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 hope you’re doing well today! I’m trying to learn how to sell AI automation and I’m thinking about upgrading to AI Automation Society Plus. If you were in my shoes, would you pay for it or learn everything free course first? What helped you the most when you started selling AI services?

Just dropped a new course in the classroom and I'm pretty pumped about this one. It's the full step-by-step on building your own AI OS. Same exact setup I use every day to run the YouTube channel, the community, and my team. 8 lessons, all my templates and prompts, plus a free GitHub repo so you can skip the boring setup and just start building. To unlock it in the classroom, you just need to hit level 3 in the community. Honestly pretty easy: - Drop an intro post if you haven't yet - Engage with a few other members in the threads - Help somebody out who's stuck on something That's pretty much it. Get to level 3 and the whole thing opens up. See you in there. - Nate

Prompt caching is the reason Claude Code can save you 300M+ tokens a week without you doing anything. In this video I break down the 80/20: what caching actually costs, the small habits that protect your session limits, and the few things that quietly reset the cache. The free token dashboard and session handoff skill are in my school community. TOKEN DASHBOARD REPO