This is a two page document produced by Claude, intended to be sent to brokers and maybe the occasional seller. Please critique as you see fit. I've split it into the kind of micro tuck-ins we would be happy to do into my existing business, as well as slightly larger standalone businesses. If you read this and it doesn't make sense, please let me know.

I've been attending Jed's sessions on using Claude for search and had a quick win this morning. I own and operate one small business while also doing some consulting and searching for acquisitions under another. The end result I needed was summarised, archived newsletters; real human issues highlighted to me; replies drafted with knowledge of my business; and a report, whenever I run the command, that summarises both inboxes as part of my morning routine. It took about 40 minutes of thinking and back-and-forth with Claude to get the result I wanted. Anything I star is kept in the inbox. Anything not starred is archived on the next pass. This might help others trying to manage multiple inboxes and focus on what matters. Let me know if this was helpful, or feel free to critique the idea! Pre-requisites: 1. Claude Code on your desktop or another environment like Antigravity IDE 2. Claude understands your business/es (ask it!) 3. Claude connected to all gmail inboxes you want it to manage (ask it how!) Set it up with copy and paste: Copy the message below, replace the bits in [brackets] with your own details in plain English, and paste the whole thing into Claude. It'll do the setup for you and create a /email command you can run each morning. You won't touch a file. _____ I want a daily email routine, and a /email command I can type to run it. Please do all the setup yourself so I don't have to create any files. MY DETAILS - Businesses and inboxes to cover: [e.g. Acme (you@acme.com) and Beta (you@beta.com)] - A shared/team inbox I'm cc'd on but don't personally answer: [e.g. support@acme.com] - My booking link and default meeting length: [e.g. calendly.com/me, 30 minutes] - My writing voice in a few words: [e.g. warm, direct, short sentences, no em dashes] - Newsletters I want KEPT in my inbox (archive all other newsletters): [e.g. none, or name a couple] - Newsletters to file but NOT mention in the summary: [e.g. none] - Tags for sorting threads: [e.g. Customers, Vendors, Applicants]

Hi all! Just want to share some good news. My wife and I finally closed on our first business last week. It's a psychotherapy business (Puget sound psychotherapy). I want to thank this group for help with my 12.00am questions and being just a text away! Glad to be part of such an awesome group!

These past few weeks have felt like a blur. - Back to back fundraising calls - Pushing forward with DD - Building out IT sourcing pipeline But, it looks like we’ll have fundraising wrapped up by Oct 15th and closing on Nov 1st 🤞🏼 How about you guys? Are you wrapping up the week on a high note?

One of the things I love most about this community is the accountability aspect, so I have decided to lay a lot on the table with this post. The Ugly: My search progress has totally derailed over the past couple weeks. Catastrophic flooding in my condo building has left my wife and I displaced from our home, and paying out of pocket to bounce between AirBnB’s while we battle it out with renter’s insurance (USAA has been surprisingly disappointing). Our Landlord has also criminally mismanaged the process and rather than engage a legal battle, we are just fighting to be let out of our lease. The Bad: I have not juggled the displacement with my search the way I’d hoped. I can make excuses on bandwidth due to the circumstances (condo hunting, moving arrangements, etc), but the fact of the matter is, life emergencies like this will inevitably happen. When (not if) I become a business owner, the business will still need running on the day-to-day regardless of life circumstances. My business’s bottom line won’t care about my personal emergencies, so I need to hold myself to a higher standards when things turn chaotic. The importance of juggling personal life and work has made itself abundantly clear from an operations perspective. The Good: This unfortunate situation reveled some sectors in my area that I hadn’t previously considered. Water Damage Mitigation services, Air Quality Testing, and Mold Remediation have all caught my attention. Local and state codes require certain standards of dealing with damage which creates both demand and a sticky customer base. I had the pleasure of networking with some incredible operators, had energetic conversations on operating local service businesses with quality owners, and I’m looking forward to staying in touch with the individuals this unfortunate event put in my path. Wishing I had more pertinent, motivational, and tactical progress to report, but this is the reality of my past 1.5 weeks. This is my attempt to supplement to supplement my recent dip in performance with raw authenticity. Seeing everyone continuing to get after it has been great motivation to lock back in.