Matthew Saskin

Before the trucks scattered across KY, TN, etc. were truckin', they were all lined up to move a crawler crane.

Thursday AM and the trucks be truckin...

@bonapartay I currently have three insurance claims outstanding for heavy recoveries totalling almost $200k. Thusfar none of the carriers seem intent on paying us.

@msaskin And of course you know the insurance claim will never come

@bonapartay - man down!

@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.

Quick - get there before happy hour is over!!

@JSingerTx The unit being moved in the video is one of these. The video just has the crane house and tracks. There are another 6-8 truckloads for boom sections, counterweights, etc

@JSingerTx Honestly, no idea. We have a number of structural steel and tilt wall contractors as customers; we transport their crawler cranes (plus other equipment). Generally moving one or two crawlers per week plus a whole bunch of other stuff.

Crawler Crane on the move...

@lawyer4SMBs We'll land Jan 26 +16-18% over Jan 25. Now, Jan 25 was shitty, so take that for what it's worth 🤣

Near the end of 2025 I heard many SMB buyers, owners, and insiders pretty euphoric about business prospects for 2026. Now that we're almost 30 days in, how's the outlook?

@RandBusiness and I have talked about this. Two come to mind. 1 - Working Capital. You can understand it from a theoretical perspective, but until you've lived the day-to-day knife fight, you don't get it. 2 - EQ. I've managed large teams over the years, the past few years have been the most "EQ-Intensive" thing I've ever had to do.

For those of you who have bought businesses: What's the biggest post-acquisition challenge that you didn't anticipate?

@benvanzee This big boi also on the move somewhere in the southwest

matt has the best content

@benvanzee Moving some big stuff in the southeast before the weather sets in. x.com/msaskin/status…

mn sitting pretty, just with sub-zero temps lol

@Will_Schryver ...despite the extensive due diligence, he will indeed no show for his interview.

HVAC tech doing his due diligence before an interview next week

@adamislucky Not after paying for lift tickets for an entire family! 🤣

Full day on the slopes with my entire family. I am the richest man in the world.

@benvanzee 2007. 1.7M miles. It led a good life.

@msaskin uh oh

😢

Nothing about this case broke the laws. The new laws prohibit booting of commercial motor vehicles. They don't set rates, etc. That said, $6K for a heavy impound is absolutely egregious (said as someone who owns a company that does both towing and regional/national heavy haul).

@JasonColvi87241 I get it. There are legal limits to impound in NC… landline.media/north-carolina…

Posted on social media today. A driver parked at a BP last night in Charlotte only to wake up being hitched. When he offered to resolve on the spot, he stated the operator refused and instead billed this amount to tow the truck 15 miles to the impound lot….

@JerimiahLee Hit me up when it's skiing and/or hiking time!

Most events suck. Too many speakers, too much small talk, not enough time to actually connect with anyone. My bet is that you learn more about someone in three hours on a river than three days at a conference. So this year, I'm hosting six events built around that idea. Get interesting people in PE, VC, and GTM together to do cool things. Fly fishing. Golf. Hiking. Skiing. No conference rooms, no agendas. The first one is a month out. In February, I'm taking a small group to Northern Georgia to fly fish for trout on the Soque River. Three days. A cabin a few miles from the water. An up and coming river guide who knows every run and ties a mean fly. Every night a private chef cooks dinner. We hang out, smoke cigars, drink whiskey, and swap stories about what we caught (or didn't). You don't need experience. You just need to want to have fun and learn. If this sounds like your kind of thing, let's talk.