Sam Bass 🇦🇺

@lukepierceops Blueprint

Automation consultants charge $15K for what Claude Code now does in 2 hours. I know because we're the ones who used to charge it. Here's the exact process: Step 1: Discovery (20 min) → Paste your org chart, tool stack, and top 3 bottlenecks → Claude interviews you with clarifying questions → Outputs a full process inventory ranked by time cost Step 2: Workflow Mapping (15 min) → Describe any department's daily operations in plain English → Claude builds a complete process map → Every manual handoff, redundant step, and automation trigger flagged Step 3: Opportunity Audit (10 min) → Feed it the workflow map output → Returns your top 10 automation opportunities → Ranked by ROI, complexity, and build time Step 4: Architecture Design (20 min) → Claude designs the full system architecture → Which tools connect where, what the data flow looks like → Agents for complex logic, linear flows for the repetitive stuff Step 5: Build (ongoing) → Claude writes the actual workflow JSON → Self-documents everything as it builds Step 6: The output. A live dashboard your whole team can work from. → Clickable process maps for every department → Automation opportunities ranked by ROI → Implementation progress by phase → KPIs updated in real time → One link you share with clients, freelancers, or your team to execute This is what we hand every client at the end of discovery. The .md file is what makes all of it possible. Without it, Claude guesses. With it, Claude builds like a $15K consultant. Like this post, RT and comment "BLUEPRINT" and I'll send you the full prompt stack and the .md file we use internally. (Must be following so I can DM you) 🎁 Bonus: The first 100 people get a real Precision AI Blueprint — an actual sample audit doc from a client engagement so you can see exactly what the output looks like.

@lkr @helloitsolly I have been using CC for everything in part thanks to your updates and reviews. It is transforming my businesses so thanks for sharing. How are you getting new ideas or updates? I am using posts here but it seems very inefficient.

The rush of converting someone to claude code Got @helloitsolly who's next??

@oliverkenyon 100

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@itsjustamar @_jimmyrose @Bento @jessethanley Thanks guys, will book a call with Jesse to see if it is a fit.

@_jimmyrose @TheSamBass @Bento @jessethanley +1 for Bento

Added a pretty big list of automation ideas to this post on IH. Went through our Zapier and Make accounts and listed out everything notable. Hope it helps some of the indie SaaS founders out there

@Travis_Jamison Haha yep it doesn't seem like it needs much AI to match category and price fields.

@TheSamBass Considering this company is a few years old, I assume their “AI” is this revolutionary thing called a “database”.

What a fascinating company. forbes.com/sites/zinniale… “to match potential buyers with companies that are typically facing the risk of closure, despite being profitable, because their owners are aging and unable to find successors” Any resemblance of this in the US?

@Travis_Jamison 8th Wonder Club 😁

🆘 I need some help w/ a new brand name, and I'll happily give $1,000 to the winner. We're trying to come up w/ a new brand for the investing[dot]io community. It's a fine name for a newsletter, but not so great for a community. Our community is all about founder/entrepreneurial capital allocation... not just "investing". Think "compounding throughout life", not "buying X stock". Sometimes that is allocating capital to a deal, sometimes to your own business, and sometimes compounding things not related to money at all. Catchiness, brandability, and fun are key. The problem is... I just can't think of a damn thing. Does anyone have any ideas? Please help! 🙏

@ariozick Australia is a broadly similar market to the States and has no SBA. Multiples are roughly similar, with seller financing would be more common. However it would be interesting to look at average time to sell as I imagine SBA helps increase the turnover rate of businesses.

Thought experiment: What happens to Business Valuations if the SBA 7a loan program shuts down?

@bentigg Notify

Want to buy a small business near you (within 15 miles)? 12 tactics for a geographically constrained acquisition search: 1. get a list of PPP loan data from your geo, filter to best 200 with your criteria (email & cold call). Drop in unannounced live to top 25 and meet the owner 2. send a high value personal gift ($500-$1,000) that you know will get to the owner, 'over the top' is better 3. pay a referral fee up to 2-3% of purchase price to anyone who refers you a direct deal 4. setup auto deal notifications on biz listing sites for geo & criteria (comment 'notify' and I'll DM you what I use) 5. meet every single local biz broker and banker quarterly, in-person is 100% necessary 6. call & email surrounding area bankers and brokers (between 25 and 250 miles of your city) every few months. They may rep deals near you. 7. contact all local accountants, lawyers (transaction & estate is gold), consultants, commercial bankers, wealth mgr. Anyone who consults with biz owners. 8. attend entrepreneur/SMB events (meetups, happy hours, EO, YPO) 9. post regularly in local real estate & biz group. SMB owners love real estate, go there. 10. start posting content on Twitter/LinkedIn about your specific geo search, connect with people titled CEO, owner, COO 11. buy Zoominfo / LinkedIn Nav as you need to build out your contact list 12. setup referral fee with bigger private equity firms. Have them run a search in their CRM and identify anything local that was too small that they have passed on, pay them a success fee

@jmventurelog Yes please

I recorded a video of how we set up & optimized our Google listing to dominate local search rankings (Helped us hit $35k months with no paid ads) RT & comment if you want me to send it over! (Must be following)

@itsjustamar We use Plausible and for ease of use it is perfect.

We're finding Google Analytics to be too much for our non-technical team to deal with around multiple web assets and subdomains. Looking for an alternative, what you got, Twitter? Primary focus is ease of use, funnel visualization, and page by page breakdowns for content

I think 50%+ of boomer businesses will shut down instead of selling. If you want to capitalize on this problem, I’ve got 10 ideas for ya: 🧵👇

@itsjustamar @thesamparr Interesting, was this the self paced one Copy That? I have done Neville Mehdoras Kopywriting Kourse, how does it compare to that?

I loved the copywriting course from @thesamparr! We've used it to rewrite all our paid ads and thus far, it's working nicely 😉 Anyone else taken it?

@FritzTheDev Love it Fritz, congrats on the role, sounds fun getting paid to help find good deals!

I've talked a bit about how I got a software engineering job at a private equity firm a few months ago. That might have confused some of you - why would a PE firm need an engineering team? Quick 🧵 on how my company uses ML & data science to operate.

@angrigoryan__ @alexisgrant Yep Duuce, is the biggest one I know of. And it was fairly recently bought by Kevin who runs @DotmarketEU.

Somebody out there: launch the marketplace for selling newsletters.

@geoff_byron @andrewglynch I am on it! Building a marketplace to help make it easy to find operators of online businesses @findmyoperator but would be good to see one for bricks and mortar style businesses too.

@andrewglynch Sounds like we need a visionary <> integrator marketplace. And prob a visionary <> integrator combo to launch it haha

Things I am not: • great visionary • 0 to 1 guy • natural entrepreneur Things I am: • great operator • process implementer and optimiser • love scaling teams There’s a place for everyone. You don’t have to be the hero entrepreneur.

@Collin_Bunch Haha '3am email rants' is a good name for something, maybe a punk rock band. We tend to write ideas out in long slack messages. But now I put all the ideas in bullet points in Roam.

@TheSamBass Long email rant is the way to go.

It's 3am and I have an idea that will transform the business model for one of our businesses. My wife is the CEO and I want to tell her but she doesn't get up till 6am. The struggle of being a visionary is real 😂

Update: The idea is to add a digital arm to our physical business with a local newsletter and online community. Intern will help with writing newsletter and we will transition from FB group. We made it our Q2 goal and are working on it now. The fun side of building companies!

@TheWebsiteFlip Haha good to know I am not alone. I can imagine buying sites would be even harder to contain! We must all have patient partners putting up with us 😂

@TheSamBass Happens all the time! Every time I buy a business I like to run it by my wife. Happens often that deals go live at night and she is sleeping. It's the worst waiting for her to wake up lol