My Business Partner Locked Me Out And Smirked, “Sue Me—You Can’t Afford A Lawyer.” I Didn’t Sue. I Made One Quiet Call About The Unlicensed Enterprise Software Keeping Our Whole Operation Running… And 48 Hours Later, An Audit Notice Hit His Inbox And The Company Started Unraveling Fast.

He was the steering wheel. First year was brutal in the good way. We landed eight clients in six months.

Small to midsize manufacturers struggling with production bottlenecks, inventory management disasters, quality control nightmares. I’d spend weeks embedded in their facilities, mapping workflows, identifying inefficiencies, implementing fixes. One client, Precision Machining Outfit in Wisconsin, was running at 67% efficiency.

Their production line had 17 separate bottlenecks. I spent three weeks living in a motel near the facility, working 12-hour days, rebuilt their entire workflow, restructured their inventory system, trained their floor managers. Efficiency jumped to 89% in two months.

They saved $340,000 annually, referred us to three other manufacturers. That was the pattern. I’d fix their problems.

They’d tell their friends. Jordan would close the deals. Revenue jumped from $340,000 in year 1 to $1.1 million in year 2.

By year three, we hit $2.1 million. Twelve full-time consultants, contracts with manufacturers across Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio. We had a reputation.

When production lines failed, we got called. When quality metrics tanked, we got called. When efficiency targets looked impossible, we got called.

I was working 70-hour weeks minimum, sleeping in client facilities, living on vending machine food and gas station coffee, missing holidays, birthdays, weekends. My apartment basically became a storage unit for clothes I’d grab between projects. But it was worth it because we were building something real.

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