John Rice / Minnesota software builder & AI consultant
I’m John Rice. I help founders and service businesses turn what they know into products and AI workflows they can use. Fifteen years in software. A portfolio of my own tools. A partner for what you’re building.
Connect the knowledge in your meetings, documents, and reporting routines. Start with one workflow your team can put to use.
Explore help for your business FOR SOLO FOUNDERSFind a problem worth solving, shape the first release, and build with agents. Use the tools or bring me into the project.
Explore the founder pathCONSULTING IN PRACTICE / PROJECT STUDY
Designed & prototypedAn internal AI assistant for a marketing agency: meeting commitments, connected performance data, and status drafts a person can review.
Explore the projectTHE WORKFLOW
What was agreed, who owns it, and what is still missing.
Give the reviewer a way back to the original information.
A useful draft for a person to check and share.
01 / The work behind the advice
Get a clearer next step for a LinkedIn draft.
HOW IT HELPSScores the hook, body and ending of a draft, with focused coaching and optional edits built around Tony Albrecht's method.
ClawPortGive your agent team a place to work.
HOW IT HELPSOpen-source dashboard for agent hierarchy, chat, tasks, scheduled jobs, costs, activity and memory, built on OpenClaw.
PeekabooUnderstand how your brand appears in AI search.
HOW IT HELPSTracks brand mentions, competitors, sentiment and cited sources across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Subreddit SignalsFind the customer conversations worth listening to.
HOW IT HELPSMonitors selected communities, ranks posts by fit and buyer intent, and helps founders prepare useful replies.
02 / A practical point of view
A small team should be able to act on a good idea. My part is helping you choose what deserves to be built, make a working version, and give people a way to use and improve it.
Build with me03 / John Rice — Build Notes
Inside Your Post Coach: how a focused coaching method becomes feedback a writer can use, with Tony Albrecht’s expertise at the center.
Inside an agency assistant prototype: source references, unresolved questions, and the review steps behind a meeting brief.
A practical way to choose your first AI workflow without turning a small experiment into a systems overhaul.
04 / Take the method with you
JOHN RICE / ALWAYS BUILDING05 / MN → LA → MN
I left Minnesota for Los Angeles, earned my associate degree in computer science and computer programming at Santa Monica College, and came back to Minnesota. Today I build my own products and help other people turn their knowledge into tools. I share the decisions, the methods, and what I’d change next time.
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