After 20+ years in and around technology, I found myself in unfamiliar territory as the GM of a manufacturing company. It provided an opportunity to do something new and exciting: to bring my skillset to something outside of tech for the first time. With a very small team, we accomplished this in one year: Created an in-house ERP system to connect inventory, sales, warehousing and shipping Created 65 pieces of marketing collateral across web, print and physical Created an entirely new business plan Reengineered key parts of our products Integrated new suppliers into our supply chain Rebranded Launched a new website Rebuilt accounting workflows There's probably more. Five years ago this would have been totally impossible. How did I do this? I got really, really good at using AI to get shit done, building bespoke systems around different aspects of the business. It started before I took this role, but this was the first place I applied it. And the results have been tremendous. So, I thought... how could I experiment with offering this as a service? How could I burn some of my extra hours trying to help other companies do what we did here? That's where the idea for LogicRelay came from. $49/mo screens out the tire-kickers, and a simple $250-per-request fee provides flexible throughput across a host of disciplines. It's agile project management... take an epic, break it down, scope it, get approval and go, but without the departmental hand-offs or having to find multiple service providers. Some of my other client work is going to slide nicely into this model, so I am not starting from zero. The question is can I scale it. I know I'm going to have to narrow the focus in order to do so, but I'm not ready for that yet. For now I leave it to client screening. It'll almost certainly evolve, and I could have spent more time thinking about it, but... ship it! I'll learn quite a bit over the coming months re: whether this model is sustainable. I'll probably land another couple of clients and waitlist the rest until I see how the first few go. We'll see how it goes! Would love some feedback, or if anyone wants more specifics from what we're doing at my current company I'm happy to share.   submitted by   /u/jalolapeno [link]   [comments]