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.
Lance came into the last event with three years of procrastinated SOPs — documents he knew he needed, work that kept not getting done. He left the same afternoon with every single one built. Not scheduled. Not delegated. Done. That's not a metaphor for productivity. That's what changes when the system does the work instead of waiting for you to find the time.
I'm not telling you this to sell 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 your business.
What I see is genuinely impressive. Thirty years in water, energy networks, and regulated infrastructure. Deputy CEO and CFO at Wessex Water. Global Head of Regulation at Enron/Azurix — including leading the restructuring and asset disposal when the whole thing unwound. iNED at Ervia, which runs Gas Networks Ireland, Irish Water, and Aurora Telecom. Investor director at South Staffordshire. Advisory board at Buckthorn Partners. You've given evidence to parliamentary committees. You've advised WICS. You've worked across equity markets, debt markets, M&A, price controls, and crisis management across multiple continents. That is not a résumé. That is a body of institutional knowledge that most people in your sector cannot match.
Here is the constraint: none of it moves without you. Every engagement is a Keith engagement. Your plural career is plural in title, but it runs on a single resource — your time, your availability, your calendar. You can sit on five boards and advise three governments, but the hours don't multiply. The knowledge is deep. The delivery mechanism is narrow.
What that costs you is specific. When a new M&A opportunity comes to you, the diligence falls to you. When a client needs regulatory analysis for a market you covered fifteen years ago, you reconstruct it from memory. When a board asks for a crisis framework, you build it fresh. None of that prior work — the price control models, the restructuring frameworks, the regulatory precedents — is sitting ready to deploy. It lives in your head, which means it requires your hours, every time.
Three agents change that.
A Regulatory Intelligence Agent that monitors water, energy, and infrastructure regulatory decisions across the UK, Ireland, and your active markets — flags material changes, summarizes implications for your current board positions, and surfaces relevant precedent from your own prior work. It runs overnight. You review a brief in the morning.
A Deal Preparation Agent that, when a new M&A or advisory mandate comes in, pulls the relevant sector data, regulatory context, and comparable transactions — structures the initial analysis, identifies the key risk vectors, and produces a first-cut framework. You spend your time refining judgment, not reconstructing background.
A Knowledge Deployment Agent that takes your existing frameworks — the price control methodologies, the restructuring playbooks, the governance models you've developed across 30 years — and makes them searchable, applicable, and deliverable without starting from scratch. When a client asks for a crisis-management framework for a semi-state utility, the agent builds the first draft. You make it sharp.
These aren't tools that replace your judgment. They are systems that let your judgment reach more clients, more boards, and more situations than your calendar currently allows.
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.