We are all here because we want to learn and want to make a change or improve our careers. 5 years is a very long time, and enough time to make your career dreams come true, so with that said, where do you want to be in 5 years?

You may have noticed that my comments and DMS have slowed down a lot. Don't worry, I'm going to be getting back to all of you, but this is what we've been building and it will be launching this weekend. So please stay tuned

Context (and a little more about me): I've been using Claude to vet and analyse the "shiny objects" that appear on my socials. If your algorithm is working as hard as mine, the deeper you go into the rabbit hole of Claude.ai, Claude Code, OpenClaw etc. and all it's wonderful capabilities the more you will naturally see all the cool tools and skills people post about on X, Instagram etc. (The main way I came across Jakes content!) Well... as someone with ADHD, I sometimes (most of the time lol) fail to let go of things and that question of "Is this something that is useful to me now or could be useful for my later goals and what I plan to build/create/do" constantly rings in my head. To combat the possibility of focusing on glittery sh*t, I've been sending reels, X posts and the like through transcript converters and then asking Claude to vet it thoroughly and confirm if it's something that is of use now (learn/study/having fun phase) or something that could help me in the future (end game/gigachad final boss/bigstonks) achieve what I'd like it to achieve. Claude has been great at doing that, and has actually pushed back and has been super helpful in outlining VERY clearly if I am simply adding jargon to the mix and saving the really useful ones that do fit in context. The problem: The issue is that on Free/Pro/Max (not sure about other plans) you're limited to 30 memories per account. When you hit this limit, Claude can no longer save anything new. Naturally, being the lazy, rather cheap and very broke person I am (I make bad decisions sometimes), I started wondering if there was a workaround that could include a file system. After about an hour of brainstorming, I managed to conclude a workaround that offers little friction. Here's what I found. You can get Claude to list all existing memories and output each one as text. From there, copy each one into a separate note or doc, 1 per memory and save them into a "Memory" folder in your Google Drive. This part is manual but takes minutes, not hours. Once saved, you can then head to Settings > Memory in Claude.ai and delete all existing memories (scary). Once that part is confirmed, you can create a new chat and ask it to save the first memory with something like "Every time I open a new chat, can you please remind me to connect you to my memory bank in Google Drive".

Thanks Jake! So sorry i have been calling you Jack. 😆 You gave me the start I needed and it’s so much better now! I’m doing everything alone as well, and all the small tasks were very time consuming. I made a few mistakes, learned from them. logged them for later memory lapses. When I first logged into VS Studio the chat ended up being Copilot. I solved the hiccups with a bit of AI tutoring and used my main project folder that I already had set up. I gave Claude a first command and realised I needed a claude.md rule book file to rule them all so Claude can automatically work within the main folder and subfolders. I’m now getting it to read and summarise each folder and generate .md files from the Word docs, Excel files, PDFs, libraries, etc. That alone saved me a whole weekend. 😁

The AI Automation Agency (AAA) Business Model is very popular amongst a sector of YouTube creators such as Nate Herk, Liam Ottley, etc. They offer courses to learn Claude Code as well as learn how to start your own AAA. These courses are marketed to enable you to make your first $10k with automations and so on. After doing research, there is a common proposition from these creators: Offer 24/7 lead capture (chatbot/AI receptionist), an SMS booking system, a social media DM bot, or a “speed to lead” system (a workflow that responds to customers right away). These are the 4 core offers, find a low tech industry and sell one of these offers. My opinion here is that those 4 offers are not very high value and are most likely offered by many SaaS companies or even website hosts. Which brings me to the question: Using Claude Code, are there opportunities within small to medium businesses to automate high value workflows? Everyone wants to start their own AAA but I am not seeing any high value offers. It’s all just basic add-ons that are already offered. Maybe I am not seeing something here, that’s why I want to get some community input on it. Do you think Claude Code workflow automations are a feasible business?