Colton

broad enough to be useful, deep enough to be dangerous

tech | business

ex:Big manufacturing and Small business

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

Here are a few things I did to scale a home improvement company that was stuck at $1.5M to $4M in 10 months (no, not ads)

<> we fixed how long it took to get quotes out. what would take hours we compressed into minutes

<> took a hard look at the books. who were the best customers? where was the margin leaking? are we optimizing labor allocation based on gross margin goals?

<> that gave us the confidence to reposition the company, build a new website that was seo focused, commit resources to weekly seo work, and trust the data

<> combed through leads that been accumulated over the years and ran a sequenced email campaign

<> fixed up the google business profile and began posting 3x a week. progress photos, helpful content, inspirational content

<> a lead would reach out and maybe be contacted that day, maybe a few days later, now we make an immediate first touch within minutes of receiving an inquiry

<> made professional proposals with project renderings and clear contracts.

<> implemented employee career plans - if you stay and learn, you will earn, is our motto. we stick to it.

<> created a project board the company works off of. now everyone knows eah project status

<> launched cold email campaigns to our target market (single biggest revenue generator by far)

hope this gives you some ideas for your business, and let me know what you've done. share with someone who needs to hear this.

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

sooner than I expected

[Tom Dunleavy @dunleavy89]

My friend runs one of the biggest woodworking businesses in the northeast. He was telling me the other day Anthropic offered him $1M just watch his team create cabinets. $1M! No other strings attached. Three months of watching employees virtually so they can model, learn and integrate it into Claude.

The rep said they were doing this with multiple firms across every industry.

All knowledge work will have every scenario and use case backed by experts 10k hours, in Claude within the next year or two.

Not a doomer but the "AI isn't going to drive job losses" is going to be so wrong it hurts.

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

the level of detail I want in a motorized louvered pergola

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Boom's test turbine has nearly 2,000 sensors of various kinds—fed realtime via in-house telemetry.

Because we vertically integrated the telemetry and control stack, we can create the views the test team wants. Like Damage Control for realtime turbine health.

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

here's what Fable 5.2 thinks of this idea

[Faraz 🇺🇸 🚀 @_Faraz]

Data centers are good.

Suggestion : excavate to move data center builds underground, also easier to get noise close to ~0db.

When done in 4 season climate or anywhere that gets snow, build underground so parks and other more useful enterprise can be above ground

Use the heat generated to heat pipes below roadways, and runways, and sidewalks to melt snowfall off from that heat. Upgrade roadways and sidewalks to accommodate data center heat waste.

This could Nearly eliminate all snow opex / capex forever + reclaim a snow melt for municipal water supplies, and no more salt corroding cars.

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

this seems like a good idea

[Faraz 🇺🇸 🚀 @_Faraz]

Data centers are good.

Suggestion : excavate to move data center builds underground, also easier to get noise close to ~0db.

When done in 4 season climate or anywhere that gets snow, build underground so parks and other more useful enterprise can be above ground

Use the heat generated to heat pipes below roadways, and runways, and sidewalks to melt snowfall off from that heat. Upgrade roadways and sidewalks to accommodate data center heat waste.

This could Nearly eliminate all snow opex / capex forever + reclaim a snow melt for municipal water supplies, and no more salt corroding cars.

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

feel the acceleration

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

are you enjoying your little desk job human?

[Muhammad @zulali]

Claude reverse engineered my 32-year-old Jeep. Then it started controlling it.

Edited with Fable 5.2

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

1. God
2. Country
3. Notre Dame

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

love thee 🍀🍀🍀

[The Extra Point @ExtraPointCFB1]

The lights in the stands turn Notre Dame Stadium into a living constellation—nothing else in college football hits like this on a Saturday night under the lights.

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

@beffjezos you need a camera following you. document this. don’t go YouTuber tho

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

How many dam collapses happened for hydroelectric to move forward?

How many large passenger jet crashes for commercial aviation to become safe?

How many surgeries killed a patient to have modern medicine?

This is human advancement 101. We forgot this. But it's back.

Lots of very very bad stuff ahead amidst wonder and progress. Leadership is making sure the world hears it straight from the top. As it is. Treating us like adults.

Thank you @sama for saying it straight.

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

@blueprintsmb22 lollllll

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

@SMBAwningMan we use openai (astra in codex) with skills we built.

it works

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

@Austin_Maginnis sheeeeeesh 🤌🏼

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

@stevehunsaker1 your swag is uncontested

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

@andyfrisella with the morning wisdom, as always

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Do you realize how bad you have to govern for this to happen?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Tonight’s outcome isn’t about placing faith in Democrats or socialist principles; it’s about holding Republicans accountable for betraying their promises.

All Republicans had to do was:

1. put Americans First
2. not start another war
3. prosecute sex traffickers

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

usps needs to be privatized

[signüll @signulll]

the reason why emotional intelligence is extremely rare is simply cuz it is expensive.

actually modeling another person’s internal state in real time is computationally brutal.. it requires suppressing your own frame, running a parallel simulation, & updating continuously.

the “inference costs” of eq in humans are likely much higher than the most expensive ai model in existence today.

[Colton @coltonsbuilding]

@JamesonCamp @grok what are Anthropic’s gross margins, what is the roic, how much dry powder do they have available