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Creator · Builder · Operator · Small Business Owner

Ronald J. Abbate

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A high-tech mindset, applied to the unglamorous parts of running a business. More than twenty years managing small business, now spent building the systems that run them.

Infinity cube / live model
Drag to turn
02 / 07

Reduce The
Friction.

Your tools are mostly fine. The cost is in the seams between them — the order re-typed into the CRM, the invoice built by hand, the spreadsheet someone emails at 6pm. That's where the day goes. I use AI to carry the work across those seams: tools connected, data handed off, the boring middle running itself.

Order in
re-keyedpiped
CRM
copy · pastematched
Invoice
an emailsent
Schedule
a phone callqueued
Out the door

Software integration & business automationThe store, the CRM, the calendar, the label printer, even the door locks — I've been the person running all of it. AI where it earns its keep, real engineering everywhere it counts.

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Web design & e-commerce

Web design that
converts visitors.

6 sites I designed & run1,800+ products live3 days — DJ RAP concept to live5,000-product Magento → Woo migration9-section conversion funnelAI hero video, brand-locked 6 sites I designed & run1,800+ products live3 days — DJ RAP concept to live5,000-product Magento → Woo migration9-section conversion funnelAI hero video, brand-locked
See the case studies →
05 / 07
Operating credibility

I don't just
build it. I run it.

COO

Expo Depot

Built the e-commerce store for a larger trade-show display organization — 5,000 products, Magento → Woo — and, as COO, helped run the lead → sales → production → delivery pipeline. Still run the store today.

expodepot.com
'99

ASOadmin · IT consulting

Ongoing IT consulting since 1999 — networks, Microsoft 365, security — for small businesses and a multi-state law firm. The networking muscle behind everything on this page.

est. 1999
50%

Soca BJJ · Glen Cove

Co-owner and lead instructor, third-degree black belt. The academy is also my lab — the door locks, the thermostat, and the marketing all run on systems I built.

glen cove, ny

The backstory, briefly: fourth generation in the trade-show display business, designing exhibits at fifteen. The hats accumulated from there.

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How the work gets made

My tools,
as outcomes.

ron@lildocker — the daily driver
~ $ claude run the back office
# agents · MCP servers · autonomous loops → pricing, marketing, ops forensics. real work, not demos
~ $ wp deploy — woo · shopify · custom themes
# stores & sites wired into the software behind them
~ $ fusion → bambu farm → finishing bench
# idea → CAD → printed, fabricated, in-your-hand object
~ $ ssh homelab
# tunnels · VLANs · zero inbound ports — the quiet plumbing that keeps all of it up
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Project ideas welcome

Let's Talk.

Got a project idea? Tell me what you're picturing — the problem, the plan, the half-formed sketch. Screenshots and photos help, and you'll be able to attach them.


Ron Abbate
Ron Abbate · Glen Head, NY