Jon Lamb
"There are two important days in your life. The day you were born, and the day you figure out why."

I figured out why. I build things.

Jon Lamb

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The Arc

I was seven years old when I built a windmill-powered Ferris wheel out of K'Nex. Not because anyone asked me to. Because the pieces were there and I wanted to see if it would work.

Then came years of drift — good work, real work, but nothing that felt like mine. I built financial forecasting systems at Accenture for $1B+ federal budgets. I built COVID assistance apps that real people used to get real help during the worst stretch of their lives. Good work. Still not quite it.

Then I built Good Fold from scratch — brand, ops, software, production. Dumplings, of all things. And something clicked. Building a thing that didn't exist before, making it work, making it real — that's the thing. That's always been the thing.

Now I'm building Day One Implementations. The infrastructure that makes day one work instead of fall apart. That's the job.

What I Build

Three categories.
One throughline.

Products

Apps, tools, and systems that didn't exist and then did. From COVID assistance platforms to franchise ops software.

See the work

Companies

Good Fold — a dumpling brand built from zero. Day One Implementations — software for the franchise operators who need it most.

Learn about Day One

Things that needed to exist

The catch-all. A shop class project that won an award. A K'Nex contraption nobody asked for. The thing you build just to see if it works.

Browse everything

Currently

What I'm
working on

  • Building the ops system for Good Fold.

  • Developing Day One Implementations — first franchise POC.

  • Writing about what it actually takes to make software work in the field.

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