Flow chart created! Risk Taker's System: Twilio, VAPI, & The Power of Progress
Hey Folks, Rick here again! It's 3:30 AM, and I'm still up working on my AI startup. My Twilio VOIP A2P Campaign Registration has finally been approved by all the carriers! Now I can use my business phone number for SMS lead generation and make it interact with VAPI, my future Voice AI agent, and BREVO, my Email CRM platform. Woof! It's all technical, but I love rolling with it. A Dinosaur with Tricks 🦖 As I mentioned before, I'm 52 years old—a dinosaur with a few tricks up my sleeve. I studied Architecture 28 years ago, built $20–30-million-dollar high-rises in Chicago, and have been a Project Manager on and off. For half of my life, I've been an entrepreneur with partial success and many failures. I've started three companies, owned Real Estate, and then lost close to a million dollars when the Real Estate market crashed. I filed for bankruptcy once. That’s just the life of an entrepreneur and risk-taker. Why? That’s just how I'm built. I love launching and starting small companies with simple operations. No, I never want to be like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, or Elon Musk. I just want to be creative, use my Architectural background, and have fun with what I do and how I run my startups. Focusing on the System ⚙️ So here I am again, launching the fourth business in my lifespan, and it won't be my last before my last breath! On my last post, I spoke about the importance of creating a system for your AI operations and not being so focused on your product development yet. Keep in mind there is no exact way to build a company. However, in Architecture and Design, we do have a system that goes from conceptual phase, schematic design, design development to construction completion. IT software Ops developers call it iteration, if that sounds correct! As some of you know, I don't have the IT background a few of you might have. My technical expertise comes from Architecture, Engineering, and Design. Those are my strengths, along with some sales in that space. Tonight, I was grinding on my flow chart and brainstorming with Tommi, my AI. I designed a system that's a mini-CRM to work inside of VAPI and BREVO, setting up Groups, Attributes, and Segmentation for all my future subscribers on my landing pages, where they call my Voice AI agent. I’ve never done this EVER in my life, and I can't wait to see it operate, work, and captures leads in a high-tech format without me being involved at all. Remember I said focus on Progress over Perfection—just get things done and roll with it. Not kidding about that!