TLDR: My co-worker has been manually extracting data from 100s of files one at a time and manually managing files for years. This is a longterm client with set workflow. Usually takes him 2 days and I set up a workflow that will do it in a few minutes. Showed my boss and CEO and got the ok to get a Claude MAX seat. Context: I'm a sound designer and work at a post-production audio studio that also does games. The post engineers work on a lot of projects that require manual setup. They were griping at lunch about how they have to open hundreds of text files to find 1 single line of data that they need during their edit session and then manually qa it against the session when it's setup. It sounded like hell to me so I asked if they wouldn't mind showing me what they have to do and they literally manually open each folder, find the text file, write down on a piece of paper the number and then enter it by hand in the computer later. I spent 10 minutes and described to claude what I needed a python file to do. It gave it back to me and the script was able to extract the data they needed in seconds. But that got me thinking, I know there's a python library that works with Pro Tools (our audio editing software), and the current weekly contest is about making a specialist... COuld I make a specialist in Protools Python scripting that can tailor workflows to any engineer? So I spent about 4 hours speccing an ICM folder that specializes in Python Scripting for Pro Tools. Brought it to work today and --- it didn't work -- immediately at least. IN practice discovered there were errors in the documentation for the python library, so we had to fix the documentation. But after that was able to create a contained python script anybody could run and showed my co-workers and ceo. They were super excited about the possibilities and when I asked if I could go ahead and get a Claude Max subscription they said yes immediately. Might also be showing the wider company the setup and what's possible next Monday. Was totally worth staying up all night yesterday to get this out 🤣

Earlier this week I confessed in here that I'd scoped about $60K of work for a client who paid me under $20K, and that she'd capped it off by sending me a "you didn't deliver" email at 11pm. A bunch of you commented. Some to encourage me. Some of you, I'm pretty sure, just pulled up a chair and grabbed the popcorn. Either way, you wanted to know how it ended. So here's the sequel. Nobody died. I'll lead with that. ------------------------------------ What I walked into ------------------------------------ Monday she blew a gasket. Strongly worded, escalated, the kind of email where you can feel the caps lock breathing through the screen. I did not respond like a calm professional. I spiraled. Half of me concocted a plan to pull up every receipt and go twelve rounds. The other half, the half I'm less proud of, came up with a half-baked plan to just roll over, apologize for stuff that wasn't even mine to apologize for, and turn myself into a doormat so the discomfort would go away. Running on no sleep, nursing a bruised ego, two bad plans and the stress of not having a newborn baby in the house yet... (wife's at 41 weeks, if she hits 42, she's gonna make that baby come out.) ------------------------------------ Then my COO blew up my whole game plan ------------------------------------ The day before the call, I got on with my fractional COO and word-vomited both of my terrible plans at her. She shut them both down. Didn't tell me to fight. Didn't tell me to fold. She handed me an actual plan. First, homework. Go build a point-by-point breakdown of all three agreements. Every deliverable, what's done, what's not, the percentages, and a whole separate column for the work we did that was never even in the scope. That document was her idea, not my heroic late-night brainwave. I didn't have it. She told me to go make it. Then the move. Don't walk in defensive, don't hand her the wheel. Lead with the full picture, so much clarity up front that she can't steer the thing somewhere sideways. She doesn't actually know what a finished marketing blueprint is supposed to look like, so I shouldn't be handing her the power to define "done." Show the whole list first, then talk.

That's the leap most people never take. Roughly 90% of our members are still on the other side: scrolling, saving, getting value, never saying a word. Not a knock. Just the math. Lurking isn't failure. It's the default. But you showed up. And that shift compounds fast. The classroom teaches you the tools. The community teaches you how to think with them. When you participate, you get compression — months of grinding folded into a thread someone else already broke so you don't have to. Less friction. Faster outcomes. Personal growth and business growth in the same lane. You don't need a hot take. You need a real question. Give before you extract. Your lurker era wasn't wasted — you were loading context. Welcome to Level 2. A few of you just made the jump, and I want to call it out: • @Vamsi Acharya • @Stacey Lubowa • @Martin Brion • @Mark Benjamin • @Keith Langskov • @Patti Wilcox • @Novus Vella • @Tony Rhodes @Cain Gray If you're still lurking — go check out what they're posting. Real builds. Real questions. No fluff. That's the energy we want in here. And if I missed you — my bad. Drop your name below. We'll get you in the next round. The reward for showing up isn't points. It's speed. You stop duct-taping alone. You stop renting confusion. Your stack starts to click because other people's scars are now in your context. What finally made you break the ice? ───

After the first exercise at setting up folders, I began the next day to put it to work. I have two websites that I built with Manus and everything was great, until it wasn't - and I had no reasonable method to fix bugs. After my Brevo account got totally jacked up and my lists went to the netherworld, that was the last straw. I started to create files for a new site that I am going to use on the WordPress platform. I finished it at one session. The next day I decided to start with the second site and the lightbulb went on! I can make a set of skills for this! A whole new vista opened up. And while I am here. I SWORE I'd NEVER try Skool again. Ever! There was little to no value in anything I tried. Wasted money. But God has a sense of humor. This is the very first time that I have ever experienced a true community and that has meant the world to someone who lives very isolated. Thanks to all of you who helped me so selflessly! This is the Way. 😉

Hey community!! yesterday I Launched MinAITaur, my Human Tech consulting agency!! We dedicate to mitigate your bureaucracy and uplift your job!! I decided to start on a clean slate, everything from 0. I am so happy, everything has been possible thanks to Jake's teachings and ways. The Agency is a mix of organizational psychology consulting and IT automations using Claude! We help you redesign your Northstar giving your human capital the proper space and the repetitive tasks an architectural system which helps you mitigate it to stay more human than ever before!!! Here is my brands branding proposition. Everything is still in Launch state, happy to help anyone who resonates with this message and if you guys would like to follow I would be thankful to have you there as well. Socials: ig & fb: @minaitaur, www.minaitaur.io. (PD: webpage is not launched yet)