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When was that moment? What sort of year are we talking now that you realize that the systems and the structures that you had set up for yourself could actually be duplicated and offered to others?

Oh, okay. So I started working with Chris Poulter, who's awesome, and he was a consultant initially. You know, a lot of our early success in the management business was thanks to the, you know, his strategy and his, you know. Yeah, he just. He brought to the table what I didn't have. I'm the get stuff done guy. He's the guy who's five pages ahead and actually need a bit of both, you know, and he saw the solution I brought to the problem that he was, you know. You know, I think he's probably consulted to, you know, quite a few people and over time, and he saw a very common problem with a lot of businesses. And my idea at the time was, I'm just going to go and consult out. I'll let other people know how I've done it. And actually, he saw the opportunity, you know, it's thanks to him that we started Guest Flow. So we're business partners on it, you know, and, you know, we're two years into the project now, so just over two years ago, we were in Barcelona at the time and, you know, properly got to know each other and we were out with a delegation of business businesses. And, you know, I didn't realize at the time, but that was something that was part of it for them. They wanted to understand me and everything, you know, and the way I like to work. And there's just great synergy there, a lot of trust. It's been a difficult journey to get it this far, but, yeah, we're two years in, and it was around 18 months ago we launched, like you mentioned earlier, the beta version. It's essentially like what we call an mvp, Minimal viable product. I'd say the analogy is we built a steam engine, right? So it's a little bit ugly and it's a little bit clunky and it's a little bit slow, but it absolutely works. And that was the most important thing. We needed it to perform certain functions every time, right? And we've made massive learnings off that. You know, it's all about trying to get it in front of businesses, real businesses, not just our own, but other people's businesses, as early as possible and get feedback, you know, what works, what doesn't, what do people like. And the more of that you get, the earliest possible, you know, the much better your product becomes.

You know, I remember this time last year, it was around about September last year. I remember speaking to you with a phone call and I was coming just arrived back in Javea and we were I was driving back from the office one night and we're on a phone call talking about this and you're saying about how you were trialing it and testing it and beta stage. I was like amazing. Just let me know when it's ready because it does sound really cool. So for anybody who's wondering guest flow so the link so you can go check it out right now or after this podcast or if you're watching this on a replay it's guestflow Co so G U E S T F L O W dot co having a blast.

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