Steve wanted me to meet with a guy by the name of Pete - he's a techy guy and a developer.

Met with Pete over Google Meet. He was showing me what he has done and what not. He was interested in adilas and the variety of what we are in and doing (not just a single business vertical). He gave me a good rundown on what he does, where he has worked, and some lessons learned. I really enjoyed our visit. Here are some of my notes - kinda random:

- Different ways of networking - one thing leading to the next, to the next, to the next. Some of the processes and needs are the same, but the people that make those connections are what really changes.

- Pete likes to get into a smaller organization and then really accelerate certain parts or pieces of that organization.

- He has done a lot of managing of teams and different leadership positions at different companies.

- He is interested in supply chain management and all of the pieces that touch that sector.

- On average, he seems like he likes to be with a company for 1.5 to 2 years. That's not bad, that just seems to be his turn rate.

- When possible, he likes to virtually steer the ship. He'll jump in and do SOP's, technology, decisions, and training. He's ok with bouncing around.

- If needed, it's ok to pull back and go into "maintenance mode".

- Introspection and looking inside yourself. Where does he want to end up and/or do? Great questions. It is management, software, hardware, training, or a mix?

- We talked a lot about professional services - Basically business needs and byproducts. This could be things like CPA's, Attornies, Designers, Developers, etc. Kinda like what we want to do for the adilas marketplace.

- We got into some code, backend, frontend solutions. We talked about nocode (no code) and lowcode (low code) solutions. He showed me a little bit of Bubble (bubble.io) and what they were doing. Just for fun, he said that he got a team to roll out a quick demo in about two weeks. It was just a demo, but a quick thing to show to investors and key players.

- Using API sockets and endpoints to do all of the main data play and heavy lifting.

- It's ok to strategically take a pause or a break.

- We talked about marketing and matching products and potential clients (users or customers). The difference between throwing a wide net or a more focused net (fishing analogy). Ways of creating your own mini marketplace.

- Pete showed me a cool, 20 question, walkthrough, to get a new service provider all setup with a professional service offering. Nice looking sequence and small decision tree based on the users input. It was setup like a little chat bot of sorts. Basically, a small Q&A with simple decisions, lists, choices, and in the end, it helped get you all setup. Pretty cool.

- Light talks about Geo fencing, Google places API, and other small wizard type interfaces. When you put it all together, you end up with a bigger wired-up mash-up with different pieces, libraries, and such. It looked pretty good.

- He was using some special discounts and coupons to help with billing stuff.

- Lots of byproducts - not the main products, but things or needs that get generated from the main product that become new products and services. Lots of byproducts.

- Everything was responsive web layout ready. He showed me lots of screens with simulation of what it would look like on different size screens. That was kind of cool.

- Pete showed me some of his rating systems and even pulling ratings from other outside services to create an overall rating for the professionals and their services.

- We went over some role based and team based permissions.

- Airtable - basically, a sharable spreadsheet through API sockets - simple database of sorts

- We went over some options for dynamic page content, drag and drop organization, and how that plays into the mix. He had a nice looking interface. This led us into more Bubble.io stuff. Imagine a map of clickable elements with light logic, nav, and flow built in. That is what it looked like.

- We got into some discussions on UI/UX pieces (user interface and user experience stuff). Lots of different libraries.

- Talking about change. Pete said a couple of times - I'm an agent of change management, not just change. The change management piece was important and where he likes to be.

- We talked about a few different analogies and ways to look at both companies and what they offer. An analogy of a triangle, you could look at the top, the middle, or the base (bottom). You could also look straight on (like a path or hallway) or you could look at the same thing from the side (see the beginning from the end or from the outside). Fun conversation about angles and how to look at things and analyze what you are looking at.

- We talked about the user feedback loop, what they want, what they are willing to pay for, what they expect, what they need, and even the phycology behind some of that (those choices or decisions). This conversation lead into a light talk about interactive education, helping people who are getting stuck, and figuring out why they are either getting stuck, frustrated, or losing interest. Lots of interesting ideas.

- Letting customers drive the next steps - by their feedback.

- Changing in the proper way and at the proper time - proper change management.

Good discusion. After the meeting, I got a prompt from Otter.ai to see the transcript (voice to text) or transcription. I popped in and read a few things. I didn't read it all, but that was interesting. I had never played with that before. Great meeting. We ended up and I told Pete that I would talk with Steve and we'll go from there. Good stuff.