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Outsource or own: Why Slidr's founder builds his own software

Slidr's founder, Mike Trombino, started with no workflows and no code. Six months after our first session he had rebuilt the Slidr website himself in Claude Code, was running his own AI agents, and was auditing his own SEO. Slidr now saves $240K+ a year.
Mike TrombinoFounder & CEO
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$240K+

Saved per year

By building in-house what Slidr used to pay others for

6 mo

Blank slate to builder

First call in September 2025, his own Claude Code builds by March 2026

4

AI agents

Running on his own hardware within days of installing Claude Code

The Slidr vehicle fleet
Industry
Electric shuttle transit
Location
Boca Raton, FL
Built with
Claude, Claude Code, OpenClaw, Vercel

The challenge

Every change meant paying someone else.

Mike Trombino runs Slidr, a turnkey electric shuttle company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Slidr operates programs for universities, hotels and planned communities across Florida and the Southeast.

In September 2025 his pipeline ran by hand: reading lead alerts, copying contacts into his CRM one at a time, writing every outreach email himself. On our first call he described himself as a blank slate, with no workflows set up. Anything technical meant paying someone else to do it.

A year ago I was cutting a check for every website tweak, every CRM change, every marketing post. Now I build it myself, and Slidr's traffic has doubled while I'm winning deals I never could have chased before.
Mike TrombinoFounder & CEO

Our approach

Give the founder the tools to build.

We started small: Claude connected to his CRM, Gmail and calendar, plus a skills pack so he was not starting from an empty prompt. In March 2026 we installed Claude Code in his terminal on a call. Within ten days he was running his own agents, building a model router to keep token spend down, and running an SEO and AI-search audit on his own site.

How it came together

  1. First sessionSep 2025

    Mike describes a pipeline run entirely by hand. We scope an outreach agent and connect Claude to his CRM.

  2. Skills and strategyFeb 2026

    Discovery on consolidating his CRM, HR and scheduling tools. We deliver a Claude skills starter pack.

  3. Claude Code in the terminalMar 2026

    We install Claude Code on a call. Within the week he has agents running on OpenClaw and a second app on Vercel and Supabase.

  4. His own websiteApr 2026

    The rebuilt Slidr website goes up on Vercel. Mike built it himself.

The result

The founder is the build team now

The $240K+ a year is the number people ask about. The bigger change is who builds: Mike ships his own website and his own agents, and calls us when he wants a second opinion. He has also sent us more new business than any other client, including Nationwide Haul.

Before

  • Lead alerts copied into the CRM by hand
  • Every outreach email written one at a time
  • Outside help for anything technical

After

  • The Slidr website, rebuilt by Mike in Claude Code on Vercel
  • AI agents on OpenClaw for outreach and research
  • A model router to keep token spend down
  • An internal Slidr wiki on GitHub
OneWave didn't just save me twenty grand a month. They turned me into the technical founder I never thought I'd be. That's the part that compounds.
Mike TrombinoFounder & CEO

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