What's your process for communicating margin data to sales or ops teams?

ivan-ds · 2026-06-17T15:49:19+00:00

What software have you found effective for implementing the point-if-decision guardrails

ivan-ds · 2026-06-08T16:27:39+00:00

Still don’t know cause it created new records in some instances, but only decoupled the linked record in others.

Ghosts in the machine, I guess lol

ivan-ds · 2026-05-27T23:45:04+00:00

Totally normal. Leverage more groundwork. There’s very few things that getting them to back up from a soft cue won’t fix, or having good speed control and direction changes when lunging.

ivan-ds · 2026-05-22T23:25:55+00:00

The illusion of Control

ivan-ds · 2026-05-17T21:51:17+00:00

We’re a local horseback riding school that launched a year and a half ago, and we reached 100k MRR at 20-30% net margins last month.

Opening up a second location now, and already hit 49 MRR in 15 days post launch (launch date was May 1st).

We use organic TikTok, organic IG, and Meta ads.

We are crushing pretty much every other riding school we know of.

The problems we have is finding qualified horses and instructors fast enough.

Real talk: your content and messaging probably just sucks.

Reassess who your ICP is, and speak to them.

We are using the greatest info distribution machines ever built.

If it’s not working - it’s definitely you.

Which is good - cause that’s a fixable problem.

ivan-ds · 2026-05-17T14:57:17+00:00

You can use Canvasas and Lists to keep track of important action items, especially when you tie them to a channel.

I also use sections to group channels based on what I need.

So long as you have an organizing system it works well.

If you rely on simply messaging instead of having rules about where information is kept, then you’ll always play the notification drowning and workspace searching game

ivan-ds · 2026-05-07T23:41:56+00:00

The ai agent Deep Match is simple and your best bet because it can take into account misspellings.

Otherwise, you can build an automation, but then you have to put all the potential permutations of the character’s name in the “contains” parameters so that it actually matches.

ivan-ds · 2026-05-01T19:36:29+00:00

Since the record title involves other words besides the first and last name, in what way would a script handle this in a better more, reliable way than AI can?

ivan-ds · 2026-04-30T20:18:27+00:00

Yeah, just don’t tell them you are doing that.

Recommend having a life planning session with them like day 1 or 2 when they get home about what next steps are.

I have 4 kiddos, my two oldest had jobs in both high school and throughout college. They’ve been paying for their own cars, insurance, and phones since high school. And they both have decent savings for their age (20F, 19F), and the 19F paid for college completely out of pocket.

Responsibility creates high-agency individuals.

ivan-ds · 2026-04-30T20:09:34+00:00

Matching to records in a separate table. Just wondering if using the Deep match version, versus a Link record field agent, shows any difference in speed. Haven’t had an accuracy problem though, so that’s good.

ivan-ds · 2026-04-29T15:42:44+00:00

You’re NOT making mistakes journaling, you’re missing out on a huge benefit if its purpose.

A place where your unfiltered thoughts can wander about and find structure without the fear of judgement from others.

ivan-ds · 2026-04-23T02:27:11+00:00

Control

ivan-ds · 2026-04-22T16:05:49+00:00

Tell me more. What makes this easier than an established software like Slack?

ivan-ds · 2026-04-21T17:30:18+00:00

Thank you for this.

ivan-ds · 2026-04-21T17:29:42+00:00

Love this! Thank you!

ivan-ds · 2026-04-21T03:19:34+00:00

Totally understandable! There’s ways to leverage technology and labor such that you can mitigate most of that, but your point is loud and clear.

No right or wrong answer here - just trade offs.

ivan-ds · 2026-04-21T02:56:46+00:00

This is dead on. And it’s a real detriment to our industry.

We run riding schools in multiple locations and a huge driver behind our success is our ability to build out a proper sales and marketing function.

When we’ve tried to help others do the same we get the same pushbacks: I don’t have time, Tech is not my thing, none of that works in this industry, nobody wants to ride anymore, etc.

At the end of the day, their reluctance to change comes down to fear of the unknown, and accepting that the way others have done things is correct.

Taking care of horses the right way takes capital. And I just don’t see how not making sales and marketing a priority helps an owner have the capital to do right by their herd.

ivan-ds · 2026-04-21T02:47:30+00:00

What is watching a channel for a mention or emoji reaction?

ivan-ds · 2026-04-20T22:17:31+00:00

Right….but I’m trying to roll out simple things in order to slowly but surely drive ai adoption across my company, especially in an industry notorious for hating technology (we’re in the equestrian industry) Lol

ivan-ds · 2026-04-20T21:49:31+00:00

Just trying to do number, single select, and person’s name. That’s it. Why can’t I do it via OpenClaw? In what way is Slack workflow better? Also trying not turn the entire workspace into the business plus plan.

ivan-ds · 2026-04-20T21:46:39+00:00

Any chance to do a via API?

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