I wrapped up day 5 of the off-market leads challenge and it was well worth it. The time allowed us to build a really well structured approach to setup AI tools for efficiency & scale, integrate with key online data sources to pull a significant amount of leads, and enrich data to actually get at the contact info that matters to reach an owner. Glad I spent the time!

Finally, after weeks of late night building, testing, patching, testing, rebuilding and testing again...the first iteration of my lead gen system is up and running. High level architecture: - Manus Agent sources business acquisition and business consulting leads using wide web search. Writes raw leads to Google Sheets - OpenClaw pickups up raw leads and manages several agents to complete the job: Ingest, Enrich (Clay-style enrichment using Claude for deep search and scoring. Uses Apify as a tool for tough leads and email verification to avoid cold email delivery issues), Enroll (in Instantly), Reply, Metrics (weekly report via WhatsApp), Analyst (weekly analysis for improvements) - OpenClaw system architecture includes Guardian (quality and constitution), Hearbeat, Safety, Control (model routing for cost control. Low level tasks use cheap models, while high performing tasks such as enrich use more expensive models), Cron schedules (pipelines run on a schedule automatically) - Future improvements: Quality Assurance Agent, Performance and Cost Efficiency Agent, Self Healing Agent - Lessons Learned: Start Claude Code in planning mode, as Jed recommends. Include an Engineering framework in your system prompt (recommend something closer to Test Driven Development - TDD) to manage tech debt efficiently. Keep your architecture modular so that you can scale it I hope to start getting some leads in the upcoming weeks. Open to do a Demo one of these days. Happy Building!

Hi all, we've been talking a lot of AI recently; I just used Claude code to build a fully functional buyer website. I have little technical background in this area, and it took me about 6 hours with me being very nitpicky. Someone else could get it done in only a few hours. Check it out below, I would appreciate any feedback on it, and am happy to answer any questions about how I did it. https://logbridgeventures.com/ In summary I uploaded my buyer profile, gave it a few links to buyer websites that I liked for reference, and it gave a strong draft where we made some edits, then it walked me through deploying it and cleaning up SEO for looking up my name and such. Very impressive work from Claude.

Anyone else out there members of your local Chamber of Commerce? Some of you have heard me preach this before, but I'm a huge believer in joining your local Chamber - ESPECIALLY if you are a geo-based searcher like myself. I went to a few events throughout the year and finally pulled the trigger on joining as a member. I wanted to share a few reasons why I love it: 1) Proprietary Search layup. They give you a giant list of all the members of the chamber and their contact info - if there are businesses in your buy box, you literally just got handed a warm intro. Even if there isn't much directly in your buy box there is likely to be box-adjacent people/businesses that can help put you in touch with movers and shakers in your desired sector. 2) Local Awareness. Again, if you are searching locally, you want local players to know you and know what you are looking for. The more local awareness you build around your buy-box, the better. I have had several fellow chamber members reach out to me about an owner they heard was looking to retire, etc. 3) Community. I don't know about y'all, but searching has me feeling like the loneliest man on the planet lol. It is tough to go at this daily with just me, my laptop, a big pot of coffee, and enough nicotine to put down a horse. Having events to interact with fellow entrepreneurs and establish a sense of local camaraderie has been so fulfilling. 4) Post Close Benefits. I am seeing a huge benefit not only to the search process, but to the operator journey after closing. For one, you'll meet tons of local operators in various sectors via the Chamber. Understanding the successes, pain points, methods, and local trends from fellow local operators can really help prep your post-close gameplan. Additionally, the Chamber is a perfect resource for many of the local business a geo-based searcher may end up buying. If you have an established network base via the chamber, this is something you can leverage once you find yourself in the owner/operator seat.

Does anyone know how to fix this error message from make.com? If you’re familiar with the platform, maybe a zoom call might be better. Spent the day trying to get this fixed and making this worse on myself so I thought I’d ask here for help.