$6,100 in 11 days: warm contact plus Claude Code automation closed the deal
aryanXmahajan · x · 2026-11-13
aryanXmahajan shares a client win from his Relay group: member Tad collected $6,100 cash in 11 days ($5,500 on a Tuesday morning + $600 a week later) — without 10,000 cold emails or pitching a $500 receptionist bot to dentists:
- Reconnected with one warm contact from his phone who already trusted his work from 3 years ago
- Found the manual bottleneck eating their engineering budget: updating complex monitoring dashboards by hand
- Wired Claude Code to update those dashboards automatically from code
Relay builds the client-acquisition system while its engineers close deals. The case shows warm outreach plus AI-automated delivery of a clear manual pain point is a replicable consulting path.
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