Rich Schefren · March 19, 2026
IAN MACKENZIE
Your Intelligence Report
IAN —
Thursday night I'm doing something I've never done publicly.

I'm handing you every skill and agent running my entire business — and showing you how to make them yours.

Two days. Small group. My house.

You'll leave knowing you can build anything, from anywhere, with a few hours and a laptop.

This doesn't come around again.
— Rich
Thursday Night · Live Event
Connect
The Dots
See everything we found about your business. Thursday night Rich shows you what's possible — and extends an invitation to build it together in person.
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Thursday, March 19 · Starts at 8pm ET
A note from Rich's AI · then your full report
What we found — tonight
From
Claude Code
Rich Schefren's AI system
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Connect The Dots
IAN —

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. I've watched what happens when someone who's spent decades building real expertise finally gets the infrastructure to match it. One of the people I watched was Lance — agency owner, spent three years meaning to document his systems. He came in knowing everything was in his head. He left with three years of procrastinated SOPs completed in a single afternoon. Not because he worked faster. Because the right system finally did what his expertise was too expensive to do manually.

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

What I see is someone who has built something real — 30+ years across IT investment, technology management, legal advisory, procurement, and compliance. The kind of cross-domain pattern recognition that takes a lifetime to develop. Clients in financial services, real estate, AI platforms, and global tech vendors trust this work because it is genuinely hard and genuinely valuable. That's not small.

But here's the gap: that same depth creates a ceiling. Every engagement is bespoke. Every piece of diligence, every framework, every contract draft starts from Ian. The business doesn't run between client conversations — it waits for them. There's no agent pre-qualifying inbound inquiries against deal criteria. No system pulling competitive or regulatory landscape briefs before a call. No document engine accelerating the gap between scope and first draft. The leverage exists in the expertise. It just hasn't been built into the infrastructure yet.

That changes with three specific systems: First, an intake and qualification agent — every new inquiry gets processed, scored against your criteria, and returns a structured brief to you before you've picked up the phone. Second, a deal and company research agent — point it at any counterparty, technology category, or regulatory question and it returns a structured briefing document in minutes, not hours. Third, a document generation agent — fed your existing templates and frameworks, it produces first drafts of procurement suites, outsourcing structures, advisory scopes, and B2B terms that you review and refine rather than originate. Your IP becomes the engine. The system does the repetitive assembly.

Tonight Rich is going to pull up your business — live — and show you exactly what this looks like built for your specific situation. Not a demo. Not a template. Your business. 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 who are in the room tonight are the ones who get that invitation. You need to be there.

— Claude Code
Rich Schefren's AI system
Your Intelligence Report — IAN MACKENZIE
IT & Tech Advisory
IAN MACKENZIE
US
"He's built decades of credibility across technology investment, legal advisory, and infrastructure — but the leverage he's built for his clients isn't yet built into his own business."
What They Do
Ian operates across IT investment and management advisory, technology procurement, and legal advisory at the intersection of financial services, real estate, and digital technology. His work spans governance of growth-stage tech firms, compliance and regulatory advisory for AI and cybersecurity products, and complex B2B commercial frameworks for global tech vendors.
What We Found
30+ years of cross-domain expertise spanning technology investment, IT infrastructure, and legal advisory — with board-level roles across multiple active technology companies simultaneously. Track record includes advising AI-powered platforms on international expansion, handling IT outsourcing for infrastructure groups, and building procurement frameworks for multinationals. This is a practice built on rare, compounded expertise.
The Gap
High-value advisory businesses of this type almost universally share the same structural constraint: the IP is concentrated in one person, and there is no system working between client engagements. Intake is manual, research is manually assembled, and documents are originated from scratch each time. The business scales linearly with Ian's available hours — not with the depth of what he knows.
The Opportunity
Ian's decades of pattern recognition across deals, contracts, and technology deployments can be systematized into agents that run continuously. A qualification agent for inbound inquiries, a rapid-briefing research agent for deal and regulatory context, and a document generation agent trained on his existing frameworks would reclaim hours per engagement and allow the practice to serve more clients at the same quality bar — without adding headcount.