Vladimir Druts 💪

Founder. Marketer.

What a man needs is not some tension-less state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. - Victor Frankel

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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

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 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.

TrackMage

Key Responsibilities:
- Defining the clear, concise, and compelling vision for the business
- Recruiting the team, setting up company operations and managing employees payroll
- Marketing research and execution
- Planning, defining and prioritising of all key activities
- Scheduling and building TrackMage.com software
- Raising money and promotion of the company
- Sales management and setting up of a sales pipeline

WeBananas Software Inc.

Irina set up the SCRUM process in the company with in-house and remote teams in the mix. Key responsibility is driving the application to the release and make it a success.

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Nimbus Web Inc

Review: 
"Originally when I first contacted Irina I was a SAAS founder stuck in managing all my teams' operations trying to make all the developers work efficiently and deliver good results.
The thing is, my team always asked too many questions and they didn't have a good idea what to do all the time.
The biggest obstacle was that I wanted to start finally focusing on marketing our system, but I couldn't step away from managing the daily operations. That meant I couldn't really grow the business if I didn't switch the focus, which meant I wasn't able to make my project a success.
Then I hired Irina to help to build a company culture that can support self-organization!
In only a few hours it became crystal clear to me how to make developers manage themselves and still be on track because I saw that I actually could do less hands-on management and my team could still perform.
With Irina as our Agile coach, I can now finally focus on growing my business and be sure my team has got my back.
And that's why I'm providing my highest recommendations to work with Irina so you can get these types of results too."

Agile Coach to optimize team workflow and project management

CloudAnswers

As a consultant, Irina is streamlining and optimizing business processes and operations.

Agile Coach / Scrum Consultant

Think Media Labs

Responsibilities of an Agile Project Manager or Scrum Master:
* Define all of the touchpoints that are typical of a Sprint: backlog, velocity, sprint review meeting, sprint retrospective meeting,
* Providing, in writing, the guidelines for each of the sprint touchpoints above. For example, Daily Scrum Meeting / Standup has a maximum of 15 minutes,
* Advising on how the above touchpoints can be used in a non-software development environment of consulting,
* Attending with us the initial set of touchpoints to monitor and give feedback on what is working and what needs more work
* Helping set up a tool (or tools such as ClickUp) to organize the sprints

Agile Project Management Consultant / Coach

StoriesOnBoard

Agile consultant with content management experience

Foretold.io

Review:
"Irina is fantastic. Highly responsive, very plentiful advice. She worked with me to understand Jira and Upwork hiring. She responded to several periodic messages incredibly quickly with useful feedback."

Project Management Mentor / Coach for Statistica l/ Technical Nonprofit

Mustly.io

Review: 
"Irina is one-of-a-kind, a hidden gem on the platform. Thoughtful, straightforward, resourceful and with very special expertises. Definitely hope to work again with her soon."

Startup consultant / advisor

Automated Dreams

Review: 
"Hire Irina if:
🚫 You're tired of hiring and re-hiring amateur project managers
🚫 You know that your project management system is lacking
🚫 You aren't surrounded with people that give you the constructive and direct feedback you need to grow your business
🚫 You're in charge of managing projects and you HATE it or like it but are lying to yourself at being good at it
✅ You're ready for growth
✅ You're ready for clarity on what's going on in your business
✅ You're a business owner long overdue for a vacation but can't take one because you're afraid everything will fall apart.

Irina was a pivotal resource in our growth as a company at a very crucial point. She came in as I was really feeling the pain of being a solo business owner that was trying to grow their organization and was feeling the growing pain of wearing so many hats in the business that I wasn't suited for.

Irina was outside of my initial budget, but I was 100% certain she was the right expert to untangle the mess and set our startup in a better growth trajectory with a cleaned-up PM experience. She was confident and decisive from the get-go, which was great. I get that some people want to collaborate with experts, but in an area where I have no expertise, that is the last thing I need to be doing. 

There are very few people that you can 100% trust, and Irina is one of them. With her, I always felt that if something went wrong she would take complete ownership to fix that problem at all costs and wouldn't throw up her hands. She's not only a specialist in PM but a generalist overall when it comes to growing a business and it's operations, and getting sh*t done! 

Had I not hired Irina when I did, I'd not be surprised if our business had closed due to crumbling operations and lackluster project management expertise."

Project Manager

Vyng, Inc.

Review:
"We were finding our engineering velocity had ground to a halt as we brought on more engineers. Especially with remote teams, improving communication and process became a necessity. So we set out to find a coach to help us improve our agile process and communication.
Irina was incredibly professional and came in with well-honed process principles. She met with team members and reviewed Jira, then hit the ground running with team education via video demos, process proposals and overall consensus-building (what good is a process if everyone is not on board).
She then set up all our team meetings with agendas, and acted as a scrum master, moderator and referee for standup, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective ensuring we all adhered to the process, played our defined roles and stuck to the principles of Scrum. Additionally, she added some time-saving automation in Jira and introduced us to some cool 3rd party tools that saved us real-time.
Overall, Irina quickly became an invaluable member of our team, including offering great insight to our leadership team and helped us graduate from the world of the processes to a more self-governing team with unified understanding and accountability.
If you are a startup or maturing engineering team that has sort of made-up process, as an amalgamation of what different engineers have picked up from various companies they’ve worked out, we would highly recommend working with Irina, to unify your process, and provide the predictability that communication and accountability bring."

Scrum Master for Android App Project

Founder @ TrackMage | I help DTC ecommerce brands create memorable post-purchase experiences, foster repeat business, customer loyalty, boost sales and streamline ops with TrackMage.

🚀  Nice to meet you, I'm Irina, your ecommerce Business Optimization Expert! 🚀

🌐 Specializes in Operations & Processes Optimization for businesses worldwide
🏆 Worked with 50+ small and large companies to create outstanding results
🛍️ eCommerce industry veteran with 10.5 years of experience
📦 Founder of TrackMage.com, your eCommerce automation solution

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Irina Poddubnaia

Reinventing yourself is not an identity crisis. It is a growth strategy.
I reinvent myself every 2 to 3 years. Sometimes - every project.
Same brain. New mission. New skill stack.

Marketing culture wants you boxed into one label.
One lane. One headline. One “thing”.
That works for selling templates. Not for building real leverage.

Here’s my rule.
Keep exploration private. Keep outcomes public.

Public:
What I ship. What I learned. What I can do for you now.

Private:
The messy rebuild. The doubt. The experiments. The pivots.

If you post every reinvention in real time, you look unstable.
If you hide forever, you look invisible.

Publish when the new version has proof.
Revenue. Results. Reps. Receipts.

From the Top of The World Burj Khalifa in Dubai 1920 feet (585.36 meters) high

Results-Focused Investor | Strategic Advisor. I turn big ideas into unstoppable ventures that scale fast. I talk about AI, Robotics and Growth

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