Most people lump everything into “AI automation.” That’s why their workflows break and their quality tanks. Before asking “How much can I automate?”, ask one question: Who owns what? There are 3 distinct levels of AI leverage: 1. AI Assist (You are the driver) • AI researches, drafts, and challenges your thinking. • It suggests, but you decide where to steer. • Your Job: Direct & Judge. 2. Traditional Automation (You build the train tracks) • Trigger ➔ Action: "If new lead lands ➔ enrich data ➔ send notification." • The system follows fixed instructions. • Your Job: Design & Approve. 3. AI Agents (You set the destination & guardrails) • You define the goal, tools, and constraints. • The agent figures out the intermediate steps. • Your Job: Govern & Intervene. Notice the pattern? The human never disappears. Your job just shifts upstream. If you run a 1-person AI-native team, you can suddenly have: → Competitor research running in the background → Content getting prepped → Leads routing automatically → Agents optimizing campaigns Massive leverage. But also massive liability if you don’t manage control. Don't start with tools. Map who owns what first: - Where does AI assist? - Where does automation execute? - Where does an agent get autonomy? You don't need to do every task. But you still own the outcome.

Recently, I had some sales calls with clients last week. Some went well, and some didn’t. I started thinking about how I could improve. So now, after every call, I review the transcript with AI to get honest feedback on what I did well, where I went wrong, and what I need to improve. This helps me learn from every call and do better on the next one. How to set it up: - Grab the transcript of one recent call where you already know how it went. - Run the prompt below, then calibrate: tell it what it misjudged, what counts as giving something away in your world, what good discovery looks like for you. Iterate until the feedback matches reality. - Then save it as a skill ("use the skill creator to save this"). After every call it's one command. The prompt: Here is the transcript of a sales call I was on: [attach or paste]. Analyze my performance as the seller. Grade the call out of 10 and break down: how well I understood their situation before pitching, how much I talked vs listened, where I gave something away without asking for anything in return, which objections I handled vs dodged, and whether we ended with a clear next step. End with the 3 things to do differently on my next call. Be direct, no flattery.

- Open the Claude desktop app → Cowork - Click + → Record a skill, grant screen recording permissions and click Start Recording - Perform a task you repeat often, from start to finish and narrate it to Claude Sample Prompt (Narration): While recording your skill, say something like this out loud: I'm doing [TASK] to achieve [GOAL]. First, I [ACTION] because [REASON]. Next, I [ACTION] so that [OUTCOME]. If [CONDITION] happens, I [ALTERNATIVE ACTION]. This is the most important rule: [RULE OR DECISION]. Ignore any clicks or tabs that aren't part of this workflow. When the task is complete, verify that [SUCCESS CRITERIA]. - Claude packages it into a saved skill - Open a new chat and run it using /your-skill-name - To automate it, ask Claude to schedule the skill Automation Prompt: Let's make this a scheduled task. Ask me when it should run, then create the schedule for me.

Hey Academy, Going to demo the new Shockwave updates tomorrow, come join! A simple notes app with an AI agent that organizes everything and works for you (works across all your devices with a free sync). For non-technical note-takers who want AI agents with smart features — like memory, self-improvement — but without the setup hassle. >> Add It To Your Calendar << Why Shockwave 🧠 Knowledge Base — Get it out of your head. It stays organized on its own. Get it all out of your head, ideas, projects, due dates. The agent keeps it in order for you, so you never sit down to a pile of notes that needs processing. And because everything's in one place, the agent can use it and even complete the work for you. 🧬 It Learns You — Memory and self-improvement, built in Everything the power tools give you — memory, self-improvement — and it keeps learning how you work. 🛰 Always On — Close the laptop. It keeps working. Create work for the agent, then close the laptop and the work keeps getting done without you. And you can also pick up where you left off on any other device, even on your phone. 🔄 FREE Sync — A better agent file sync (with history) that costs nothing Most notes apps charge you to sync across devices — we use GitHub instead. It also handles file sync conflicts automatically.

Most real estate photographers already have everything they need to sell AI video services: the listing photos. I built and tested a workflow where you simply paste a property listing URL, and the system automatically creates a complete property video with an AI virtual avatar. No manual editing. No scripting. Just the listing URL.