SBE Certified for both the City of West Palm Beachand South Florida Water Management District
Ana Vasquez, M.Ed.
Founder & Principal Operator, AnaConnectsYou
AI-Powered Business Operations & Project Management Consultant
M.Ed., Master of Arts in Education, Mount Mary University, 2017
Confidential counsel, operational leadership, and AI powered execution in one principal led practice.
AnaConnectsYou unifies premium strategic advisory with business operations, workflow implementation, project and program management, digital transformation, and procurement readiness for owners, executives, businesses, and agencies.
Ana is both operator and consultant. She helps leaders decide what should happen, builds the structure to carry it out, and stays accountable through execution and documented completion.
Request a Private ConsultationBegin with an inquiry. Each inquiry is reviewed for fit, and a free 30 minute Zoom conversation is arranged directly when the fit is mutual.
Ana Vasquez is registered for the following:
Registrations are held by Desert Sun Investments LLC d/b/a Ana Connects You.
- SAM.gov (Active Registration)
- South Florida Water Management District (Registered Vendor)
- City of Boca Raton (Registered Vendor)
- DemandStar (Registered Member)
- Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County (Registered Vendor)
- Town of Palm Beach (Registered Vendor)
Ana Vasquez is a member of the following:
- AFCEA International, South Florida Chapter
AI Implementation and Enablement
Put AI to work inside the operation.
AI creates value when it is built into the way a business already works. AnaConnectsYou helps owners, executives, and teams identify the work AI can support, design practical workflows, and implement them with clear ownership and review.
Focused working sessions can support leadership teams and operating teams as part of a defined ACY engagement. The work may include research, drafting, information organization, process design, and recurring operational tasks, always shaped around the business problem rather than a generic course catalog.
Request a Private ConsultationAI education, workshops, and implementation are provided through AnaConnectsYou and scoped in writing through the ACY inquiry process.
Also Available
Private strategic advisory is available to owners and executives who want a confidential outside perspective. How private strategic advisory works
How the Practice Is Engaged
Three structures. Nothing improvised.
Introductions alone are never the product. Every relationship sits inside a structure a client can justify, with terms in writing before anything moves.
Structure One
The Operator Retainer
A flat monthly retainer with named deliverables. The principal tiers are capped at five clients in total, and Operator Support runs on its own roster capped at four. Engagements run month to month, three months, or six months. Confidential advisory rides inside it as the relationship layer. Every tier is set out in the ladder below.
Structure Two
The Private Room
Ana's own capped table in Palm Beach County: never more than eight at the table, every seat curated by hand, by invitation or application only. This is where her clients meet each other properly, in person, and where introductions are made the way they should be: across a table, not over email. The room opens by invitation as seats are released.
Structure Three
Introductions, Structured
Introductions are made inside a written structure agreed before anything moves: who is introduced, on what terms, and what each side is responsible for. No permanent rent on a relationship, and never a fee on a capital or securities transaction.
Priced into every structure: presence. I show up, and the work is carried.
This practice does not sell promises. Clients reach Ana directly under the access terms set in their written engagement.
Confidential Advisory
Seasons of Transition
Some principals engage Ana for a season rather than a project: the first year after a loss, a relocation, a household being rebuilt. In those seasons she is present in person, at home and in travel, coordinating the attorneys, care managers, and household professionals around the principal so that no part of the transition is carried alone. This is the work of a private office for principals: undertaken privately, by referral, under the same standard of confidentiality as every engagement of this practice.
Principals engage this for themselves, and families engage it for the people they love: an owner whose parent is facing that first year alone can place this same presence around her, privately.
Offered inside a practice capped at five clients. Entry is by inquiry and fit review, and referrals remain welcome. Access between sessions is set in the written engagement.
Season engagements are undertaken at the Enterprise Operations Partner and Principal Operator Retainer levels.
Season engagements run on the term that fits the season: month to month, three months, or six months.
How confidential advisory worksConfidential Advisory is private, non-regulated counsel. It is not investment, financial, legal, tax or therapeutic advice, and no engagement creates an investment-adviser, attorney-client or therapist-client relationship.
New Offering
Arriving in West Palm Beach?
Firms and wealth operations are landing in West Palm Beach every month, and the welcome services stop at an introduction to the city. Ana is the private version: a landing operator on retainer for the first season. Build out oversight, contractor and compliance coordination for the fit out, the right local introductions, and one accountable person on the ground who knows the rooms, the primes, and the county. When the arrival includes a household, the same first season covers the home: household staff and professionals sourced and coordinated, and the transition carried in person. One client, landed properly.
Business Operations & Digital Transformation
One operator. Accountable for the work.
Who This Is For
Owners, executives, and leaders carrying consequential work.
AnaConnectsYou serves prime contractor owners, business owners, agency leaders, and executive teams. AnaConnectsYou serves established businesses across industries. The fit is not an industry label. It is work that needs candid counsel, disciplined structure, and one principal accountable for carrying it forward.
Owners in transition
Succession, sale readiness, post acquisition integration: the decisions with no safe internal audience.
Owners trapped in operations
Bandwidth consumed by the business instead of leading it. Multi project coordination with no center.
Leaders owning delivery
Awarded work, transformation programs, and operating commitments carry real obligations. AnaConnectsYou helps carry them from decision through documented completion.
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Pillar One
Most operators sell advice. We carry the execution.
AnaConnectsYou steps in when consequential work needs an accountable owner. Ana aligns the decision, structures the operation, implements practical systems and AI workflows, coordinates the people and vendors involved, and documents the work through completion. The scope may center on a project, a program, a contract obligation, a digital transformation, or a business function that needs disciplined oversight.
How the work runs
Align. Structure. Execute. Document.
- Align. The current state, desired outcome, constraints, and confidentiality needs are understood in full.
- Structure. Priorities, owners, milestones, documents, and acceptance measures are set before execution begins.
- Execute. Projects, workflows, vendors, and operational follow through are carried in a coordinated sequence.
- Document. Decisions, deliverables, and records are maintained so the work can be reviewed and handed off cleanly.
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Pillar Two
Procurement Readiness and Government Contracting Support
Public sector work rewards preparation and clean records. AnaConnectsYou supports businesses with vendor registration administration, certification and prequalification document coordination, procurement research, proposal preparation support, and operational reporting.
- Vendor profiles and registration records organized and maintained
- Certification and subcontractor prequalification documents coordinated
- Opportunities, requirements, deadlines, and submissions tracked in one working record
Certifications and registrations belong to the entity that holds them. The certifications presented for AnaConnectsYou belong to Desert Sun Investments LLC alone.
Procurement support is administrative and consulting support. It is not legal advice and does not guarantee an award.
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Pillar Three
Guided Healers Inc
Ana is also the founder and president of Guided Healers Inc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that protects women and children from online harm. It operates entirely separately from her commercial practice.
To donate, visit guidedhealers.orgCapabilities
What Ana Is Capable Of.
One principal across counsel, operations, implementation, and oversight.
Selected Work
Doors I have opened.
The relationships and rooms this practice works in. Names are withheld as a matter of practice.
How Engagements Begin
The Conversation
The Operator
The Offers
Five engagements. One ladder.
Every engagement begins with an inquiry and a fit review. Beyond that first step, the practice is engaged in five ways only, set out here in ascending order so the shape of each one is unmistakable.
01 · Step One · One Time
Paid Diagnostic
Who it is for. For owners who want the situation read properly before committing to anything larger.
What it includes. A fixed scope review of the operation, delivered as written findings and a scoped plan. One engagement, one fee, and no retainer required.
one time
02 · Separate Roster · Capped at Four Clients
Operator Support
Who it is for. For owners who close the work and need everything after it carried.
What it includes. Ana works as your operator, month to month: the deliverables, the paperwork, and the client follow through, on a roster held separate from the principal tiers.
a month
03 · Principal Tier
Transition Leadership
Who it is for. For a company in the middle of a defined transition or rebuild that must land clean.
What it includes. Complete ownership of the transition through acceptance gates and handoff, with Confidential Advisory carried inside the engagement.
The full scope at this tier
- Safety education and safety services strategy
- Workforce and apprenticeship program growth
- KPIs for enrollment, employer participation, retention, and program outcomes
- Processes, checklists, milestones, and standard operating procedures
- Instructor recruitment, development, and mentorship
- Employer partnerships and student placement pipelines
- AI training for your team, taught in plain language
- Technology inside training and operations
a month
04 · Principal Tier
Enterprise Operations Partner
Who it is for. For principals who need a defined business function owned, month after month.
What it includes. Ongoing operational ownership of the agreed functions, accountable for outcomes, with Confidential Advisory as the relationship layer.
a month
05 · Principal Tier
Principal Operator Retainer
Who it is for. For principals running complex operations across several functions at once.
What it includes. Principal level operation across the agreed functions, agreed access to Ana set in the written engagement, and Confidential Advisory at the highest level of trust.
a month
Engagements run month to month, three months, or six months. Strong relationships continue by mutual agreement, and no annual commitment is required. Five principal clients maximum across the tiers.
Also Available
AI Teaching
AI teaching for leadership teams, arranged through AnaConnectsYou and scoped in writing through the inquiry process.
Primarily need confidential counsel? Advisory weighted scopes are available at each tier. The tier sets the depth of the relationship and access, not a fixed bundle of operational deliverables.
Confidential Advisory is private, non-regulated counsel. It is not investment, financial, legal, tax or therapeutic advice, and no engagement creates an investment-adviser, attorney-client or therapist-client relationship.
Engagement scope and fees are customized to the work. They are set out in a written proposal after the introductory conversation. To ask about fees for your situation, email ana@anaconnectsyou.com.
Every engagement is defined in writing before work begins, including scope, deliverables, responsibilities, and change control.
Choose the Term That Fits the Work
Every engagement is offered on the term that fits the work: month to month, three months, or six months. The scope, deliverables, and responsibilities are defined in writing before work begins, whatever term you choose.
A good working relationship has no artificial end date here. Engagements continue, renew, or extend by agreement for as long as the work serves your business, and no annual contract is required.
Begin with an inquiry. When the fit is right, a free 30 minute Zoom conversation will be arranged directly.
Start Here
Request a Private Consultation
Send an inquiry through the contact page or by direct email. The inquiry is reviewed for fit, and a free 30 minute Zoom conversation is arranged directly when there is a mutual fit.
Request a Private Consultation