QUICK THOUGHT / EPISODE NO. 002
ONE SIMPLE QUESTION. ONE COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY WEBSITE.
HAVE YOU
LAUNCHED
YET?
My wife has asked me this so many times that she now gets mentioned in our team meetings. She wanted a date. I built mission control.
Have you launched yet?
She has a point.IT WAS A
FAIR
QUESTION.
“Have you launched yet?”
My wife asks this regularly. And honestly, it's a perfectly reasonable question.
For two years, our team has been connecting data, CRM, outreach, automation, and Cora into one enormous SalesDriver platform. As we built, we kept seeing more that was possible.
Now the question is such a fixture that we bring it up in team meetings.
Most husbands would just text back a date. I appear to have taken a different approach.
COMMUNICATIONS CENTERMISSION CRITICAL DOMESTIC INFRASTRUCTURE
This project has already received considerably more analysis than the original question.
02 / INTERACTIVE EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM
WELCOME TO
MISSION CONTROL.
Next time she asks, we're ready. An entire digital command center dedicated to providing the same answer a text message could have delivered.
ALL QUIET
AT HOME BASE.
But statistically, that cannot last forever. The system is prepared for the next perfectly reasonable question.
HONEY.
- 00:00:00 System ready. Awaiting inquiry from home base.
- 00:00:01 Answer preapproved: November 18.
03 / THE ACTUAL ANSWER
NOVEMBER 18.
The real SalesDriver launch date. The countdown goes to the beginning of launch day, Pacific time, until an exact launch hour is announced.
A QUICK LOOK INSIDE SALESDRIVER
THIS IS WHAT
TOOK TWO YEARS.
She asked for a launch date. We were busy connecting prospect data, AI agents, outreach, and CRM into one platform. Here are three actual screens from the public SalesDriver playground.
TRY THE REAL THING ↗Turns out, “we're close” was a very poor substitute for showing her what we were building.
These are real captures of the public SalesDriver demo, which uses sample data. Private QA and customer records are not shown.
05 / THE COST OF A SIMPLE ANSWER
SHE ASKED
FOUR WORDS.
I BUILT THIS.
It's perhaps the least efficient way anyone has ever communicated a calendar date. But we did have a very good rocket photo.
ASK THE QUESTION AGAIN ↗ABSOLUTELY
NO SPACE AGENCY
WE REALLY
ARE LAUNCHING.
SalesDriver is a connected sales and marketing platform we spent two years building with our team. CRM, prospect intelligence, outreach, automation, and Cora, our AI agent, working together.
It's a serious product. The ridiculous website is entirely my own doing.
182026 / SALESDRIVER