Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️)

AI Implementation for the Lower Middle Market // Exited $35M annual rev Solar Company (2025)

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

Operations is a series of mini-game problems strung together.

You’ll find reoccuring themes in the type of mini-games you are playing.

I’m going to be writing about 1 Mini-Game per week so follow along by bookmarking this thread because I will be updating it each time I post a new one.

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@ryanraysr https://t.co/sJzKCs1z5i

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@MBAGirly @shainadenny Sure thing. If you guys are spending more than $1000/mo on a CRM it’s probably worth building yourself or paying a dev firm

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@mcuban Mark have you researched Exosomes? I can put you in contact with some of the top doctors researching its benefits.

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@rileybrown 👋

https://t.co/yOhUdDeL6n

You can see my case studies of ROI in my own business from implementing a dispatching agent.

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@TristenPalori Lead Management, Quote Building, Contracts, Payment Tracking, Site Photos, Install Photos, Comments

All working and adding training modules + Sales Resources dashboard

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They could vibe code that in a weekend.

My assumptions:
The CRM is more of a system of record for lead management. All actual work and communications happens in another platform. Billing happens in a different platform.

What I’d recommend, build out a CRM with similar lead management tools as HubSpot with pipeline stages, but also incorporate standardized packaging and deliverable timelines to sync the lead management tools-> Contract-> Delivery -> Billing in one platform.

I’d have to learn more about the deliverable and how that work is managed to know if it makes sense to include a screen for them to manage their working pipeline.

Agentic workflows on top would be standard follow-up agent on cold leads and proposals, possible delivery agents, AI Invoicing and AR Follow-ups

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@Jayyanginspires Water filtration

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@MBAGirly @shainadenny What industry is the PortCo?

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@MBAGirly @shainadenny It’s very expensive and lackluster for what modern CRMs are capable of.

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@_Josue_Gonzalez @boringmarketer Hey! I have an Enterprise Development team that can help you with the more complicated build. We pay a generous rev share.

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@boringmarketer Need some finance control tools.

Invoice auditing vs Price Books
Subcontractor Scope vs Invoice Audit
AR Tracking/Followup
Job Costing Workbook

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@bryan_johnson Hey I noticed you didn’t mention Exosomes. I’d love to connect you to some of the doctors I know building in that space.

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@rileycollins__ What’s the Chili’s order? I’m kind of sold on trying it

Also on Papa John’s, I’d recommend their Cheese Stuffed crust and have you rerate.

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@toddsaunders I’d avoid if you’re a data compliance heavy industry (Financial/Medical/Government), but otherwise a custom CRM is worth the time investment.

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@toddsaunders Yes I don’t know how someone can justify paying for a CRM that barely beats a google sheet when they can build one in a weekend and add any feature they want in a day.

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@ConnorAbene Real time dashboards rarely carry the decision insight value they cost in data maintenance and most metrics only need a weekly/monthly/quarterly feedback loop.

Defining the correct feedback loop for the KPI is more important than seeing the data all the time.

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@ryanraysr ChatGPT

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@138Fitness @realest49919420 Ahh I was swapping like every 30 minutes.

I started alternating them between Alpha Pouch and nicotine and that mixed really well.

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@realest49919420 @138Fitness Find your dose. At one point I was doing like 5 of these pouches back to back and they gave me an Adderall type stupor where I gained heightened singular focus, but lost the ability to context switch or remember what other tasks I was working on.

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

@JeremyD513 Maybe a card that I can open and scroll around or ask a Followup question

[Ryan Lock (🤠/☀️) @RyanLockAI]

Watching Re-Runs of Real Estate TV Shows and part of me really wishes there was some AI Augmented viewing experience that would pull in the current market value of the houses.

Seeing a “Starter Beach Bungalow sell for $360k” then seeing the recording was from 2013. 👀

Any guesses at the current market value?