Code Red Partners

Tutela Talent has contracted with Code Red Partners to lead some of their Head of Security searches.

Contract Recruiter

TechCompass

TechCompass offers a comprehensive suite of services to primarily small and medium-sized tech and businesses, including:
* RedTeam Penetration Testing (covering web applications, API, cloud, network, wireless, mobile applications, embedded hardware testing, and physical security assessments)
* Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning
* Security Research & Advisory
* Cybersecurity Staff Augmentation 
* Virtual/Fractional CISO Leadership
* Cloud and Product Security Consulting
* Security Program Transformation
* Cyber Risk Assessments
* Ransomware Readiness Assessments
* M&A Cyber Due Diligence 
* Incident Response Tabletop Exercise

Head of Expansion

Tutela Talent

Tutela Talent is a boutique recruitment firm specializing placing professionals within Cyber Security, and Cloud infrastructure functions.  Our clients range from early-stage to public and are typically technology-led cloud-native/cloud-first companies between $5M-$500M in revenue.

Cyber Security recruiting specialties: 

-Security Engineering (individual contributor level up to Director/VP)
-Product Security.      (individual contributor level up to Director/VP)
-Application Security (individual contributor level up to Director/VP)
-Offensive Security(red team) (individual contributor level up to Director/VP)
-Incident Response/SecOps(blue team) (individual contributor level up to Director/VP)
-Information Security (individual contributor level up to Director/VP)
-GRC functions  (individual contributor level up to Director/VP)

Cloud Infrastructure specialties: 

-DevOps Engineers and Leaders(Manager to VP)
-DevSecOps Engineers and Leaders (Manager to VP)
-Site Reliability Engineers and Leaders (Manager to VP)

Founder | Recruiter | Managing Director

Forbes.jobs

Forbes.jobs unfortunately closed it doors as of December 31st, 2023.  Great idea, wrong time in the market to really grow.  I learned a lot from each of the training sessions, built great relationships with other recruiters, and was able to attend a Forbes event in NYC.  Hope to work with them again in the future if the concept comes back to life when the market shifts.

Recruitment Ambassador

Hitch Partners

Hitch Partners is a retained search firm that partners with technology companies on mission critical leadership roles. Our clients range from pre-revenue startup companies to large public companies and everything in between. Many of our client partners have been funded by Silicon Valley's top tier investors.

Check out our website to see a list of clients we have served: https://www.hitchpartners.com/

Functional Emphasis: Security Leadership(Director, Head, & VP of Security, Product Security, Application Security, Information Security, Incident Response, Security Research), Staff to Principal level Security IC roles(Offensive Security, Incident Response, Product & Application Security, Enterprise Security, and Blockchain/Smart Contract Security) and SRE/DevOps Leadership roles.
 
Domain Expertise: Security, Enterprise Software/Infrastructure /Cloud Computing(SAAS/PAAS), IoT, Blockchain/Smart Contract, etc.

Executive Search Professional

Wiley University Services

This organization supports online programs with proprietary state-of-the-art processes in marketing, recruitment, student services, and program development. This company represents over 38 prestigious colleges and universities offering a variety of undergraduate, graduate, and certification programs. 
My responsibilities included: 
•	Recruiting students looking to pursue graduate-level education in the areas of Cyber Security, Fraud Management, Fraud Investigation, Cyber Intelligence, Cyber Policy, and Compliance and Risk Management.
•	Aligning academic history with future career aspirations. 
•	Engaging prospective students in conversation over the phone while building a strong rapport and guiding them through the enrollment process in a consultative manner. 
•	Maintaining student contact levels, demonstrating strong communication skills, program knowledge, and meeting specific weekly, monthly, and quarterly goals. 
•	Manage and update computerized prospective student database using Salesforce.com, application paperwork, and follow-up documentation.

Executive Program Manager

T-Mobile

Responsibilities included: learning and becoming proficient at merchandising, sustaining retail sales excellence, and practicing and learning team leadership.  Ability to present innovative products and services to various audiences, using exceptional decision making skills, and excelling in customer service in a fast paced retail environment.  Meeting and exceeding sales goals given by matching customer needs with the right products and services.

Senior Sales Representive

My faith in Jesus Christ is everything to me and my faith in Him is where I draw my strength and wisdom. That being said, everything else flows from that relationship. 

A little of my professional story... I started my sales career originally in retail sales at T-Mobile and eventually moved into an inside sales role for an EdTech company in 2006. This led me into recruiting for degree programs in cyber security for Utica College, one of our partner schools. I did that for 12 years and during that time I was also involved in a leadership team that was building an e-commerce business on the side. Through that business I was reading a ton of books, listening to successful people on CD, and growing my skills professionally. In 2016 I decided to make a change and partnered up with a friend of mine who had been running a recruiting company for about 5 yrs and we started Tutela Talent which would focus on recruitment of cyber security and IT talent. I learned recruiting and how to run a new business all at the same time. It was like drinking from a firehose!! Eventually, I started to create success and landed some big clients such as Electronic Arts and T-Mobile(before they were breached T-Mobile). From there our business started to focus more and more on security leadership roles at the Director level to VP and I found this to be an area of focus I really enjoyed. 

Today I run Tutela Talent a small boutique recruiting firm where we specialize in placing cybersecurity, IT, and cloud infrastructure engineering talent from individual contributor to C level.  

At home, I am married to my beautiful God-fearing wife who is from Brazil, and my 3 kids ages 25, 12, and 9. I enjoy working out with my wife at the gym, singing in the choir at my church, reading the Bible, eating great food, playing basketball(when I can find the time these days), and traveling with my wife. I also enjoy hiking, skiing, biking, paddle-boarding, going to the beach, playing volleyball, and just being active.

Jesse Meadors

Brandon Charleson

Top of Funnel

Top of Funnel is a veteran-owned growth marketing agency where our mission is to help your company grow in all aspects of lead-generation -- sales, marketing, and recruiting/sourcing efforts.

Cold email outreach: We specialize in the latest AI tech-enabled, automated, and hyper-personalized targeted outreach to drive opportunities for businesses. Simply put, we bring interested leads to you who fit your ideal customer profile.

Digital marketing: We specialize in search and social media marketing to help B2C companies reach their ideal customer. As an expert filmmaker and storyteller, we leverage the latest storytelling mediums to grow your brand in a compelling way.

Website design and optimization: Your website is a lead generation tool, we help you design a lead-generation machine! Website design, optimization, SEO, we do it all.

We are proud to have worked with some notable hyper-growth startups through Fortune 500 companies named Top 100 Forbes experts in 2023.

If you or your sales team find yourself spending tons of time the process of prospecting for new business, reach out to contact@topoffunnel.com.

Proud to be veteran-owned and operated.

Founder

Clay

I push the limits of Clay and show all of my workflow secrets to help the best of the best "Clay-makers" out there. Specialize in all things AI and automation at scale.

Certified Expert

Instantly.ai

AI/Automation Consultant & Certified Product Expert

TechRecruiterPro

TechRecruiterPro is a Forbes.Jobs endorsed and veteran-owned executive search and recruiting partner and NPAworldwide recruiting partner. We consult and help companies find the right candidates and other tech specialists for much needed roles.  

Experience with small VC and seed-funded startups, established SMBs, and Fortune 100 corporations. 

Proven history in the technology space including Frontend, Backend, and Full stack software developers with various modern and legacy tech stacks. 

Specialties include:
- Fintech Web3 (blockchain, crypto, NFT) development roles
- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Prompt Engineering, generative AI and NLP
- Application and Web software development & engineering, IT/Technical roles (Frontend, Backend, Full Stack Developers)
- Cybersecurity, database, quality, and implementation roles
- C-Level Executive and Director roles
- Creative roles
- Consulting roles (including IT Strategy and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO))
- Marketing and advertising roles (programmatic)
- Defense & Space, DoD and cleared professional roles
- Manufacturing
- Technicians
- Accounting

If your company is hiring and struggling to find the right person for the job, reach out to us and we are happy to help. 

Contact info:
brandon@techrecruiterpro.com
(415) 862-1960

Recruiting Partner & Owner

Charleson Media

Charleson Media is a multimedia production company. Our strength is the ability to leverage the latest technology and produce visually compelling media.

We have highly skilled and well-versed graphic design, creative, technical writing, video production, photography, animation and web development professionals ready to serve our clients. 

We serve commercial companies from small startups to fortune 500 as well as government agencies of all types. 

Video production:
From ideation to delivery. We help script, storyboard, shoot, edit, and deliver professional video media. Specialties include narrative, documentary, and promo commercials. 

Website development:

- Full stack web design from frontend (what you see) to backend (how it operates)
- SEO optimization and planning
- Content strategy and generation for business

Areas of expertise:
- Website Design & UI/UX Development and SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Digital Marketing Strategy
- Motion Graphic and VFX Design
- Photography and Cinematography
- Videography
- Screenwriting/scriptwriting and storyboarding
- Pre-production, production, and post-production walk-through
- Lighting and color science
- Aerial and Drone Photography and Cinematography

Founder & CEO

NPAworldwide Member-Owners

Our members deliver results because they have the support of nearly 500 recruitment firms behind their search efforts. The cooperative spirit of a member-owned network means you pay for one firm’s services while leveraging the strength of the entire global network.

This includes:
-Speed to hire to fill critical rolls, leveraging a global network
-Global reach, members worldwide
-Local Recruiters to leverage relationships at the personal level, bringing you the best
-Passive candidates - Some of the best candidates are the ones that are happy, well-taken care of, and are not actively looking.
-Multiple search firms - leverage a global network while paying one fee

Member / Owner

KIHOMAC

Worked as the key internal full-cycle Tech Recruiter/Talent Acquisition Specialist for various roles including Engineers, Engineering Technicians, Sheet Metal & Composite Technicians, Management, Logistics , and Supply chain. Advised and collaborated with Hiring Managers to develop effective hiring strategies.

Principal Technical Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Manager

United States Air Force

Source, screen, and vet candidates with professional backgrounds including technical and healthcare roles. Manage pipeline of candidates to process into commissioned roles within the Air Force.

Roles include:
- Technical and Engineering roles
- Healthcare roles including doctors, nurses, and allied health roles

Senior Recruiter

Source, screen, and vet candidates for processing as enlisted members of the Air Force. Manage, consult, and mentor candidates with various backgrounds into roles of the enlisted force of the Air Force.

Roles include:
- Technicians
- Mechanics
- Special operations
- Linguists
- Intelligence/Cybersecurity

Recruiter

Aerospace Propulsion Craftsman

AI-powered junkie / Cold email strategist / Marketing & Growth Advisor / Headhunter

(TL;DR) As an AI and automation expert, I help companies develop their lead-generation and go-to-market strategy to implement AI/automation workflows which allows teams to scale quickly, save time and capital. Some people call us an "automation wizard" because we just make some magic happen on the backend!

Just like you, I wear many hats in life: Digital Marketer, Executive Recruiter, Director/Filmmaker, Full Stack Web Developer, Air Force Veteran, and major techie embracing the AI revolution with generative AI. But above all, I'm a family man to my wife and kids.

I thrive on helping people and companies succeed. Whether it's working with a startup to get off the ground, helping a parent who lost their job find their next big career, or telling a compelling story through video, I love connecting with people.

As an AI and automation expert, I push the limits of automation to help businesses grow at scale and reduce time spent on mundane, repetitive tasks. If you're a business owner struggling to find that "go-to-market" strategy or if you and your team find yourselves doing the same manual steps day after day, let's chat.

I am also a filmmaker/digital creator/part 107 drone operator and went to LA Film School where I got to work with and be taught by big budget films. Perhaps you have some upcoming video ideas and need help bringing them to life? Let's chat about that too!

My job is to help you and your business succeed. I do the heavy lifting in areas like marketing, video production, and automation. Having worked with Forbes as a Top 100 industry expert in tech, I bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the table.

If you're building an awesome SaaS product/business and need help with marketing or have a video idea but aren't sure how to get it on paper, let's connect.

I am your AI Automation Consultant, Recruiter, Filmmaker, Video Editor, Script Writer, Website Developer, Creative Director, UI/UX Designer, AI Prompt Engineer, Digital Marketer, and most of all, your teammate to see you and your business succeed!

PS - why list so many titles? Three letters: SEO. 😉

When I'm not working, I enjoy scuba diving 🤿, shooting video/photos 📸, hiking 🏔, high-intensity training, lifting heavy weights, shredding snow on the mountains 🏂, and teaching people how to live their best life through nutrition coaching and CrossFit training. 🏋🏼‍♂️

I think I've created a monster...

In fact, I think I created a B2B team of monsters...

Using Cursor, I just created a "cold outbound dream team" that takes any list and will apply a team of 6 AI Agents that will completely do everything for you, from source to send.

This is for B2B Outbound teams, recruiting/headhunters, and anyone who does cold outbound really...

Here is how it works:

The frameworks around these agents is CrewAI, where agents can be very easily configured to how you want to create a team. Think of it like having a team of people with a Supervisor and Individual Contributors (IC). 

Just like any Supervisor, it will need a bigger LLM for it's responsibilities, reasoning, and delegation. 

The IC Agents are responsible for lower-level and specialized tasks. This is why I have separated them out to be super specialized in what they do:

We have:

➡️ LeadMagic Agent which finds and validates emails

➡️ Ocean.io Lookalike Agent which will expand your list by finding lookalike companies and people.

➡️ Instantly.ai Agent which specializes in cold email campaigns and analytics.

➡️ HeyReach.io Agent which specializes in LinkedIn campaigns to connect with people.

➡️ Firecrawl Agent which specializes in web scraping, data extraction, and company research/scoring.

If all of this nerd talk goes over your head, this is literally a team of six employees that never call in sick and will generate new opportunities for you and your business. 

The catch?

I'm giving this away for FREE. No gates, no BS, just trying to help fellow sales teams generate opportunities so we can keep feeding our families using the best tools.

Link: https://lnkd.in/eC_FRn6p

Merry Christmas. 🎅🏼🍻

AI-powered junkie / Clay & Automation Expert / Cold email strategist / Marketing & Growth Advisor / Headhunter

Instantly.ai and HeyReach.io just dropped a MAJOR unlock for omni-channel!

Just in time for holiday pipeline boosts.. 

Now you don't have to dive into crazy automation triggers and actions to go chasing your ICP. 

If your prospect doesn't respond to your LinkedIn outreach? No problem...drop 'em an email!

If your prospect doesn't respond to your email? No problem, send 'em a connection request!

We've been doing this forever outside of the platforms, but now it's even easier. 

PS -- AI Prompting + Sora 2 + me jamming out in Adobe Premiere Pro is just wayy too fun. 🤩

Wife and I thought we were doing a 5K, turns out it was 5 mi 😬

Turkey trot ✅

Now time for 🏈 , 🦃, and 🍻

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Vercel launched "Workflow Builder" recently which is an open-sourced automation platform...

Firecrawl came in hot (like they always do) as the best web scraping tool, amongst other common integrations relevant to building great apps.

Thing is, it's all about triggers and actions...

You build something great (going from 0-1)..

But what about going from 1-100x? (aka GTM & get customers)

or 100x to infinity? (aka RevOps)

That's where Instantly.ai comes in. (Built and submitted pull request by yours truly)...

Just waiting on Vercel to merge!🍻

Comment MERGE and I'll send you the repo to use it now!

I cannot say enough when it comes to how much I've loved Cursor and how much leverage you can pull with web-scraping and GTM...

For this client, their TAM is not so present online, they definitely do not have a LinkedIn, and there is definitely people who work for certain organizations where if we find their name, and we know the permutation of how their emails are structured in the org, we can get a valid email to send 'em a message.

We do this many times to make sure we leave "no stone unturned" when really going maximum effort for our clients. 

In Cursor, we have everything we need for full context of what the client's persona is, their ICP, all CSVs, all Claude Skills and Cursor Rules, and we set it up in such a way that we know where we have scraped, we know the entire status of their TAM, and we set up a separate Scraping Infrastructure within the project.

Once we've identified names and how the org is structured, we run LeadMagic to validate these emails, which has totally given us opportunity to reach out to these untapped markets where they hardly exist...

Once we have all of this data pulled into the project, we upload to Clay to give it any last touches and send to Instantly.ai for outbound.

These are the type of people that truly respond to cold email (trust me..) 🍻

You've probably heard of vibe-coding tool Replit...

If you haven't, it is literally a tool that can take your idea to a fully coded landing page or SaaS product and make it go from 0-1 rapidly through natural language.

Here's the thing, when you go from 0-1...what's next? 

You've built this beautiful app or website, you've integrated with Stripe to get customers. Now what?

That's where 1-100x comes into play which is to get customers. 

Instantly.ai's MCP server (built by yours truly) enables that easily.

Replit just dropped their MCP feature right within their platform to easily launch campaigns, so you can easily get cold outbound campaigns set up

In this video I cover:

➡️ What MCP is (aka an Agent's "toolbox")

➡️ How to set up the MCP Server in Replit

➡️ How to navigate the UI, get to building an app

➡️ Get a campaign going in Instantly.ai and getting new leads

That's where the REAL work and fruition comes for all the "vibes" you had in building something and getting actual paying customers who can really use your idea.

Safe to say we call this "vibe-sending"? 🚀🍻

After months of my wife Elyse Charleson and I using Grok daily and seeing the growing demand for a native macOS experience, I decided to build it myself.

Proud to share the first fully native macOS app for Grok & 𝕏 – completely open-source and FREE for the community.

Key features:

• Global hotkey (⌥ + Space) for instant access
• Native UI with fluid animations & dark mode
• Four powerful modes: X (real-time trends), Grok (conversations), Grokipedia (AI encyclopedia)
• Grok Code Agent – built from the ether, now we have agentic coding with direct file system access, Git integration, autonomous refactoring, and command execution and using Grok's best models. 

Built with SwiftUI, secure Keychain storage, and full transparency (MIT license).

Download: https://lnkd.in/eWzrkQFX
GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eCni2jUY

This started as a personal tool because I wanted a faster, more developer-friendly way to use Grok on macOS – now it's out in the wild and already helping others ship code faster.

Huge thanks to the xAI team for building such an awesome suite of LLMs. 

Would love feedback from fellow developers, AI enthusiasts, and macOS users. 

Bugs? Feature ideas? Drop them below or on GitHub. 🍻


#Grok #xAI #macOS #SwiftUI #AICoding #OpenSource #DeveloperTools #ArtificialIntelligence

Vercel released it's Workflow Builder which essentially you can automate any workflow, and it's even open-source.

The best part about being open-source is that the dev community is not only embraced, but leveraged. Issues/bugs can be reported, and other devs can contribute to make the product bigger which relieves engineering bottlenecks. 

First, it was a no-brainer to push Instantly.ai integration to be able to easily launch and manage campaigns. 

The other tool we use massively is LeadMagic especially with their unique endpoints beyond just finding contact information...

One of those is 'Find Role' where in an automation workflow you can find the person at that company. An example is you can catch a webhook where someone signs up for a free-trial or demo and you can enrich/score that company and find the decision-maker via 'Find Role'...

There are many others, of course, but it's a no-brainer to be able to easily integrate with other tools to make scalable workflows in such an awesome new workflow builder...

Who should be next up!?

Anthropic released "Claude Skills" some time ago for a variety of use cases in helping AI Agents be more effective and useful.

Thing is, I don't think many people actually know the true leverage and potential this brings...

If you think about it...for any company that brings on a new employee, you immediately want to do two things:

1️⃣ Onboard them as fast as possible on how the company operates and get them acquainted with their new role. 

2️⃣ Leveraging the new employee's previous skills and knowledge to be able to immediately get to work. 

This is the exact same frameworks around what "Claude Skills" brings when we work with clients and for us internally to stay sharp and perform the best we can.

Inside of Cursor, we always import our 'tofu-claude-skills' which immediately injects the skills for a variety of use cases:

👉🏼 AI Expertise in pushing LLMs to their limits and staying up-to-date

👉🏼 Domain generation and purchasing to build cold email infrastructure

👉🏼 Copywriting ideation to propose to the client with their custom persona applied

👉🏼 Deliverability and analytics management with Instantly.ai

👉🏼 Multi-channel and overall marketing mastery for both GTM and RevOps to go from 0-1, 1-100x, and 100x to infinity

👉🏼 Sales intelligence, sales call feedback to always refine and sharpen sales skills to articulate true and maximum value. 

Thing is...any "skill" we have is knowledge and experience of what we already know. Contrary to that, there is always also knowledge debt of "you don't know what you don't know"...

Applying Claude skills and AI Agents to this really helps us to stay unbiased, apply unknown knowledge so we can continue to perform for our clients the best way we can no matter what. 🍻

Outside of web scraping, cold email, and marketing, two of the MAJOR tools we use every single day in every day ops is Slack and ClickUp.

After all...our business runs on systems!

Slack is a no-brainer (duh).... we communicate, react, virtual hug, send GIFs, (you know what I'm saying...)

We use ClickUp for many things, but key things are task prioritization and tracking. 

OK soooo what's your point!?

One of the HUGE unlocks is being able to leverage MCP Servers to connect these tools in a way that I don't have to copy and paste or explain myself for simple things. 

I can now easily use Claude or Cursor and just send updates per client within the codebase or what I did to communicate to the client/my team on anything. 

There IS an official ClickUp MCP server which works great

Slack does not have an official MCP sever, so I have built one out and already (and open source) and seeing massive unlocks for this purpose. 

Link in comments!

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 has been the GOAT for me as a daily driver in Cursor and nearly everything we do. 

One of the biggest advantages of the new Claude models are that they have context awareness, allowing them to track it's remaining window throughout a conversation. 

It's ALL in the prompting and knowing which model you're using and how to really push its limits...

There are two advantages on why you should read the fine print:

1️⃣ It allows you to not be stopped right in the middle of a task with the infamous "you've reached the limit of this conversation, start a new thread" like we see in the Claude. 

2️⃣ You can go further! If you use a sample prompt, like what is displayed from Claude Docs, it will go FURTHER and continue the task. Here is the sample prompt:

"Your context window will be automatically compacted as it approaches its limit, allowing you to continue working indefinitely from where you left off. Therefore, do not stop tasks early due to token budget concerns. As you approach your token budget limit, save your current progress and state to memory before the context window refreshes. Always be as persistent and autonomous as possible and complete tasks fully, even if the end of your budget is approaching. Never artificially stop any task early regardless of the context remaining."

Another great thing about the new Claude models is that they even have a "memory" tool which is becoming tons more usable across various chats so that way you don't have to continue to repeat yourself. 

If you know you're going to go off on a longer task, it's worth also prompting something like "This is a very long task, so it may be beneficial to plan out your work clearly. It's encouraged to spend your entire output context working on the task - just make sure you don't run out of context with significant uncommitted work. Continue working systematically until you have completed this task."

Combine this with Claude's new "Skills" and you're able to be tons more dialed in without having to explain yourself every time. Simply push that Skill to your Github, and then you can pull that Skill into any other project easily. 

This applies to everything, including:

➡️ Building apps

➡️ Building GTM mastermind projects and databases for clients

➡️ Making sense of literally any use case where you feel a bit scattered or overwhelmed, Claude can surely help you organize and put them into executable steps, especially if you use "Plan" mode in Cursor. 

The sauce to all of these best ways to use LLMs is always the documentations that the makers themselves post:

https://lnkd.in/g_sQysPm

Open article: Prompting best practices by platform.claude.com

As you can probably assume from the 'Santa Brandon' videos, I am a huge fan of Sora 2 and the latest videos it's been producing. 

Even Snoop Dogg is all over my feed...

I've recorded a YouTube video on how I did it all and even have an n8n workflow where we catch Instantly replies in effort to generate interest on UGC ads. 

If you're doing eCommerce or UGC content, this is definitely something that could scale your efforts even more. 

Here's how it works:

➡️ Catch the reply from Instantly.ai outbound campaigns

➡️ Send this to an AI Agent to use Firecrawl and scrape their website to see what products and services we could use to generate UGC content. 

➡️ Prepare the data for Sora 2 prompts and send it to Sora 2

➡️ We "poll" the API to wait for the video to generate

➡️ Reply to the lead with the UGC samples for your new "soon-to-be" clients

In the YouTube tutorial, I even go deeper in being able to create Coca-Cola commercials that seriously are hitting the mark (anyone remember clear coke!?)

Here is a completely free template and full tutorial on how to get it set up (no gates, no BS!)

Anyone else using Sora 2!?

https://lnkd.in/eBQtfuE4

One of things I am also doing with Cursor is making "myself" a project where I can essentially give it a role that it is a health and fitness coach to analyze, make recommendations, and give me suggested improvements on ensuring I am always performing at my best to continue to learn/grow, be a better person, a better husband/father, and keep quality of life high. 

The way I set this up is simply open an empty folder, call it whatever you'd like, select "Plan" mode in Cursor, then just brain dump on everything you want from your idea and how you want it executed. From here, I can set up a Github repo, ensure things I want omitted is added to the .gitignore, then I can easily call Claude Code or remote Agent to create a branch, submit a PR/merge, and now I have myself a health/fitness operating system. 

This is a very unique use case, but IMO, we are only limited by what we are exposed to mentally and physically, who we surround ourselves with, and what is "humanly possible"...

This comes into play with ALL aspects of life, but the most important one is clearly taking care of yourself physically and mentally.

Some might argue that "AI Brain Rot" could take over and send people down a rabbit hole of non-productive things, and you'd absolutely be right...

But the key thing here, is being acutely aware of what is actually real, what goals and objectives you want to achieve, I think there is a self-imposed radar where you just "know" what to do and what is the right choice. 

You never know what you might discover and be exposed to, and there certainly have been some amazing real-life case studies on how AI has improved health overall.

Anyone else doing this sort of thing?!

PS -- By the way, Cursor's Plan mode just got another major lift by easily choosing how you want to execute on your plan for anything, which is 🔥

Most of the time people would think "it's holiday season, we should pause all sending..."

Then you get the automatic webhook from Instantly.ai with the magical response that not only shows strong interest, but gives feedback that we're sending some damn good emails!

This lead is for a B2B SaaS company and this lead is not just any interested lead, but from a MAJORLY known platform most people all know and use (especially if you are a content creator).

Here is how we did it and the frameworks to get this reply:

➡️ Strong opening line/hook

➡️  Second line leading into "why I reached out"

PRO TIP: we used the term "help" and "provide insightful information"

➡️ A call-to-action that is REALLY EASY to say yes with a micro-offer + insightful information

➡️  We even used a PS line to add that "bonus" piece of content

➡️ We displayed human-human connection and not sound robotic/automated (this really nails it)

➡️ Kept the email ~100 words, with easy reading on a mobile device and can be read in 3-5 seconds.

➡️ Most importantly: be a Human. Any type of language such as "help", "insightful", "collaborate", "together" and any emotionally triggering response (such as humor) helps lower that cold-ness trust barrier.

What we did NOT do:

❌ - Ask for time or a demo

❌ - Did not say "I hope this email finds you well" or any AI fluff

Major takeaway -- Keep sending! 🍻

I use xAI's Grok every single day..

I use it on my phone, 

I use it in my Cybertruck, 

I also use it on my Mac (in browser), there is just one problem..

There is no macOS native app -- SO I built one!

FREE to download - link is here:

https://lnkd.in/eVj3C49R

One of the biggest programs in the Air Force (and all branches) is recognizing those who serve with outstanding service in effort to give them promotions, awards, and decorations.

Today, my leadership came to me asking if I knew a way to not only to digitize the current methods (i.e manual ways with paper), but to set this up in a much better way that is scalable. 

The catch is that my leadership was thinking this was going to take a lot more time (such as by next week). 

This task took us ~20 min and now they have a new and very easy way to track this entirety.

I pulled up Grok, Cursor, and we jammed this out quickly by speaking in realtime to Grok. 

Have it output all of the info we needed based on what was already tracked and what we have. 

Put that CSV into Cursor to output an excel with formulas and dropdowns to standardize it for apps we already use.

Deliverable done. ✅

Needless to say, got to tell the unit how easy and how much AI can save so much time. 🍻

Tons of AI tools (and so many popping up now)...

Here are five AI tools that I use every single day, why I use them, and how to set them up:

1️⃣ SPEECH TO TEXT: Lots of great ones, but one I use every single day across all of my devices (phone and Macs) is Spokenly. 

Having tested multiple, this Dev put some really great work into the features which is being able select specific LLMs, BYOK, and even using local LLMs (including Apple's). Can customize prompts, even has a feature to make your computer do agentic things (like open a browser, execute a command, etc.)

2️⃣ CLAUDE: AGENT SKILLS

This is literally a new "unlock" for AI agents. Think of it like the movie "Matrix" where Neo was injected Kung Fu. This concept is real. Very simply, I can just give an AI agent a skill quickly within a project or Claude itself and it'll have everything it needs to execute on that task. Graphic design, building MCP servers, doing tasks based on an SOP, anything. And the beautiful thing is that it's open source (on Anthropic's Github). I just wish Humans had this!

3️⃣ MCP Servers: Connectors

This is another level of UNLOCK is being able to give AI agents the ability to connect external applications is such a game-changer. I use various MCP servers every day. Common tech ones like Browser automation, Supabase, Github, etc. 

But other very useful ones that I use every day is my own built Slack MCP server to send messages to channels with my team. ClickUp MCP to easily add tasks, update, and complete tasks. 

Lastly, I built Instantly.ai's MCP server and my goal is to be able to make it as easy as possible to leverage this by launching campaigns. We use this daily and it has massively accelerated our ability to monitor and launch campaigns. 

4️⃣ Rapid Website Building & Instant Proposals

We build lots of systems. We build lots of websites at scale. We also send a lot of proposals. So I built an internal custom proposal system to not only create a quick proof of concept landing page but I've also baked in a proposal to the client on what it looks like and what the proposed cost + timelines + next steps right within the website. Sending PDFs is vanilla and boring IMO. 

We also do this internally for Top of Funnel where we engage as outbound partners in order to ensure our proposals as as high quality and easy to understand.  Using things like PandaDoc/PDFs are a thing of the past for us.

5️⃣ Building Agentic Dream teams (aka Cold Outbound Dream Team)

Agents are like people (kinda...). In my office, I run several Macbooks and Mac Mini's to orchestrate Agents in building systems in order to leverage my output -- both local and remote Agents.

If you think about it, most people work 1:1 when it comes to Human to Computer, so the only bottleneck is your imagination & "compute power" - I'm quite surprised Mac mini's are not sold out 😬

Need a walk through video on how to make sense of all this? NP!

Video here: https://lnkd.in/ew9nAsNK

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If you're looking to learn more on how you can leverage both your LinkedIn and cold email outbound motions with simple and practical use cases, we'd love to have you join. 🚀

Getting started with multi-channel outreach doesn’t need to be complicated.

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