About — LavaHopper Substack

I spent twenty-five years running businesses without ever really filing anything. I just remembered where things were. Then I started actually using AI to run a company, and somewhere in there everything changed. Not because the tools are magic. Because I finally learned to use them like a teammate instead of a search bar.

This is where I share what I found.

I’m Matt. I run a medical device company, I’m raising three kids, and the first one heads to college this fall. Over the last six months I learned to do real work with AI, the kind where being wrong is expensive, while still trying to be home for dinner. I’m not a guru. I’m not selling you a course. I’m a guy who figured this out the hard way and would rather you didn’t have to.

Here’s what you’ll get if you subscribe: a free, plain-English series on actually using AI in your business. Foundations first, then we build. No jargon. No “you’re already behind” panic. No spending money you’re saving for rent or your kid’s tuition on some expensive prompting class you don’t need.

Just the honest version, one piece at a time, every week.

If that sounds useful, subscribe. There’s a lot coming.

— Matt