Garron Ware

I’m a manufacturing entrepreneur, a small business operator, and a self-taught AI workflow builder.

In 2017, at the age of 32, I bought a distressed manufacturing business in the Rust Belt. The company was straight out of 1950s America. Manual machines. Paper files. And an honest to God typewriter in the bookkeeper's office.

I spent the next five years trying to set up the company for success in the 21st century.

But in the end, I failed. The company went out of business. And I went bankrupt.

I often get asked "what happened?"  But there's no smoking gun. My business failed due to an accumulation of factors.

One of those factors was me. And I don't hide from that. I made dozens of mistakes. Some were innocuous. Others weren't.

Unlike some entrepreneurs, I don't fetishize failure. You'll never hear me say that failing was the best thing that ever happened to me. Because it wasn't. Failing sucked. And bankruptcy sucked worse. It was an embarrassing and humiliating sequence of events. And anyone who tells you differently is either lying, or they haven't gone through it.

But failure didn't defeat me either. It gave me a fresh start, a new perspective, and enough "fuck you" energy to power a small city.

For my next act, I’m leaning into AI.

In the summer of 2024, I didn’t even know what an AI agent was. Now, with the help of low-code/no-code tools like n8n, gumloop, and make, I’m building multi-agent workflows.

Obviously, I don't fit the profile of a typical AI developer.

Many are tech people who’ve never run a P&L in their lives. Others are marketing people who’ve spent the last 10 years writing blog posts and automating sales funnels...Cool man.

That’s not me. I'm a manufacturing guy. An operations guy. Boots on the ground.

I’ve signed both sides of a paycheck. And I know how to order steel by the bar. And even though I don’t like to brag, I also have a no-shit license to operate a forklift.

If you’re interested in learning more about my progress and the problems I’m solving, then check out my Substack and follow me on twitter/X where I’m building AI workflows in public.

You can learn more about my story, including what happened to my business, on my Substack.