Ep #24: On AI, Risk, and Commodity Marketing with Cy Monley
What if the biggest challenge in farm marketing isn’t predicting prices, but cutting through the noise? In this episode of The Land Ledger, host Brian Kearney sits down with Cy Monley, co-founder of Quantum Hedging, to talk about his journey from Chicago’s trading pits to building a company that uses AI and machine learning to help farmers make smarter marketing decisions. Cy shares how their Managed Bushels Program aligns incentives with farmer success and provides a transparent, data-driven alternative to traditional broker models.
Listen in to learn about the common challenges farmers face when selling grain, why trust is essential in adopting new tools, and how Quantum Hedging is partnering with elevators to make adoption seamless. You’ll also hear Cy’s outlook on corn and soybeans, emphasizing why discipline, confidence intervals, and data-driven strategies are critical in today’s volatile markets.
What You’ll Hear About in This Episode:
Cy’s journey to founding Quantum Hedging.
Using AI to cut market noise and find real signals.
Why traditional broker incentives often misalign with farmer success.
How the Managed Bushels Program helps farmers market more effectively.
Building farmer trust with transparency and results.
Common grain marketing mistakes and data-driven solutions.
Advice on hedging, discipline, and volatility.
Ideas Worth Sharing:
“I'm not trying to say I know markets perfectly. I'm trying to say I have confidence intervals. I deploy risk, but I also take risk off.” - Cy Monley
“I want to see the farmers win, too.” - Cy Monley
“Let me run the data and do the day job and just hyperfocus on probabilities and confidence intervals, and what's moving the market. We're not guessing. We have put together major data sets, and we know what's important. We know what's coming.” - Cy Monley
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Cy Monley: You can either be mad or go about your day and do the best you can with what you got and change your perspective. The commodity markets are gonna do what they're gonna do. They don't care about our opinions, my feelings, I'm just trying to extract the most money as possible with the least amount of risk.
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Brian Kearney: All right. Welcome to the Land Ledger. Today, I have Cy Monley here with me. He’s from Quantum Hedging, and I'm excited to dive into what they're doing that's a little bit different in the commodity marketing and hedging space for their farmer clients. Cy, thanks for jumping on the show.
Cy Monley: Glad to be here. Brian.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, I'm excited to dive in. So let's start a little bit on your background. Where are you from? When did you first start learning about the ag commodity markets?
Cy Monley: So I grew up in the Red River Valley, east Grand Forks, Minnesota, and my uncles were sugar beet farmers. So my dad would take me out to their farm and I first started learning about farming then, never was interested in it.
No way. That wasn't my thing. Yeah, I played sports in the summer. I didn't wanna go out and work on the farm. Fast forward, I get to college, I'm playing sports and my uncle is in Chicago and he's in the commodity space. He's got pretty much a fund, manages a bunch of money, and my senior year in high school, Brian, I said, “Geez, can I come out and work for you on the order trade?”
He said, “Come on down. This is where you know you gotta cut your teeth.” So I go there my senior year. Instead of playing sports all summer, I go on the board of trade and learn, and that's when I fell in love with it. My senior year in high school, I go to college. Like I said, I'm playing hoops in college. I go back, I quit. My last two years, I started working for a company called Benson Quinn in Minneapolis. Mike Vista, my first CEO, I just talked to a month ago. It was just nostalgia. And so he and I chatted for a while and I said, “Do you remember me? I was a 20-year-old sno–” “Oh yeah, I remember you…”
And then, so go to Chicago, Brian, start working for my uncle again to manage a bunch of money. That's where I say I got my master's degree in markets is 'cause these guys taught me everything about the fundamentals and how markets work, and that's when the board of trade was, signals. So I learned that a little bit, but mostly did research for the first five years.
And I don't know if you've remember the name REFCO? Do you remember the name REFCO?
Brian Kearney: Yeah.
Cy Monley: So REFCO was the largest FCM in 2005. They did 50% of the open interest, about to go public. I'm 25 years old. Boom. They go down. They found they were moving money back up. Yeah. So I'm 25 years old going, “This is the next Goldman and this is the greatest place to work.”
And within five days, it's over. So, yeah, I got a bath by fire real quick and how volatility works. Yeah. And then that's when I started my own company, Brian, and with the Sylvia's Group. So Sylvia and recently sold, but they were the largest insurance company and we started a couple firms with them.
And my business partner, Satish, and I, who was at the time just finished up being the CEO of the Climate Exchange and I dragged him into the private sector. So yeah, we started the business, then we sold those. We started a couple of the businesses during that. We were actually trading money. We're managing money.
We sold our two businesses to FBN in 2019. Amal, who's a friend and an investor, was the CEO at FBN. He's an investor in our new company. He said, “I like what you guys are doing.” And so yeah, that's how we got to Quantum Hedging. We saw a need to market with data and yeah, it was a fun path.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, that's interesting. Dive into what you are doing, for the audience, and we'll leave link in the show notes so they can dive in on their own as well and find where to reach out. But high level, what problem is Quantum Hedging solving?
Cy Monley: Yeah. We see so many brokers and narratives in the marketplace, and don't get me wrong, I was one of them, right?
And I had an opinion on markets, and I'd look at four or five things. Satish came to me and Kevin McNew at the time, who was the chief economist at FBN. He came to me and he's, “Look, we have all this awesome data.” It's not from FBN, it's from himself. He said, “Let's take your brain and figure out a way to use AI and machine learning to look at the data and have the data give us support as to what's moving the market and what's correlated to most the market.”
What's gonna be correlated the next six months? So I said, “I'm smart and I know markets.” And then we started grabbing all these data features, Brian, and I realized I can't look at all this. The AI and machine learning essentially can go and look at a million pieces of data. We build the models and engineer them such.
So we still have to understand what's going in and out. But now our models can say, “Here's confidence. Here's probabilities of the next 10% move over time. Here's what's moving markets, here's what's important, here's what's not important. And then here's new information.” So the whole premise was, gosh, I wanted to take data in a process in how I look at the markets rather than, “China's buying or Trump's gonna make a tariff thing or not.” It's just noise. So how do you separate noise to signal? And that's what we're doing.
Brian Kearney: Interesting.
Cy Monley: Yeah. And it's not, a lot of the times I see red line crossing the 50-day cross to hundred eighth. We back-tested that. It's just narratives, right? Yes, momentum matters. Yeah, sales and so we wanted to, “Oh, the 61% retracement. I don't know. Can you trade on that?” Show me something that backtested, all of our stuff backtested and that was our rigor for the last year and half.
Brian Kearney: Fascinating. Yeah. Okay. Are you building these models internally? Are you building it off the back of one of the larger models? What does that look like?
Cy Monley: Yeah, that's right. We're not building it on the back of the large models. We had to build it internally. Okay. So we're not, we use ChatGPT or some of the other models to help us think through some problems, but we're not, we had to build the models ourselves and statistics.
I could walk through it, but there's a ton of problems we had to solve first. And then you can use large language models or run force models to go faster, to predict through data faster, but it's kinda like a toddler. You can't just say, “Oh, go play sports now.” No, you gotta grow it up. So we built, it's all proprietary models that the machine learning and AI helps us just be more efficient.
Brian Kearney: Yep. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. For the average farmer, what does that actually mean though? How does it actually help them at the end of the day?
Cy Monley: Well, okay. You have to take data into a process and then essentially a product. And so what we're doing is we're gonna have a few things. We're gonna have research. We're getting a free, or not a free, but basically a $37 cash sale index.
Brian Kearney: Okay. Yeah. Need a little bit of something. Yeah.
Cy Monley: Need a little bit of something. Then we have managed bushels programs, so we have a Managed Bushels, and I know people got scared of Managed Bushels Program in Burke. Don't get me wrong.
I've seen it and people are getting out the gate. That's where I think the opportunity is. Okay. I'm not trying to say I know markets perfectly. I'm trying to say I have confidence intervals. I deploy risk, but I also take risk off. Right? And so the whole meeting is if you're playing blackjack and you have this one shoe and no face cards have coming up for 40 cards or whatever it is, let's say it's 30 cards.
When you got 12, 22 cards left, you gotta be bet in bank. 'Cause you have higher probability. It's game theory. So we look at everything of what is our confidence interval and then what's the trade. That's what we're really good at, using futures and options, spreads. It's not just about being absolutely right. What's your distribution different to market? For example, we've been really bearish corn. We set–our distribution was 450 down to 350. The market was sitting up at 440. Our models are getting more hedged. Are we a hundred percent sold? No, but we're more hedged.
Brian Kearney: Right, right. Okay. That's fascinating. So what does this cost for the farmer in that Managed Bushel Program? Dive into that a little bit more.
Cy Monley: Okay. So we just, the last year and a half, we've proven our models. What we're doing is we've rolled out a program with the Andersons. You can work with us, the Andersons. So we manage the bushels, the Andersons, you deliver anywhere you want in the country, but the Andersons are holding basically the margin call.
So call it, it's 6 cents to like a normal HDA. We only take performance. So I don't get paid unless I get within the top. It's now 10%. So what we're trying to do is change how farmers look. Yeah, farmers look at your broker or your, thinking it like an ETF. I'm full performance. We give within 10%, I get 5 cents. Okay. We don't get within 10%.
Brian Kearney: Oh, that's still pretty reasonable.
Cy Monley: It's still pretty reasonable, right? So it's not like I'm taking 20% or anything. What I'm trying to do is build a very repeatable, simple, fairly cheap product.
Brian Kearney: That's fascinating because that is, in conversations with farmers, that is the usual issue. If it's someone who maybe doesn't have the most sophisticated marketing process on their farm, they're immediately gonna think, yeah, of course, that broker's calling me. He's getting cut every single time. We place a hedge every single time we buy a contract. Yeah, of course, he wants me to buy these.
Cy Monley: Settings are not aligned. And it drove me nuts as a broker my whole career. You're a hundred percent right and settings are not aligned. Now I still manage large farms, but I make them money and I tell them, I said, “If I'm gonna charge you $15 per side, I better do a good job.” But I don't want be in that game, Brian.
I wanna be in the performance gain for farmers. If we get it, great. Let's say I get to 12% of the high, I don't get paid. That's okay. But if these farmers’ still happy, he'll come back.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, that's true. That's true. Interesting. So 5 cents, that's all you take if you are within 10%, you said
Cy Monley: That’s right. You pay your normal, so the way we have it right now at the Andersons, it's an Anderson grain contract. It literally takes 10 seconds. Name, farm, email, boom. Anderson, send you a copy of grain contract. That's grain contract. What happens? All you gotta do is set the basis, you deliver in the Anderson's name. It's a little convoluted.
I get it. It seems a little scary, but it's not that hard. However, knock on wood, Jake and I at Bushel are working on a deal where all these elevators will start to get opened up and what will happen is you go directly to your own elevator, right? “Hey, I wanna do the Quantum Hedging.” Call your elevator.
We'll set up an agreement with the elevator. You just do it through your elevator, right? I'll manage the elevator's book. And just like a Managed Bushels Program, then you just deliver to your elevator. So there's two options.
Brian Kearney: Yeah. Okay. Then tell me a little bit about the team makeup. How long you guys have been doing this, what does it look like there?
Cy Monley: We have three partners, Satish Nandapurkar, Kevin McNew, and myself. We met Kevin at FBN. He sold his business to FBN. Satish and I have been partners for over 10 years. We, like I said, my wife actually worked for him. My wife introduced me to him. He was at our wedding, so he and I are a long-time friends.
Brian Kearney: That's awesome.
Cy Monley: It is awesome. But we've had some things that didn't work out. We've been messing some bad things, but our businesses worked out really well, and what we realized is when we're in control, we'll make money, right? When we invested into other people sometimes, we didn't understand the business.
But he and I understand this business. He was the chief, no, so Kevin was the chief economist. Kevin went, or Satish went to MIT, actually wrote his thesis on how to beat the markets using math, very interesting career. He was the number two guy at the CME when they went public. Like I said, he was the CEO of the climate exchange.
He ran huge banks, all their derivative desks, so he's really seasoned. I managed money and then built those two businesses. So we're all very seasoned, right? This isn't a white paper. We know how to build. Kevin's phenomenal with models, so.
Brian Kearney: That's interesting. What are your goals for farms? You have signed up, how would farmers go about talking with you? Is there a certain size you're looking for? Dive a little bit into that.
Cy Monley: No, it's to Managed Bushels Program, right? We're starting our 26 now. So what I would think of is, think of it, everyone's, “I'm gonna wait for a rally to do a Managed Bushels Program.”
No, the way ours works is we're gonna give within 10% of the high, so we call it the max 10. No matter where we start, it's wherever the high is. So you, which what we say to people is, I don't want to manage farms anymore. Could I take a large farm? I would look at one or two large farms, but here's the way it works with me.
You gotta turn the acres over, okay? I use a yield for software. I need to know what your farm, you're gonna have to pay me a minimum of $20,000 if you wanna work directly with me. And then what I do is I use our models to overweight, underweight your farm, but I take power of attorney. I don't want to pick up the phone and say, “Buy a foot a call.”
It's all performance-based. I wanna make sure that I just run the program that way. However, the scalable one is the Managed Bushels. 10,000 bushel minimum, put 10,000 bushels in. And it’s over 26, hey, put some bushels, and we're trying to get to the high. So no matter where you start, it's wherever the high is. That's where we're shooting for.
Brian Kearney: Interesting. Okay. That's fascinating. So I can hear a couple concerns the farmers might have because you hear frustration sometimes with FBN from a lot of farmers. You hear frustration with any ag tech company to be honest. So how are you managing that data risk for the farmers? What is happening to their data? Is there any of their data you require or is it truly just managed bushels?
Cy Monley: First of all, we're not at FBN anymore. We sold our businesses. I did my three years and I'm out. I made some great friends. I know Amal well. He and I are friends. He was a CEO. I think he got a raw deal onto that...
So I will say we're not FBN, we're Quantum Hedging and the way we manage data is all you're doing is giving me the bushels. I don't need anything else. So you give us 10,000 bushels, that's all we see. I don't need to know your yield. I don't need to know your insurance. I don't need to know if you're blunt, tight, nothing.
Brian Kearney: Got it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense. What is your go-to market strategy? Are you going to be, is tying in with those elevators a big push? Is it gonna be trying to convert current grain dealers? What are you trying to do?
Cy Monley: There's four or five larger outlets, and I said bushels. One of them, Jake and I are friends. I think we're close to getting over the hump on this and the go-to market strategy, you gotta go through the elevator. What I learned at FBN is I don't want to alienate anyone. I'm not gonna beat the drum. I don't wanna flip that. I wanna work with the elevators and say, “I wanna partner with you.”
These are good programs. We're not going to get smoked. That's, like we look at risk-adjusted returns all the time. It's not just about, “Hey, I'm right in the markets. Let's be super short. And we'll make a bunch of money and double someone's book.” No, these are things, and again, within the top 10% sounds maybe risky, but it's not.
The way we do it, we buy insurance on it. So we basically pay 15% to give within the high, and then our models make up that other 5%. Right. So you're not like, yeah, I'm not gonna really get smoked on this, but let's say my models only get to an extra 3% and you got within 12% of the high, okay, you're happy.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, no, that makes sense.
Cy Monley: And I'm okay not getting paid because my goal is to be the largest sort of managed bushel. I call it an ETF or an index like, but I don't think there's a good programs for farmers to go into. It's a diversified portfolio. They talk to these brokers and the guy's all over the place, and then they say, “I'm never doing futures and options again.”
Or they have somebody they trust, but that's only 10%. The other 90%, and if they wanna do cash sales, okay, so what's your plan? I should put some of my bushels in good, thoughtful guys that are experts. That's cheap.
Brian Kearney: It makes sense. No, it makes sense. And for the farmer that is listening, what does the data look like from using a professional and not? What is that drag on the price they're getting if they're doing it themselves?
Cy Monley: Let me just say this. I've looked at large farmer books, okay, internally. The average price of most farmers sell at is horrendous. Okay? Most of the time they sell way below the average, even if they just did an averaging product over a five year period, you probably beat yourself on what you're thinking is gonna happen in the market.
Let me give you an example. What percentage should a farmer be sold in corn or hedged by May 20th? In your mind, what should it be in corn?
Brian Kearney: 50, 60%?
Cy Monley: Exactly. It's 75 to 80. Right? So now you asked me how many farmers you think are at least 50% hedged today?
Brian Kearney: Oh, not that many.
Cy Monley: Exactly. I mean, not even at the bottom end, right? They're not at the bottom end. I say that and it's, you don't have to be sold, but you should be hedged or you should do something, right? And most farmers are 30% sold here, waiting for a damn rally. Some of them haven't been sold last year.
So I say that 'cause we looked at this data and then you'll come back and you'll try it.
Programming, you'll get burnt and so then you don't wanna go back to there. What we're saying is come back in the water. This is a very good double to triple program. You're not gonna strike out over and over, but you're gonna get close and it's gonna outperform what you do theoretically over a three or four year time.
So we looked at that and said, “Gosh, it's like you go in the stock market, you just find the S&P.” What does Warren Buffett say? Buy the S&P. Don't go to hedge fund guy, just stay disciplined. You know how hard it is as a farmer and you're hedging to stay disciplined. It's emotional. I've seen it all.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, it's hard enough with the people with their stock portfolios, and that's not even their day job.
Cy Monley: And that's not even their day job. That's what I'm saying. Let me run the data and do the day job and just hyperfocus on probabilities and confidence intervals. And what's moving the market. We're not guessing.
We have put together major data sets and we know what's important. We know what's coming, right? If we announce a deal with China, sure. Okay, but they still haven't bought anything. I would actually, when you hear those headlines go, look at the Vietnam deal, they actually increased tariffs on China and Vietnam.
So in that, when on the 4th of July when they're saying, “Trump's gonna announce something.” I was like, “No, he did not. Look at the Vietnam deal. He's actually alienated China.” So we looked at that. That's narratives. But then we looked at the data. Oh, look at the last five deals he did. He's actually fighting against China right now.
Brian Kearney: Yeah. Yeah.
Cy Monley: Well, I say that 'cause that's in data, huh? And you gotta go look through data. You gotta know how, no, does it affect the markets right now? No. That's not what's moving markets.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, no that makes sense. When you're having conversations with farmers, what would you say the biggest fear is in working with Quantum Hedging? What is that kinda step they have to get over to do that initial 10,000 bushel minimum?
Cy Monley: It's total trust, right? I get it. And we've, I've talked to a handful of large farmers. It takes a couple conversations, but guess what? What I'm hoping for is just my track record starts to speak for itself.
You start to think maybe I do gotta take a little risk and put some bushels in. Our programs will have caps, right? So I can get to about 40, 50 million bushels. So if we have a couple big guys come in and eat them up, then our max 10 is full. So we do have a limit. Now there are different time dates, so I'd say our limit's probably three to 400 million bushels today, but that can go pretty quick.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, it can. Yeah, it can. Interesting.
Cy Monley: Yeah. I say to farmers, once you're in, we'll keep you in. But the fear is there. I respect it.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, no, that makes sense. For what is it that gives you that maximum? Is it that at that point, you're not confident you'll be able to execute quick enough with the elevators? What's the thought process?
Cy Monley: Yeah, that's exactly right. It's trying to move 10,000 contracts instead of a hundred. So if I've gotta move a lot of contracts over time, if we wanna move, it might take me two or 3 cents in corn versus a quarter percent.
Brian Kearney: Yep. Yeah. That makes sense. What would you say is the biggest misconception with the commodity market and farmers?
'Cause often it's like farmers think the commodity market is an enemy, and it can be, but it doesn't have to be. Is that something you see pretty frequently?
Cy Monley: Hey, look, if we just go look at the last four years, the distrust in people's eyes, and I'm not gonna get political, but both sides, the Republican, nobody trusts anybody anymore.
Like they're, so that's the hard part. And I say, well, I was actually having this conversation with my brother. I'm like, “Look, you can either be mad or go about your day and do the best you can with what you got and change your perspective.” The commodity markets are gonna do what they're gonna do.
They don't care about our opinions, my feelings. I'm just trying to extract the most money as possible with the least amount of risk. But it is risk. And what happens is, I think farmers get this FOMO. They get sold something. There's a couple brokers out there that I've seen that just burn people and I go, “Gosh, they're just good salesmen.”
And I'm an average salesman, but we've got good models, right? And I'm trying to build a very good product that's repeatable. So you, at some point, the fear is, “Hey. I don't trust this, I don't trust this.” Go look at our bios. We've been in the marketplace for a hundred years. All of us have been in commodities.
I think we're trustworthy guys. Kevin McNew was the face of FBN, right? Like he was everywhere and he is as solid as they come. that guy wouldn't hurt you if you took his car. He's just a great dude.
Brian Kearney: What would you say to the farmer that is thinking, “It makes sense, but why would you be doing this for farmers? Why wouldn't you just do this for a hedge fund, a private equity, a family office that could probably pay way more?”
Cy Monley: That's the right question. And we are. We've got our models. We've got a few early backers. We've got some other big players that are coming in, in meats and sauce, and they want us to say, “Gosh, you guys really know how to engineer data, make us money.”
Here's the thing, none of the farmer data goes in there. It's all our own proprietary stuff. Just like I said, I see your bushels but that's it. But we are then, and there are people coming to us saying, “Hey, we want more commodity exposure.” Let me give you an example. I think people use this in Bitcoin, but there's 1% in Bitcoin.
It's the same thing in commodities. There's 1% of the trillions of dollars in commodities, and people, you go back and look 30 years, the portfolio might have 20% commodities in it. Now it's, and now it's, yeah. So what I think is coming is you're, if we believe in inflation and we believe there's volatility gonna come, we wanna figure out how do you have some commodity exposure.
That's what we're gonna build, is we wanna look at a very systematic way to have better commodity exposure, specifically to the grains to start. But yeah, we have alpha models and we take out some money.
Brian Kearney: Okay. Yeah, that makes complete sense. That answers that question well.
Cy Monley: But Brian, let me say this. My heart wants to stay. I did that. Satish’ gonna run that. I'm actually a junior trade. We've got this guy that traded money for 15 years. Super sharp guy. Coming over. I can't announce it yet. Basically started the Chinese-US bean buying program. He's the guy who put the deal together. So I say that 'cause he's a big trader. He's coming over. My heart is, I wanna see the farmers win too.
Brian Kearney: Yeah.
Cy Monley: Right? Yeah. I can make money, but gosh darn it, if I can have a couple Managed Bushels Programs and these guys do well, I remember in the eighties when things went sideways, like I said, I saw the farmer. We lost a farm in Dickinson, North Dakota.
So I see that I'm gonna still stick on the retail side. I hope I get farmer traction. There's more money on the other side, but we can do both.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, that makes complete sense. And it tracks a little bit what we're doing internally with our company as well as we're focused more on the farmer side, but eventually the family office side is also gonna be wanting to buy farm ground through us. We just wanna make sure it works for the farmers, not against them. It’s the most important aspect. Yeah.
Cy Monley: Yeah. I thought that was really cool. Yeah, and I agree there too, right?
Brian Kearney: Yeah. This has been a really interesting conversation. What would your kinda last bit of advice be for the farmer that's out there listening to this? And maybe they are only 10 or 15% hedge doors sold at this point. What would you recommend they do?
Cy Monley: A lot of them bought insurance. This is what happens. They buy this insurance, it gets under the insurance, they don't do anything. And then that insurance, the county yields come, move around and all the insurance checking isn't good.
Here's my fear. We have a huge crop coming. I don't buy any bull story in the short run. You gotta get the fund super short. Here's what I would say. My guess is we're gonna take a peak down to 375. You're gonna get a massive fund short. You're gonna need the demand to start to show up. So if Brazil's crop is huge, but they're still using it, that'll show up in the numbers.
So maybe they can't export as much. So the next iteration of this is gonna be demand. Right now, we're pricing in supply, so we're gonna go down on supply, and then you need to see a demand change. So I would say if you're not sold, be prepared to go from 420 to 375. That's a real possibility.
We think that's a real possibility. And then at 375, you better have the funds record short and you better see demand pick up and the Brazil crop maybe not as vague. Some demand shift change. That's possible. You got, that's how you're gonna have to see corn to go back up. I'd say corn,wild…story for next year, but not this year.
Beans might be a train wreck this year too.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, no, that makes sense. Perfect. Yeah, thanks for your the time. I'll leave in the show notes placed for people to reach out. Do you want just a link to the website? Do you want email? LinkedIn? What would you prefer?
Cy Monley: Just to email and a link to the website. 'Cause on the website, you can get our free research. There's stuff on there you can go if you wanna do Managed Bushels, we're signing people up now. If you've got an elevator that you work with and you say, “Gosh, we'll talk to elevators, it's easier if we run it through your local elevator.” So that is there.
Brian Kearney: Yeah, that makes sense. I'll put all that in the show notes. I think I've got an introduction to you or for you. A couple elevators after this. Perfect.
Cy Monley: You ever want me on it again, Brian, and give my mark and all look, feel free. Absolutely.
Brian Kearney: Hey, Cy, this has been great. I really appreciate it. Everyone reach out. Sounds like a really fascinating company and you might have a chance to get in a little early, which is always good.
Cy Monley: Yes, sir.
Brian Kearney: Perfect. Thank you for the time.
Cy Monley: Little risk…early.
Brian Kearney: Exactly.
Cy Monley: Yep. Thanks, Brian.
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