SUMMARY - The group reviewed progress on several side-hustle ideas, discussed customer discovery and pricing, and walked through the platform’s financial planning module. - Jessie is preparing to contact prospective wellness-business clients; Marcus is exploring gardener software and an industrial-tech business development opportunity; Steve is prioritizing fractional sales while developing a healthcare newsletter concept. - Mark asked Jessie to send screenshots of a business-plan saving issue and previewed a new tool for testing side-hustle hypotheses. - RECORDING https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/TmBOS_LtWkPYgeqlzC0v8oN-ijb3Vpv1vQL51fUvwus6F6NtmEcD-IFhrX7eNxBr.J8DsMK0FkflXVpyU ACTION ITEMS Mark Langford - Investigate the business-plan marketing-section saving issue after Jessie sends screenshots. - Complete the side-hustle testing/decision-engine model and demonstrate it at the next meeting. - Upload the meeting recording for participants. Goal for next week: Make progress on the testing model for the next meeting; follow up on the module bug once Jessie provides screenshots. Jessie P - Send Mark one or two screenshots showing where marketing-plan entries disappear or progress resets. - Reach out to at least one potential client. Goal for next week: Contact at least one prospective client and begin testing her outreach approach. Marcus Rosenthal - Meet with at least one landscaper or gardener to explore the Garden Ally software opportunity; consider contacting one additional person. - Draft a one-page proposal for the industrial-tech business-development opportunity and use it to guide the next conversation with the prospective partner. Goal for next week: Explore the gardener opportunity and advance the industrial-tech discussion with a written proposal. Steve Thomas - Identify five prospects for the fractional sales role and aim to schedule at least one qualifying conversation. - Define a process for the healthcare newsletter, including choosing a publisher, estimating the path to 1,000 subscribers, and planning follow-up with potential sponsors.

SUMMARY The meeting reviewed SideHustleDBL platform progress alongside member venture updates and next-step planning. Confirmed updates included Mark’s platform demo and roadmap work, Kim’s early women’s-circle concept, Marcus’s gardening-app testing and marketing experiments, and Vaughn’s new client engagement. The group also identified near-term constraints around limited availability and unresolved platform and monetization decisions, while outlining what each person plans to validate or build next. - Mark walked through the platform demo and discussed the roadmap, including the AI catalog, prompts library, coaching recordings, Ask the AI Assistant, business-plan workflows, launch plans, budget tracking, and calendar integration. - Kim’s women’s-circle idea was framed as the leading concept to validate first, with the group discussing community, support, wellness, and a structure that could create deeper relationships before any workshops, podcast, or other extensions. - Marcus reported limited traction for the California-native gardening app pilot and is refining paid and organic marketing, while weighing early access, advice, nursery, seed, and premium-service partnership models. - Vaughn is moving into a new client engagement with Heds Fund after completing the legal and operational setup, and he is also validating a separate idea with the goal of productizing or diversifying the service over the next year. RECORDING https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/aVzKdC2oQxK-TovMibuB42hIM3D10qXw8eHnDEQFfmqWGyowAs36smRlGMSSx0Ez.t8AuFBZXAiv0lOE- ACTION ITEMS - Planned follow-up: continue planning calendar integration so weekly launch-plan actions appear on users’ phones with scheduled times and durations. Kim - Create the women’s-circle idea in the platform and begin developing its business plan before the next meeting. Marcus - Launch the California-native gardening app ad campaign on Facebook and Instagram after refining the creative and adding UTM tracking. - Meet with at least one boutique gardener to evaluate a premium customized-app partnership model.

SUMMARY - Each participant gave an update on their side hustle and the experiment they're running. Mark kept pushing the same point: find the one thing a customer will pay for, and pre-sell it before building more. (Mark, 9:27) - The main lessons were "speed to a real yes beats a perfect yes" and "a fast no is better than a long no." (Mark, 19:10; 20:06) - Mark demoed the platform's Vision & Branding and Marketing Plan modules. (Demo, 50:09) - He also recommended two AI lead-gen tools: Instinct.com and Boardy AI. (Lead-gen tools, 44:42) - Everyone committed to one goal for next week's check-in. (Commitments, 59:36) RECORDING https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cYNdVN7lGE009e0q34IAJ1yl-6lqpjes/view?usp=drive_link ACTION ITEMS Steve Thomas -Run all three ideas through a go/no-go decision and pick one to pursue. (1:00:53) Jessie P -Finish the business plan and move on to marketing. Pre-sell the offer to get a first paying customer. (1:00:24) Vaughn Ramos - Redo the match analysis inputs with a fintech-focused prompt, then work on the business plan. (1:00:05)

AI can hand you a hundred business ideas in seconds. What it cannot do is tell you which one is right for you, because the best idea is not a property of the idea. It is a property of your situation. See the attached presentation for the details of how to choose the right business for you.