👋 Hi, my name is Dejon. I’m 25 years old and am the creator of The Acquire & Automate Lab. Life was good for me two years ago. I had a solid fleet of clients on trendwatchers.co 16 months ago, and things were going really well until one of my clients reached out and asked me a simple question: “How much do I have to pay you to put your businesses on the back burner, come in, and systemize my entire company with SOPs and AI?” At the time, I wasn't sure if it was the right move, but I decided to take the leap. Shortly after joining, I worked my way up to CTO. Over the next 12 months, I didn't just streamline operations, deploy AI systems, and build automated workflows—I also helped scale the team from 4 to over 30 people and took monthly revenue from $50k/month to over $650k/month. 💰🚀 Because we had a growth partnership agreement in place, I benefited significantly. But the business owner still made 10x what I made. That’s when it hit me: I wanted to build real, true equity ownership. Fast forward to three months ago. I was scrolling on Facebook Marketplace and noticed someone listing a franchise business for sale. At first, I thought listing a business on Facebook was weird and scrolled past it. But over the next few weeks, the listing kept showing up on my feed. Finally, I decided to message the seller. After signing an NDA, she sent over the financials and operational documents. It was a massive amount of data to digest, so I fed everything into Claude to analyze the numbers and highlight the biggest growth opportunities. 🤖📊 What Claude revealed completely blew my mind. 🤯 The business was severely underutilized, and I realized I had the exact skillset from my executive background to step in, systemize every process, integrate AI automation, delegate operations, and transform it into a true passive asset. To date, I’ve acquired two businesses using this exact model, and I plan to continue acquiring more over the coming years.