I haven’t posted here for a while, I am making a bet and its long term. I spent a months worth of Codex Pro tokens in 24 hrs at the last 10 yards codex ran out of usage. I handed off to Fable and said dont burn me please. It didn’t, and finished the job with Sonnet as a dispatched agent. This build was a deployment kit and what comes next will be the result of that. It’s a big play for a solo armed with a couple of servers and some AI, but we’ll see if it pays off, and so will you. The takeaway here is, using ICM lets you pass your project mid stream during a failure and adjust budget. A $200 job wasn’t lost and was finished on time. Folders As Agents doing the work!

Then get your foot in the door. Then upsell the ICM. NOTE: Jake already shouted me out and shared my Skool group here Verbatim what I just posted in my group is below the *** thingys. This is not self-promotion, this is me...helping you.... And about 150 of you already came over based off his post. ********************************************************************************************************* "First... @Carla Bosteder this was for you specifically, you asked, a few more did as well...but, don't say I never gave ya' nothin'. What I am seeing: Everyone wants to lead into businesses and sell "ICM". You and I both know they need it, but it's like walking up to a woman on the first date and trying to lift up her skirt. You're going to get slapped. Business owners are the same. You need to earn trust, so just because your friends will let you take a look up there and reorganize their entire business... It's a little bit hard of an ask to a stranger. You need to position ICM Folder as a high ticket upsell to an offer. Create a quick win, solve a problem, then they will trust you forever. They will even ASK you what else you can do for them. That is what the 3 laws is about. That is what the researching is about. That is what the customer's journey highlights. It's all in the classroom.... Here's an easier win you can get for business owners missing out on business because of late calls, calls while they're busy, etc and so on. Go look up the numbers - it's a real pain. It's just files n' folders, people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gV242QeLCw P.S. I built my front desk for my company as sassy'ish. I call her LIVE so you can hear that. The report I mention is in the description on YT and in the classroom.

A pad of scrap paper beside the keyboard has done more for my throughput than most of the tooling I changed this year. The minutes a model spends building are the minutes to spend deciding what happens after it lands. - The next sequence - the two or three work orders after this one, written while this one runs. - Notes on the output - what to keep and what to challenge, marked as you read rather than after. - Designs - page layouts, folder trees, flows. Faster to draw than to describe. The dead time in an agentic session is real. A job runs for a few minutes and there are three things you can do with that window: watch it, interrupt it, or think. Watching teaches you nothing and interrupting usually costs a rerun. Writing by hand does something a second chat window does not. The keyboard pulls you back into the work; paper keeps you above it, which is the seat you are supposed to be in while an agent is running. The reading half matters more than the planning half. Marking what to challenge as an output comes in, rather than reaching the end and reconstructing it, is the difference between a next instruction that corrects course and one that just says carry on. The bit I have not solved is getting any of it back into the system. Everything on that pad is orientation the workspace never sees. One of the synced writing tablets pointed at a folder would close that - handwriting arriving as context on the next prompt, and the notes logged as part of the record of how a build actually went. If anyone here has wired one up, I want to hear how. Genuinely think that is one of the more interesting unbuilt pieces sitting in plain sight...

When a friend asks for thoughts and research about a given topic, I take it very seriously. I used perplexity deep research alongside Kimi K3 High Thinking to generate him a clear and understandable PDF document outlining whether he should or should not purchase a crockpot after his urgent message. It turns out that dictation fails again. On the upside, when I realised he meant grokbots, I was able to point him to my article about them. And now I have 12 million tokens worth of research about crockpots for anyone who needs it. //A<3

What’s your biggest bottleneck? For people building a personal brand/business, what’s currently the biggest bottleneck for you? Getting attention, creating content consistently, converting attention into leads, or something else?