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Conversation at Lael Alexander's Boat - June 3, 2025
Location: Keystone Lake, Tulsa, OK Participants: Lael Alexander, Gary Sheng, Coleman Ferguson, Josh Lange, and others Topics: Business Strategy, Project Management, Education Reform, Technology Development
Key Themes & Insights
Current Projects & Operations
- Multiple concurrent high-value projects including:
- Cruise line wastewater treatment (potential 32-port, multi-billion dollar contract)
- Quantum diagnostic system with 11 patents pending
- New communication technology beyond 6G
- Various real estate and construction projects
- Project Management Style:
"I'm a multi-threaded processor... In my downtime, when I'm not in front of a screen, I'm just filling the queue all day long."
Technology Development
- AI Integration Philosophy
"I think this AI revolution is going to provide me more business because AI is going to create things that they can't even comprehend so they're going to have to have a person like me build it."
- AI Agent Manager Project
"The next thing that I'm doing is an AI agent manager... that will take deep seek, take chat GPT, take Gemini, and just literally make them its bitch."
- Quality Control with AI
"I'm back checking the AI because I can't believe everything that it spits out... I don't want to be one of those guys that get caught up on the engineering flaw because I've depended on AI to build this for me."
Business Model & Pricing Strategy
- Discussion about undervaluing services
- Gary's suggestion to "10x the price and half of them will still say yes"
- Coleman's observation: "Mel is a very generous person and it spills over into the profit"
- Challenge with "tweeners" (problematic middlemen):
"I don't even call them middlemen anymore, because middlemen was respectable in my day... These are tweeners."
Education & Training Pipeline
- Discussion of previous success in building training programs in India and China
- Coleman: "That's what he did in India, and that's what he did in China. So he built his own. And we just hadn't been able to do that in the United States yet."
- Existing infrastructure in Tulsa with four instructors ready
- Challenge of finding qualified people:
"The limitation on Lael is just people... And I mean smart people."
Information Security & Access
- Need for controlled information sharing
- Proposal for password-protected briefing site with AI-powered unique fingerprinting
- Discussion of protecting sensitive information while scaling influence
- Strategy for managing high-level relationships:
"Really how the world actually works is... there's just people that have unbelievable power and access to this unbelievable wealth that they're not scrolling on Twitter."
Notable Projects Mentioned
Wastewater Treatment Innovation
- Building water treatment plant on barge for cruise industry
- Potential 32-port implementation
- Multi-billion dollar contract potential
Communication Technology
- New quantum-based communication system
- Beyond 6G capabilities
- Patent applications in process
Silo Cloud Development
- Integration with publishing platform
- E-commerce capabilities
- Digital book distribution system
Action Items & Next Steps
- Development of AI agent manager system
- Patent filings for quantum diagnostic system
- Development of case studies for website
- Creation of secure briefing platform
- Documentation of project methodologies
Additional Notes
- Discussion of retirement considerations and continued work
- Exploration of boat/RV setup for potential future use
- Multiple international business relationships mentioned (Lords of London, etc.)
- Ongoing negotiations with various industrial partners