Buying Then Losing a $2.1m HVAC Business

My hands were tied on a lot of things that I was just geographically constrained. It. I think you're, and I, I thought my total addressable market would be bigger. I was like, oh we'll just drive further.

And like the reality was that that wasn't feasible. But I would, I would not, you know, there's some searchers, like you said, may have strategic reason to go to a rural America. I would, I would recommend not doing that.

Heard you say that in this consulting or kind of quasi full time consulting work that you're doing now that you forexed your friend clients business, you know, give us your kind of whatever you're doing in AI that is moving the needle like that.

So right now I, the last year I've been consulting like major utilities on implementing analytics. Analytics is growing a lot. I'd worked in analytics a lot prior to this and moving into AI and I think like it kind of AI is the buzzword but like you start with like building data to do that.

So right now I'm independent consultant. I, you know, having just finished bankruptcy, I'm able to file a new llc. If I had done that before bankruptcy, I, it would then subject to be taken.

So yeah, over last weekend I started standing up and filing AI for service businesses. I think like I learned a lot from this experience. I have a lot of like knowledge in the AI space is that's like what I've been doing and what I did before.

And I think there's just so many opportunities in small businesses to automate things. One thing we didn't really talk about in the podcast is I automated out my office.

I, I had three people say more please.

I, I had three people in my office at one time and I automated out two of them just because there were jobs they were doing. There were tasks that I'm like, you don't. I don't, I don't. And I didn't like Fire em right away or anything.

Like they eventually left and I just didn't replace them. But there's just a lot of things that like people do processes that are manual that can be automated. AI has come to such a level that it can run step by step processes.

And so if you know what your process is, there's a good chance it can be automated. You know, if it's a physical process, we're probably a little ways off from Elon Musk's robots coming out and doing those things. But you know, for a lot of your digital processes, like inbound calls, outbound marketing, customer communications, billing, those sort of things, those can be automated.