Harry Lockwood
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§ About

The longer
version.

How I got from Long Island pizza delivery to Chief AI Officer of one of the most respected direct-response consultancies alive, in about a week.

Eight days in January
02
§ 02

From pizza delivery
to right-hand man.

DEC
Hofstra — cum laude
Graduate. 3.6 GPA, Rhetoric and Public Advocacy minor, Dean's List. Cialdini Institute certified in ethical influence.
JAN 01
Delivering pizza
Communications degree, no plan. Worst stretch of my life — depression, no direction, post-grad gap.
JAN 23
Rich Schefren's house
The guru's guru. Brunson, Deiss, Filsaime, Ford all credit him. I asked for an internship three days later.
JAN 31
Right-hand man
Eight days from the handshake. Now building, rebuilding, and shipping AI across the whole Strategic Profits operation.

After I graduated, the scrambling started. Pizza delivery, odd jobs, no clear runway. Long stretch of figuring out what was next.

I graduated Hofstra in December, cum laude, 3.6, Rhetoric and Public Advocacy minor, Cialdini Institute certified. Early January I was back delivering pizza while I looked for work that didn't make me miserable.

On January 23rd I went to Rich Schefren's house. Rich is the consultant the marketing legends call when they get stuck. Russell Brunson, Ryan Deiss, Mike Filsaime, Todd Brown — they all credit him publicly. I asked him for an internship three days after the meeting. Five days after that, he told me I was his right-hand man.

My first job was to figure out AI. That week I downloaded Claude Code for the first time. Three months later I've rebuilt his flagship $1M course from scratch, built Brixton Albert's second brain — 1,700 hours of his recorded meetings wired into a system he prefers over the $12,000-a-month engineering team he was paying to build one — and coached more than a hundred entrepreneurs and their teams on how to integrate AI into their businesses in high-impact ways.

I don't automate tasks. I automate the machinery that runs the tasks, checks the tasks, and prevents the tasks from ever being done wrong again.

The right role showed up at the right moment. The work since has been what I always wanted to be doing — building compounding systems for people whose decisions actually move money.

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§ 04

Credentials
and training.

Education
Hofstra University
B.A. cum laude · 3.6 GPA · Dean's List · Mass Media · Rhetoric and Public Advocacy minor
Certification
Cialdini Institute
Certified Ethical Practitioner of Influence — the seven principles applied, not performed
Current role
Strategic Profits
Chief AI Officer · right-hand man to Rich Schefren · since Jan 31, 2026
Prior signal
ESPN
Broadcast Production Intern — live, no-second-take environments
Radio
The Harry Hour
Hofstra radio personality · 10,000+ listeners
Stage
Governor's Comedy Club
Standup · audience, timing, presence
What I believe
§ 05

How I build.

01
Principle

Compounding systems

Every system I build leaves something behind that makes the next build faster. Infrastructure first. Output second. The machine runs when I'm asleep.

02
Principle

Ship, don't present

I don't write decks about what your team could do. I build the thing. Your team uses it. You pay me again because the next one also works.

03
Principle

Earn the authority

Persuasion as a discipline, not a trick. Cialdini's seven principles wired into the way I build — not sprinkled on top of finished work.

§ Colophon

Send a note.

Consulting availability. Speaking. Or if you want to tell me the hero line could be tighter — I won't disagree.

harrylockwoodbiz@gmail.com
Long Island, NY
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