I've been preaching for a long time that the best way to do deals is only to do scoped projects: I was wrong. Since I've split Ghostcoded into training/coaching and then actual building and spinning up a new business called Sublevel with another technical founder, my eyes have been opened to the ideal work you can do between you and your clients. I was always worried about hourly work and how it would tie me down, but when i got a co-founder, they were able to take off that load. Now as their time is being taken up, we can get a plan together to begin the process of hiring contractors to be part of our team to fulfill on the work we are bringing in. So what i've found is that there are 2 paths your clients can fall in: Path 1 - the scope is crystal clear and well defined If they know what they are talking about and can explain it super well, then this is a good candidate for you, bc you can whip it out and not worry about the number of hours you put into it and kinda bllitz it. They are happy bc its predictable and a guaranteed outcome Path 2 - the dynamic capacity allows to ambiguous projects to be maintained and still help with expectations and budgets This path allows the client to "reserve" a given number of hours from you a month. as they secure more hours or longer monthly commitments, they achieve higher discount brackets. These are for the difficult and intricate projects whose scopes are very hard to define, you have alot of questions, they arent even sure all that would be included etc. These kind of projects are very dangerous bc scope creep and additional costs for the client can make a project go bumpy. how's everyone doing on the scoping game? finding clients? closing deals? anyone got any questions? I'll be online for a bit to help with anything

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What’s up everyone! I’ve been asking members of this community what I can do to help this place be more engaging and a place you’ll want to contribute to and engage with. What I’ve heard back has been to do open build hours. Now this could be actual automations, ai and/or software or it could be your business you are building too, either one. Here’s what I’m thinking, twice a week well do these build sessions. One of them will be open mic where we see what everyone’s building, we share them ask questions and give tips. I’ll usually start by sharing a tip or two from what I’m building etc. Then the other will be a live “coaching” session where I’ll help build one of your projects that you’re having issues with or help talk about running your agency etc. This later one will come from the posts you contribute to the feed! As you are posting questions, updates, or contributions, I’ll select one of you to be the “coachee” and the rest will be able to spectate while we work on your business and build. I’m still working through how this’ll all work but that’ll be the fun part of figuring this out! Oh and I almost forgot, everyone needs a brain break sometimes. What’s a better way to do that then to play some online games together? And I actually just got my old Ghostcoded Clonewars game to be multiplayer with the option of free for all or co-op. So my idea is on Wednesday and fridays I’ll host an hour long brain break session where you can come join to play some clonewars and just talk about life/business/anything. Then the build sessions will be on Tuesday and Thursday. Excited for this guys! Let me know yalls thoughts. Any questions? Also which works best for you (CST is the time zone)

Whats up everyone! Every monday I check to see who is on top of the 7-day leaderboard and reward them for their engagement with a free 30-min consultation session! In these sessions I've talked with members about their workflows, their business model, their sales, their skills, their linkedin, n8n in general, etc. Some of the greatest calls I have happen right here in the community. come learn and participate! There is so much to do and so much to learn about in the ai space, but I need to know what YOU want to learn for it to really be effective! And there are some amazing people in this group that i know you'd love to connect with. Lets get active and keep making true ROI on ai!

Hey guys, Do you know what the "connect via SSH" button does in Cursor? I have no idea what it does lol