Afternoon Tea Session 1

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Open Session — April 2026

This is the full recording of our open session along with the slide deck version (Slide Deck in The Vault)

What came up:

The tools drop. Two small softwares a month, free to Premium and VIP, built from the asks in the early community thread. What qualifies, when they land, and why software is a commodity we share instead of sell.

Alexander's case study. A commercial real estate firm in Grand Rapids gave him browser-only Claude for a one-month discovery budget. No IT, no integrations, no automations. One markdown file and a folder structure later, one handoff workflow saved roughly a sixth of Crystal's year and an estimated $10K on that single process. The architecture, the method, and the reason it worked without any of the usual AI tooling.

Daniel's question. When to offload thinking to AI and when to keep it. What to sell and what to give away. Why copy-paste still beats premature automation, and why your competition becomes your development team the moment you understand how features ship.

A project update on the voice prosthetic work.

About the slide deck:

The deck is the condensed, screenshot-ready version of everything in the session. Fifteen slides, one principle per slide, with a small "ASK" question at the bottom of each one. Those questions are the prompts. Screenshot any slide, drop it into Claude or your AI of choice, and it becomes the full prompt for that topic. This is the same pattern we use in the prompt library: questions that help you think, not outputs that think for you.

How to use it:

1. Watch the session for the story.

2. Open the deck and screenshot the slides that apply to your current work.

3. Paste them into your AI and use the "ASK" prompt as the starting question.

4. Post what you find in the Premium discussion so others can learn from it.

The transcript is also posted. If you pull something useful out of the deck or the recording, share it back. That is how this community compounds.

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