Sheridan, Wyoming · Operator · Writer · Speaker
45,000+ guests hosted across the Bighorn region since 2017.
Notes from the build: what worked, what failed, what it cost.
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- BASE
- SHERIDAN WY
- HOSTING
- 2017
- GUESTS
- 45,000+
- ESSAYS
- 23
- BOOK
- MEDITATIONS
01Start here
Where are you right now?
- 01I run short-term rentalsRun the free revenue check on one listing. About a minute. If it finds money, the $497 teardown finds the rest.Run the free teardown →
- 02I book speakersTalks on building from nothing, running lean with AI, and frontier tech explained by a cowboy.See the talks →
- 03I want to understand frontier techSix free five-minute games on blockchain, bitcoin, stablecoins and AI. No wallet, no jargon.Open the Arcade →
- 04I'm building something of my ownField notes on systems, money and the mind from someone doing it in a town of 19,000. Start with the journal.Read the journal →
Run a bar or restaurant? The No/Lo program audit is free. Mission-driven team? Digital consulting.
02For short-term rental operators
Three steps. Stop at any one of them.
Start free. Pay only when the free check shows there's money worth chasing. The $497 teardown counts in full toward the Install, and I only offer the Install when it pays for itself.
- Step 1FreeInstant Revenue TeardownOne listing, about a minute, instant estimate.Run it free
- Step 2$497Revenue Leak TeardownA year of bookings, every leak ranked by dollars. Apply, then invoice.Apply
- Step 3$4,500Revenue InstallFixes put in place, fixed price, end date. Five spots, by application.See the Install
03The record
- Hosting since
- 2017
- Multiple Airbnb Superhost accounts
- Guests hosted
- 45,000+
- Across Wyo Stays properties
- Doors managed
- ~100
- Through Wyo Stays
- Licensed broker
- WY
- Wyoming real estate
These describe my own companies. They are not typical and not a promise of your results. See the earnings disclaimer.
04How I work
“My father died by suicide when I was six. I spent my teens in the system. I built my first company at 22. None of it was supposed to happen.”
- 01Freedom per effortJudge every project by how much freedom it buys per hour it costs. Most fail the test.
- 02Own the demandEmail lists, search and direct bookings belong to you. Platforms rent you an audience and can take it back.
- 03Proof before plumbingProve it with a spreadsheet and a phone call before you build software around it.
- 04Build to sellRun every company like someone else will run it next. That's also how you get your weekends back.
05Latest from the journal
- The OperatorGive Your AI Agent a Budget, Not a LeashI named my leasing agent Lindsay before I trusted her with anything. That order matters more than it sounds like it should. The framework for treating an AI agent like an employee instead of a tool, and why the constraint that actually works is the budget, not the leash.Sep 10, 2026 · 10 min
- The OperatorWho Can Post as Your Business Right Now? Most Owners Don't KnowA volunteer's Facebook access should have taken two minutes to revoke. It took an hour, a support thread, and a genuine deadlock — because nobody at the venue had ever written down who could touch what. Here's the playbook that came out of it.Sep 9, 2026 · 10 min
- The OperatorWhy Multi-Entity Owners Should Audit Their Credit FilesEvery business owner with more than one entity has a credit file with an error in it — a duplicate, a wrong attribution, a re-aged date. Nobody checks except the person it costs. Here's the audit I run on my own files, in full.Sep 4, 2026 · 10 min
- The OperatorHow to Stop AI Writing From Sounding Like AIEvery AI-assisted post starts the same fight: strip the tells, kill the em-dashes, cut the fake triplets. I stopped fighting it fresh each time and wrote the whole thing down as a standing checklist. Here's the system, and why the list matters more than the prompt.Sep 1, 2026 · 10 min
06Frontier Tech Arcade
Learn the frontier in five minutes a game.
Built after the 2026 Wyoming Blockchain Stampede for people who nod along and don't really get it yet. Free, no account, works on a phone.
- Chain Stampede What a blockchain actually is: hashing, chaining and consensus, on a frontier cattle ledger.Blockchain · 5 min
- Frontier Bank Run a bank, survive a run, and see what Wyoming's state-issued stable token is backed by.Stablecoins · 5 min
- Next Word Rodeo How AI chatbots write one word at a time, and why they make things up.AI · 5 min
- Hashrate Ranch Run a bitcoin mine for six months and find out why power price decides everything.Mining · 5 min
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07Questions people ask
Dalton Goodyear is an operator, writer and speaker in Sheridan, Wyoming. He has hosted short-term rentals since 2017, runs Wyo Stays, a licensed Wyoming real estate brokerage and property management company, and writes about rebuilding small companies to need their owner less: what works, what breaks and what it costs.
It's the test Dalton uses on every project: how much time, money or choice does this give back for each hour it takes? Work that scores low gets automated, sold or dropped.
A $497 written audit for short-term rental operators. Dalton reviews a year of bookings and the pricing rules behind them, then ranks every revenue leak by estimated annual dollars. The fee counts in full toward the $4,500 Revenue Install.
Yes. He gives keynotes and workshops on building from nothing, running lean companies with AI, and frontier tech in plain English. Inquiries go through the speaking page.
The Notes is Dalton's free email newsletter. Each one is a single operator lesson from his own companies. One email field to join, and one click to leave.