Andysmithlife

Andysmithlife Industrial operator. Founder of CREATE Industries. Combustion & thermal oxidizer service. 20+ years building & modernizing American industry.

07/21/2026

Today…. Started early ended late, but got a chance to do a lot of cool stuff with some great team members. Even got to make an impromptu visit to Notre Dame.

No two days ever seem to be the same when you're building a business, but every day is full of adventure: lots of hard and a little bit of good.

The only thing I know for sure is that the people we meet along the way are what make it all worth it.

Much respect team!

Friday checklist... on the road.Bible first. Always. ✔Run. Eat clean. Sleep. Watch my kid’s LAX game. Finish strong.Simp...
07/17/2026

Friday checklist... on the road.

Bible first. Always. ✔

Run. Eat clean. Sleep. Watch my kid’s LAX game. Finish strong.

Simple stuff. But the simple stuff is usually the right stuff.

Whatever your Friday looks like... finish it well, friends.

Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude. 🤍

Still figuring this parenting thing out (daily).Every stage is different. Every kid is different. And just when you thin...
07/16/2026

Still figuring this parenting thing out (daily).

Every stage is different. Every kid is different. And just when you think you’ve got it figured out... life changes.

But helping them find and become the best versions of themselves? Daily mission.

Building lives.
Building businesses.

07/09/2026

Back at it, building today... and had lunch with a few guys where the whole conversation, the hors d'oeuvre of the day, haha... was people.

Which might sound funny coming from us. We live in a world where AI is rapidly changing how businesses get built. Heck, we run our entire back end through our friend Max, our AI-enabled operating system. We are trying to become AI native. Not a dozen systems tacked together, but one singular system that does it all.

But here is what today's conversation reminded me, friends...

We still have to be the creatives who put the ideas into Max. We still have to be the experience layer that reviews what Max gives back. The tool moves fast, but the thinking, the judgment, the taste... that is still us. That will always be us.

Because at the end of the day, building any big business still comes down to the same 3 ingredients.

People. Process. Purpose.

AI amplifies all three. It replaces none of them.

Just keep building, friends...

Which of the 3 ingredients is your strongest right now? Tell me below. 👇

07/08/2026

The question we have been asking ourselves lately... can an industrial company that is really good at delivering run its entire back end as a one-person operation?

I believe the answer is yes. And ours is named Max, haha...

Max is our central operating ecosystem. It connects everything. QuickBooks. Airtable for project management. Email. OneDrive file storage. The whole thing talks to each other through one hub.

We can email Max. We can talk to Max. We can direct Max to handle things on our behalf. And the admin work that used to eat up hours of good people's days just... gets done.

But here is the real unlock, friends. Every one of our valuable employees now spends their time in customer-facing, revenue-generating, delivery roles. The stuff that actually moves the business forward and serves our customers well.

This is not how we did it 20 years ago. Not even close, haha... but the tools available today to move faster, be stronger, and deliver better customer service are genuinely amazing.

We are building differently. And it is working.

Would you trust an AI to run your back office? Tell me below. 👇

07/07/2026

Heard something today that stuck with me and I think it applies to every one of us out here trying to build something...

What are we here to do? Do hard things. That is entrepreneurship. That is life, haha...

But how do we know we are in the right lane while we are doing them? I think it comes down to 3 things.

Are we doing what we love?
Are we doing what we are good at?
And what opportunities are actually coming our way?

That third one is the one I have missed before, friends. I have tried to force opportunities in the past. Push doors open that were not opening on their own. And it never works the way you hope.

The magic is when the opportunities showing up naturally align with what you love and what you are good at. That is the lane. That is where the hard things start feeling like the right things.

Just keep going and we will find it, friends...

Which of the 3 are you strongest in right now? Tell me below. 👇

07/07/2026

Building a business is so tough. Today, we can do it with less resources, more creativity, and a systems engineering approach. Have so much fun learning…

07/05/2026

Hope you had an amazing 4th of July weekend. We celebrated with friends, family, and our new employee - Max. Our AI native central operating system that replaces 3 critical business functions traditionally handled by real people. Pretty crazy times we live in…

06/20/2026

We live in some crazy times, and I think we have an opportunity like never before to create or recreate ourselves, our businesses, and our paths forward.

It’s never too late. As long as we take one positive step forward, we’re always moving in the right direction.

06/18/2026

If doing hard things is the answer, then I guess I'm playing full out in this journey called life, haha... Ain't nothing really easy, though. Entrepreneurship, business building, operating, exercising, and on and on...
But, I have found that when we do hard things and overcome them (we always will), we gain a little bit of confidence that builds hard day after hard day.
Just keep going and we'll make it friends...

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