Guys, I just got off a call with @Charles Dove where he set up the entire CharlieOS for me in about 15 minutes. Maybe less LOL. Honestly, I’m kind of speechless! I usually keep testimonials private, but this one felt worth sharing here because I genuinely think this system can help a lot of people. Charlie built a seriously powerful setup that takes almost no time to install, and the outcome is wild. I was literally in the middle of doing a full makeover of my Claude ecosystem, and this basically solved it. Super grateful, Charlie! Thanks again, bro. Now I’m going to play with it properly and build some ridiculous stuff this week.

Hey CC Strategic AI builders, I'm Yusuf, co-founder at Vendo (YC S26). Berkeley honors grad at 19, Stanford MS, and now building open-source software that lets companies agentify their products: embedded agents your customers use to automate work, build views, and connect their tools. We're at 412 stars and I'm trying to push past 500 so more builders find it. If you have a GitHub account, this takes 10 seconds: open https://github.com/runvendo/vendo and hit the Star button in the top right. That's it. Live product if you want to poke at it: vendo.run Happy to answer anything about the stack, agents, or YC. And I'll return the favor, drop your repo below and I'll star it too. 🙏

Yesterday on our group call I had an opportunity to speak with @Jay Christian for the first time. This guy is leveraging the FUCK out of Agentic systems, and is servicing over 50 clients right now. Running an agency, client work, etc. has NEVER been easier. And I was totally impressed with everything he's doing. I won't share the $ amount he's bringing in, but he's ABSOLUTELY crushing it. Keep it up brother, great meeting face to face!

I have to mention @Justin Zimmerman (Regional Creative Director) who's been using the education here to build an app for the company he works for. I hope he doesn't mind that I congratulate him on his promotion to regional creative director. He came to me with ZERO Claude Code knowledge and just as of last week told me that his use of Claude Code has 10x the leverage he has at work. He was using non agentic tools like basic GPT, but once he sat down with me a few times and got his Claude Code setup w/ frameworks, the guys output SKYROCKETED. Idea to reality is literally a day is insane. @Doug Miller (https://www.elitetaxstrategies.net/) is someone I've been working with for around six months at this point. And he's now in a position using Claude Code (Charlie OS), to rebuild all of his digital assets like his website, his automations, etc. He just sent me his V1 site rebuild using the setup, and I am so proud of him. And @Alex Marrero (https://captaincreditllc.com/) is the last one I want to mention here. This guy hopped on with me some time ago to help me with my credit, and I in turn helped him setup Claude Code. He has FULLY rebuilt his entire ops department with the use of these tools with no pre-existing experience at all. I am so proud of these three guys, and I know there are a few I'm NOT mentioning here, so blast me in the comments. But these new ways of working NEED to be taken advantage of, and ANYONE can do it. Just because something is hard, doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. Ultimately, I am extremely blessed to be in the position I am today. 9 months ago, I had NO social media presence, concrete offer, or community. As a matter of fact, 9 months ago I had lost the last consulting contract I had left. My Fiance (at the time) and I were preparing to get married, and I was scared shitless.

@Yousef Helal is working his first $500 deal after starting with the program only 2 days ago. This is just the beginning. Watch the Free Training replay here: https://charlieautomates.com/claude-estate-register/ He got the upgraded RE Walkthrough Pro & Lead Finder Skills, and is following the templated Go-To-Market strategy we put in place for him. 100 RE agent leads, 30 emails a day. And after every day, text the leads that never responded, then send 30 new emails and follow that until your leads are sifted through. Rinse, wash, repeat! 🥂