the right people know it exists?

Hey Clief Notes fam! 👋 I'm Richard and I'm stoked to be here.

🙋 A little about me:

UK-based (Hinckley, Leicestershire), 25+ years in tech across banking, rail, retail and consulting. These days I run DDM Solutions as a Fractional CTO / Chief AI Officer, I'm a partner at Assured Velocity (transformation consultancy), and I sit on a couple of boards as a NED. Also an author — The Fractional Handbook and the Read The… series.

🎯 My current goal:

Building a properly diversified income base — landing the right contract and fractional engagements while getting my own products from "working prototype" to "paying customers."

💪 What I'm currently building/working on:

Two things I'm genuinely excited about:

A Ways of Working diagnostic (multi-tenant Next.js/Supabase) that models the financial drag of how organisations actually operate — turning "our processes are a mess" into a number a CFO can act on.
A signals and prospecting engine — a 65-signal registry with a doer/verifier agent pattern and custom Python scrapers, built to spot the moment a business needs the kind of help I offer.

🤔 My biggest struggle or question right now:

Honestly? Distribution. I can build the thing and I can do the work — but going from "I've built something good" to "the right people know it exists" is the muscle I've used least. How are you all finding your first real users without burning six months on content that goes nowhere?

Let's get it! 🚀

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the right people know it exists?