Just a reminder. If you are here and you feel behind in life or business, you are not alone. When I first started, all I did was lose money, burn relationships, and beat myself up for not being good enough. I started my first business 12 years ago with no entrepreneurial background, no family network, no roadmap. Just trial and error. From the outside looking in today, some people might think I know exactly what I am doing. But what most people do not see is the 12 years of chaos in between. Here is the short version. At 12 years old I started lifting weights because I was bullied. By 16 I started my first fitness business. That taught me discipline and consistency. But it also fed my ego, which later became one of my biggest problems. From 16 to 19 I worked on social media for online businesses while still training and competing. At 19 I sold cars at Nissan and learned how brutal sales and management can be. But I also learned how to present myself, negotiate, and deal with people. Around 21 I worked at a real estate appraisal office. That is where I learned about CRMs follow up systems due diligence At the same time I was running a moving business and doing social media work. I believed the lie of seven streams of income. Lesson learned. Do one thing well first. Later I partnered with a friend and we started brokering services with Facebook ads. Within about six weeks we made around 30k profit. Then we started brokering credit connections for ecommerce businesses and made another 50k in about three months. For the first time things felt like they were working. Then my ego got bigger than my experience. Bad partnerships followed. By 25 years old I lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and had to move back to New Jersey broke. Starting over. That is when I got into real estate wholesaling. My fiance and I built that business together and did pretty well. But it was not scalable enough for the life I wanted. Eventually all my skills started connecting.

Welcome in. You just joined a community of builders who are going from "I have an idea" to "I have paying users" — using Claude Code + n8n, no dev team required. I’m Charles. 12 years of entrepreneurship. I run an AI agency (C&C Strategic) and built casegate.io from scratch. Everything here comes from what I’m doing right now — not stuff I read about. This community exists for one reason: to help you build and launch a SaaS product or AI agency in 90 days. 🎬 Watch This First (45 seconds) Quick orientation so you know where everything is. 🎯 Who This Is For • AI beginners who want a build system, not another course • Agency owners adding a SaaS product on the side • Entrepreneurs tired of planning and ready to ship No technical background required. If you can follow steps, you can build this stuff. 📂 Where to Find What You Need • Classroom — Free guides, templates & workflows • Search bar — Fastest way to find anything • Desktop — Best for downloading templates 👋 Your First Action (Do This Now) 1. Go to the Classroom tab 2. Pick ONE free guide (Claude Code or n8n) 3. Complete it today 4. Drop a post in the "Wins" Category & tell us what you built. I read every single response. It tells me what to create next, and some of the best connections here started from a simple intro. 🔒 Ready to go further? Premium members get the full 90-Day SaaS Build System (idea → MVP → launch) with weekly feedback from me. 50% off until 03/02 — locks in forever. https://www.skool.com/cc-strategic-ai/plans Let’s build. 🚀

Looking at the 7-day leaderboard this week and wanted to give a quick shoutout to the people who keep showing up and making this community better every day. Huge appreciation for: @Fraser Kemp @Jacky Buensoz @Daniel Gmys-Casiano @Eric Michaud @Jayson Roman @Jaime Paredes @Anthony Chestnut @Gaál Ádám @Jan Berczely @Spider Dancing @Em Jay If you haven’t met them yet, follow them and say hello in the comments!

What's up gang, I don't know how you guys handle newsletters, but the way I do it is: I use Claude Code > invoke this skill I made > Claude Code writes the newsletter with my voice and then gives me a HTML file > upload to mailchimp > mailchimp sends I like to make newsletters look more nerdy by using a HTML template I make instead of the ones provided to you that look generic. If you're interested in the newsletter maker skill you can have Claude Code examine this one and then tell it to replace the brand DNA with yours. The brand DNA I got it from Google Pomelli. Let me know if you have suggestions or a better way to do this. Cheers!

Is it me or Antigravity is trash? Maybe a skill issue but the thing is a total diva, i have to approve everything I tell it to do like 20 times per run. Granted, I just started using it. Also, I was setting up a Blotato MCP and I caught it editing Claude's files. I did give it permission so I can't complain, but be careful what you let Antigravity edit. That thing is trying to learn from Claude LOL! Here is the conversation: