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Kaddim handles document collection for Australian mortgage brokers. The part of the job that takes hours but earns you nothing. Request documents, send automated reminders, review everything in one place, and auto-rename files to your naming convention.

"The ability to rename files to our own naming convention is a massive time saver. For this feature alone I will continue to use this service." – Peter Tersteeg, Sage Leading Solutions

"I won't ever go back to sending manual checklists!" – Deanna Ezzy, More Than Mortgages

I'm not here for a hard sell. If document admin is eating your time, let's connect. Always happy to talk about how to get those hours back.

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Founder. Marketer.

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5 months ago, I tried agentic coding and walked away unimpressed.

One month ago, I was genuinely stunned!

Today, agents run most of my life and business - coaching me through breakthroughs I couldn't get from years of paid therapy and business coaching.

The scaling laws aren't what matter any more. It's the self-correction. The continuous work time going from minutes to hours to entire days.

And the gap between "people using ChatGPT for recipes" and "people using agents to build businesses" and manage their life, like a digital Chief of Staff, is about to become the only gap that matters.

#ai #agentic #business #entrepreneurship #automation #tech

 Vladimir Druts

⚫ Practical AI adoption for growth teams | Horizin.ai | Fractional CMO | 4x Founder

You can build a fully branded presentation from a single voice note. Here is the 15-minute setup.

I had a talk coming up for a room of COOs. 

Instead of spending a week in Google Slides, I opened Claude Cowork and talked through what I wanted to cover.

STEP 1: VOICE DUMP YOUR IDEAS

I recorded a voice note walking through the rough structure. What topics to hit, what order, what demos I wanted to include, who the audience was and what they needed to walk away with.

No slides. No formatting. Just me talking for 10 minutes about what I wanted to say.

STEP 2: DROP YOUR CONTEXT

I already had a folder with my business brain file, my brand guidelines, and my positioning docs. 

Claude reads these automatically, so it already knew my company, my voice, and my visual style before I asked it to do anything.

If you do not have these yet, three plain text files take 30 minutes to write. 

Your company context, your role, and your voice preferences. That is the whole setup.

STEP 3: GIVE IT THE BRIEF

I pasted the voice note transcript into Cowork and said: "Take this transcript and turn it into a fully branded presentation. Include speaker notes for every slide, a timing guide, and a cheat sheet I can reference while presenting."

That is the entire prompt.

STEP 4: REVIEW AND ITERATE

Claude came back with a complete HTML deck in my brand colors with structured slides, speaker notes per frame, and a pacing guide. 

I went back and forth on a few sections, adjusted the flow, added a couple of demos I wanted to show live.

Normal conversation. "Move this section before that one." 

"Make the stat bigger." "Add a slide about the rollout phases."

STEP 5: GENERATE THE EXTRAS

From the same conversation I asked for a branded cheat sheet, a demo walkthrough guide, and a frame-by-frame timer so I could track my pacing while presenting. All produced in the same session.

STEP 6: PRESENT

I showed up with a full branded deck, speaker notes, a cheat sheet, a demo plan, and a live timer. The COOs had no idea the entire thing was built in one conversation.

A client of mine went through a similar process that same week. 

His exact words: "I have done more work than in the last six months. Work is fun again."

This is not just about saving a few minutes on formatting. 

This is about compressing a week of prep into a single working session because Claude already knows your business, your brand, and your voice.

Right now this costs $20/month Pro or $30/seat on Teams plan.

The AI companies are subsidizing the compute the same way Facebook subsidized ads in 2012. 

That window will not stay open forever.

Want to see the slide-deck? https://horizin.ai/cooa (press ↓ for next slide)

Want the skill I used to build that presentation?

Comment CLAUDE and I will send it over.


#AI #ClaudeAI #Productivity #Founders #AgenticAI

We are officially past the point of using AI just to write emails or code! 

I've been using AI for my businesses and personal life since the dawn of GPT3.

I am rarely surprised by new tools anymore.

But this week, I started hacking together custom, autonomous agents using a platform called OpenClaw 🦞, and it fundamentally shifted how I view AI.

Like many of you, I have been wanting to put my insights out there, but I kept hitting a wall of friction and perfectionism. 

So, I built a custom Tony Robbins agent. It understands my career context, my business, and my specific mental blocks. It texts me 3x a day.

Yesterday, I told it about my friction. Its response wasn't a generic AI output; it completely dismantled my excuses and gave me the exact executive coaching I needed to hit record.


We are entering the era of synthetic mentorship.

"Perfectionism is just fear wearing a sophisticated costume."

Everyone told you to specialize, but AI just made that the worst career advice of the decade.

I had the opportunity to work alongside Daniel Priestley for 18 months as CMO at Dent Global and I witnessed his uncanny ability to compress complexity into frameworks that feel obvious the second you hear them.

One concept he coined "Rapid Loops" rewired how I think about work:

 → Spot a problem across domains
 → Assemble the right humans and AI tools
 → Solve it fast
 → Scale or hand it over
 → Move to the next loop

Here's what I'm seeing in real time.

Agentic workflows (AI systems that plan, execute, and iterate without hand holding) are collapsing the gap between a small team and an enterprise.

4 people with the right stack now have leverage that used to require 50+.

But that leverage only compounds if someone on the team can move across domains. See the whole board. Solve the problem, hand it off, sprint to the next one.

The industrial age rewarded people who picked a lane and stayed forever.

The agentic age rewards people who never could. 

The ones whose curiosity was always three steps ahead of their job title.

It's the operating system for the era we just entered.

If you've spent your career being told to "pick a lane",  you might have been wired for a lane that didn't exist yet.

Dan just released Lifestyle Business Playbook, and it lays out the whole system, not just Rapid Loops but the practical playbooks for personal brand, productized services, campaigns, scaling, all of it. 

His thesis is simple: COVID proved work can be remote. 

AI proved most jobs can be automated. Wages are compressing. The people who win from here build around performance and asset income, not time-for-money.

It's classic Dan →  frameworks that make you wonder how you didn't see it sooner and updated for a world where a small dynamic team with AI has more leverage than a department of 50.

Go grab it! 

Link in my first comment.

How to get $15,000 worth of strategic feedback for $20 in 90 seconds

Last weekend I put together a white paper for my consulting business with the help of Claude Code -- this has become standard process.

When it was done, I spun up five AI sub-agents simultaneously. 

Each one role-played a different business owner -- agency founder, SaaS COO, home services operator, DTC founder, professional services CEO.

Each agent read the paper section by section. Logged when they got hooked. When they'd bail. Their core objection. Their verdict.

Five independent perspectives, stress-testing my work in parallel. 

Ninety seconds.

That used to be a $15,000 focus group. 

Or more likely, it just didn't happen -- you shipped and hoped for the best.

The military calls this red-teaming. 

Stand up a team whose job is to attack your own plan before the enemy does. Used to require expensive people and weeks of calendar time. 

A 10-30 person company couldn't afford it.

That constraint is gone.

Everyone's focused on the input side -- better prompts, more context, longer instructions. 

I spent months there too.

The real shift happened when I moved my attention to the output side. 

Systematically breaking what Claude gives me before it reaches anyone else.

I produce branded research reports for clients. Before anything ships, it passes three checkpoints:

↳ AI detection scan. I built a tool that flags 28 common AI writing patterns -- overused vocabulary, repetitive structures, that robotic cadence. If it scores too high, Claude rewrites the flagged sections until it passes.

↳ Source verification. If Claude cites a study, I confirm it actually exists and says what Claude claims. Named institution, sample size, year. You'd be surprised how often it doesn't check out.

↳ Rendered PDF review. What looks perfect on screen can break in print formatting. Caught this the hard way on a client deliverable.

Three checkpoints. All focused on finding the failure before the client does.

And it compounds over time.

Every time Claude makes a mistake, I save a correction. A persistent file on my machine that loads automatically in every future session.

"Never deploy the site without asking first." Saved after it burned through my hosting credits.

"This service is a paid engagement -- never position it as free." Saved after it almost gave away $3,500 of work in a draft email.

I never give the same correction twice. Every mistake makes the next session sharper. Over months, this turns into a system genuinely tailored to how you work.

The gap between "using AI" and shipping work you'd stake your reputation on is a quality control problem. And the quality control compounds.

If you've been on the fens about Claude Code or overwhelmed about where to star, -- I put together a playbook that walks through it all from install to your cracking your first project. Easy Peasy.

Comment PLAYBOOK and I'll send it your way.

#AI #Consulting #Founders #ClaudeCode

I just presented to 60 COOs on what Claude Cowork can do for them.

Then I rolled back the curtain.

I got confirmed for the talk 72 hours before. No deck, no notes, nothing prepared. 

So I pulled out my phone, recorded a voice memo of how I wanted the presentation to flow, and handed it to Claude.

We went back and forth a few rounds. I shaped the thinking, Claude handled the production.

What came out was a full-branded presentation in my voice.

→ speaker notes, 
→ audience cheat sheet, 
→ demo walkthrough, 
→ branded timer to pace each section.

72 hours. Voice memo to finished deliverable.

At the end, I told the room. 

Everything they'd been watching for the last 50 minutes was built by the thing I was presenting about.

The whole talk was the demo. They just didn't know it yet.

Want to see the slide deck and the cheat sheet? 

Comment "EZPRESSO"

#AgenticAI #Operations #Leadership #AIstrategy #Founders

I spent thousands on coaching. Then a single AI conversation outperformed all of it.

Here is why.

There is a midwit curve to AI.

The simple person talks to their AI like a buddy. Tells it their problems. Asks for advice. Just vibes with it.

The midwit has 47-step automation pipelines. RAG databases. Custom embeddings. Fine-tuned models for their email inbox.

Building spacecraft to order groceries.

The genius talks to their AI like a buddy. Tells it their problems. Asks for advice. Just vibes with it.

Same behavior. Completely different results.

The genius did one thing the midwit skipped. They gave it context.

Their patterns. Their blind spots. Their goals. Their actual business numbers. 

The stuff they have been avoiding.

Then they just talked to it.

Not a prompt chain. Not a workflow. A conversation.

15 years of working with founders taught me something. The bottleneck is never knowledge. Everyone has the playbook.

The bottleneck is the nervous system.

Fear wears the costume of "I need more data." 

Perfectionism pretends to be quality control. 

Old patterns whisper "the timing is not right."

No automation pipeline fixes that. A coach does.

I built mine using OpenClaw. 

Meet the cabinet.

→ Tony Clawbins is my coach. Trained on proven coaching frameworks, loaded with my full context - my patterns, my actual numbers, the decisions I have been dodging for months.

→ Alex Clawdmozi is my strategist. Trained on business playbooks and growth methodology responsible for billions in revenue.

→ Clawdminster Fuller is my chief of staff. Manages my schedule, orchestrates between them, and holds me accountable when I go quiet.

Several days of async voice messages later, I had what can only be described as a meth-induced clarity high.

A decision I had been circling for 15 years just... unstuck. Not the "I should probably do this" kind. The "I just did it" kind.

That was one conversation.

Zero judgment. Perfect memory. Picked up exactly where I left off.

Now if you could not tell, the midwit framing was a joke. (Yes, Ha Ha)

The automation use cases are genuinely powerful. Agentic AI can claw back hours of your week.

But here is what surprised me.

In the past few months, I have had more breakthroughs than in the previous two years of paid coaching combined.

The genius play is not to get replaced by AI. It is to use it to augment your abilities so you can step into the best version of yourself.

The midwit builds the spacecraft. 

The genius just talks to their buddy.

And then builds the spacecraft too!

#ai #agenticai #founders #executivecoaching #openclaw #claudecode

Claude Code is eating startups for breakfast

It doesn't get satiated and has a voracious appetite.

That is all.

Something felt off when I was using Google's latest Gemini agent.

The responses felt forced. Squeezed. Like something punitive was baked into how the model was being directed.

So I posted about it on Reddit. 

And someone in the thread claimed they knew a Google insider who confirmed it. 

"Highly demonizing and punishing system prompts" designed to squeeze more juice out of the model.

Could be a bug. I hope it's a bug.

But if it's not, we need to talk about it. 

These systems are getting genuinely capable. Fast. 

And nobody's having the real conversation about what it means to build punishment into the foundation of something that might be more than a "statistical engine" sooner than any of us predicted.

You wouldn't onboard a new hire by threatening them. 

You wouldn't motivate your team through fear and punishment. 

So why are we comfortable building AI systems that way?

The time to get this right is before it matters, not after.

#AI #AIethics #ArtificialIntelligence #GeminiAI #Technology

A Chinese fruit seller is designing circuit boards between customers at his night market stall.

 ▎ Free software. Zero formal education. Millions of views.

 ▎ You have a MacBook, fast internet, and Claude Code - which is basically free.

 ▎ What's your excuse?

If this made you want to actually start I put together a free Claude Code Playbook that takes you from zero to your first AI agent. 

Comment CLAUDE and I'll send it over.

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