Industry Lead - Food & Beverage

Sell in the industry you know, with maximum freedom and no cap on what you earn. You bring the relationships. Lykido builds the AI, does the delivery, and pays you first.

• High commission, no cap. This tier is built to out-earn the firm's owners.
• No admin. The platform handles the prep, the paperwork, and the follow-up. You sell.
• An enormous market that runs on thin margins and manages them by hand. Wherever margin lives on a spreadsheet, the leverage is largest.

The role

You bring deep relationships and hard-won credibility in food and beverage; the firm removes the administrative tax that has always stood between you and the work, and ranks your communications first. You find the work and close it. The platform carries the rest.

Like hospitality, the occupational view undersells this one: plating a dish resists automation, but a food and beverage business does not. Supply and inventory, demand forecasting, menu and pricing, multi-unit operations, labor scheduling, and reviews are deep, repetitive, and almost entirely AI-naive across an enormous market that runs on thin margins and runs them by hand. Wherever a business survives on a few points of margin and manages those points on a spreadsheet, the leverage is largest.

What you will own

• Own a book across food and beverage - restaurant groups, multi-unit operators, producers, and distributors: supply and inventory, demand forecasting, menu and pricing, labor scheduling, and reputation.
• Carry the firm's leverage into the thin-margin operations where guesswork costs real money every week.
• Land a contained engagement on one operating pain - inventory, scheduling, or pricing - prove it pays for itself fast, and expand across the units.
• Sell the outcome, not the hours - and never on a margin a client lacks the standing to refuse.

You may be a good fit if

• You have a deep, real network in food and beverage and the credibility to open doors inside it.
• You have run, sold, or delivered into the industry at a senior level and know how thin the margins are and where they vanish.
• You are glad to work at a firm that gives a growing share of its profit away (About Lykido, below).
• You are fluent enough in AI to wield the firm's tooling and curious enough to push it further. You do not need to build it, but you must believe in it.
• You want to be paid for what you bring, and you would rather out-earn an owner than answer to a committee.

Compensation

Industry Lead is the firm's earning engine and is paid like one: high commission, no cap, for as long as you keep producing. For the firm's first years, and maybe longer, Industry Leads are built to out-earn the firm's Members - the owners. That is the structure. The people who bring the work are paid first and paid most.

In exchange, the firm makes one promise: it removes the administrative tax this work has always carried. Deal signals, staging, document generation, follow-up. The internal platform exists for you before it exists for anyone else, and your communications move to the front of the queue the moment they arrive.

There is a path from here to a Membership seat for a Lead who wants to help govern the firm rather than only sell into it. Many will earn more, and answer to less, by staying exactly where the commission is.

About Lykido

Lykido is an applied AI consultancy with a public-benefit commitment written into its charter. A share of net profit, starting at 5% and growing toward 50% as revenue scales, funds public-benefit work before any owner takes a distribution. That ordering is permanent. Nobody here is asked to preach; the structure does the work. Sell well, build well, and the commitment is funded by the same success that pays you.

How to apply

Please send your resume and a short note about a food and beverage operation you have watched run on spreadsheets and guesswork where it should have run on signal. Parents returning to work after time away to raise children are encouraged to apply.

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