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I went from 105-hour weeks and near-divorce to a 40-hour workweek, zero turnover, and no missed deadlines.

That crisis forced me to rebuild everything—my leadership style, my team, and my life.

Now, I teach technology executives how to do the same.

I’ve coached executives from startups to Fortune 500s, helping them turn overwhelmed teams into high-performance A-Teams.

I’m Mike Mahony, a 20+ year CTO, Executive Coach, and creator of the Decentralized A-Team Method. 

My mission: help leaders escape firefighting mode, build autonomous teams, and scale without burnout.

Through executive coaching, digital products, and consulting, I guide tech leaders to:

	•	Cut hours without sacrificing results
	•	Develop teams that deliver without micromanagement
	•	Eliminate chaos and streamline operations

I also serve as a Fractional CTO and NetSuite specialist, where I translate messy systems into clear business wins—whether that’s automations, API integrations, or optimizing data workflows.

And as host of “Gaining the Technology Leadership Edge”, I sit down with top executives, founders, and disruptors to reveal the real stories behind successful teams—the hard lessons, surprising wins, and the strategies they wish they’d known sooner.

Here’s how we can work together:

🔹 Want to apply the Decentralized A-Team Method to your leadership style? DM me “COACH”

🔹 Have a story for the podcast? DM me “PODCAST”

🔹 Need a NetSuite Developer or Fractional CTO? DM me “NETSUITE”

👉 Listen to the show: https://gtle.show

📘 Grab the book: TopTierCoachingServices.com/dcatbook

Mike Mahony

2x Founder | Building AI systems behind fast-growing agencies, eCom & SaaS brands. Automate 80% of backend work.

If you want a business that can work without you, you're in the right place.

Keep reading if:

► You feel stuck.
► Your brand/agency is at full capacity.
► You want to grow the business, but you don't know how.
► You work with high-ticket clients, but processes are manual.
► Your staff makes mistakes and misses deadlines all the time.
► You do great work, but your client relationship deteriorates over time.
► You feel like the whole business is completely reliant on you to do everything.

I can help you.

A few years ago, I was just like you, experiencing the stress of running a business.

The good news is, I got through those tough days and now automate a tutoring agency that's turning over seven figures (and growing).

But before I tell you how dashboards and automation can fix all your problems, here's who I am and why you should care.

I'm Dashboard Lim, and in 2022, I scaled my business to seven figures. Today, I run a dashboard & automation agency to help other businesses scale, just as I did.

The same strategy I used to scale my business can work for you now: AUTOMATE , VISUALISE and SCLAE

Here are three reasons why it can help you:

1) Automation can do tasks in 1 minute that would take a human hours.

Imagine all those backend tasks your staff struggles with, now fully automated.

Once you activate automation, it works 24/7 and performs perfectly every time.

2) You can have a fully automated system live in less than 2 weeks.

Simply map out tasks and start building. You'll see the benefits instantly. No more spending hours per day getting updates from staff manually.

Imagine having a dashboard on your phone that gives you full visibility across all projects, without constantly checking in on staff.

3) Dashboards & AI Automation are the best investments you can make.

Let's say you can handle 30 clients a year, and your client LTV is $20,000. If you currently have ZERO systems in place, investing in some simple automations could increase your capacity by 10-30% in the next 2 weeks. That means you could take on an extra $60,000 to $180,000 worth of clients as a result.

Sounds great, right?

So, let me be your Chief Technology Officer!

I will:

► Create a business capability map that outlines everything you do every day.
► Identify which processes should be automated, and which ones shouldn't, to ensure you can spend as much time as possible with clients.
► Build the automated system for you in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible.
► Monitor the system 24/7 and fix bugs without you having to ask.

Let's talk ( link in bio )

Lian L.

BREAKING: Open-Source Ad Management is here.

And it runs on a $5 Mac Mini.

Clawdbot just changed the math for small agencies and founders.

🟢 It manages Google Ads and Meta Ads autonomously.
🔴 No SaaS fees. 
🔴 No data privacy issues.

While most people are paying $99/mo for "AI Wrappers," this runs locally on your own hardware.

Here is the capability stack:

✅ Audits: Full diagnostic scans on Google & Meta
✅ Intelligence: Competitor tracking via Auction Insights
✅ Optimization: Search term analysis & negative list building
✅ Creative: Performance scoring & fatigue detection

It works in practice like this:

Input: "Audit both accounts."
Output: Full report generated while you're offline.

This is what the future of AdTech looks like.
✅ Not a tool you rent.
✅ An agent you own.

I put together a "Self-Host Guide" to get this running on an old laptop or VPS in 15 minutes.

Want the guide?

1️⃣ Connect with me
2️⃣ Comment "OPEN"

I'll DM it over immediately.

PS: Repost to save a founder $1,000/month.

Building AI systems behind fast-growing agencies, eCom & SaaS brands. Automate 80% of backend work.

In 2023…

AI made a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti.
It looked like a melting wax figure.

❌ Glitchy.
❌ Distorted.
❌ Embarrassing.

People laughed.

In 2026?

You can’t tell what’s real anymore.
That’s a 3 year jump.

And almost nobody is psychologically prepared for what that means.

Here’s what actually happened behind the scenes:

→ AI capability improvement nearly doubled (1.85x acceleration)
→ Training compute now doubles every 5 months
→ Inference costs dropped 280x since 2022
→ We moved from chatbots… to PhD-level reasoning systems

But most people?
Still using ChatGPT like it’s 2022.

❌ Blank chat.
❌ No memory.
❌ No system.
❌ No infrastructure.

🟢 The tool evolved.
🟢 Your workflow didn’t.
🟢 This is where people get exposed.
🟢 Not because they’re stupid.
🟢 Because they’re casual.

And casual operators don’t survive exponential curves.
The next 24 months will create two groups:

1️⃣ People building AI systems
2️⃣ People consuming AI content

One group compounds.
The other scrolls.

If you're serious about not being the second group:
Join my Skool community.

❌ Not for hype.
❌ Not for “10k in 30 days.”

For operators who want:

→ Real AI workflows
→ Cost-controlled automation systems
→ Positioning that clients actually pay for
→ And a network that moves faster than YouTube tutorials

This isn’t for spectators.
It’s for builders.

📌 Comment “OPERATOR” and I’ll send you the link.

♻️ Repost if you refuse to get left behind.

This Meta Ad Library hack is stupid simple.

And once you see it, you’ll never look at ads the same way again.

Every Meta ad shows exactly when it started running.
Here’s the rule nobody talks about:

→ If an ad has been live for 120+ days
→ it’s making money. 
→ Period.

→ No DTC brand keeps spending on losing ads for 4 months.
→ Underperforming ads get killed in 2–3 weeks max.
→ Nobody burns budget on ads that don’t work.

So if something is still running after 60… 90… 120 days?

That’s not luck.
That’s a validated revenue signal.

Most people still do this wrong:

❌ Guess why ads work
❌ Copy random creatives
❌ Chase trends that died weeks ago

Meanwhile, the real answers are sitting publicly in Meta’s ad library.

So I built something to exploit it.
I built an n8n workflow that does this automatically:

→ Monitors competitor ad accounts
→ Checks daily for long-running ads (60+ days)
→ Pulls the exact creative the moment it qualifies
→ Sends it to Claude for breakdown

Then Claude analyzes:

→ Hook structure
→ Pain points being hit
→ Offer positioning
→ Social proof placement

🔴 No guessing.
🔴 No vibes.
🟢 Just ads that already survived the market.

This is how you stop “testing” and start stealing certainty.

And yeah, I’m giving it away.
Want the workflow + breakdown prompt?

1️⃣ Connect with me
2️⃣ Comment “ADS” below

(I’ll DM it — must be connected)

⚠️ If you’re running ads, selling offers, or building funnels and not doing this…
you’re choosing to learn the hard (expensive) way.

♻️ Repost if you know someone still guessing what creatives work.

Most ecom brands are wasting their best asset.

Their product photos.

I’m about to turn ONE photo into 50 high-converting UGC ads using AI.
Different:

→ backgrounds
→ outfits
→ camera angles
→ aesthetics
→ moods

✅ All without reshoots.
✅ All without creators.
✅ All without waiting weeks.

Just a UGC factory on demand, powered by the Nano Bananas engine.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:

→ If you’re selling physical products
→ and you’re not doing this yet…
→ You’re donating attention to competitors who are.
→ This is how brands are scaling creatives faster than their media buyers can test them.
→ One input.

Endless variations.
Zero creative bottleneck.

I’m giving away the exact setup I use to do this.
Not a “prompt dump”.
The actual workflow.

Want it?

1️⃣ Connect with me
2️⃣ Comment FACTORY below

(I’ll DM it to you — must be connected)

♻️ Repost if your ads deserve more than one photoshoot.

I built an AI that works while you sleep.

And I can't stop testing it.

I set it up 48 hours ago.
This morning? It messaged me before I woke up.

"3 urgent emails. Meeting in 20 minutes. Stock dropped 5%."

I didn't ask for it.
It just... knew.

EVERYONE'S DOING AI WRONG

→ You type questions.
→ Wait for answers.
→ Copy-paste results.

That's 2023.
Clawdbot flipped it.

→ AI comes to you
→ Remembers everything
→ Works 24/7

THE THREE THINGS BREAKING PEOPLE'S BRAINS

1️⃣ It remembers everything you tell it (Siri forgets. Clawdbot doesn't.)
2️⃣ It messages you first (Stock alert. Meeting reminder. Weather warning.)
3️⃣ It does real work (Fills forms. Sends emails. Runs programs. No sleep.)

PEOPLE THINK YOU NEED CRAZY HARDWARE

🟢 Mac Minis stacked on desks.
🟢 Raspberry Pis everywhere.
🟢 Wrong.
🟢 $5/month server. 
🟢 Done.

You're using AI like it's 2023.
Everyone is.

Meanwhile?
People using Clawdbot right now are 6 months in the future.

→ Their AI is working.
→ Their AI is remembering.
→ Their AI is doing tasks.

And they're literally not doing anything.
They're asleep.
Their AI is building the future.

WHAT YOU GET

✓ Complete setup guide
✓ My automation templates
✓ Cost breakdown

Everything in 5 minutes.

YOUR MOVE:

✅ Like this post
✅ Follow me
✅ Comment "CLAWDBOT" below

I'll DM you everything.

📌 P.S. This moves fast. Weekly features. Daily updates. You move now, or you're late forever.

Lian Lim

POV: You’re building a SaaS while running an AI automation agency.

Most people look at the result and call it "luck."
For me, it was 13 years of chaos.

Let’s rewind.

2013: Graduated. Unemployed.
2015: Working odd jobs. Tutoring just to survive.
2016: Finally landed a software engineering role in Australia.

But I kept tutoring nights + weekends.
That’s where I learned how real businesses actually break.
(Usually when you least expect it).

2018: The side hustle scaled → Operations broke → Panic ensued.
I built internal dashboards just to keep the business alive.
I didn’t know it yet, but this was the seed.

2021: Joined a Top-4 Bank.
Deep exposure to enterprise security and governance.
And I realized something terrifying:
Even the giants are running blind.

2022: I started Dashboard Lim quietly.
The early days were ugly.
❌ Custom dashboards that took weeks.
❌ Manual updates at 2 AM.
❌ Saving agencies from spreadsheet hell, one cell at a time.
Too much service. Zero leverage.

2024: The momentum shifted.
We stopped just "fixing data."
We started building repeatable systems for agencies and SaaS founders.
✅ Ecom brands saw profit in real-time.
✅ Agencies stopped reporting manually.

Clients stopped asking "what tool do you use?"
And started asking "how fast can we see the truth?"

2025 (The Shift):
From pure agency → products + platforms.
Right now, we are deploying internal AI agents and reusable data pipelines.
Same systems. Shipped faster. Fewer humans in the loop.

2026 (Now & Next):
Fully nomadic. Running a lean team.
But the biggest shift is coming soon.

We are taking the internal infrastructure that runs our agency...
And turning it into the platform that runs yours.

Coming soon: A "Profit OS" built for ecom brands.
But the logic?
It's for any founder who refuses to run their business on a 30-day lag.

This wasn't an overnight success.

It was 13 years of systems stacked on systems.
Until leverage finally showed up.

If you’re still building in the dark, keep stacking.

The breakthrough isn't a moment.
It's a process.

📌 PS: Repost if you know there’s no such thing as an overnight success. ♻️

If you’re running a 7–8 figure ecom brand and support still depends on people…

That’s a liability.

At this level, support isn’t CX.
It’s infrastructure.

And most brands your size don’t have it.

If your support stack relies on:
• headcount
• “our best agent”
• founders as escalation
• inbox firefighting

You don’t have a system.
You have operational debt.

Even at scale, 80–90% of tickets are predictable.

→ Order status.
→ Shipping delays.
→ Exchanges.
→ Policy questions.

Treating these as human work isn’t premium.
It’s inefficient.

So I rebuilt support as a decision system.

🔴 Not a chatbot.
🔴 Not AI fluff.

A system that:

🟢 Classifies tickets by intent + risk
🟢 Uses live order context
🟢 Resolves what’s safe instantly

Escalates only real risk
Humans handle exceptions.
The system handles volume.

That’s how support scales past 7 figures.

I documented the exact blueprint behind this.
No beginner content.
No SaaS demo.

This is only for founders who:

✅ Have real order volume
✅ Feel support slowing growth
✅ Know hiring isn’t leverage anymore

If that’s you:

1️⃣ Connect
2️⃣ Comment “SUPPORT”

📌 I’ll send you the AI Support Agent Blueprint.

I built an Ecom Dashboard that tracks every single penny in real-time.

→ No more end-of-month surprises
→ No more guessing true profit
→ No expensive CFO or $999/mo tools

Most ecom owners are flying blind:

→ Inflated ad platform ROAS lying to you
→ Hidden fees eating margins you never see
→ SKUs quietly bleeding cash until it's too late
→ Competitors scaling with live data while you wait weeks for reports
→ Lying awake wondering where the money actually went

I got tired of that.
So I built the exact CEO-level dashboard I wished existed at $99.

Here's what it tracks 24/7:

✅ Live revenue + true contribution margin
✅ MER that doesn't lie (real marketing efficiency)
✅ Cash velocity + runway clarity
✅ SKU-level profitability (which products print money vs kill it)
✅ Stripe + Shopify + Ads data merged automatically
✅ Clean morning view (no spreadsheets, no chaos)

Before: Monthly P&L shock and constant doubt
After: Know your real numbers every single day

Result?
🟢 Cut wasted spend fast.
🟢 Spot dying products before they tank margins.
🟢 Scale with confidence, not hope.

This isn't a free toy it's the premium system running my own stores and client projects.
But it's only $99 (one-time) with lifetime support.

❌ Not $999/mo.
❌ Not $497.
✅ Just $99 to own it forever.

Want it?
Check the link in the first comment → grab it now.
(Only while spots for onboarding support last)

📌 PS: Repost ♻️ if you're done guessing and ready to know your real numbers.
⚠️ PPS: The brands quietly pulling ahead? They already have something like this.

We’re giving early access to the automation that will change e-commerce forever.

And only 15 brands will get in.
Because this isn’t another “dashboard template.”

→ This is a 5-minute, fully-automated CEO dashboard that replaces
→ your analyst…your reporting assistant…your data team…
→ and your weekend number crunching misery.

Here’s the part nobody believes until they see it:

↪ You connect your data.
↪ You wait 5 minutes.
↪ Your entire CEO control center launches itself.

→ Google Ads synced automatically
→ Meta Ads tracked with zero setup
→ Shopify connected without touching a single integration
→ Live metrics, blended ROAS, CAC, LTV, spend pacing, margin insights
→ Daily + hourly updates without you ever logging in

🔴 No manual installs.
🔴 No Zapier hell.
🔴 No “can you share admin access?” back-and-forth.
🟢 We build it.
🟢 We run it.
🟢 You stay in control.

Why we’re giving early access...
We’re about to launch this publicly.

But before we do…
we want serious operators to test it, break it, stress it..
and get an unfair advantage months before their competitors even hear about it.

So we’re giving away something special:

FREE 1:1 “CEO Dashboard Call”

→ Live demo
→ We build your dashboard on the call
→ You get the early-access playbook + the book

(Only for real businesses.)

Want in?

1️⃣ Connect with me
2️⃣ Comment “DASHBOARD” below

(I’ll DM you the early-access link + book once we’re connected)

📌 PS: Repost if you want priority. The 15 spots will vanish fast.

Most agencies won't tell you this.

Because knowing it destroys their business model.

❌ Your Meta Ads account has a silent killer.
❌ It's not your creative. 
❌ It's not your landing page.

It's the setup nobody fixes because fixing it takes work.

HERE'S THE THING

90% of e-com founders are leaving 30-50% of their ad budget on the table.

→ Right now.
→ Today.
→ They're not bad at ads. 
→ They're just blind.

They can't see what's actually broken inside their account because Meta Ads Manager is designed to hide it.

THE HIDDEN KILLERS

→ Pixel tracking that silently broke 3 months ago (you're still paying).
→ Audiences set to demographics you don't sell to (wasting budget).
→ Campaign names with zero tracking structure (can't tell what's working).
→ Budget pacing that bleeds on weekends (predictable waste).
→ Dead audiences still getting daily spend (phantom costs).

These aren't small problems.

Each one steals 5-15% of your monthly ad budget.
Combined? You're leaving behind $2K-$5K/month minimum.

I BUILT AN AUDIT SYSTEM THAT EXPOSES EVERYTHING

✅ Runs automatically. 
✅ Takes 5 minutes. 
✅ Shows you exactly what's broken.

Here's what it checks:

→ Campaign structure (organized or chaos?)
→ Pixel tracking (firing or dead?)
→ Audience configuration (who's really seeing your ads?)
→ Budget allocation (bleeding where?)
→ Account hygiene (what's live vs wasting money?)

One founder ran it. 
Found 8 broken tracking pixels. 
Fixed them.

ROAS went from 2.1x to 3.8x overnight.

→ Same budget. 
→ Same creative. 
→ Same landing page.
→ Just fixed the invisible problem.

I'M GIVING YOU THE COMPLETE SYSTEM

✓ n8n workflow (copy-paste into your account)
✓ Google Sheets dashboard (see everything in one view)
✓ Audit checklist (what to fix first)
✓ Action plan (exactly how to fix it)

This normally costs $2K+ if you hired an agency.
Completely free if you grab it today.

🟢 CLAIM IT NOW:
🟢 Comment "AUDIT"

(I'll DM you the complete system + VIDEO showing it in action)

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