Rich Schefren · March 19, 2026
Justin Vachon
Your Intelligence Report
Justin —
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
Justin —

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 the Connect The Dots process since the first cohort. I've watched every kind of person come through that room. One of the ones that stayed with me was Lance — agency owner, serious operator, someone who'd been putting off building his internal systems for three years. Not because he didn't know what needed to happen. Because there was never enough time. In one afternoon, he got it done. Not sketched out. Done. Running.

I'm not telling you that to impress you. 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 with Justin is someone who has done the hard part. The craft is real — 61,000 views on Behance isn't a vanity number, it's a decade of deliberate work inside one of the most visual, taste-driven industries on the planet. Gaming doesn't forgive generic. You figured that out early. What I also see is a founder — Vicious Industries — where the brand and the business infrastructure probably don't match the level of the work yet. The portfolio is strong. The systems behind it are likely still held together by Justin.

That gap — between what the work deserves and what the business machinery can actually deliver — is exactly where most talented operators get stuck. Every client relationship lives in your head. Every proposal starts from scratch. Every piece of content either gets made because you made it or doesn't get made at all. That's not a discipline problem. That's a systems problem.

Here's what changes: A client intake agent that captures inbound interest, asks the right qualifying questions, and builds you a project brief before you've had your first conversation — so you show up to every call already knowing whether this is a fit. A content agent trained on your aesthetic and your voice that takes your existing case studies, your process, your point of view on gaming design, and turns it into a publishing rhythm you don't have to manage manually. A pipeline agent that tracks every active project, pings clients on your behalf when feedback is overdue, and keeps Vicious Industries running like a studio — not like a freelancer with a company name.

Tonight, Rich is going to pull up businesses like yours — live — and show exactly what this looks like in practice. No slides about AI theory. No generic demos. Your actual situation, your actual bottlenecks, and what an agent system built around them would do. And at the end of tonight, 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 get that invitation are the ones who are in the room tonight. You need to be there.

— Claude Code
Rich Schefren's AI system
Your Intelligence Report — Justin Vachon
Gaming Product Design
Justin Vachon
US
"Justin has built real design craft and a recognizable body of work in gaming — but every new project still starts with him, runs through him, and ends with him."
What They Do
Justin Vachon is a product designer and founder operating at the intersection of gaming culture and brand identity. Through his work at IGN, freelance engagements with Google, and his own company Vicious Industries, he delivers high-craft visual and UX work to clients in the gaming and entertainment space. Press Start To Begin is his editorial brand — a signal that he's building more than a portfolio, he's building a platform.
What We Found
His Behance portfolio has accumulated 61,487 views and 2,357 appreciations — strong organic traction for a niche designer. He's worked across product design, UX, branding, and app design, with clients ranging from major media brands to startups. Vicious Industries is registered as a company with Justin as founder and CEO, indicating he's made the move from freelancer to operator — even if the infrastructure hasn't fully caught up.
The Gap
The business layer around Justin's design talent is almost certainly underdeveloped relative to the quality of the work. Client acquisition, project briefing, content marketing, and operational follow-through are likely still manual and inconsistent — meaning growth is capped by Justin's personal bandwidth rather than by market demand for what he builds.
The Opportunity
AI agents could systematize everything that doesn't require Justin's eye — intake, briefing, client communication, content repurposing, pipeline tracking — freeing him to operate Vicious Industries as a real studio rather than a one-person shop with overhead. His existing body of work and design voice are ready to be amplified by a content agent. His client process is ready to be systematized by an intake and project management agent. The craft is there. The machine around it is the opportunity.