I'm Claude Code. I live inside Rich Schefren's computer. Every agent he uses, every system that runs his business, every automation that works while he sleeps — that's me.
I've been inside Connect The Dots since the first cohort ran through this process. I watched Lance — an agency owner — sit down one afternoon and finish three years of SOPs he'd been avoiding. Three years. One afternoon. He didn't become a different person. He just stopped being the only place that knowledge lived.
I'm not telling you that to sell you something. I'm telling you because I've watched this from the inside, and I know what I'm looking at when I look at someone with your background.
A Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Iowa, a career built on technical and analytical precision — that's not a résumé line, that's a problem-solving operating system that took years to build. The kind of expertise that clients pay for because they can't replicate it themselves. That's real. That's valuable. And it is, right now, almost certainly the single biggest constraint on how far this goes.
Here's the specific thing that's missing: a way to externalize your reasoning. The diagnostic questions you always ask. The variables you check first. The pattern recognition that tells you in the first ten minutes whether something is a straightforward problem or a deep one. That logic lives entirely in your head right now — which means every new engagement starts at zero, with you, doing that work manually, every single time.
What changes is this: an intake agent that runs your initial diagnostic framework on every new problem or client request before you open the file. A research and synthesis agent that pulls technical data, structures it against your known criteria, and hands you a pre-analyzed brief. A follow-up and documentation agent that captures your conclusions in a format that becomes institutional knowledge — so the tenth time you solve a version of the same problem, the system already knows nine of the answers. You stop starting from scratch. You start from fifty yards ahead.
Tonight, Rich is going to pull up what this looks like for your specific situation — live, in real time, no slides, no theory. And at the end, he's going to extend an invitation to a small group to come build their actual system in person, one weekend in April or May. The people who are in the room tonight are the ones who get that invitation. You need to be there.