Soda City, Meet Your New Lieutenant
Columbia is three economies stacked on top of each other: state government contracts, the USC student churn, and the Fort Jackson family economy. Each one runs on paperwork — and each one bleeds money when an owner has to do that paperwork personally at 11 p.m.
State Capital Vendors
If you sell to agencies on Assembly Street, you know the pain of RFP responses and compliance forms. Lieutenant trains an AI on your past submissions so the next one drafts itself in a coffee break at Cafe Strudel.
USC Adjacent Operators
Tutoring services, Greek-life caterers, and Vista bars all face the August stampede and the May ghost town. Our scheduling and demand-forecasting agents help you staff the swing.
Fort Jackson Service Businesses
Movers, photographers, and family-counseling practices serving the basic-training cycle use Lieutenant to handle the predictable wave of inquiries every ten weeks.
How a Typical Columbia Engagement Looks
- Week 1: We map your workflows — usually over coffee at Drip on Main
- Week 2: We build and test custom agents
- Week 3: You go live and we tune for two more weeks free
Elias keeps Lieutenant deliberately small so Columbia owners aren't paying for a Charlotte agency's overhead. You get the founder on the phone, not a junior account manager.