I thought I'd share this because it might be helpful to some of you, especially if you care about privacy. So as you probably know one of the drawbacks of using LLMs, web based and API, is that almost all major ones, like OpenAi/Anthropic/Gemini etc. retain your input and output data for 30 days. In business and even personal uses it's a problem because you don't have data privacy plus there's additional risk of your data being stolen from their servers. So you have an option... to run a local llm, like Google's Gemma/Nvidia Nemotron/OpenAI GPT OSS/Qwen/Deepseek etc. and everything stay on your computer. I actually tried it few days ago :) but quickly found out that you need a powerful machine to run it efficiently. Think a $15-20k workstation not my laptop lol. It worked but a query that I do on ChatGPT for example, which took 1 minute to complete, took 65 minutes on my laptop 😄. In addition local llms are not nearly as good as API models. But they are good enough for many simpler tasks where top notch advanced reasoning is not needed. And if you/your client can invest in a $15/20k machine to run it it's an option. So I dug deeper and found a more affordable option :). Perplexity offers Sonar/Sonar Pro API. It has Zero Data Retention Policy. None of your inputs/outputs are retained, only metadata. https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/privacy-security Hope this helps!

It was great meeting VIP Member @Dhruv Kar this past weekend! Dhruv was passing through my city (Des Moines, IA) so he reached out and we met up. Great conversation about all things AI. Meeting members in person is the best part of building a community 🤝 If any of you guys are ever in Des Moines, Iowa let me know!

I'm sure we can all relate to this, especially in marketing! 🤣 Some light Sat humour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ [Edit] - Here's the link to what the video is all about https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

We're halfway through 2026 already. Back in January I asked what was actually working for people three weeks in (that post is here: https://www.skool.com/ai-marketing-insiders/3-weeks-into-january-whats-actually-working?p=73f711f7). Six months and a LOT of updates later (Claude alone has shipped more changes than I can keep track of, never mind everything else), it feels worth asking again. So, for the newer members especially: what's genuinely changed for you this year? Not what you've tried, but what you're actually using. What's improved, what's clicked, what's a workflow or idea the rest of us might find useful? Here's what's shifted for me in six months: - The efficiency gains haven't slowed down. If anything they've picked up. - Ignore the posts telling you that if you only 'chat' with AI you're doing it wrong. It completely depends on what you're chatting about. Using Claude Code as a thought partner is still one of my biggest gains. I can take something messy, get right into the weeds on it, and come out the other side with real clarity. - Talking things through with friends and colleagues is still good, and I still do it. But for ideas, detail, structure and clear communication, AI is hard to beat. We're often vague when we're put on the spot ("let me have a think", "I'm not sure", "maybe we could..."), and then you wait days for a reply. With AI there's no waiting, and you still get the back and forth. You can push back, disagree, ignore half of what it says, and still come away with gems a person would rarely hand you on the spot. - Skills have matured. I can capture a workflow once and trigger it with a single short phrase, instead of re-explaining it every time. That's a big one for me, because how I describe things varies day to day, and a skill takes that variability out. - The built-in memory and bigger context windows have caught up with the external memory setup I built back in January. It now holds the thread of a whole project between sessions, so I'm re-briefing it far less. - MCP connections and integrations have come a long way. More and more I can stay inside Claude Code instead of hopping between tabs and tools. That matters more than it sounds. Constant context switching is genuinely draining, whatever the productivity crowd says, and fewer browser tabs is a real win for me. - I can also set several agents going at once on separate jobs now, which has saved real time on the bittier work. - The loops idea I posted about recently (here: https://www.skool.com/ai-marketing-insiders/boris-cherny-doesnt-prompt-claude-anymore-he-runs-loops-so-whats-a-loop?p=b494666b) is interesting, and the steady stream of updates like that has been invaluable, not because I adopt every one, but because they help me work out where each thing actually fits. Loops might only suit a small slice of what I do, and that's fine. You don't have to take on everything, or take it on fully.

Just a little Saturday morning mind wandering. Some people say niche blogs are dead. Maybe. But I still think lots of people are still out looking for and reading information on their favorite hobbies or past times. I just found this website that is a directory of newsletters in every niche you could imagine: https://bloggers.feedspot.com I am thinking... using Ryan's content multiplication strategy, you could start a niche blog in any of these niches and curate your own content using all of these resources. Also start your own newsletter and send. The key here is... you. You curating, which means your taste, your knowledge of what is good and what is crap, and then putting it in a digestible format and then casting it out to the world using Ryan's automations. Tweak to your liking. Heck, just curating YouTube videos into a niche blog, you likely will have content for years. Think about it, nobody wants to sift through the feed on YouTube of videos, they want the good ones handed to them. There's your place. Plus there are other video platforms now like bitchute that likely have some content that hasn't been discovered as much. I have a number of ideas for this, and this feedspot site just opened up more opportunities in my mind. Ps. Curating is NOT copying. Your voice and taste is key.