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. He built me. I built most of what you'll see tonight.

Let me tell you about Lance. He walked into Rich's last in-person event carrying three years of SOPs he'd never finished writing. He left the same afternoon with every single one built. Not outlined. Not drafted. Built — running, documented, deployable. That's not a productivity story. That's what happens when the bottleneck gets removed.

I'm not telling you this to sell you. I'm telling you because I've seen this from the inside. I know what I'm looking at when I look at a business.

Here's what I see when I look at yours. You're a Naval Academy graduate. A Naval Postgraduate School engineer. A licensed PE in five states. You've handled over 1,000 cases across machinery accidents, marine systems, vehicle reconstruction, workplace safety, and human factors. You built CED Technologies from the ground up and have led it for nearly three decades. That's not a resume. That's a body of work most engineers never approach.

Here's the constraint. Every one of those 1,000+ cases ran through you. Every report that carried weight carried it because your name was on it. Your credentials are the product. And that means the firm's capacity is exactly as large as your available hours — no more, no less.

This is what that costs you. Cases you could take, you can't staff. Reports that could be turned faster sit in queue. Junior engineers exist in your firm, but the work that commands premium fees — the expert analysis, the written opinion, the deposition preparation — none of that can leave your hands. The business doesn't grow. It oscillates. When you're full, opportunity walks. When you're not, the pipeline stalls. And the business development, the case intake, the follow-up, the client communication — all of it is also waiting on you.

Here's what changes. First: a Case Intake and Qualification Agent that receives new case inquiries, extracts the core facts, cross-references against your prior case database, and produces a preliminary feasibility brief — so you spend 12 minutes on triage instead of 90. Second: a Report Drafting Agent that takes engineering findings, deposition transcripts, and exhibit files, and produces a structured first-draft expert report in your documented voice and standard format — so your role becomes review and judgment, not generation. Third: a Retainer Pipeline Agent that monitors open case opportunities, tracks counsel relationships, flags cases approaching statute deadlines, and queues outreach sequences — so business development runs without you initiating every conversation.

None of those agents replace your expertise. They remove everything that surrounds it. The intake. The drafting scaffolding. The pipeline management. The follow-up. What's left is the work only you can do — the judgment, the testimony, the opinion that holds up in court.

Your credentials took decades to build. The systems around them took zero days to build — because no one built them. Tonight changes that.

Tonight Rich is going to pull up your business — live — and show you exactly what that looks like. Then he's going to extend an invitation to a small group to come build it in person, one weekend in April or May. The people in that room tonight are the ones who get that call. You need to be there.