Built for Riley Stricklin · Cadre AI

Riley — different lanes, same audience.

Not a job application. Not a sales pitch. A clean partnership read for the leads that don't fit your model.

Saw the hiring post. Congrats on the trajectory — 65 people in 18 months is rare air. Wrote you this in real time so the partnership idea has shape, not just words. Takes 60 seconds to read.

The lane gap

Cadre AI

$50k–$500k+ engagements
Multi-month timelines
Enterprise + mid-market
Procurement, MSAs, SOWs
Multi-person engagement teams
OpenAI / Anthropic Service Partner
Strategic AI transformation

SideGuy

$300 / $800 / $1k tickets
Same-day delivery
Solo founders / small operators
Text PJ, no SOW, no procurement
One human (PJ)
Local in Encinitas
Tactical fixes + small builds

Why this is a partnership, not a pitch

You get DM'd weekly by leads that aren't a Cadre fit:

Solo founder who wants "an AI thing" for $1k, not $50k
Local SD agency owner who needs one Claude buildout, not transformation
Coach / consultant who wants a custom landing page yesterday
Real estate broker who wants per-listing AI summaries
Healthcare practice that needs intake automation but isn't ready for an MSA

Today those leads probably get a polite "we're not the right fit" or a generic referral. Tomorrow they could get sent to a real human (me) who does same-day, no retainer, $300-$1k. You stay focused on the big work. They get help. I get warm leads. Nobody's competing.

What I bring concretely

Same-day turnaround on small AI builds, custom landing pages, automations
Direct communication (text PJ, no agency layer)
Clean handoff format — I take the lead, you stay out of the loop entirely
Brand-safe — I make it clear I'm a partner, not Cadre
Local SD presence (in-person if needed for the relationship layer)

Recent receipts (so this isn't theoretical)

Just shipped 200k+ page schema + sitemap migration on a real estate-adjacent site (this weekend)
Built a fully personalized LinkedIn outreach pipeline (Blast Mode, sales board, lead tracker) Sunday night
Ship custom shareable landing pages in ~10 min from a public ask (this page is one — built after I saw your hiring post)
Site running on S3 + CloudFront with custom deploy pipeline (fastship.sh) — parallel uploads, smart invalidation, seconds not hours

A note from PJ

Riley — I'm not chasing a Cadre role and I'm not pitching you on a Cadre product. I'm proposing a clean overflow lane. Most AI services firms hate the small leads and refer them out badly. I'd be a clean handoff for the ones that don't fit your model.

Two ways this could work: (1) you ping me when one comes in and I take it directly, (2) you give me a short referral link to send to qualified-out leads. Either works. No commission unless you want one. No commitment.

This page itself is a SideGuy Shareable — built in 10 minutes after I saw your post. That's also literally the product I sell. Feels like a fair demo.

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