. Everything compounds when the systems talk to each other. My clients get the benefit of all six disciplines, even when they're only hiring me for one.
Several senior leadership individuals within the company approached me to admit they were skeptical when this process began, but were quick to admit they were wrong and couldn't imagine where this business would be without the guidance.
— Brendon, President · $22M EngineeringI am no longer guessing when it comes to pricing my jobs. I know what my overhead, cost of goods sold, and profit is on every job. Before, I was losing money on some projects. The Cash Management Report has given me the confidence to manage and make decisions without emotion — using just the data.
— Eric, President · $4M Specialty ContractingLittle did I know that at 68 years old, I would be in discussions to buy a new building to expand my business so that I can benefit from the annuity that my business is now poised to become. On any given day I now know exactly how my business is operating financially — a complete and accurate picture is literally at my fingertips.
— Thomas, President · $11M Construction ServicesI take on a limited number of consulting engagements and strategic partnerships. If you're running a business between $1M and $500M and suspect you're leaving money on the table, let's have a conversation.