Preserve first
The existing website, CRM, and workflow get audited before anything is replaced. Migration is a recommendation only when the measured benefit clearly exceeds the switching cost.
I have been on the other side.Of the businesses I build for.
Mike Laniak, founder of LaniHQ. My background is sales and operations (real estate, property management, vendor-heavy operations, and the trades) as a buyer, seller, manager, and director. LaniHQ exists because I kept watching good businesses lose work to systems nobody owned.
THE BACKGROUND
Not a universal expert. A specific one.
The value is not subject-matter expertise in every field. It is having sat on several commercial and operating sides of the same kind of business, and being able to connect what an owner actually needs to the systems that deliver it.
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Commercial and residential real estate. Buyer, seller, manager, and director responsibilities across transactions and ongoing property operations.
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Property financial and asset management. Owner reporting, vendor coordination, and the administrative work that sits underneath property performance.
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Recycling and vendor-heavy operations. Operations where many outside parties touch the same job and handoffs are where things go wrong.
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Trades, contractors, and local service vendors. Direct working relationships with the kind of businesses LaniHQ now builds systems for.
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Startups and nonprofit organizations. Small teams where one person owns several functions and systems have to work without a department behind them.
How we work.
These are commitments rather than preferences. They decide what gets recommended when the profitable answer and the correct answer point in different directions.
Say what is not known
No published result without a defined baseline, a comparison period, and source evidence. Where proof is still being assembled, the site says so.
Build for handover
Accounts, documentation, and access belong to the client. Ongoing management should be a choice, not a dependency created on purpose.
THE TECHNICAL SIDE
What we build with.
Alongside the managed work, we build and run automation and agent infrastructure: self-hosted where it matters. Each one has a full guide covering setup, hosting, and the failures worth designing against.
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OpenClaw
OpenClaw gateway setup, channel access, credential scoping, and ongoing operation on infrastructure you own.
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Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent setup, hosting, memory and skill review, and ongoing operation on infrastructure you own.
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Claude Code
Claude Code setup, workflow design, custom agents, and MCP integration.
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n8n Automation
n8n workflow design, self-hosting, error handling, and ongoing management.
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VPS Deployment
VPS provisioning, hardening, Docker deployment, backups, and monitoring.
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Self-Hosted LLMs
Local and self-hosted LLM deployment, sizing, and integration.
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AI Chat Widgets
AI chat widget design, grounding, escalation, and lead capture for websites.
Talk to the person who will do the work.
LaniHQ is a founder-led team. I stay directly accountable for discovery, priorities, and the client relationship: you are not handed to an account manager after the sale.
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