Asked AI to research newsletter on Methylene Blue based on a recent YouTube video I saw about brain health. Here was the topic prompt: The benefits of Methylene Blue and who the best suppliers are. Please be sure to include: - dosage per pound of body weight - suggested daily usage - any recommended cycling patterns (x days on, y days off). - Swapped out Key.ai for Higgsfield.ai where I already had an account - Initial prompt guardrails weren't tight enough so I re-wrote them to ensure topic input was properly handled by Perplexity - Higgsfield made a terrible infographic. Switched to Claude HTML > Playwright > Image for infographic and Higgsfield for images without words. - Had Claude translate PDF brand guidelines into md so they were more easily machine-readible in the future. - Added html preview via GitHub so I could share here. Fun quick project. https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://gist.githubusercontent.com/academik/f63410859b9b6bd8f11a669a6d5849d9/raw/newsletter_email.html

Every single person following AI right now is overwhelmed. Including me. I make videos about this stuff for a living and I still feel the pressure. New model drops. New framework. New feature update. It feels like every single day. But after hearing a ton of you guys bring up "AI overwhelm" week after week, I realized this: → There's a HUGE difference between knowing the "what" and knowing the "how." Staying aware does not mean testing everything. Most new tools and features only need the "what." You see the title. You understand what it does. You move on. The "how" is reserved for the stuff that solves a problem you actually have right now. So when something new drops, I ask myself one question: Does this solve a specific pain point I'm currently dealing with? If yes, I test it in a real scenario. I test it against something that actually matters to me. If no, I save the link. I mentally file it away. And I keep walking. Because here's the thing. Your north star is probably very different from mine. Part of my job is to experiment, form opinions, and share what I think is useful. So naturally I test a lot of stuff. But if your north star is building a business or getting better at your craft, then every shiny new tool might just be a distraction. The number one mistake I see people make is they try to learn everything. They watch every video. They test every tool. They jump to the next thing before the last thing even had a chance to work. And if I've contributed to your overwhelm with my daily uploads, I apologize. hehe. But a lot of people think that this ties directly into how you measure your day. Productivity is not how many hours you worked. It's how many meaningful outputs you created that actually moved the needle towards your north star. Someone can work 12 hours one day and feel insanely productive, but they were just watching tutorials and playing around with new tools. Meanwhile someone else sits down for 5 hours, ships the one thing that actually matters, and makes more progress.

Quick question: are tools like Trigger.dev, Firecrawl, and similar paid services really necessary from the start, or are there good free alternatives? I’m currently doing the 7 Day AIS Challenge and planning to upgrade to Community Plus, but I’m already paying for Claude Code Max and don’t have clients yet. I’d prefer to add more paid tools only once I start closing some contracts. Any advice would be appreciated 🫶🏻

I sat down with Devin Kearns, co-founder & CEO of Custom AI Studio, to break down what it actually takes to build an AI agency with real enterprise value, not just another lifestyle business. We get into why most AI work being sold today won't survive 2027, why the mid-market is the prime opportunity (not SMBs or enterprises), the 11 ways AI experts are actually making money right now, how to position with frameworks instead of being just another vendor, and the five things Devin wishes he knew sooner. If you're building, running, or thinking about starting an AI agency, this is the strategic conversation I wish I'd had two years ago.

I’ve been watching our 3,700 students in AIS+, and I noticed the people making the most money are all doing this: https://app.aiautomationsociety.ai/10-hours The people charging $5,000, $10,000, even $50,000 per engagement weren't better builders. Before they ever opened n8n/Claude Code, they did one thing differently: → They found the automations worth building first. It’s like a mini audit. Just by asking a few questions and mapping out the opportunities, they were able to get clients excited and also choose the right projects to work on. And the best part is you can practice by running this same system on YOURSELF. I call it 10 Hours to 10 Seconds, because doing this can easily save you or your clients 10 hours a week by automating the right things. Get all the details here: https://app.aiautomationsociety.ai/10-hours Talk soon, Nate PS: If you’re in AIS+, this has already been updated and provided to you at no cost. You can find it in the classroom