Luke Schlessinger
3.2K posts
Luke Schlessinger
@LukeSchless
AI Consultant @Deloitte | also helping smb implement ai
Katılım Mayıs 2013
177 Takip Edilen444 Takipçiler
We're going to turn the suburbs of NJ into the AI capital of the world... or maybe just of the easy coast.
Our first meetup is in Westfield, NJ - my hometown.
Builders, operators, tinkerers, founders and the genuinely curious are well welcome.
Space is limited to 50 people and we are trying to keep it to a curated list for this inaugural event.
If you're in the area and interested, DM me.
English
ai will take jobs but also create them
Codie Sanchez@Codie_Sanchez
Best money I've ever spent as a CEO... an internal AI transformation hire. He doesn't care about title. He just wants to ship. And he goes across your entire org, sales, revenue, hr, apps, tech and kills stupid manual processes. Such an underrated unlock I have since hired 2 more.
English
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.
English
$4.4 trillion in PE assets under management
Monitored by analysts who spend 500+ hours a year copying numbers from PDFs into Excel. Not analyzing. Copying and pasting.
A fund has 10 portcos. One on NetSuite, one on QuickBooks, three on Excel, one CFO sending a paragraph in an email every quarter.
Company A calls it "Revenue." Company B calls it "Net Sales." Company C doesn't even use the same EBITDA calculation.
Before AI can do anything useful, you need four layers:
1. Ingestion: get the data out of PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, whatever format it shows up in
2. Normalization: make sure the same metric means the same thing across every company
3. Storage: structured database that can actually be queried, not a folder of files
4. Query layer: natural language interface so a non-technical partner can ask "which portco is trending down on margins?" and get a real answer
Most companies jump straight to layer 4 and wonder why nothing works.
The unlock is building layers 1-3 first.
Once those exist, the AI part is MUCH easier.
The firms that get their data infrastructure right first will be untouchable.
English
@codyschneider @ankurnagpal great tip. will try it today.
q: for cowork tasks, do you run opus or sonnet?
opus ripped through my tokens with cowork
English
@ankurnagpal start the session from claude code
"use browser use to do {X} thing"
X thing has a md file explaining step by step
have the CLI watch you do the work
gl hf
English
Claude for Chrome is super janky with even mildly complicated tasks
Is there a better alternative I should be using?
Largely using it to automate somewhat manual workflows where no API is avaailable
(e.g. replying to hundreds of Linkedin comments)
English
the future is here
learn ai and you'll never be out a job
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Replit CEO says company aims to increase hiring in new grads who are vibe coding and “agentmaxxing.”
English
today, i got 2 local business website chat widgets to give me directions on how to cook a grass fed steak
the bar is so low. set guardrails on your chat widgets
English
@AlinDragu good point
i think the price of ai will only go down because of open-source model availability
English
In 1984, infomercials were dirt cheap.
In 2000, Google ads were dirt cheap.
In 2007, Meta ads were dirt cheap.
In 2026, AI is dirt cheap.
But what happens when they 10x the price and you have no skills?
English
Luke Schlessinger retweetledi
Announcing Personal Computer.
Personal Computer is an always on, local merge with Perplexity Computer that works for you 24/7.
It's personal, secure, and works across your files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running Mac mini.
English
@bgadoci learn skills
learn api and mcp connection
learn web hooks and how to put workflows in the cloud
English
What advice would you give someone just starting to explore AI transformation?
English
@mike_luong0 @openclaw local apple store was sold out
act fast lol
English
I used Alex Hormozi's ad spend to find my ideal customer for agentic AI workflows. took 2 min:
> go to Meta Ads Library
> set ad category to "all ads"
> search "Alex Hormozi"
>read his ad copy for who he's targeting
his latest ads target home service businesses doing $1M+: HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, cleaning
why this is free market intel:
hormozi's whole model is finding businesses leaving money on the table.
if he's spending ad dollars going after them, he's already done the ICP research for you.
and once he cleans up their offers, leads, and money models... the next play is patching workflows leaking $ and time with AI
that's where I come in to steal his business
jk. just who he's targeting
English
@coreyganim And by fixing the process, you mean making it efficient using out-of-the-box AI tools?
Then once the process is as efficient as possible using these tools, you can turn it into an automation using N8n, Zapier, or Claude Code?
English
@LukeSchless exactly, the process optimization is only fixing the process. So they could then automate it themselves or if not, now they have a fixed process.
But most people would rather pay for the automation too which is a separate engagement
English
$999 assessments can be extremely lucrative.
But the real money is on the upsell.
5 playbooks I use:
1) Process optimization ($3-5k)
We almost always uncover at least one broken process during the assessment.
We map their current state, then deliver an "ideal future state" with waste removed.
2) No-code automation ($1-3k)
Sometimes the client just needs a simple Zapier automation.
Set up zaps that let their existing tools talk to each other. Saves hours of manual copy-paste between systems.
3) Custom GPTs ($3k+)
Real example: we assessed a business brokerage owner last week.
His bottleneck: 180 employees constantly asking him questions he's already answered in trainings.
He has 1000+ hours of recorded trainings collecting dust in Zoom.
The pitch: a custom GPT his team can query for any procedural question.
Saves him 2-3 hours/week in Zoom calls and context switching.
4) Custom skills ($3-5k)
For clients already using Claude/ChatGPT, this is a no-brainer.
Same brokerage owner chains prompts together to create marketing packages for listings. Takes him 4 hours even with AI.
A custom skill turns that into minutes.
5) Agent implementation ($5-10k setup + $1k/mo retainer)
With the rise of @openclaw this is where most heads go first.
But only viable if your client is tech-savvy or has someone to own the agent. Otherwise it collects dust.
Best paired with custom skill packages. Build the skills, then hand them to the agent to run on autopilot.
Now go make some money.
Corey Ganim@coreyganim
This is one of (if not THE) biggest opportunities in AI right now. I had a guy last week offer me $1,000 to follow him around for a day and tell him where he can implement AI. Here's the playbook: 1) Offer AI Assessments for small business owners 2) "Interview" them for 45 minutes on Zoom to pull out their biggest bottlenecks 3) Use Fathom to record the call 4) Feed the transcript to your LLM of choice asking it to find off the shelf AI tools that can solve the biz owner's pain points 5) Use Gamma to turn the output into a polished report 6) Schedule a 30-min Review Call with the biz owner to break down the report and upsell them on implementation I've successfully completed 10+ of these assessments over the past 2 months. I charge $999 for the assessment. The average ROI for the business owner is 6+ hours per week returned for an average monthly tool cost of ~$40. There's no excuse not to be making money with AI right now.
English
@bgadoci How do you schedule them right now? Do you use modal?
English
Claude's Skills + its connectors are getting dangerously close to replacing full automation workflows.
The only thing missing? Scheduled jobs.
If Anthropic announces that, a lot of business automation tools are going to feel it.
English
@JamesonCamp Dude, same. Wish I didn’t have to sleep some nights lol.
Interested to hear more about the billing agent
English
I haven't been this excited to work in years. Not exaggerating.
1 am last night, all running at the same time:
A LinkedIn agent getting updated through Claude Code
Manus writing the HTML for 9 transactional emails
Claude breaking down a client's analytics so I can find where conversions are leaking
Our CRM auto-updating itself from every call that day
A billing agent matching invoices to portals and uploading them for a client
Five different workflows. No employees. Just me and a laptop.
While all of that is running I'm advising on a $5M acquisition, building agentic systems for clients, and helping friends with their businesses for free
Not because I'm grinding myself into the ground. Because the leverage is that absurd now.
A year from now none of us are going to believe where this went
English
@jamesonhaslam a free low‑voltage lighting package (stair lights + transformer + installation)
Partner with a light supplier. Ask for discount per x decks. Then say you’ll feature the lights in your brochures, marketing, etc in return.
And of course, price the cost into your quotes
English
I want to do this for decks
Will Venmo $100 to the person who comes up with the best offer
Ready, set, go:
Dylan Thornsberry@dylthorn
There's a roofer in my area and I see his fb ads each week. His tagline: 'Free gutters with a new roof' He's been doing this for years. Simple dumb offers win.
English
So here’s a fun story:
Over the summer a tree company hit me up to help them with some stumps at an apartment complex.
There were 10-15 MASSIVE stumps (see the pictures.)
They told me they could pay me $1,500. Long story short, they wanted the trees so bad they threw an insanely low price at the stumps.
I laughed in their face and told them that they were probably 5x too low for those stumps.
Guy got mad and hung up.
Fast forward 6 months later, the stumps are still there.
The tree company didn’t have the capability to do them and no one would come in for such a low price, so they left them.
Yesterday I got hit up by the property management company to come quote the job (they don’t know that I know the story.)
Me and another stump grinder friend put in a quote together for $8,500.
We will see where it goes, but glad I know when to say no!
English
@cultra @StumpGuyTy also curious if you wouldn't mind sharing?
English
This is a great post.
The $12k per month from stump grinding isn't going to be huge for what is going to be a massive tree business in the future.
But for a guy with a family that is trying to bring home an extra $5k-$10k while keeping a job?
Life changing.
Many such cases.
BlueCollarInvestor@BlueCollarInvr
I’m thankful I started my business just trying to do stump grinding. It allowed me to initially be a 1 man show and figure out how to run a business. It gave me a ton of connections into the arborist industry both local and national. (Looking at you stump grinding guys on X) It gave me the opportunity to sub contract actual tree companies to try and grow. Those tree companies then did what most tree companies do and never did what they said. This presented me with an opportunity and I chose to grow my company on my own terms. Now that I’m a full blown tree removal and land clearing company I still am busier than ever with my little Vermeer SC292. This machine is not my big money maker. But it is consistent. I can count on anywhere from $1,000-$3,000 revenue every week just from my stump grinder. That’s not insane money but it almost always covers my payroll every week. Sometimes you have to take a bet on yourself and trust that you will find a way to make yourself successful. My path to a completely different lifestyle started last April with a small 27 horsepower sump grinder I found for $10,500 on fb marketplace.
English