Hey all - as we prepare for the New Year and Claude Mastery on January 6th, I was thinking back to some time I think 3 or so years ago when I made a post in our old community as I was testing out a recipe using Claude and asked all our members to share a blurb about their business for a free MarketSauce® Blueprint. The prompt was something like: Submit a 32 word MAX (NO more than 32 words, could be less) blurb about your business. WHO you are, WHO you serve, and HOW you're different. Include a website link if you'd like. From there I generated a full report using Claude and our recipe. The response from that way overwhelmingly positive for the clarity this Blueprint provided and was the catalyst for many of the custom tools and workflows we've continued to develop today. For all active members and those who bought a ticket to the Claude Master Sprint - I want to extent this offer to you as we prep for the sprint kickoff next week. HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR BUSINESS FOR A FREE MARKETSAUCE® BLUEPRINT: 1) COMMENT BELOW with your response to this: "Submit a 32 word MAX (NO more than 32 words, could be less) blurb about your business. WHO you are, WHO you serve, and HOW you're different. Include a website link if you'd like." 2) KEEP AN EYE ON MY RESPONSE, I WILL REPLY TO YOUR COMMENT WITH AN ATTACHMENT OF YOUR BLUEPRINT 3) READ, GAIN INSIGHT, AND PREPARE TO IMPLEMENT - ALSO... SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK TO THE BLUEPRINT AFTER YOU'VE REVIEWED HERE IN THE COMMENTS. GOOD OR BAD - I WANT TO HEAR YOUR ADVICE ON HOW YOU FIND THIS BLUEPRINT USEFUL - OR IF YOU DON'T AT ALL. That is all. I'm signing off now to spend the afternoon and evening with my wife Rachel and will be low power mode the next few days to prep for January and 2026. Low power mode meaning, me and Claude will be snuggling up together to make some magic and blueprints for you too :-) Happy New Year, y'all. See you next year! Darby

Hey all - since we've been going deeper into Gamma and other tools to build out sales, marketing and operations with AI and automations... was thinking about doing a quarterly "challenge" in 2026 where we do a 2 or 3 day virtual event with daily calls to build out our AI sales, marketing and operations engine for our businesses. Would you be interested in joining this as a 3 day live "challenge" with daily 90 minute workshops where we demo building out sales, marketing and operations workflows that you can also build and create your own based on? Could be making a commercial for your business, building the landing page, all marketing and sales assets for a launch in Q1... whatever it is, we'd run this over a 3 day period to build and take action together. Live event, would be ticketed. Members would get a deep discount on ticket pricing, and non-members would pay the regular ticket price. Probably between $97-$297 depending on when you buy tickets. Lemme know if you'd be game for something like this to build together and learn from each other to start off 2026 strong in January.

This is NOT a Black Friday deal. It's a question. Curious for those who want to go deeper into the world of AI operations and leveraging custom GPTs to save time and streamline processes - whether it's sales, marketing, or operations... Would you be interested in a private (paid) workshop with a much smaller group (5-10 people) virtually (or maybe in person, Austin TX if it makes sense) to work on your AI operations? The gist of the idea: 2 days. Small group (5-10 people). You leave with your AI system built and deployed. Who it's for: Non-technical founders of service-based businesses who see the potential of custom GPTs but don't have the infrastructure or support to actually set it up and dial it in. What we'd focus on: - Custom GPT development for your operations - Unbottlenecking yourself from repetitive tasks - Saving hours every week on stuff you keep doing manually You'd walk away with a working system. Not a plan. Deployed. Thinking Austin, TX. Possibly virtual if that makes more sense. It would be paid - still working out pricing. Interested? Drop a comment or DM me.

Bidding has closed and @Ellen Martin won the auction with thew high bid of $400! Congrats, Ellen. Looking forward to working together as we kick things off this week. *Closed Thursday 11/20 at 11am CST sharp. RECAP: THE RULES - Starting bid: $1 - How to bid: Comment below with your bid amount - To win: Be the highest bid when auction closes - Outbid: Just post a higher number than the current high bid - Auction closes: Thursday 11/20 at 11am CST - no bids after that time count I'll update the high bid at the bottom of this post throughout the 24 hours so you know where it stands. WHAT THE WINNER GETS One custom AI Studio build - done WITH you. Working 1-on-1 directly with me. Built in Pickaxe BUT also with custom instructions you can apply directly into other LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. The Process: - Discovery call: We map your exact workflow and where this fits - Framework extraction: Pull your processes and expertise out of your head - Custom GPT build: I write the instructions specifically for YOUR use case - Studio setup: Embed it, license it, tie it into your CRM - wherever it needs to live - 90 days support: Async collaboration to fine-tune until it's dialed Real talk: I've charged $1k+ for simple builds. $5k+ for more advanced builds and have revenue share deals in place with partners when it makes sense. Typically I only build these this with ongoing clients I work with monthly. Outside of the one-off build here or there over the past year. This is the first time I'm offering this level of work. Not sure I will do it again. We shall see! Whether the winning bid is $20 or $2k or $20k, we'll work directly together to make this AI Studio a kick-ass asset that you can leverage in your business and use as a time-saving resource that also can help generate revenue. So many ways to use these types of custom GPTs, it really depends on YOU and so with that said, here are a few examples of what I've built with clients and partners in the past: