Recording notes from the past couple of days from 4/13/26 to 4/15/26. Didn't quite get everything done on the Tuesday 4/14/26 date. There were a lot of notes that day.

Working with Abby and Russell. Talking about the concept of a platform (adilas) and then supporting and building a floating city on top of that platform (system or application). Russell did a couple of drawings and Abby took some screenshots. The underlying pieces that connect everything are through the platform and/or API socket level connections. We then flipped back into working on JavaScript and CSS for the documentation project. We are trying to detail out the search options. We got the search fixed up. Much better now. Other small changes. Some manual and some AI augmented changes. Good work session. As a side note, Russell and I are helping to train Abby, as much as we can, while working on this project. Lots of little teaching opportunities while debugging, testing, or experimenting.

Meeting with Abby. Going over the master plan and the AI level (level 6). See attached for tons of new screenshots dealing with the concept of the adilas value add-on core model. Working through some ideas.

Small changes, emails, and more research on adilas CSS demo page. Going over ideas and options for quick changes. What would that take? Using CSS (cascading style sheets), how could we make major look and feel changes without redoing the whole app or system? Lots of possibilities there. We already have a number of themes; we could possibly use AI to help us with some other themes that would retrofit into the existing system.

Here is a small link to the CSS demo page. If you are a developer, there are some small notes inside the HTML page source. We used this small page and section to run a small internal game for our employees and developers. They had to leave the HTML alone and could only change the CSS. Russell Moore won the competition and submitted five different options. Later on, a few years later, he helped us create the snow owl theme that is currently being used. Tons of potential there.

https://data0.adilas.biz/css/ - older adilas CSS demo page

Light research for a phone call with Andrew. Gave him a call. He was driving, so we just chatted for a few minutes. He was working all day, while driving. He was just talking to ChatGPT the whole time that he was driving. Interesting way to travel.

Working with Bryan. Working on our pitch and a plan. We want to speed up and get some turnkey onboarding (instant start), QuickBooks equivalent (simplicity), full operational expansion (inventory, POS, manufacturing, CRM). We would also like to do some module separation, UI/UX improvements, with the major benefit of faster customer onboarding. Something to replace Clover, Toast, Square, QuickBooks, Shopify, etc.

From Bryan... the problems we must solve
- onboarding is too complex for new users
- UI/UX slows adoption and sales
- User default to known industry software packages for familiarity
- nonmodern UI/UX experience - expectations

We then talked about some things that we could do. This ended up in a small brainstorming session of sorts.

- Scope - figure that out, where are we headed for this lift
- Friction and pain points
- Map it out
- Time to first invoice (<10 minutes) - we want it less than 10 minutes. Super simple setup.
- Solving the same problems over and over again
- Helping the accountants adopt the new solution - if the accountants are onboard, they can help influence and push the clients

For us...
- Database scaling - known issue. We can make more and more of them, meaning databases, but we can't intermix them right now.

- You need a full staff member to run it, meaning adilas. If you just touch it every once in a while, you really don't get the full benefit of it.

- Some people and clients that we are looking at - Andrew with Hosthuski and Brian with Finetech - both have an existing set of clients and a possible sales funnel, even though it is small. People come to them and they reach out to people and small businesses that need tools and services.

- API integrations with delivery systems

- Canned business solutions or fully custom solutions - there is a difference - this gets tough.

- Auto launch a corp and be able to move it later if needed. Back to database scaling and mixing.

- We build and develop - we would love to have others sell it and support it.

- We all live on little islands, and nobody knows what he other are doing - meaning the adilas team

known needs:
- Need to simplify
- Turn modules on/off
- Create our own buttons and nav options
- Map out the system
- Known bigger pieces - db (database), nav, permissions, settings, functions
- Super small mini POS - vendors, part categories, items, cart favorite buttons, etc. Simple.
- Quick setup form... quick vendors, part categories, taxes
- Quick corp-wide settings (limited view)
- Simple forms first, then link to full pages if needed. think layers...
- Quick users with preset permissions
- Quick access to the last few invoices
- Quick access to setup (layered with nav, if needed)
- Quick sales graph and charts.
- Layers - pretend that we are dealing with the cache valley kid's market - see EOT # 12656
- Mapping out the mini POS system - pages, flows, screens, etc.
- Maybe look-up some ideas on wizards and quick setup flows.
- Old idea of a simple app for users, timecards, and project time tracking. We have all of those pieces, similar to the normal POS stuff. We just want to make some super simple versions.
- Ask Wayne where he is at on the db (database) stuff - get an update.

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It is now a couple of days later... 4/18/26. I have been thinking about some of this stuff. Here are some of my new notes from this morning.

- What if we did this mini POS just using the existing adilas API sockets? That would be huge, cool, and great starting point for other users and developers.

- What would that take? Meaning a mini app using just the API's?

- Why would we do this? What would that solve? - I would say, it could be a huge stepping stone for others who may want to play along those lines. I can also think of a number of other ideas and reasons.

- Internally, we use Adobe ColdFusion. I would like to make a version that is in plain vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Mobile ready and phone first design. Most of our internal products are desktop first with possible mobile responsiveness. Flip that!

- We could look into some simple frameworks, but I'm half temped to just keep it plain jane or plain vanilla.

- Is there a way to use what we already have without tons of new development? That would be awesome.

- A long time ago, I heard someone say that eventually, you have to eat your own dog food. That may sound silly, but they were talking about consuming what you push out for others to use and consume. Virtually, you have to eat your own dog food. If we have to use our own adilas API's, we would be using what we are pushing out for other to use. I love it, let's do it!

- What if Bryan, Alan, and I (and maybe others) start our own little side company and use the adilas API's as the backbone. We help to strengthen the core (adilas) while still being able to do other development projects. It's an idea. We could make all kinds of little mini apps and then tie them back into the adilas backend engine. That could be really powerful. I would like to expand and explore these options more. One thing that I was thinking, we are good at building, but sometimes not that good at selling. We may need to hook up with smaller sales funnels to help with that part of the equation. Just some ideas.

- I'm planning on teaching ChatGPT how to connect to the adilas API. I would like to get some information about that process and then be able to share that information. That could be huge, as far as other outside developers and development work. All kinds of new apps and mini processes, all connected to the main adilas engine. As a note, see the planning page on the adilas marketplace. These plans are a good fit for what we are doing and where we are heading.

- For me, instead of just telling AI (one of the models) to just create this or that, let's start super small. Then build things up step by step, make sure that we understand and can back what is going on. I was thinking of using the mini demo API connection first, then building a little mini sample app, then moving into the mini POS option. Step by step, little by little, keep it manageable. Tiny baby steps!

- Another small note - what if we took a single corp, set it up, and then added smaller locations and users per account. If they never have to login to adilas, we could technically keep a bunch of information together in one place vs having to setup a separate corp per account. This won't work for all parties, but it could work super slick for small parties and/or certain situations. The alternative would be a super small corp (world) per entity vs a small location (real or virtual) per entity. See this world building help file for more information on possible breakdowns of how to organize things. This could be pretty handy if all of the locations or sub entities were using the same merchant processing account. Once again, this would only play true for certain scenarios. Just some ideas, if nothing else, keep thinking about it. Lots of possible solutions.

- This may not go here, but think about Amazon, eBay, or other big sales sites. They sub divide the pieces and then use one platform to allow for checkout, money distribution, credit card processing, etc. There would have to be some planning, but in a nutshell, that is what we want to do with part of the adilas marketplace. Keep expanding on this...

Working with Shannon. Going over things, things are constantly moving and shifting. Part of the game. Reviewing the end of last week. Going over phone call with Josh, new stuff from Abby, and the limited SWOT analysis document. We then spent the rest of the time working on the help file for the interactive map.

Good phone call with Andrew. After the phone call, he sent me an email with some good stuff in it. I also sent him an email with a couple of links about where we are heading.

These are the links that I sent him...

master plans going forward... https://data0.adilas.biz/lite/

the presentation gallery... https://news.adilas.biz/sales-gallery/adilas-advert-index.html

investment opportunities... https://data0.adilas.biz/lite/adilas_investment_opportunities.cfm

Here are a few of my notes from the phone call.

- Andrew just jumped into it. I got some of his full life story, right off the bat. We even talked about some recovery stuff and some tough spots.

- He has experience working with POS systems, retail, restaurant, hotel, frozen yogurt, franchising, beverages, etc. Pretty diverse.

- He likes to bring value where he can, in any way.

- He has some psychology training and loves people.

- He shared some stories about alcohol, drugs, ADHD, and God given gifts. Fun conversation.

- He was talking about his mission in life and how he wants to help people.

- Seems to be a big thinker. When asked, he said, "I don't live in problems - I figure out solutions and move on."

- He said that he likes to study.

- Create awareness and access - make it affordable.

- Lots of time learning AI - like ridiculous amounts of time...

- Building tools for himself, no code experience, able to verbalize what he sees.

- Trying to match up the right places with the right people - protecting people that he cares about.

- Controlling chaos and not getting stressed out - plans on it being crazy and when it is, he's already there... then just start bringing it back down until it is in control.

- Thinking about how he thinks and learning about himself or learning about yourself.

- He is always talking to vendors and knows how to talk and speak their language.

- Quick at catching the idea and then being able to virtually spitball ideas, based on what he knows.

- Being strategic with the bells and whistles.

- Building websites - a way to get ideas out of his head - almost mini presentations, but clickable, with some light content and concepts. Quick brain dumps using AI to help build the websites.

- There is some magic in seeing things visually. He just talks to ChatGPT and does a lot of copy and pasting things into a site builder app.

- He shared a couple of websites with me. One is called Logics420, another is called GCBuddy (general contractor buddy), and a small adilas demo site. He likes to build things, tinker, and then refine as he goes.

- If he can see it in his head, he tries to verbalize it, and then make it into something.

- Give lots of free feedback.

- Towards the end of the call, we were talking about adilas, AI, bots, and how to get that all put together. Fun conversation. He was saying something that I thought was really cool. Instead of having one bot that knew everything. He was saying, what about a bot per section or even per page, then connecting those bots together. Creative idea and I could see how it could help train the bots, just what was needed and nothing else. This may not be the final idea, but I thought that it was worth recording.

- Target the medium sized industries.

- He highly recommended that we, the adilas team, focus on the Grok AI integration. Steve has been heading that up, so far. I know that he wants help, we just get pulled off on other pieces or to different projects. Lots of moving parts and pieces.

- Anyways, great phone call. I enjoyed it and scribbled down a number of post-it notes, while we were talking and chatting. We'll talk again soon, I imagine.

Recording notes from last week. Tying things together. Read a bio from a guy by the name of Andrew. He seems to be a developer, entrepreneur, and ecosystem level thinker. Sounds cool! I have an email and a text message out to him. This is a contact from Steve.

Phone call with Bryan. He is meeting with people and wants to see what it would take to put together a plan for a super simple version of adilas. Almost like a mini white label version where it could be super simple and beginner friendly. I was telling him that we may want to start with the bigger or high-level settings and templates. I see this step as quick group settings applied as a group or in bulk, thus the templates and settings idea. It could also be filtered down into permissions and what shows up, based off of those high-level settings (system wide). Great ideas. we are going to meet tomorrow to see what that might look like and do some planning.

I then got a text from Abby and jumped on the phone with her for a bit. She had a couple of questions. We ended up on the phone for almost half an hour. She is having fun with some of the graphics and concepts for adilas. We talked about funding and how she may have to put some hours on the side right now due to budget constraints. She is good with that, for now. We chatted about some other things, and she has a good attitude and good vision. I love it.