What one person with AI can build.
A memoir of building a real company with AI agents. Not theory. Not predictions. The actual experience of launching Second Ring—from first commit to first customer—written from mid-climb, not the summit.
The era changed. Most people haven’t noticed yet.
The jump from “AI that answers questions” to “AI that executes tasks” is roughly the distance between a calculator and an employee. They both involve numbers. The resemblance ends there.
Infinite Leverage is written from inside the experience—not the polished retrospective. Dave Lawler left a 20-year enterprise career and built a company called Second Ring using AI agents for everything: code, operations, marketing, customer service. This book tells that story as it happened, including the wrong turns.
What’s inside the book
What this book is about →
The premise, who it’s for, and the concrete takeaways. Why a memoir from mid-climb beats a polished retrospective.
Table of contents →
Twelve chapters in four parts: before, first commits, mid-climb, and leverage. The arc of actually shipping.
About Dave Lawler →
30+ years in enterprise integration. Now building with AI. Founder of Velocity Point and Second Ring, and author of three other books.
More from Dave Lawler
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