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Expertise paired with data, technology and perspective is how FieryFX builds business assets and creates systems that get real leverage to grow and improve your business. We know running a business is hard work. But, there are "simple machines" available to help the hard work yield more results. We help growth-oriented businesses harness websites, analytics, smart business & technology to expand t

heir reach and impact… with ease. Using our proprietary framework, companies first get clear on what success looks like. Then we use, remodel or reinvent their existing processes, technology and systems to set them on the path to achieving success. Getting value from technology is 30% the tech, and 70% how it is used. We don’t believe in business as usual. Instead, we help you ignite the value of your...

Time - Make the right decision easier and faster. Know for a fact that all the effort you're expending is building momentum in the right direction. It all starts with a plan. Effort - No business can grow without adding capacity. Automation is exponential capacity. Focus on the places in your business where you add the maximum value and let the robots help do the rest. Impact - Every business is in the business of results. Make sure that what you are doing with your time, money & technology is converting into real business & results. Start on the journey to doing more with less by tuning into my podcast Elevated with Brandy Lawson: FIeryFX.com/Podcast or anywhere you listen to podcasts.

This week I'm keynoting the Montana Society of CPAs True North conference. The session is called AI Curious to AI Capabl...
06/16/2026

This week I'm keynoting the Montana Society of CPAs True North conference. The session is called AI Curious to AI Capable.

What does a room full of experienced CPAs have in common with luxury design businesses? Both industries are typically late-adopters and a bit risk adverse (especially when it comes to cutting-edge tech 💎🤖).

If you've tried ChatGPT, gotten back something generic and robotic, and concluded "AI doesn't really work for what I do" that is the wall of resistance my session is designed to break through.

The accountants showing up to this conference are not behind. They're not late. They're doing exactly what every relationship-driven business owner could be doing right now: getting fluent before not knowing becomes the liability.

You knew you were right.But he was so confident. So sure of the version he was telling. And for just a second, you wonde...
06/14/2026

You knew you were right.

But he was so confident. So sure of the version he was telling. And for just a second, you wondered if you were the one misremembering.

That second is what eats experienced designers alive. Not the wrong contractor. Not the bad client. The internal hesitation when someone with more swagger says it differently than you remember it.

The recording isn't proof against him. It's proof against your own second-guessing.

You don't have to win the argument. Just stop having it with yourself. →

06/12/2026

Your project manager doesn't get your interpretation of what the client said.

They get the client's actual words.

Not "they mentioned they weren't crazy about round k***s." The transcript. "We had round k***s in our last kitchen and we really, really did not like them." With the emphasis intact. With the three times they said it.

You didn't filter it. You didn't have to.

What this does to your team over time is significant.

They stop making decisions based on your summary of someone else's preferences. They start listening to the source. And when they access the source, they catch the nuances that don't survive handoffs — the ones that cost you the reorder and restock fee, and the conversation where you have to explain what happened.

You stop being the only person who understands what the client wants. Your team starts to know it directly.

And you stop being the thing standing between them and doing the job right.

If everything in your business has to go through you to be done correctly, that's not dedication — that's a bottleneck. And the AI Note-Taking Guide at cabinetnotes.com is the system that changes it.

How to set up the workflow so recordings and transcripts land in your project management system automatically. How to hand off a job completely without being the last person who actually understood it.

And next week — the contract is signed, the deposit cleared, your client was excited.

And then nothing.

Subscribe so you don't miss it — link in comments.

06/05/2026

It's right there on line seven. Standard crown. Their signature.

You have the contract. You're not wrong.

But what they're looking at right now isn't line seven. It's the kitchen they imagined for six months. And in that kitchen — the one that lived in their head while they waited 14 weeks for delivery — the cabinets went to the ceiling.

Your client isn't being difficult. They're experiencing the imagination gap.

Here's what actually happened: clients sign documents. They buy visions.

Between the day they chose standard crown and the day the cabinets went in, they looked at one thing when they thought about this kitchen — the rendering. The beautiful, accurate rendering you showed them on a laptop screen in a quiet showroom on a day when they were excited and hopeful.

In that moment, the six-inch reveal above the crown didn't register. They saw the kitchen, not the spec sheet.

This is the part that matters: the contract is your legal protection. But a contract the client signed with a detail they didn't notice — or didn't fully understand — is the beginning of a conflict, not the end of one.

And the cost of that conflict is almost always yours.

Not because you did anything wrong. Because being right and being protected are not the same thing.

This episode is about closing that gap before it opens — with what Brandy calls the audio visual lock. A simple addition to the sign-off process that makes sure what the client is imagining and what they're agreeing to are the same thing.

The workflow is at cabinetnotes.com.

🎧 New episode out now

06/02/2026

The stenographer's job is to write down what's said. A consultant's job is to see what's not said.

When your eyes are on the notebook, you miss the wife's glance at her husband when he says "double oven." You miss the moment the room is telling you the 10-foot island leaves 28 inches of walkway, and that's tight.

You miss the question you would have asked. The redirect you would have offered. The clearance problem you would have caught before it became a revision that feels like it could have been avoided.

A stenographer can't be a consultant.

When the recording handles the transcription, you become the person they actually hired. Eyes up. Brain in the room. →

05/29/2026

The delay wasn't your fault. The client's email isn't fair.

And none of that matters right now.

Because not wrong and right move are two completely different things.

When we feel attacked — especially unfairly attacked — the impulse is immediate. Defend. Explain. Set the record straight. And that impulse makes sense. The problem isn't that you want to defend yourself. The problem is that the email written from that place almost always makes things worse.

Even when every word is true.
Even if you use AI to help write it.

It signals that you're rattled. It escalates the tone. It turns a furious client into a difficult one — and occasionally a difficult client into a litigious one.

One defensive email written on a Monday morning before your coffee kicks in can undo months of goodwill and trust.

In the luxury design business, how you respond when things go wrong is part of what clients are paying for. Firing back in kind is never the right move — not here, not really in any business.

This episode is about what to do instead. And the system that makes it possible to respond from a place of clarity instead of defensiveness — because you have the record, you know what was said, and you don't have to prove anything from memory.

The workflow is at cabinetnotes.com.

🎧 New episode out now — link in comments.

The reorder cost $2,400. The finish was wrong because the note said "brushed" but the client actually said "satin."Nobod...
05/26/2026

The reorder cost $2,400. The finish was wrong because the note said "brushed" but the client actually said "satin."

Nobody caught it because the note was handwritten during a 90-minute meeting while also measuring, listening, and answering questions about timeline.

The tools to prevent that exist right now. They're not complicated. They don't require a tech team or an IT department. They require pressing record and letting the software do the part your brain was never designed to do while you're standing in someone's kitchen.

The expensive mistakes in this industry almost never come from bad decisions. They come from good decisions that nobody documented. →

05/22/2026

One searchable transcript is worth more than four notebooks.

When the notebooks are on a shelf and the electrician is on the clock.

If you've ever put a client on hold and felt the growing dread of digging through a stack of paper for something you know you wrote down — you already know this. The older the job, the more complex the project, the more it costs you when the information isn't findable.

The system that fixes this isn't complicated. Every conversation becomes a searchable archive automatically. Any detail from any conversation, retrieved in the time it takes to type one word.

Not four notebooks. One search.

The AI Note-Taking Guide at cabinetnotes.com covers exactly this — which app, how to set up the recording workflow, and how to find anything from any job without putting anyone on hold.

And next week — it's Monday morning. You open your laptop to a client email written entirely in caps. You're about to type a reply you might regret for years.

Don't hit send yet. Subscribe so you don't miss it.

🎧 New episode out now — link in comments.

05/15/2026

The most useful recording you'll ever make isn't from a client meeting.

It's you, alone on a job site, talking to yourself.

Here's what that sounds like in practice:

"The run from the refrigerator to the window is 38 and a quarter inches. The corner to the left is a blind corner — need to confirm with the GC whether we're doing a lazy Susan or dead space. The window is standard width, no obstruction for upper cab."

Not shorthand. Full sentences. Narrated in the room while you're measuring it.

Fifteen minutes of that, and you have complete context in your own voice from the exact space you were standing in.

Three weeks later, you know exactly what the 38 and a quarter was measuring — because you told yourself.

The transcript isn't a mystery. It uses real words. You can search it, share it with your designer, forward it to the GC. No decoding chicken scratch notes at 9 PM trying to remember what "38¼ — bc?" meant.

And here's the second use that a lot of veteran dealers love: the on-site narration becomes the foundation for the client follow-up. You've already done the thinking out loud. The recap almost writes itself.

The AI Note-Taking Guide at cabinetnotes.com includes this workflow — how to narrate a site measure so the transcript is actually useful, and how to turn that recording into a client-ready follow-up.

🎧 New episode out now — https://youtu.be/qRVG6pcL8Jk

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