Jeffrey DeBolt

@mountainwesttax I used to tell people -about 9 years that Indy was like a non exotic Tailand - cheap houses - good food - but it’s nothing like that now - but it’s still cheaper than Fort Collins (w better food)

I’ve been lightly perusing homes In Indianapolis, and they are a lot more expensive than I was expecting

@gregisenberg @cathrynlavery

Who wants to come on my podcast this week? 2,000,000+ listens per month. 1. You teach one AI tool, skill, or framework that helps people build a business 2. You can have 1 follower or 1M, doesn't matter 3. You come prepared Tag someone or tag yourself. Lets go.

Been struggling with an issue related to box 15 of a 1065 K1 on how it translates to what I believe are erroneous AMT limitations on an R&D Tax credit. Consulted with Drake (tax software), other firms- no dice. Fable solved it this morning, and the solution is simple!

@allenwalton Haha that is a keeper

Someone sent a package by • loading a shipping label on their phone • taking a picture of the shipping label on their phone • and then printing out a picture of the phone 🤨

These guides @cathrynlavery puts together are pure gold, and I have a feeling there are a ton more in the hopper! I love this one especially—the idea of making multiple Macs feel like a single workspace so I can access everything I need from anywhere - like a pro

3 PRs merged into @ppressdev this week: one edit, plus fresh QBO and Xero CLIs. My coding/merging/shipping has exploded since joining @cathrynlavery’s ShipRank, a leaderboard for shipping to GitHub.

@MehtaCognition @mvanhorn @ppressdev Great timing — I submitted Xero and QBO CLIs to @ppressdev today.

@mvanhorn Request for a QuickBooks CLI for @ppressdev… their official MCP is restrictive and for SMBs who run on QBO, a full access CLI that plugs into the agent would be phenomenal.

Made my first open-source contribution in github to a community project I use. Such wild times.

@mvanhorn These are so good connected the granola CLI yesterday from Printing Press. The world needs this - so many people out here just freewheeling, trying to figure shit out .

@cathrynlavery @Shopify @klaviyo @SlackHQ so good! Embarrassing to admit - I have actually hooked up several software CLI's with my agent(s), but I didn't realize that it just refers to the interface in which commands are made. keep it coming I have a lot to learn!

The Non-Technical Technical Dictionary, Day 3: CLI Eighteen months ago I never opened the terminal unless I was lost. Now I don't want to leave it 😅 Most software gives you a GUI. Graphical user interface. Buttons, icons, menus etc Someone designed those buttons because clicking is easier than memorizing commands. Going back to the restaurant analogy, the GUI is the dining room. You order off the menu, through a waiter and he tells the kitchen what to make. A CLI is a direct phone line to the kitchen. CLI = Command line interface. No menu, no waiter, no dining room. You call the chef, tell them exactly what you want in their shorthand, and they do it. Three commands to start. Open Terminal on your Mac. • Type `cd Documents` → your in the Documents folder. • Type `ls` → you just listed everything inside it. • Type `mkdir ideas` → you just made a new folder called "ideas." That's it. You're talking straight to your own computer. Now here's where it gets interesting. Almost every app has its own CLI too. Shopify CLI. Stripe CLI. GitHub CLI. This means instead of logging into the dashboard and clicking around, you type `shopify product create` and it talks to Shopify's API for you. Same phone line, different kitchen. Here's why this is important: AI agents live in the CLI. A button needs your finger. A typed command doesn't. Anything you can type, you can hand to an agent. Anything that needs a click is still waiting on you.

The Non-Technical Technical Dictionary. I tried to learn to code three separate times before AI. Maybe got 10 or 20 GitHub contributions total. All three times I quit, setting up environments or some minutae that got me stuck. Realized I don't care so much about coding as I do about just building my ideas 🙃 Since I made the switch my github contributions look much different. One prompt I started using a lot was this: "Explain [term] to me in plain English. Like you're talking to a smart high schooler." That's it. Every time I hit a word I didn't understand from a first principles standpoint (API, webhook, context window, workers, cli). I'd stop and ask. Not "teach me to code." Just "what does this word actually mean for real?" Once I had the words, I could ask better questions. Once I could ask better questions, I could build better things. So I'm turning that into a thread. Every day, one tech term explained in plain english for any previous non-technicals like me. Bookmark this. Day 1 starts below.

@allenwalton Dude you are legit the best. I love seeing what you've figured out while walking right into and through hardship. Its motivational; you have a story to tell!

June 2, 2024 was an awful day for me that eventually turned into a meltdown that lasted the entire summer. We had maybe 25% our of usual Shopify sales that day. I mentioned it to a few people, thinking it was weird. Things got a little better, then worse, eventually led to a 50% drop in sales that I couldn't explain. Something was wrong and I didn't know what. Maybe 9 months later, I concluded that a pixel implementation service we used had screwed something up, causing conversions not to be tracked, which results in adspend dwindling down to 10% of what it used to be. This was also peak Temu, which I think was eating a more sizable chunk of business than I had realized. But in the face of half my business drying up, I did not take it well. Started having a lot of anxiety attacks. I thought I was going to have to fire everyone, shut down the company, and get a job. I couldn't be alone in my own house. Once the sun started going down, I started dooming over everything and couldn't relax enough to fall asleep. I was getting probably 3-4 hours of sleep a night and couldn't think clearly. I couldn't understand why nothing was working. To make things worse, 4 months later my house caught fire and we lost everything we owned. And then I had another kid a month after that. It was hard. I have a lot of people to thank for helping me during that time and want to single out a few. Want to thank @phipps for his endless optimism, friendship and team for fixing the problems with my ad account, turning things around. @AnythingIan for going over numbers and coming up with a plan when it was 1am his time and I couldn't sleep @philiphodgen for reaching out and taking my calls when I needed someone to talk to. @JeffreyDebolt for becoming my fractional CFO/motivational speaker and guiding me through the financials every single week. My wife for being supportive and taking on more of the load when I couldn't. And everyone who took my call and told me I was going to be okay. I think the single best thing I did that entire time was pick up the phone and talk to my friends about what I was going through. It's exactly 2 years later. Today was our best sales day since Black Friday of 2023 and hasn't been this profitable since 2021. It was a hard time I wouldn't wish on anyone, and I'm glad I made it out the other end.

@cathrynlavery I grabbed this, we went for a full install on it.

opensourced my openclaw ops layer grab it below:

@Shpigford hmm, maybe this is worth a try, tired of this message too.

switching from opus to gpt on 🦞 is going swimmingly. i'm exhausted from trying to maintain this.

tax season has me, I just found out I can't use my Claude Max plan starting tomorrow on my claw. Prob will stick with Claude and just make my setup more efficient. I was testing a new claw instance this week and hit $100 in spend w Sonnet in 1 day so I have shit to figure out

When your client’s Openclaw subagent is more organized and thorough than most accounting teams (or any team for that matter) you have to take notes.

@noahkagan This is an incredible credit but it’s not 100%. It’s hard to find someone who will file for this without charging a crazy % on the credit but we are doing a couple of these in house this year - totally worth it if your building new stuff

The R&D tax credit gives companies 100% money back on anyone inventing in the USA. With Claude Code / Codex 👉👉 All companies should look how they can move more of their employees to creating and innovating.

@jasononfirms 1) we have an internal tool we built long ago to aggregate Amazon sales and push to accounting system it’s old. It updated the code base - created api end points and my team now can send it issues in slack and it can see what is failing in real time and fix - I got 20+ more

@JeffreyDebolt Coolest examples?

So I've spent the last week with Claude Cowork and OpenClaw As someone who's usually unimpressed with accounting AI... I'm blown away right now Very excited to share the next few videos we have in the pipeline A lot's going to change by the end of 2026

@cathrynlavery @danshipper 🙏 appreciate you Cathryn. The AI + finance rabbit hole is endlessly deep right now — my bot has to remind me to sleep.

My CFO coded a system for us to track spend, diminishing returns on ads and he has openclaw setup. He has accountants that work for him and he’s more high-level but been fun to see what he brings to us. Honestly, when him and I get on a call, we spend time talking finances, but then are just nerding out about AI stuff we’re playing with.

Is anyone’s accountant using Claude Code yet? I’m on the hunt for one for my taxes.

Saturday build day. 12-page app shipped — CFO + Ads unified. MER tracking, campaign breakdowns, spend planner, creative fatigue, P&L. Live Meta API data. Also wrote a 30-day ads playbook + campaign audit. Not a dashboard. Guided execution for founders running their own ads.