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 walked into Rich's last in-person event with three years of procrastinated SOPs — the kind that pile up when you know they matter but can never find the moment to build them. He runs an agency. Every one of those SOPs represented a workflow that only existed inside his head, which meant every new hire was starting from zero and every mistake was a mistake he'd seen before. He left that same afternoon with every SOP built. Not drafted. Built — running, automated, done.
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 you've built is real. Managing Director at Elite Strategic Investments while simultaneously running Ecomtech — across time zones, across asset classes, across entirely different operational models. That's not a resume. That's a proof of concept. Most people spend a decade picking one thing. You ran two.
Here's what I see: the same quality that makes you effective — your judgment across multiple domains — is the thing that's become the constraint. Every deal that needs evaluation, every operational call that needs a decision, every strategic question across both businesses routes through you. There's no version of Elite Strategic Investments or Ecomtech that moves faster than your attention allows.
What that costs you isn't abstract. It's the deal you couldn't move on because due diligence took three weeks instead of three days. It's the ecomm decision that waited while you were on a call in Hong Kong. It's the portfolio insight that existed somewhere in your data but never surfaced because pulling it together would take time you didn't have. The ceiling isn't capital. It's bandwidth.
Here's what changes when that bottleneck breaks. First: a Deal Intelligence Agent that monitors incoming opportunities, runs initial screening against your investment criteria, and delivers a prioritized brief before you ever take a first call — so your attention goes only to deals already worth your time. Second: an Ecomtech Operations Agent that tracks key performance signals across your ecomm infrastructure, flags anomalies before they become problems, and surfaces recommended actions for one-touch approval. Third: a Portfolio Synthesis Agent that pulls cross-business data — cash position, pipeline, operational health — into a single morning brief, every day, without anyone assembling it manually. You stop being the person who holds the picture together. The system holds it.
This is what AI infrastructure actually looks like when it's built for someone operating at your level. Not task automation. Decision infrastructure.
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.
You've already done the hard part — building two operating businesses across two continents while holding the strategic thread on both.
What's left isn't more hustle.
It's infrastructure that thinks at your level: triaging deals, synthesizing portfolio data, flagging operational breaks — all without waiting for your attention to arrive.
The managing director role stops being a constraint the moment the systems underneath it start managing too.