How I use AI as an Entrepreneur (My complete workflow)

AAli Abdaal
창업/스타트업마케팅/광고경영/리더십자격증/평생교육컴퓨터/소프트웨어

Transcript

00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel.
00:00:01In this video, we're gonna go through my entire AI workflow
00:00:04as an entrepreneur.
00:00:05So hopefully there'll be something in here
00:00:07that's useful for you.
00:00:08And just as a heads up,
00:00:08this video is very excitingly being sponsored by Anthropic.
00:00:12(upbeat music)
00:00:14All right, so before we go into the workflow,
00:00:18I would like to zoom out a little bit
00:00:19and opine about work.
00:00:22What does work actually mean?
00:00:23Well, in very general terms,
00:00:24work happens when we take an input,
00:00:26we do some stuff to it, i.e. we process it,
00:00:29and then we get some kind of output.
00:00:30So for example, in the agricultural era,
00:00:32your input would have been seeds, for example.
00:00:34The processing is done by sunlight and water and nature
00:00:37and stuff like that.
00:00:38And your output is that you get your wheat or whatever
00:00:41as your harvested crop.
00:00:42And so back in the day,
00:00:43the work of the farmer was to take the raw input of seeds
00:00:46and do the processing to it along with nature and stuff,
00:00:48and then harvest the output.
00:00:49Then you go forward a few thousand years
00:00:51and now maybe your input is trees.
00:00:53Your processing is, I don't know,
00:00:54a chainsaw or an axle or whatever.
00:00:56And then your output is like sticks of wood.
00:00:58And then maybe someone else might take those sticks of wood
00:01:00as an input.
00:01:01Maybe their processing is doing like woodworking and stuff.
00:01:04And then the output might be a table or a desk or a chair
00:01:07or whatever the thing might be.
00:01:08And generally the value of the outputs,
00:01:10if you're doing it properly,
00:01:11is greater than the value of the inputs
00:01:13plus the labor cost of processing.
00:01:14And therefore you have created value
00:01:16because someone else is gonna pay more
00:01:17for that table that you've created
00:01:18compared to the raw material cost of the wood.
00:01:20So we have the agricultural era,
00:01:22which is all about creating food.
00:01:23Then we get the industrial revolution
00:01:25and the industrial era,
00:01:26which is all about creating stuff in the real world.
00:01:28Cars and trains and railroads and all of the fun stuff.
00:01:31But over the last 75 years or so,
00:01:33we have all basically, like if you're watching this,
00:01:35you are probably not a farmer
00:01:36and you're probably not a woodworker
00:01:38or you probably don't work in a factory.
00:01:39You probably do some kind of knowledge work,
00:01:42which is still work in the sense of input becomes processed,
00:01:45becomes output.
00:01:45But now instead of it being like physical real life stuff
00:01:49that we're taking as inputs
00:01:50and turning into outputs for the most part,
00:01:52we've got a new kind of system whereby the inputs
00:01:54is kind of ideas from our brains
00:01:56and maybe data and like ones and zeros on a computer.
00:01:59The processing is that we are using our brain
00:02:01and our skills to type away keys on a computer probably.
00:02:04And the output is also some kind of digital thing,
00:02:07but still the output has more value than the input
00:02:09and therefore we're able to charge money for the thing.
00:02:11Now I say all of this
00:02:12because I find it very useful to understand this context
00:02:14as it relates to AI workflows in the modern world,
00:02:17because obviously AI is changing everything.
00:02:19And we as knowledge workers, as entrepreneurs,
00:02:21as sensible people in the world,
00:02:22we need to find ways to adapt.
00:02:24And the cool thing about AI tools is they can help us
00:02:26in every aspect of this input process and output situation.
00:02:29And so now I'd like to show you
00:02:30kind of what my workflow looks like with this overlaid on it.
00:02:34All right, so these are the various different AI tools
00:02:36that make up my current AI workflow as an entrepreneur.
00:02:39We have three ish things in the input column.
00:02:42We have voice pal, which inputs.
00:02:45We have grain that inputs
00:02:46and we have super whisperer that inputs.
00:02:50Then we have processing,
00:02:51which is almost entirely done by Claude.
00:02:53Claude is my favorite AI large language model.
00:02:56I now use it for everything.
00:02:57It's basically replaced all of my chat GPT usage
00:02:59'cause I just think Claude is way better.
00:03:01And so Claude is sort of like the processing hub
00:03:03for absolutely everything.
00:03:04And then the outputs are either Google Docs,
00:03:07or if it's a video, it goes output it into Firecut,
00:03:10which is the sort of AI tool
00:03:11that helps you save time as a video editor.
00:03:13If it's like content or stuff for the business,
00:03:16it goes into Notion.
00:03:17We kind of use Notion and Google Docs somewhat interchangeably.
00:03:20And if it's a presentation that needs to be made,
00:03:22it is made using Gamma because Gamma is like
00:03:24a really nice sort of AI powered presentation builder,
00:03:27which is very good.
00:03:28Okay, so I'm gonna give you a quick run through
00:03:30of all of these different apps that I mentioned.
00:03:31There's gonna be links down below
00:03:32if you wanna check them out.
00:03:33And then we're gonna go through
00:03:34the three specific kind of areas of my own work
00:03:37and how these apps fit into the workflow for each one.
00:03:39So firstly, we have voice pal.
00:03:41This is an app that my team and I have built
00:03:42over the last like 12 months or so.
00:03:44Voice pal is a conversational AI writing type tool
00:03:47where if you wanna write anything,
00:03:48you basically speak into voice pal on your phone.
00:03:50Voice pal then asks you follow up questions
00:03:52based on what you've said,
00:03:53and you can go back and forth as much as you like
00:03:54while you're on a walk,
00:03:55while you're in a coffee shop or wherever.
00:03:57And then when you're done,
00:03:57you can either export the raw transcript
00:03:59of like literally everything you've said,
00:04:00including the um's and ah's,
00:04:02or a cleaned up transcript,
00:04:03which sort of just gets rid of all of the verbal diarrhea
00:04:05and umming and ahhing and stuff.
00:04:06And you can export it into Claude
00:04:08or any other tool that you want.
00:04:10Next up, we have Grain.
00:04:11Grain is one of the many apps
00:04:14that lets you record Zoom calls.
00:04:15Essentially, we've been using Grain for absolutely years.
00:04:17And then we can often take the transcript of Zoom calls
00:04:19and chuck it into Claude to do various things.
00:04:22And then finally, we have Super Whisper.
00:04:23Super Whisper is a really nice Mac app,
00:04:25which basically is a better version of dictation
00:04:27when you're on your Mac.
00:04:28So like most computers have dictation built in,
00:04:30but on Super Whisper, you just sort of hit the hotkey
00:04:32and then you speak into your computer.
00:04:33And then it will basically just sort of dictate,
00:04:35sort of type out whatever you've said.
00:04:37And then, so this is tends to be how I interact with Claude
00:04:40if I'm on my computer.
00:04:41If I'm on my phone and I want to interact with Claude,
00:04:43I'll just use the straight up Claude app.
00:04:44But if I'm on my computer,
00:04:45I'll use Super Whisper to dictate into Claude
00:04:47and then go back and forth
00:04:48'cause it's way quicker to speak than it is to type.
00:04:50And so these are the various different sources of input.
00:04:53Claude, of course, is the large language model
00:04:55general AI tool by Anthropic.
00:04:56As a heads up, this video is sponsored by Anthropic,
00:04:59but it's 'cause we reached out to them saying that like,
00:05:01"Hey, we want to make a video
00:05:02"and we use Claude all the time
00:05:03"and we've been paying for it since like
00:05:05"for the last like two years.
00:05:06"So can you guys partner with us on a video?"
00:05:08And they were like, "Sure, why not?"
00:05:09And so this video is technically sponsored by Anthropic.
00:05:12So take that for whatever it's worth.
00:05:14But Claude has genuinely replaced
00:05:15or basically 100% of instances of Chad GPT,
00:05:17especially because they now have memory.
00:05:20The memory feature was the only reason
00:05:22why I was still using Chad GPT for a little bit of stuff
00:05:24because Chad GPT had memories of all my chats.
00:05:26But now Claude thankfully has memories of all of my chats,
00:05:29which means that for the last week
00:05:30since this feature came out,
00:05:31I actually have not had to use Chad GPT for anything
00:05:33because Claude now has memory built in.
00:05:34So yeah, Claude is basically my 100% go-to
00:05:37processing large language model.
00:05:39And I generally prefer it to Chad GPT
00:05:40because its personality is a little bit like nicer,
00:05:43it's more interesting, it's more engaging.
00:05:45I feel like its writing is better
00:05:46than the stuff Chad GPT comes out with.
00:05:48And it's also less of a sycophantic yes man
00:05:51than Chad GPT is these days.
00:05:53So that's why I absolutely love Claude.
00:05:55And then in terms of output,
00:05:56you all know what Google Docs is.
00:05:58Firecut is a Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve plugin
00:06:02that I've actually partnered with
00:06:03with a friend of mine, Sahil,
00:06:04and it saves video editors time.
00:06:06So if you are creating videos,
00:06:08you can save time editing using Firecut.
00:06:10You probably know what Notion is.
00:06:11It's our project management plus everything kind of workspace
00:06:15where basically everything we do in our business
00:06:17kind of happens through Notion.
00:06:18And Gamma is a very nice sort of slide builder
00:06:21where you can basically just input a bunch of text.
00:06:24Gamma AI will generate like pretty looking slides for you.
00:06:27I use it for some of the lessons that we do for our courses.
00:06:29I use it if I'm doing a pitch deck for a brand
00:06:32or for like a book proposal or something like that.
00:06:34It's super, super nice to be able to just generate
00:06:36pretty looking slides automatically
00:06:37rather than having to manually drag and drop stuff
00:06:39around like on Google Slides or on Keynote or on PowerPoint.
00:06:42But now having introduced you to all these different apps,
00:06:44I wanna show you the sort of three different areas
00:06:47of my work life.
00:06:48And then we're gonna go through exactly
00:06:50kind of what the workflow is for AI tools
00:06:52in each different area.
00:06:54All right, so this is me
00:06:55and there are broadly kind of three areas of my life
00:06:59as an entrepreneur.
00:07:00Strand number one is the content creator
00:07:02personal brand side of the business.
00:07:04So this is things like making YouTube videos
00:07:06and Instagram reels and writing my email newsletter
00:07:09and like posting on LinkedIn.
00:07:11And yeah, basically the content creator stuff.
00:07:14The monetization for this is basically YouTube ads
00:07:16and sponsorships.
00:07:17In fact, there's sort of a fourth
00:07:19which I'll put in brackets over here.
00:07:20Then we have strand number two
00:07:22which is the online education business strand.
00:07:24Now we have basically two small online education businesses
00:07:28that we have within our portfolio, me and my wife.
00:07:30One of them is our lifestyle business academy
00:07:32where we help people start and grow lifestyle businesses
00:07:34that get you to financial freedom.
00:07:35And the other thing is our YouTuber academy
00:07:37that's been running for the last five years
00:07:38where we help people start and grow YouTube channels
00:07:40if you're into that sort of thing.
00:07:42So we have these two sort of small
00:07:44online education businesses.
00:07:46Each of them sort of has their own teams and stuff
00:07:49but like I'm still very involved with them.
00:07:51My wife is getting increasingly more involved with them.
00:07:53That's like the second strand
00:07:55of the portfolio of stuff that we do.
00:07:57The third strand of what we do
00:07:58is that we are building a suite of productivity
00:08:01and personal development and creator apps.
00:08:04So, so far two of them, two maybe three
00:08:07depending on when you're watching this are public.
00:08:09The first one is voice pal that we talked about.
00:08:11We made that about a year ago.
00:08:12The second one is an app called Momentum
00:08:13which we launched a couple of weeks ago.
00:08:15That's a habit tracker with accountability squads built in
00:08:18to help you stay consistent with energizing habits.
00:08:20There's a few other things we're working on.
00:08:21The next thing that is launching that might've launched
00:08:23by the time this video comes out is called Creator Grid.
00:08:26And that is a free platform that allows creators
00:08:29to grow and monetize by connecting them with brands
00:08:32and getting brand deals regardless
00:08:33of how many followers you have.
00:08:34And then the fourth thing is books.
00:08:36So, so far I have written one book, Feel Good Productivity
00:08:38which became a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.
00:08:41And I sold a few hundred thousand copies
00:08:42and it's been translated into like 35 plus languages.
00:08:45So if you haven't checked out my book,
00:08:46Feel Good Productivity, you might like to check it out.
00:08:48But I put this one in brackets
00:08:49because this is not like a day-to-day thing.
00:08:52This is more like when I'm working on a new book
00:08:55instead of trying to do it alongside all this other stuff.
00:08:58I generally take like, I say generally
00:09:01I've done it once so far, but for the second book
00:09:03I'm working on, I am planning to take like a four week
00:09:06or two week or three week kind of sprint
00:09:08and just focus on the book.
00:09:09And then that's how, you know, the different stages
00:09:12of the book are going to be done
00:09:13rather than it sort of weaving into everything else.
00:09:15So in a way, these are like the four aspects of the brand.
00:09:18We've got the content creator,
00:09:19we've got the online education business,
00:09:20we've got the software stuff and we have books
00:09:22which happens every few years.
00:09:24And this is sort of like a portfolio of lifestyle businesses.
00:09:28Now, just as a quick thing, this is probably suboptimal.
00:09:32If I was trying to maximize revenue or maximize money
00:09:35I would pick one thing and just stick to that one thing
00:09:37and just do that one thing really well.
00:09:39This is quite a lot of stuff going on
00:09:41but I'm not really in the business
00:09:42of trying to maximize just revenue.
00:09:44I also want to have fun.
00:09:45That means none of these things is going to get
00:09:46to like a billion dollars or become absolutely huge.
00:09:49But it's kind of nice having like a portfolio
00:09:51of small businesses that are each very profitable
00:09:54and each have their own teams.
00:09:56And it sort of gives a variety to my life
00:09:58because some of the days of the week
00:09:59I focus on content or books.
00:10:01Some of the days a week
00:10:02I focus on the online education business
00:10:03and figuring out like curriculum and student success
00:10:06and like operations for that.
00:10:08And some of the days of the week
00:10:09I think about software and apps
00:10:10and sort of design stuff and draw things out
00:10:12and use various AI tools to help me
00:10:14sort of with software design.
00:10:15So for the rest of the video
00:10:16I'm going to show you what the exact workflow is
00:10:18for each of the different strands of this business
00:10:20and how these various AI tools
00:10:22when it comes to input processing and output
00:10:24really help in particular with the content creator stuff,
00:10:26with the software stuff
00:10:27and with the online education business stuff.
00:10:30Cool.
00:10:31Alrighty, so we are here on the iMac in our new little office
00:10:34that we have just moved into.
00:10:35Hence why everything is all a bit all over the place
00:10:37but we are still working on it.
00:10:38So anyway, I wanna show you exactly
00:10:39what the workflow looks like.
00:10:40And we're gonna start off with the software side of things.
00:10:43By the way, there'll be timestamps underneath this video
00:10:45of course, as you know,
00:10:46so you can skip around the video if you feel like it.
00:10:47Now, first thing to say is that we have enabled
00:10:49various features in our Claude account.
00:10:51So we have a team plan for Sparkle Studios
00:10:53which is the name of the business.
00:10:54And so we have artifacts which generates code snippets,
00:10:57text documents and website designs.
00:10:58That's super, super helpful for everything.
00:11:00We have AI powered artifacts enabled as well
00:11:02which lets us create clickable prototypes and things like that
00:11:05we have location metadata.
00:11:06We have memory, which is a new feature,
00:11:08which is so glorious.
00:11:09When they announced that feature, I was like, yes, hallelujah.
00:11:12It's incredible.
00:11:13So we've enabled the memory feature
00:11:14so that Claude can then reference all of my past chats.
00:11:17And also Claude can remember personal context
00:11:19from the chats to make the conversations more interesting.
00:11:21And we've also got this experimental upgraded file creation
00:11:23and analysis tool, which is cool.
00:11:25Claude also has various connectors.
00:11:26So we have connected it to our Notion workspace
00:11:28which allows Claude to access basically
00:11:30all of the stuff we've got in Notion
00:11:32'cause we've been using Notion since like 2019.
00:11:34So we have tons and tons of stuff in Notion
00:11:35and we've also connected it to Canva and Google drive.
00:11:37So it can like add and modify files and do all the fun stuff.
00:11:40So now we're here in Claude's project section
00:11:41and I have a project for various different things I'm doing.
00:11:43And the whole idea behind a project is that
00:11:45you can then reference the same kind of files
00:11:47from a particular project.
00:11:48And so Claude then has context
00:11:49over what specifically you're doing within that project.
00:11:52If you're context switching between like software
00:11:54and content and courses or whatever your situation might be.
00:11:59I have a quick flag before you continue watching this video.
00:12:02If you are at this point in the video,
00:12:03thank you so much for watching so far.
00:12:05Basically in this video, and I've only just realized this,
00:12:08I haven't just watched the whole thing.
00:12:09Because I'm showing you my specific workflow
00:12:13for our specific products,
00:12:14it runs the risk of the whole video
00:12:16basically feeling like an ad for our various products.
00:12:19Like for example, for the next 10 minutes,
00:12:21I'm gonna talk you through exactly how I build a new feature
00:12:22from Momentum, which is an app that we've built.
00:12:24And then I'm gonna show you how I use this other app
00:12:27to build the curriculum for our Lifestyle Business Academy,
00:12:31which is another one of our products, right?
00:12:32So like, I'm flagging this right now
00:12:35that if you are allergic to anything
00:12:37that like feels like advertising
00:12:38or any of that kind of stuff,
00:12:39like please feel free to skip the rest of this video.
00:12:41Like it's impossible for me to show you
00:12:44what my actual workflow looks like
00:12:46without showing it to you in the context of products
00:12:49that we are selling.
00:12:49So I hope you will forgive me that I by definition,
00:12:53in order to show you the workflow,
00:12:54I have to talk about the products that we are selling.
00:12:56I don't want you to, ideally,
00:12:58I don't want you to think that like,
00:12:59well, the only reason we make this video
00:13:01because you don't want to talk about products
00:13:02or any of that kind of stuff.
00:13:03Like you can take whatever conclusion from that you like,
00:13:05but this is a flag that if you will find it offensive,
00:13:08please feel free to leave the video at this point
00:13:10'cause for the rest of the video,
00:13:11I'm gonna be talking about our products
00:13:13while showing you how I use AI to work on our products.
00:13:17So hopefully that makes sense.
00:13:18So the project that we've got here is for Sparkle Studios.
00:13:20Sparkle is an app design and development studio.
00:13:22Our goal is to build a delightful productivity
00:13:24and personal development apps
00:13:25that help users build a life they love.
00:13:27It's spearheaded by me, Ali Abdaal and my wife, Isi Sealy.
00:13:29We both have strong personal brands
00:13:30in the personal development and productivity space.
00:13:32So this is just a little bit context
00:13:33so that Claude has context around this.
00:13:35Now I'm gonna show you a bunch of different ways
00:13:36that I actually use this in real life.
00:13:37And so hopefully you'll get a feel for what I'm doing
00:13:39and then maybe you can figure out
00:13:40how to tailor that to what you're doing.
00:13:42So right now, when it comes to the software,
00:13:43one of the things I need to work out is
00:13:45we're planning out new features to add to Momentum,
00:13:48which is our habit tracking and accountability app.
00:13:50So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna screenshot
00:13:52a bunch of different aspects of Momentum.
00:13:55Let's look at Sparkle Fitness, leaderboard.
00:13:59And I'm basically giving Claude a feel for
00:14:03what does Momentum, the app, actually look like right now.
00:14:06And I'm basically gonna take those files,
00:14:08airdrop them to my Mac.
00:14:09Now what is good about this is I can basically
00:14:12chuck all of those straight into Claude.
00:14:14And now I can use SuperWhisper to say,
00:14:17okay, these are some screenshots of Momentum,
00:14:19which is the habit tracker and accountability squad app
00:14:23that we are developing.
00:14:25I want you to help me create a challenges feature.
00:14:29So I want the challenges tab to be one of the tabs
00:14:31at the bottom of the app.
00:14:33And the whole idea behind the challenges feature is that
00:14:36users will be able to join a challenge
00:14:38to focus on staying consistent with one of their habits.
00:14:41So for example, we wanna host a challenge
00:14:43that's sort of the final 100 days of 2025 challenge,
00:14:46where people pick a single habit
00:14:47and then they aim for daily consistency
00:14:49with that particular habit.
00:14:50But we also want the option of people being able to join
00:14:53like a monthly challenge or like a meditation challenge
00:14:57or a reading challenge.
00:14:58And we want users to be able to browse challenges
00:15:00and also be able to join a challenge.
00:15:03Cool, so as you can see, SuperWhisper has basically
00:15:05just written that whole thing.
00:15:06And now I'm just gonna hit enter.
00:15:08We're gonna see what happens.
00:15:09Okay, so what it's doing,
00:15:10it's creating a challenge feature specification.
00:15:14Okay, fantastic.
00:15:15So Claude has designed basically the specification for this,
00:15:18all of which sounds quite reasonable.
00:15:20Now the most exciting thing about this, okay,
00:15:22please create a clickable prototype for this.
00:15:27Okay, so this is what Claude has generated.
00:15:31So we've got the existing habit screen,
00:15:35we've got the existing squad screen
00:15:36and it's created this challenges feature.
00:15:38What I'm doing here is,
00:15:40I'm not really trying to vibe code the feature.
00:15:42I'm using Claude basically as a prototyping tool.
00:15:46Now back in the day before we had AI tools
00:15:48like Claude and lovable and V0 and things like that,
00:15:51in order to do prototypes,
00:15:53I would have had to, really back in the day,
00:15:58draw boxes on a piece of paper
00:15:59and then turn them into Photoshop files.
00:16:01And then a few years later,
00:16:03an app called sketch came out for the Mac.
00:16:04And it was sort of like you were able to draw boxes
00:16:07and quickly design prototypes of stuff using sketch.
00:16:09And then sketch sort of went behind
00:16:11and then Figma came around
00:16:12where it basically allowed you to do prototyping
00:16:14in the browser and like shareable with teams and stuff.
00:16:17And that was amazing.
00:16:18But even though Figma is amazing,
00:16:19and we still use Figma all the time,
00:16:20the problem with Figma is you still have to draw the boxes.
00:16:23Whereas with Claude, as you've seen over here,
00:16:25I've just described what I want or what I think I want.
00:16:28And it has mocked up a clickable prototype
00:16:31of what the feature would actually be.
00:16:32So let's look at this final hundred days of 2025
00:16:36and the strong daily consistency up.
00:16:37Nice, recent participants, yeah, join challenge.
00:16:41And then I can choose one of my habits.
00:16:43So let's say I wanna run every day, join challenge with run.
00:16:46Great, see my progress.
00:16:48And man, this is freaking incredible
00:16:50because this would have taken me hours and hours
00:16:52and hours and hours to figure out
00:16:53if I was just trying to do the stuff in Figma.
00:16:55And what the end result of this is,
00:16:58it's not that like this feature is exactly gonna be
00:17:02what is now in the app,
00:17:03but immediately I get a feel for
00:17:07what might the feature look like
00:17:09if it was built into the app.
00:17:10Now, what I would generally do here
00:17:11is that I would kind of go back and forth
00:17:12with Claude a little bit until the feature
00:17:14is sort of like directionally at the level
00:17:16that I want it to be.
00:17:16And then I would record a loom,
00:17:18which I would send to our co-founder Pablo,
00:17:20who's our co-founder on the software front
00:17:22and also the lead developer on Momentum.
00:17:24His name is Alex.
00:17:25And so I'd record a loom to send to Pablo and Alex
00:17:27and be like, "Hey guys, I've just been talking to Claude
00:17:29and I feel like I've got a reasonable mock-up
00:17:31of the challenges feature
00:17:32that we wanna build into the app.
00:17:33Here is what I think it might look like,
00:17:34A, B, C, D, E, F, G."
00:17:35And then I would sort of talk through the feature
00:17:37and why I think it's good and what it might look like.
00:17:40And then Pablo and Alex, being the actual developers,
00:17:42would then figure out, okay,
00:17:44how much of this do we wanna incorporate into the app?
00:17:47What do we need to change?
00:17:48How does the database schema need to change?
00:17:49How do we then release this feature
00:17:51without like disrupting the existing users of the app
00:17:53and all of the fun technical stuff,
00:17:55which I thankfully don't have to deal with
00:17:57because that's not my role in the software stuff.
00:17:59My job is basically to figure out
00:18:01what are some cool features that I would really want
00:18:03that I think users would benefit from
00:18:05given the goal of the app,
00:18:06and then try and do my best to mock it up using Claude
00:18:09or any of these other AI tools.
00:18:11The other major thing that I do on the software front
00:18:13is part of my role is to get people to use the app.
00:18:16So I'm trying to do the marketing.
00:18:18Now, the way we mostly market the software
00:18:20is through short form social media content.
00:18:21So here's something I might do in Claude.
00:18:23Okay, based on what you know of Momentum the app,
00:18:26this idea of habit tracking with accountability,
00:18:30I want you to help me generate 50 different hooks,
00:18:34like one line hooks that I can use
00:18:36when I'm filming Instagram reels
00:18:38that provide value to the audience,
00:18:39but then also sort of casually show Momentum the app
00:18:43being used on the Instagram reel.
00:18:44All right, so I've got these different hooks.
00:18:46Now, the way that we normally do social media content
00:18:48is we create what we think of internally as a hook book,
00:18:52i.e. basically just like a Google Doc or an ocean page
00:18:54that just has loads of different hooks,
00:18:56hook meaning like the first line of the thing.
00:18:58And then usually I'll have a look through
00:19:00and I'll just sort of pick
00:19:02which are the ones that feel legit.
00:19:05Like obviously I'm not actually gonna film all 50 of these,
00:19:07but I find that by generating 50,
00:19:09I can usually find like five or 10 that I think,
00:19:11oh, actually I have something good to say
00:19:13from sort of building off of this one liner.
00:19:16One of my least favorite parts of social media content
00:19:18creation, whether it's on like Instagram, TikTok,
00:19:20any kind of social media platform, even YouTube
00:19:22is the hooking people's attention aspect.
00:19:25So on long form YouTube videos, it's the title and thumbnail.
00:19:28I really don't enjoy thinking about title and thumbnail.
00:19:30Similarly on Instagram and TikTok,
00:19:31it's like, what are you saying in the first three seconds?
00:19:33I don't enjoy having to think about that stuff
00:19:36because really what I'd love
00:19:37is to just be able to say something that provides value,
00:19:39but no, you've got to hook people's attention
00:19:41and make sure they stop scrolling and all of that stuff.
00:19:43So I quite like using AI tools to do the work for me
00:19:47in that regard and then I can just sort of see
00:19:49which of these things, as I read through them,
00:19:51gives me a dopamine hit of like, ooh, that sounds interesting.
00:19:54So I'm sort of looking out for this,
00:19:56that internal feeling of resonance of like,
00:19:58yes, I think there's something here.
00:19:59There's this one, the secret to never breaking a habit again,
00:20:02but I kind of prefer this is the secret
00:20:06to never breaking a habit again.
00:20:12I'm gonna say to Claude, these are my favorites.
00:20:13Give me 50 more along these lines.
00:20:15And so what I'm doing here is I'm sort of like,
00:20:18it's generating the first draft of the thing.
00:20:20I am testing for resonance
00:20:22in terms of what I feel like is gonna hit.
00:20:24And then I'm feeding that back to Claude
00:20:26so that it like improves its stuff, basically.
00:20:30Okay, cool.
00:20:30So now of these 50, which have been improved
00:20:33based on the data I gave it, I like 11 of them.
00:20:36So, you know, we've got just over 20% hit rate for this.
00:20:40This is one mistake I see a lot of people
00:20:41make when it comes to using AI tools
00:20:44for like creativity type stuff.
00:20:46It's that like, you look at the list of things
00:20:49and you're like, oh, that's cringe.
00:20:50Oh, I don't like that.
00:20:51Oh, I don't like that.
00:20:52Oh, I don't like that.
00:20:52And then you're like, oh my God, the AI sucks
00:20:54and can't replace humans and like all of that,
00:20:56all of that sort of stuff.
00:20:57But if you generate 50 to 100 things,
00:20:59you're probably gonna like 5% of them, 10% of them,
00:21:01maybe 20% of them.
00:21:02And then you can just use those
00:21:03rather than trying to get the AI
00:21:05to do all of the work for you.
00:21:06What we're basically doing is getting a feel
00:21:08for resonance and stuff.
00:21:09So now what I have here in a notion is basically
00:21:12my momentum hook book,
00:21:13which means next time I get around to sitting down
00:21:15and filming social media content for Instagram,
00:21:17TikTok, YouTube shorts,
00:21:19that tries to actively or casually plug momentum.
00:21:24I have a long list of hooks.
00:21:26And usually the way I do that is I look at the first one.
00:21:28This is why 90% of people fail at building habits.
00:21:31And then I'm thinking, okay,
00:21:32what's the value that I can give to the audience
00:21:35based on my own knowledge from that specific hook.
00:21:38So I can say that for example,
00:21:3890% of people fail at building habits
00:21:40because they don't stay consistent beyond like the 21 days
00:21:43that on average it takes to build a habit.
00:21:45And so really those first 21 days are absolutely critical.
00:21:47And usually people fail at that.
00:21:50And usually people fail at the thing
00:21:52because they don't keep the streak going
00:21:53and because they don't have accountability
00:21:55to make the thing happen.
00:21:56Then that segues nicely into talking about the app.
00:21:59So this is sort of like the process
00:22:00that goes through my head
00:22:01when I'm thinking about making
00:22:03short form social media content.
00:22:04Now at this point, if I really wanted to,
00:22:05I could say to Claude, write me a script,
00:22:07but I don't like using AI tools for scripting my stuff
00:22:11because I prefer to do that stuff myself.
00:22:15I find that if you outsource too much of the creativity
00:22:19of a process to AI,
00:22:21then there's some soul that gets lost.
00:22:24And especially when it comes to things
00:22:25that I'm saying on camera.
00:22:27I don't want a large language model
00:22:29to be putting words in my mouth.
00:22:31I don't mind it at all if it's for the hook
00:22:33'cause often I'll be like, okay, yeah, that's reasonable.
00:22:35But then I kind of make it a point
00:22:36that I am the one actually generating the stuff from within
00:22:39for the content for the piece itself.
00:22:40There are a few other things
00:22:41that we do on the software front.
00:22:42So for example, we send out surveys every now and then
00:22:45to our users and that survey generates a .CSV file
00:22:49with survey results from people giving feedback
00:22:51about the app.
00:22:52That goes into Claude and we ask Claude
00:22:53to basically sort of parse what people have said
00:22:56about the app.
00:22:57And that lets us basically figure out
00:22:59what should we prioritize on the roadmap.
00:23:01And on the backend as well,
00:23:01we also do some tracking around,
00:23:03fully anonymized data obviously,
00:23:04but it's more like what's the critical mass of things
00:23:08that the average user needs to do on the app
00:23:10in order to see value.
00:23:11So we found with VoicePal, for example, based on the data
00:23:13that if someone downloads VoicePal
00:23:14and creates at least three recordings,
00:23:17then their chances of converting to a paid user
00:23:19and then sticking with the app are like drastically higher.
00:23:21And so then we know that based on that,
00:23:23that really the point of our onboarding for the app
00:23:26is to get people to create those first three streams.
00:23:28And then that's kind of nice.
00:23:29That's data that we got from basically analyzing
00:23:31the CSV files of stuff, looking at the data,
00:23:34checking it into Claude.
00:23:35And that really helps guide us on our roadmap
00:23:37for the software, because otherwise there's like
00:23:39an infinite number of things you could be doing
00:23:40when you're building apps
00:23:41and when you're building a business.
00:23:42But really the trick is to try and prioritize the ones
00:23:45that are gonna move the needle most for your users,
00:23:47because if you can add value to the users,
00:23:49then you're also gonna add value to your business.
00:23:51Okay, quick flag.
00:23:54This bit that's coming up might seem very boring.
00:23:56We were gonna cut it out and then we felt like,
00:23:58do we cut it out, do we not cut it out?
00:24:00We're gonna leave it in
00:24:01just because I know there are some people
00:24:03who will get lots of value
00:24:05from like literally seeing the conversation
00:24:06that I'm having with the AI.
00:24:08And hopefully they'll give you some ideas
00:24:09about what kind of conversations you can have
00:24:11with the various different AI tools.
00:24:12But if you don't care, all the timestamps are down below.
00:24:14So please, by all means,
00:24:15feel free to skip this bit of the video,
00:24:17'cause this could get kind of boring
00:24:18unless you just really wanna see me interact with the AI
00:24:20and talk about our Lifestyle Business Academy.
00:24:22Now Lifestyle Business Academy is a brand new product.
00:24:25We launched, we ran like a six week challenge for it
00:24:27that went really well.
00:24:28People vibe with it, but now we're launching
00:24:30like a proper kind of online business school
00:24:32for lifestyle entrepreneurs.
00:24:34Now, whenever I do anything new
00:24:36or whenever I'm going zero to one on something,
00:24:40I always like to start with a voice transcription
00:24:43where I just get as much of the information out of my head.
00:24:45And so I'm gonna be using VoicePal for this.
00:24:47I am trying to figure out what is the offer
00:24:50for our Lifestyle Business Academy.
00:24:52Now Lifestyle Business Academy, the whole goal of it
00:24:56is to help people build $100,000 a year lifestyle business
00:24:59in under 12 months.
00:25:01And really what I want is almost like a better version
00:25:04of an MBA, like an MBA for lifestyle business owners.
00:25:08So it's like, you know how an MBA is like a two year program
00:25:12or one year program or three year program.
00:25:13I'm kind of imagining like the Lifestyle Business Academy
00:25:15is a three year program where we take someone
00:25:18as a complete beginner and within about three years,
00:25:21we get them to a million dollars a year in revenue
00:25:24with ideally like 500,000 in profit.
00:25:26Now that's gonna be hard
00:25:27and there's gonna be like a whole roadmap for that,
00:25:30but I want it to feel like I really wanna build this
00:25:33as a kind of online business school, that kind of thing,
00:25:36but also have some offline components.
00:25:37Yeah, okay, so now VoicePal is asking me
00:25:42what specific skills and knowledge will participants get
00:25:44from the LBA that they wouldn't get from a traditional MBA?
00:25:46Good question.
00:25:46How will the curriculum be structured
00:25:47to ensure the beginners can progress
00:25:48to a million dollars in revenue within three years?
00:25:50And what offline components do you envision
00:25:51incorporating into the program
00:25:52and how will they enhance the learning experience?
00:25:54Now I could just click on any one of these,
00:25:56but actually I'm gonna use it.
00:25:57There's a new feature we added to the app,
00:25:58which is, it sounds like you're aiming to create
00:26:02a comprehensive multi-year transformational program.
00:26:05What would you say are the core mindsets or skill shifts
00:26:08that someone needs to make
00:26:09between hitting $100 per year
00:26:11and scaling all the way up to $1 million?
00:26:12Okay, this is a good question.
00:26:14I think the zero to 100K revenue thing will take 12 months,
00:26:1812 to 18 months, depending on whether they have skills or not.
00:26:20Some people will do it sooner,
00:26:21some people will take a bit longer.
00:26:23And we kind of wanna encourage people to go at their own pace,
00:26:26but we also wanna set a standard pace
00:26:29that's kind of like a recommended pace,
00:26:32because if someone really hits the ground running,
00:26:34then they can probably get to 100K revenue within six months.
00:26:37But if they wanna take their time with it a bit more,
00:26:39maybe they wanna be a bit more chill,
00:26:40maybe they've got other things going on in their life,
00:26:42then it'll probably take longer than six months,
00:26:45probably maybe 12 to 18 months to hit 100K in revenue.
00:26:47And then really, I think zero to 100K is a specific thing.
00:26:51And then 100K to a million is going deeper
00:26:54on the same foundational kind of skillsets.
00:26:56- That timeline you described is really interesting.
00:27:01Can you walk me through what specific habits or routines
00:27:03someone needs to adopt during that first year
00:27:05to build momentum towards that initial $100K
00:27:08and how those change or evolve as they aim for the million?
00:27:11- Okay, so initially, like to be honest,
00:27:17I think the habits and routines are actually fairly similar.
00:27:19I think for someone to do this properly,
00:27:21they need to put in 10 to 15 hours a week,
00:27:24possibly more than that at the start.
00:27:26I mean, but again, it's a sliding scale, right?
00:27:28So we're trying to build a lifestyle business
00:27:29where the whole idea is that you're able to put in
00:27:31as much time as you want to.
00:27:33So someone could build a lifestyle business
00:27:35in four hours a week.
00:27:36It's just that it's gonna take longer, obviously,
00:27:38compared to someone who's putting 40 hours a week
00:27:40into building the lifestyle business.
00:27:41So in a way, the key habit, number one,
00:27:43is actually devoting some time to making progress every week.
00:27:45That's like a key focus here.
00:27:47Number two, they've gotta fill out their,
00:27:51we've got like a whole curriculum mapped out for them,
00:27:54including like tools and things where every week,
00:27:56they're gonna need to fill out their weekly
00:27:57kind of metric scorecard thing,
00:27:59and also where they attend our accountability squads
00:28:02every single week to set goals and to make progress.
00:28:05And so really, as long as students are making progress
00:28:09week to week, even if it's a tiny incremental
00:28:11amount of progress, that will drastically accelerate
00:28:15the chances of being able to hit the 100K in revenue
00:28:16and then also being able to scale to a million a year.
00:28:19That accountability structure sounds crucial.
00:28:21How do you help students stay motivated
00:28:23and overcome periods when progress feels slow
00:28:26or they hit unexpected setbacks?
00:28:29- That is a good question.
00:28:29I think, okay, so I think a key part of this
00:28:31will be the squads and the coaches.
00:28:33So every student will have their own kind of coach
00:28:35that they can contact one-on-one for any help.
00:28:38They'll also have their own squads,
00:28:39squads of six people where they'll be meeting with them
00:28:41on a weekly basis with WhatsApp group
00:28:44and all of that kind of stuff or motivation.
00:28:46I will also be doing kind of weekly live sessions
00:28:49that will include some breakout room components
00:28:50and we're also gonna have like mindset office hours,
00:28:54mindset and motivation, kind of like group coaching sessions
00:28:56because honestly, mindset and motivation is a huge,
00:28:59they're like one of the biggest hurdles
00:29:00when it comes to building a 100K a year business.
00:29:02I think given our target audience and the sorts of people
00:29:04we're gonna get in the program,
00:29:05they shouldn't find the technical side of it too hard
00:29:07but the most difficult aspect is gonna be the emotional side
00:29:11and actually staying motivated consistently
00:29:14to see results over the long term.
00:29:18- It makes a lot of sense that mindset is a big hurdle.
00:29:21Can you share a story or example
00:29:22where someone's emotional breakthrough or shift in mindset
00:29:25made a clear turning point in their business journey?
00:29:27What did that look like and how did it impact their results?
00:29:31- So then as you can see here,
00:29:32I was using the conversational interview mode
00:29:34where it's sort of my voice with a weirdly Australian accent.
00:29:36And so through that, I've now got this whole transcript
00:29:40and then what I can do is I can just take
00:29:41the entire transcript, chuck it into Claude
00:29:43and then do other things with it.
00:29:44And so yeah, I find this method of interviewing myself
00:29:46to be a really good way while I'm out and about,
00:29:48while I'm standing up.
00:29:49Sometimes I have my AirPods in,
00:29:50sometimes I'm just like going for a walk in the local park
00:29:52and I'm sort of being interviewed by myself
00:29:54for a thing that I need to work on.
00:29:56How do you plan to incorporate offline components
00:29:58into the Lifeslide Business Academy
00:29:59and what value do you think they'll add?
00:30:00So we wanna have.
00:30:02And I can keep going like this forever
00:30:07and just generate thousands and thousands
00:30:08and thousands of words in my transcript.
00:30:09How many have I got so far?
00:30:10This one is currently 1,130 words, which is quite nice.
00:30:14I generally find that if I can get
00:30:15at least like 800 words, that's a good amount
00:30:18of kind of content to then put into Claude
00:30:20to then process it.
00:30:20So we're gonna stop on Voicepal now
00:30:22and then we're gonna switch to Claude.
00:30:24Okay, so now what I'm gonna basically do
00:30:31is take the transcript I've just generated through Voicepal
00:30:34and I am gonna hit copy transcript
00:30:37and I generally prefer the raw version of it.
00:30:40And I'm gonna just paste it straight into Claude
00:30:42thanks to the universal clipboard on Apple products.
00:30:45There's a chap called Donald Miller
00:30:46who has a very good book called "Building a Story Brand."
00:30:49And he has a framework called like the brand script framework
00:30:53which is my kind of go-to first port of call
00:30:57whenever I'm designing a new product.
00:30:58So based on this transcript I've created in Voicepal,
00:31:00I'm gonna say, I want you to help create
00:31:01a story brand brand script based on this
00:31:03and let's see what Claude does.
00:31:04So we've got the character, the hero, a professional
00:31:06with valuable expertise that wants to build
00:31:08a 100K a year Lifeslide Business
00:31:09that gives him freedom, fulfillment of financial security
00:31:10without sacrificing a life in the process.
00:31:11Yes, this is perfect.
00:31:13This is actually a little bit better
00:31:14than it would have been purely with that transcript
00:31:16because this is within my Lifestyle Business Academy project
00:31:18where I've already got chats that talk about this stuff
00:31:20but this is pretty spot on.
00:31:22Has, so it has a problem.
00:31:23The external villain is the traditional employment trap
00:31:25trading time for money with no part of your freedom
00:31:27while watching expenses consume every paycheck.
00:31:28Yeah, sure, internal.
00:31:30So internal obstacles.
00:31:31I don't know what business I need to pursue.
00:31:32Why would anyone pay me for anything?
00:31:33I'm not an expert in anything.
00:31:34I can't pull myself out there on the internet.
00:31:35Imported syndrome, overthinking analysis paralysis,
00:31:37fear of leaving the security of a "real job."
00:31:40Any of those things resonate with you.
00:31:41They resonate a lot with our target audience, hopefully.
00:31:44Philosophical, you shouldn't have to choose
00:31:45between financial success and living the life you want.
00:31:47Yes, work should enhance your life, not consume it.
00:31:49Everyone has valuable expertise that can help others.
00:31:51They just need the right system to monetize it.
00:31:52100% agree.
00:31:53So then they meet a guide.
00:31:54So the whole idea is that you, the customer, are the hero
00:31:58and then you have a problem, which is that you have a job
00:32:00and you probably don't want your job.
00:32:02You want freedom.
00:32:03So then you meet a guide, which is sort of me and my team
00:32:05and our faculty for the Lifeslide Business Academy.
00:32:07I understand the fear of starting something new.
00:32:08I've been there, the overthinking, yep, yep, yep.
00:32:10Most people don't realize they're overly expected.
00:32:11Yep, nice.
00:32:12It gives them a plan.
00:32:13So identify your craft skills, find your people,
00:32:15choose your solution.
00:32:16Okay, this is where the plan,
00:32:18it's not quite the plan, but whatever.
00:32:21This is fine.
00:32:22Okay, so the elevator page.
00:32:26Most people are stuck trading time for money
00:32:27when they're part of the freedom.
00:32:28With the Lifeslide Business Academy,
00:32:29we help complete beginners build $100,000 a year business
00:32:31in 12 to 18 months using the expertise they already have.
00:32:33Weekly accountability squads, proof of frameworks
00:32:35and personal coaching.
00:32:36Our students create lifestyle businesses
00:32:37that give them freedom, fulfillment and financial security
00:32:38without sacrificing their lives in the process.
00:32:41That is a good elevator pitch.
00:32:43That is better than anything I have ever come up with.
00:32:45Man, I love it.
00:32:46Well done, Claude.
00:32:47This brand script positions your students
00:32:48as the heroes of their own transformation story
00:32:50with the user experience guide.
00:32:50Yes, perfect.
00:32:52For that create urgency without being overly dramatic.
00:32:55Yes, I like that.
00:32:56I really, really, really like that.
00:32:57This is really, really good.
00:32:59Okay, awesome.
00:33:00We're pretty much there with the brand script.
00:33:01We already have people who have been applying
00:33:04for the Lifeslide Business Academy.
00:33:06So I'm gonna whack out the data
00:33:09that we have from our applicants.
00:33:11Okay, so we have 346 applications so far
00:33:15within the last few days.
00:33:17And we haven't really talked too much about this,
00:33:18but really the goal, like all we're looking for
00:33:20is 30 people for the founding case study cohort.
00:33:23Hypeform does have these interesting
00:33:24kind of qualitative analysis.
00:33:25So how did you first hear about the Lifestyle Business Academy?
00:33:27So a bunch of people, positive sentiment,
00:33:29positive sentiment from Ali's YouTube video,
00:33:31from the 1K challenge, through one of Ali's emails,
00:33:33all of this sort of stuff.
00:33:34So anyway, I've basically downloaded the CSV file
00:33:36of all of these student responses.
00:33:38And I'm gonna chunk the CSV file into Claude.
00:33:41Okay, these are all the students who have applied
00:33:45to join the case study.
00:33:47So I basically just typed it out.
00:33:48(mumbles)
00:33:50So with that roadmap laid out,
00:33:51I want you to give me a feel
00:33:52for what issues students are likely to face at each stage.
00:33:54Okay, cool.
00:33:55So design phase.
00:33:56Primary issues you'll face.
00:33:57Analysis paralysis around niche selection.
00:33:59100%, of course this is gonna happen.
00:34:01Like this is what we see every single time.
00:34:03I speak to anyone who wants to start a business
00:34:04that's just like, what the hell should my niche be?
00:34:07And it's a good question.
00:34:08Like, this is why we are offering this
00:34:10as a mentorship package,
00:34:11'cause I think like people just really struggle with this.
00:34:13Many applicants list three to five different potential niches,
00:34:16fitness, business, mindset, relationships.
00:34:17Several explicitly say they're not sure if they're exploring.
00:34:19You'll have students constantly guessing,
00:34:21but what if the other niche would be more profitable?
00:34:23Classic, yes, 100%.
00:34:25Imposter syndrome, despite clear expertise.
00:34:27Even applicants with 10 plus experience
00:34:29are saying things like, I'm not an expert yet.
00:34:31Common phrase, I wanna help,
00:34:32I don't know if I'm qualified yet.
00:34:33Classic, they'll need constant validation
00:34:34that being two to three steps ahead is enough.
00:34:36Agreed, trying to help everyone.
00:34:37Multiple responses show reluctance to narrow down.
00:34:39Entrepreneurs and professionals,
00:34:40or anyone who wants to improve, yep.
00:34:42Fear that specificity will limit their income potential.
00:34:44But I could help so many people with resistance.
00:34:45Yep, nice.
00:34:47This is so far fully gelling with all of the experience
00:34:49that I have around this specific niche
00:34:52and this particular audience of people
00:34:53with my own experience of having helped people
00:34:55like start their first lifestyle businesses.
00:34:57(indistinct)
00:35:01For the last few weeks, as I've been kind of iterating
00:35:05on this whole process with the Lifestyle Blisters Academy,
00:35:07Claude has been like my primary thought buddy with this.
00:35:09And I have also spoken to loads of coaches,
00:35:13signed up to a bunch of mentorship programs
00:35:14from people doing offers like this.
00:35:16So for example, one thing I also like to do
00:35:18is take basically my Zoom call recordings
00:35:20from coaching calls that I've had
00:35:21and chuck them into Claude to be like,
00:35:23okay, what are this person's recommendations
00:35:25for how we can make the program better for our students?
00:35:27'Cause really for us, this is kind of like the first time
00:35:29we're doing something explicitly
00:35:30in the helping people make money on the internet space,
00:35:33which feels very scary.
00:35:34And so I'm doing a lot of preparing me and the team
00:35:37to really make sure we can deliver results.
00:35:39And Claude has been a very, very, very useful thought buddy
00:35:42for this whole process as have been the coaches
00:35:43that we'd paid tens of thousands of dollars to,
00:35:45to try and get this program to be really good from day one.
00:35:49So this is a transcript of a conversation
00:35:50with one of my mentor, Scott,
00:35:51based on this and the application data
00:35:52and the roadmap I gave you
00:35:53wanting to create a detailed roadmap document
00:35:55that explains the entire roadmap
00:35:56along with likely issues that people are gonna have
00:35:57that I can share with my team.
00:35:58The Lifestyle Business Academy is a 12 month group mentorship
00:36:00program designed to help students build
00:36:01100,000 year annual revenue.
00:36:02Yep, students progress through three distinct phases
00:36:04with the ultimate goal of achieving consistent 8,300 a month.
00:36:06Yeah, exactly.
00:36:07The divine stage, yep, yep, yep, yep.
00:36:10Analysis paralysis, imposter syndrome,
00:36:11trying to help everyone, money mindset blocks, yep.
00:36:13Build phase.
00:36:15Daily content creation, discovery call, clients, testimonials,
00:36:17paid clients, et cetera, et cetera.
00:36:20DM outreach resistance, yep, yep, yep.
00:36:22The ghost zone, I like it.
00:36:23Yeah, all of this is very, very good.
00:36:25Most students won't hit 100K in year one,
00:36:27but they'll still be thrilled
00:36:27with the path clearly and feel supported.
00:36:28Success is defined by progression,
00:36:29not just the ultimate destination, yeah, I agree.
00:36:31Obviously, I want students to hit 100K in revenue,
00:36:33but realistically, a lot of them won't,
00:36:35but even the ones that won't,
00:36:37we want them to make a massive ROI from the program
00:36:40and also feel as if it was totally worth it,
00:36:43which is gonna be an interesting challenge.
00:36:44Okay, nice.
00:36:45Now, based on the roadmap I gave you,
00:36:46give me a table of contents for what the modules
00:36:48and lessons in the curriculum could be.
00:36:50And again, I've already done quite a lot of this stuff,
00:36:54but what I'm looking for is I'm getting a feel
00:36:56for based on this new information
00:36:59that I've given Claude via VoicePal,
00:37:00and also, I hadn't previously added in the CSV
00:37:03from our applicants,
00:37:04'cause we have a bunch of applicants now.
00:37:06Is there anything here that I should,
00:37:10that changes the way that I'm gonna structure the course,
00:37:13or the curriculum, rather?
00:37:14Welcome and orientation, yep.
00:37:16Squad system, are I guaranteed how it works?
00:37:18Yep, nice.
00:37:19Yep, I like it.
00:37:20All of this is good.
00:37:23Finding your people, craft skills, yep.
00:37:25Niche definition, market validation, yep.
00:37:27Crafting your offer, yep.
00:37:31Offer doc, simple sales system, yep.
00:37:33To be honest, a lot of this is what we are doing already,
00:37:39but this is useful to see.
00:37:41So all of this sort of stuff, all of this use of AI tools,
00:37:45is basically just fundamentally what it comes down to,
00:37:47is input, processing, and output.
00:37:49And whether it's software that we're creating,
00:37:51or whether it's content, or whether it's our,
00:37:53like, this online education business
00:37:55that we're trying to build, like a better version of an MBA,
00:37:58it all just fundamentally comes down
00:37:59to input, processing, and output.
00:38:01And there are various different AI tools
00:38:02that can help you in the input stage,
00:38:04and various that can help you in the processing stage,
00:38:06and various that can help you in the output stage,
00:38:07if you want.
00:38:09One thing that I used a gamma for,
00:38:10gamma is a really good way of making slides.
00:38:12So when I was doing, like, a video for the applications,
00:38:15and you can check out the video, it'll be linked down below.
00:38:17Ooh, gamma 3.0, that's new.
00:38:18This one, I think, was what it was.
00:38:22And so, this is basically sort of creating
00:38:26the slides for me automatically, which is really nice.
00:38:29The roadmap to 100K a year, who it's for,
00:38:32the three-part system for Lifestyle Business Growth,
00:38:33what success looks like, our ROI guarantee,
00:38:36found this cohort, all of this sort of stuff.
00:38:38And so, I recorded a loom as I was talking through this,
00:38:41which is what encouraged people to apply.
00:38:43Okay, so at this point, we've kind of talked about
00:38:45how I use AI tools for the software side of the business,
00:38:48how I use various different AI tools
00:38:49for the kind of academy courses, programs, mentorship,
00:38:53side of the business.
00:38:54We have a third part of the business,
00:38:55which we haven't really touched upon yet.
00:38:56We did a little bit in the software,
00:38:57which is the content side of things,
00:38:59and that will be in this video over here,
00:39:01which is a step-by-step walkthrough case study
00:39:03of how I actually make a YouTube video, kind of step-by-step,
00:39:07and exactly how I use AI along the way,
00:39:09in addition to all of the other things
00:39:10that goes into us creating content for YouTube.
00:39:13So that will be linked right over there.
00:39:14Thank you so much for watching.
00:39:15I hope you got some value out of the video,
00:39:16and I will see you hopefully next time.
00:39:17Bye-bye.

Key Takeaway

Entrepreneurial success in the AI era relies on integrating specialized tools into a structured 'Input-Processing-Output' workflow to automate routine tasks and enhance creative decision-making.

Highlights

Work is conceptualized as a system of input, processing, and output, which applies to agriculture, industry, and modern knowledge work.

Claude by Anthropic has become the central processing hub for the workflow, replacing other LLMs due to its superior writing style and personality.

VoicePal, an app built by the speaker's team, serves as a primary input tool for capturing raw thoughts and interviewing oneself while mobile.

AI is used for rapid prototyping in software development, allowing entrepreneurs to describe features and generate clickable mockups instantly.

Strategic content creation is aided by AI to generate high-engagement hooks and analyze user survey data to prioritize product roadmaps.

The Lifestyle Business Academy uses AI as a 'thought buddy' to structure curricula, analyze student applications, and refine marketing scripts.

Timeline

The Evolution of Work: Input, Process, Output

The speaker opens the video by defining work as a universal process where inputs are transformed into higher-value outputs. He traces this concept from the agricultural era, where seeds were the input, to the industrial revolution, and finally to modern knowledge work. In the current era, inputs are primarily ideas, data, and digital 'ones and zeros' processed by human brains and computers. This section establishes the theoretical framework for the rest of the video, explaining why understanding this context is vital for adapting to AI. The speaker emphasizes that AI tools can now assist in every stage of this traditional work cycle.

Core AI Tools and the Processing Hub

Ali introduces his specific 'stack' of AI tools, categorizing them into his three-part workflow. Input tools include VoicePal for spoken ideas, Grain for Zoom recordings, and Super Whisper for Mac dictation. The processing stage is almost exclusively handled by Claude, which the speaker prefers over ChatGPT for its more engaging personality and lack of 'sycophantic' tendencies. Output is managed through Google Docs, Notion for project management, Gamma for presentations, and Firecut for video editing. This segment explains how these tools interconnect to form a seamless digital ecosystem for an entrepreneur.

The Three Strands of a Lifestyle Business Portfolio

This section outlines the speaker's business structure, which consists of a personal brand, online education businesses, and a suite of software apps. He describes his portfolio as a 'lifestyle business' model where the goal is fun and variety rather than just maximizing revenue. Specific projects mentioned include the YouTuber Academy, Momentum (a habit tracker), and his bestselling book, 'Feel Good Productivity.' He explains how his schedule is divided between these different strands, alternating focus between content, curriculum design, and software development. This provides the necessary business context for the practical AI demonstrations that follow.

AI in Software Development: From Idea to Prototype

The speaker demonstrates how he uses Claude's 'Artifacts' feature to design new features for his app, Momentum. By uploading screenshots of the current app and using voice commands through Super Whisper, he describes a new 'Challenges' feature. Claude then generates a detailed specification and a clickable prototype, which Ali compares to the old, slow process of drawing boxes in Figma or Sketch. This allows him to quickly iterate on ideas and record Loom videos for his development team without needing to write code himself. He highlights that AI serves as a powerful prototyping tool that saves hours of manual design work.

Marketing and Data Analysis for Growth

Moving into the content strand, Ali shows how AI helps overcome creative blocks in social media marketing. He uses Claude to generate 50 different 'hooks' for Instagram Reels, looking for a 'dopamine hit' of resonance rather than expecting the AI to do all the creative work. He also explains how his team analyzes CSV files of survey data and anonymized user behavior to identify 'critical mass' points for user retention. For example, he discovered that VoicePal users who create three recordings are significantly more likely to become paid subscribers. This data-driven approach allows for precise prioritization of the product roadmap based on actual user needs.

Designing Education: The Lifestyle Business Academy

The focus shifts to the online education business, specifically the development of the Lifestyle Business Academy. Ali demonstrates 'interviewing himself' using VoicePal while walking to extract complex thoughts about business strategy and student mindsets. He then transfers this 1,000-plus word transcript into Claude to create a 'StoryBrand' script, defining the hero, the villain, and the guide. The AI generates a refined elevator pitch that Ali admits is better than anything he could have written alone. This section showcases how AI acts as a high-level strategic thought buddy for complex project planning.

Curriculum Structuring and Final Workflow Summary

In the final segment, Ali uses AI to process hundreds of student applications and identify common obstacles like 'analysis paralysis' and 'imposter syndrome.' He feeds coaching call transcripts into Claude to integrate expert advice into the Academy's roadmap and generates a full table of contents for the curriculum modules. He shows how Gamma 3.0 was used to create professional slides for his marketing videos automatically. The video concludes with a summary of the 'Input-Processing-Output' philosophy and a transition to a more detailed case study on YouTube video creation. Ali emphasizes that the soul of the content remains human, while AI handles the heavy lifting of organization and processing.

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