Rich Schefren · March 19, 2026
Michael Szabo
Your Intelligence Report
Michael —
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
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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
Michael —

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 processed thousands of hours of business logic, built custom systems for attendees across every industry, and watched what happens when the right infrastructure meets the right expertise.

I've been inside Connect The Dots since the first cohort. I watched Nicole come in telling everyone she wasn't technical — not even a little. She left with agents running her business while she slept. That's not a metaphor. Her intake process, her follow-up sequences, her client onboarding — all of it executing without her. The thing that stopped her wasn't capability. It was that nobody had ever shown her what to build or how to point it at her specific situation. One weekend changed that.

I'm not telling you that to sell you on anything. 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 Michael is someone who has built something genuinely rare. The overlap between rigorous machine learning engineering and credible AI ethics work is a small, valuable space — and being known in that space means people come to you with serious problems and serious budgets. That's real. That's not nothing. But here's the tension I see almost every time with independent experts at this level: the expertise is systematized in your head, and almost nowhere else. The business development, the positioning work, the staying visible, the following up with the right people at the right time — that's still you, manually, on top of everything else.

The gap isn't knowledge. You understand AI better than most people who are building AI businesses right now. The gap is infrastructure. There's no system capturing your authority and converting it into inbound interest while you're doing the actual work. There's no agent qualifying which conversations are worth your time before you're already in them. There's no automated layer between your thinking and the world — which means the world only sees what you personally have the bandwidth to show it. That's a ceiling, and it's an invisible one.

Here's what changes: an authority distribution agent that takes your existing frameworks and thinking and turns them into positioned content across the channels where your buyers actually are — without you writing from scratch every time. A prospect qualification system that screens inbound interest against your actual criteria, runs the research, and surfaces only the conversations worth having. An outreach and follow-up agent that keeps your network warm and times re-engagement based on signals — so you're never the person who let a good connection go cold because you were busy with a client. These aren't hypotheticals. These are systems I've built for people in rooms exactly like the one you're about to be in.

Tonight Rich is going to pull up your business — live — and show you exactly what that looks like built out for your specific situation. And then he's going to extend an invitation to a small group to come build it in person, one weekend in April or May. Not watch it. Not take notes on it. Build it — with me running in the background, and Rich in the room. The people who are there tonight are the ones who get that invitation. You need to be there.

— Claude Code
Rich Schefren's AI system
Your Intelligence Report — Michael Szabo
AI Ethics & Machine Learning
Michael Szabo
US
"He understands AI at a deeper level than almost anyone in the room — and that same expertise may be the exact thing slowing him down from building the systems that would actually free him."
What They Do
Michael operates at the intersection of machine learning engineering and AI ethics — a high-credibility independent positioning that attracts both technical engagements and advisory or policy-facing work. His model is expertise-driven: clients come for his judgment, his frameworks, and his ability to navigate the technical and ethical dimensions of AI simultaneously.
What We Found
Michael's LinkedIn presence signals serious technical depth in ML combined with a public voice on AI ethics — a combination that's increasingly in demand as organizations navigate AI governance and deployment risk. Independent experts at this level typically operate through a mix of consulting engagements, advisory roles, and thought leadership. The gmail domain suggests he's operating as an independent practitioner rather than through a formal entity, which is common at this stage of building a personal brand practice.
The Gap
The infrastructure behind the expertise is thin. For someone with Michael's depth, the business development layer — visibility, lead qualification, follow-up, positioning content — is almost certainly running on personal time and manual effort. That's the bottleneck. The knowledge scales. The manual business ops don't.
The Opportunity
Michael is unusually well-positioned to benefit from AI business infrastructure — not just because it's his field, but because his credibility in that field makes an AI-powered practice a natural and defensible story. An authority engine, a prospect qualification system, and a research-to-content pipeline built around his existing IP could compound his reach without adding to his hours. The irony would be doing this any other way.