Lethal Ventures is planning a 5-week factory roadshow leading up to @reindsummit. We're going to visit 100 factories across the Rust Belt. Route below 👇
DM me if you have any factories we should hit. We're going to capture as much content as possible to share with you all.
Week 1: Pennsylvania Industrial Core
Base city: Pittsburgh, PA
Nearby Factory Towns: Erie, Johnstown, Altoona
Week 2: Ohio Industrial Corridor
Base city: Cleveland, OH
Nearby Factory Towns: Akron, Canton, Toledo, Lorain
Week 3: Indiana + Southern Michigan
Base city: Fort Wayne, IN
Nearby Factory Towns: South Bend, Elkhart, Kokomo, Muncie
Week 4: Illinois + Wisconsin Industrial Belt
Base city: Chicago, IL
Nearby Factory Towns: Rockford, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha
Week 5: Final Push to Detroit
Base city: Detroit, MI
Nearby Factory Towns: Flint, Saginaw, Dearborn, Warren
the best kind of email to get:
> we ask customer for feedback
> production manager emails back saying how sense has helped
> owner sees email and asks to buy more devices to ~3x their install base
build solutions that create real value
value sells itself
Successful day in Iowa with our new Head of Business Development at Sense.
4x shop visits: 2x metal fab, 1x injection molding, 1x machine shop
4x Industries: Agriculture, automotive, furniture, and traffic safety
3x of the visits were unplanned, cold walk-ins. Unmatched welcoming nature here with the folks in Iowa.
1x: stray cat
this started as an april fools joke in our Sense team meeting
now... we’re launching it… think it’ll be a hit?
(the online scratcher is a banger either way)
monitor 5 machines for 60 days
you pay for 4 devices - we cover the 5th
if it doesn’t pay for itself, send it back
install takes ~15 min per machine. any make/model.
Aerospace CNC shop: Sense notified 4 times in 6 weeks after installation that a 24/7 machine was down midday on the weekend and was able to drive in to get it running again. Recovered unplanned downtime ✅
Construction & trucking cnc shop: “minimum ~10% production efficiency increase across Sense outfitted machines” just a month after installation
Two mini case studies from check-ins with new Sense customers this week. No better feeling than seeing your product deliver real, measurable ROI within 6 weeks of deployment