Hi everyone! Thanks for your patience as I've been MIA for the last month+. Some of you may know, I had surgery and I've been recovering. Thanks to everyone who has provided me positive thoughts and well wishes! They've all made me want to get back on my feet ASAP. Now that I had some time off, I've been able to both physically and mentally heal. It's brought clarity into the direction I want to take Studio Spark next. The biggest change - Studio Spark's new mission is to teach 10,000 small businesses how to master AI Strategy. This goal of mine has been shaped by a lot of things: 1. A lot of clients I've been working with have noted a TON of AI tool overwhelm 2. A lot of clients also don't actually need highly-optimized, expensive automations that do everything everywhere all at once. They just need a simple agent that takes some load off their plate. 3. A lot of mom-and-pop places seem to be getting ignored. So, my goal is to do a lot more tailored education on the AI that actually gives them some real ROI. What this means - 1. We’re relocating our community home. Skool’s been great for testing ideas, but at $99/mo it’s not exactly friendly to the mom-and-pop shops we’re trying to serve. Substack is free, lets us post lessons, run discussions, and deliver everything straight to your inbox—no paywall, no extra log-ins. Win-win for everyone’s budget. 2. Expect a few emails as we make the move. I’ll migrate the best Skool threads, share fresh AI-Strategy walkthroughs, and send simple “click-here-to-join” links. You might see three-or-four messages over the next week; after that, it smooths out to our regular cadence. If something feels spammy, hit reply and let me know. Feedback keeps me honest. 3. Same mission, clearer focus. Everything I publish will answer one question: “How can a small business owner get real ROI from AI without drowning in tools or hype?” Think bite-sized playbooks, case studies, and live AMAs. The goal remains teaching 10,000 businesses (first 1,000 in the next 12 months) the exact strategies larger firms pay big bucks for.

Heyo! Welcome to the ⚡️Studio Spark Community! This community is designed to help ignite your creativity by using AI and Automation tools. Step 1: Introduce yourself in THIS THREAD below! (✄ copy/paste template 👇) - Where are you from? - What are you building? - What are you most excited about? Step 2: Read the rules and checkout our free courses Step 3: Checkout the calendar and add the Q&A call Looking forward to chatting more in the community! Andy

The AI-Avatar Experiment (and Exit): Last week I went full-Frankenstein: - Filmed a two-minute, well-lit 1080p clip for HeyGen’s avatar generator. Their tutorial promised a lifelike talking head if I didn’t move and stared down the lens – so I did exactly that. - Cloned my voice in ElevenLabs. I fed it ten minutes of raw narration; credits drained fast but we built up 200,000 credits since I forgot to cancel my subscription. - Merged the pieces in CapCut. HeyGen spits out an MP4; I layered B-roll, captions, and hooks there (no watermark once I paid their $30 Creator tier). - Posted 2 avatar TikToks. The views, likes, and watch-time matched my face-to-camera clips one-for-one. Why I pulled the plug: Even with decent metrics, the whole thing felt like sending a mannequin to a coffee chat. The work I do hinges on trust; a synthetic Andy undercuts that. Lesson learned: speed matters, but showing up as myself matters more. Here's the link to the avatar - what do you think? TikTok HeyGen AI Avatar Week 2 Videos Now Live in Skool Week 2 was messy, caffeinated, and wildly productive. If you’d rather watch than read, every daily build session is waiting for you in the Skool classroom. Here’s the short tour: - Core-Offer Page Built: I ditched sales calls and spun up a pay-then-book funnel with Typeform → Calendly → Stripe. Visitors see the price first, pay, then grab a slot—no tire-kicker chats required. - Email Nurture Designed: Sketched a five-day “give, give, ask” sequence that nudges new subscribers back into the community and hands out quick-win prompts and automations. - Content Audit: My top-performing TikToks share one concrete tactic in under 40 seconds. Fluffless demos win attention; the avatar test confirmed message > messenger. - Lead Capture Automation: Wired Leadpages to Airtable so every opt-in gets a thank-you email instantly. - Avatar Workflow (and goodbye): Documented the HeyGen + ElevenLabs setup and why I ultimately went back to my front-facing camera.

Week 1 went really well! We accomplished: - Creating the actual 4 Day Founder Framework - Strategizing my version for my business - Creating the top end of the sales funnel - Creating the content strategy and making a ton of batch content for TikTok - Creating and publishing the first newsletter! All Raw and Unedited. Watch me succeed or fail at rebuilding my business. Check it out in the Builder's Vault under Classroom here: https://www.skool.com/studiospark/classroom/55cf5aae?md=f252074be19c40049263135f536b0804

Hi there! Welcome to the first “four-block” note designed to win back an entire work-day, every single week. ⚡ FAST WIN (4-Minute Tactic) The 10-Minute Good Time Journal Sprint 1. Grab the template → Designing Your Life - Good Times Journal 2. Replay yesterday, line-by-line. 3. Label every task (+) if it fueled you, (–) if it drained you. 4. Circle any “-” tasks > 15 min. 5. Decide—right now—will you Automate, Delegate, or Delete them? Most founders who run this exercise once a week free up three-plus hours before they even finish their Monday coffee. Set a timer for ten minutes and see what you uncover. 🔍 FOUNDER DEEP-DIVE Blueprint in 48 Hours: How We Built the 4-Day Founder Framework On Monday morning my desk was a swirl of sticky notes that said things like burnout, shiny-object syndrome, and too many meetings. By Wednesday night those notes had become the living framework you’re reading now—the 4-Day Founder Framework (4dFF). Here’s the short film version: - Hour 1: Pulled last quarter’s Good-Time Journals, circled every low-energy pattern. - Hour 7: Mapped three core content pillars (Clarity, Autonomy, Energy) onto a four-day work rhythm. - Hour 19: Prototyped a Notion board so simple even my six-year-old could drag tasks into it. - Hour 27: Recorded the entire build on Loom, invited 200 solopreneurs to watch, and held a live AMA. The big lesson: when you give every idea a home, decision-fatigue dries up—and free time appears like magic. ▶ Watch the recording of me making & steal the template → Builder’s Vault Recordings 🛠 FREEDOM TOOL OF THE WEEK FDFF-CRM Autopilot — Your Lead Inbox, Self-Filing While the framework took shape, I also built a tiny automation that’s already saving me from inbox chaos. What it is: A Make + Airtable scenario that catches every new subscriber, assigns a unique ID, drops the data neatly into Airtable, and sent a warm Welcome email - no coding, no sweating.