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Everybody thinks they've got the answer.
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Claude's the best tool, ChatGPT is, Gemini, or some cheap Chinese model that nobody's ever heard of.
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And that's the thing.
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AI models change all the time.
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And to be in the forefront of AI, you need to know what the best one is right now.
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And I get it.
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Testing the tools and keeping up with every single update is exhausting.
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And that's why I've spent dozens of hours testing every single one across all of my companies
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so that you don't have to.
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So in this video, I'm going to walk you through the best AI tools that I'm running in my life right now, what each one is actually good at,
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and how to get them to stack together for better results.
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And stick around, because at the end of this video, I'll show you how to build a system
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that allows you to immediately leverage any AI tool and stay at the top of the game.
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So that way, when a better tool comes out, you can start using it ASAP with zero friction.
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So let's start with the first tool in the stack and I hate to say it but ChatGPT is back.
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Let's call out the elephant in the room.
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Yes I broke my hand but before telling you, you tell me below in the comments what you think happened and I'll tell you at the end what actually happened.
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ChatGPT's newest model Astra isn't just a better chatbot, it's taking things to a whole new level.
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Most AI tools right now sit on top of your computer.
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It's almost like an app.
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GPT Astra runs your actual machine.
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It literally takes over the computer.
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It accesses files, apps, everything.
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Before AI took you from whatever you're thinking to do some AI
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and then you had to copy and paste and you got to go into another tool.
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Now it just works and it works in the background while you're also working, which is a wild thing to watch.
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It's kind of like watching a ghost employee on your computer doing things around
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and clicking and copying and pasting stuff while you're still in there doing work.
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And the cool part is, you can actually use the phone app to talk to it, to the computer, to get it to do things from your phone.
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You're probably thinking to yourself, I already used Cloud Code and I already used Codex.
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Isn't it the same thing?
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It's way different.
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Now, it acts just like a human.
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And whatever you can do, it can do.
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And it can do it better.
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And not through APIs and connectors.
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So some crazy things I did day one.
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I asked it to order some food off of DoorDash.
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It went and looked at my order history.
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It knew what restaurant I like to order from.
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It ordered me my usual.
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My credit card was expired.
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It went in, updated my credit card because I gave it access to it.
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It prompted me, but I said, yeah, approve.
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Schedule it for noon that day and my food showed up.
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And all I said was, order me my usual from this restaurant on DoorDash.
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I couldn't believe it.
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And it did it in seven minutes.
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The real work is in you thinking.
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It's not clicking around between apps.
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It's so crazy because it's at the point where
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if somebody on the receiving end that works on your team doesn't use a tool like this, they can't keep up to the workload that you're able to produce.
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That's a real thing right now.
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So here's what you need to do.
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First, go download ChatGPT again.
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Maybe you deleted it because I was not a fan of it.
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Go to your settings, then go to integrations and make sure you toggle on any app, which is the computer use flag.
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So that way it can use any app on your computer.
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Now there's a pro tip.
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Click on show pet because it puts this little icon in a little voice prompt.
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So that way, even if you're in Slack, you can still talk to it and it can do work.
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If you're in other apps, you just have access to it.
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It's almost like Microsoft Paperclip, but it works.
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And if you know what I'm talking about, welcome, my friends.
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Next, we've got to follow the maps framework, which is the same way we've been prompting AI forever.
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The first part is the mission, the M.
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Tell it what you're trying to achieve.
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Second part is we've got to ask.
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Tell it what you want done, very clear.
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Third is the P, which is parameters.
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Give it the files, the rules, and the limits.
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And then four is shape.
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Tell it exactly what you want back from it.
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Tell it the work you want done, and how you want to be notified.
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But it's crazy because in the past, you would have had to do a file that you then copy and you put in another system.
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Now you can just tell it the full workflow and it'll just boom, boom, boom, boom.
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So for example, I want every receipt from the last month gathered and filed.
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Open my receipts on my computer, read each one, rename the file to the date and the vendor, ignore any travel receipts and add up the total and send it to my cheapest staff through Slack.
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And it'll just work.
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I've got an events person, Rachel, who is so awesome.
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She runs like eight -figure events for us, one person.
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She's went and met with all the top events people
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and their team of 12 and 25
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and they go how do you do with one person and she just shows them her AI.
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She's using ChatGPT Astra and this next tool I'm going to teach you about to get so much work done.
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One of the top use cases that's going to make you money
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or save you money is asking to go through your email
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of all your subscription notifications to figure out what you're paying for log into those accounts as you
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and then negotiate through the support chat bot a discount for
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anything you currently pay for my friend nick the other day
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told me it saved him thirty thousand dollars a month in his business.
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The cool part is, is while it's running, you can talk to it and shape it and change it and tell it to skip something or even stop.
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If you're still doing the task the AI could do, you're the bottleneck.
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And even worse, you're very close to being replaced.
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So make sure you're using this tool to get a lot done.
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Now, that was GPT Astra, and it's great for performing local tasks on your computer.
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But now, what if you need something that is like scientifically nerdy and very specific? great at one specific thing.
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That's GrokBot.
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Think of it like GPT Astra is like the generalist.
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GrokBot is the specialist, which is a group of virtual employees.
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It allows you to run a team of hyper -specialized bots that collaborate,
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hand off, and talk to each other around whatever they're great at to accomplish full tasks.
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And the crazy part is, is anything that you want to do, like automation, scheduled tasks, et cetera, you create using plain English.
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You talk to it.
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You can say, just remind me at 8 a .m.
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to check this Slack post.
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And if I don't get a notification, send me a reminder.
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One of the biggest questions I get is, well, what makes it different?
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If you've ever had to get OpenClaw, Hermes, or any other agent platform installed, you have to have a computer science degree.
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And you're probably going to get hacked.
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GrokBot is essentially the simplest agent platform ever created.
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It's almost like if Apple created AI agents, it would work like GrokBot the way you use it is the way you would just hire a new employee.
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And every employee and bot on GrokBot comes with a virtual and computer, just like you would if you hired a person, you give them a computer.
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Most AI feels great, but it doesn't do all of the work.
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It does like 90 % of it.
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I'll tell you the first time you use it and you go
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and you ask it to do something and it goes 100 % completion
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and it does it the way you would have done it.
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And it does it in your voice.
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And time, you're just going to start giving it more and more.
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I've spent more time on GrokBot in the last two weeks than any other AI platform.
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I even had an all hands with my team and ask everybody, please install this over the next 24 hours.
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It is now the platform of choice for agent orchestration for
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all of us to get virtual team members full bandwidth
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and just create the most crazy things without worrying about security
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and my laptop being on and all these other things
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that used to come with the other platforms
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and guess what do you know who built it elon musk
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xai the first people to test grokbot was his own employees
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and his companies do you think there's a reason why they're
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so freaking productive
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because they build tools like this for themselves i've built everything
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like my sales bot overnight it identifies all sales related bottlenecks
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and throughputs and constraints across all my companies and consolidates it
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and gives me a high level overview
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and direct messages all the leaders to ask them if they are aware and what are they're doing to resolve it.
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The finance bot, it literally lives in my mailbox, in my Slack, in my finance tools.
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It grabs everything and it just does it.
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We're now at the point where small businesses, one person with GrokBot will build a full company.
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So here's how GrokBot works.
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Starts off by creating a new bot and give it a role.
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Most people are using kind of like a chief of staff role.
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So they coordinates the other bots or you can create an inbox manager
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if you want to do like a simple targeted thing i
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have a pr bot a sys admin bot a revenue bot probably at this point 37 different bots
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and if you don't know
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which ones you create say interview me ask me the context of my life
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or look at my emails and look at my slack post
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and tell me which bots you should create for me
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and it'll do that
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so you just create a bot give it a name give it a role
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and then give it any task exclusive to
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that role you can even create a group chat of bots
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so they can share context with each other
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and then you can even organize them by different categories the reason why they have this feature is
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because it allows you to think of the bots like people
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so that you have context for what you've asked them to do
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when you open up those chats it works just like text message
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and it is really neat to empower yourself and collaborate
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and have each one of those chats be a specific outcome you're trying to achieve
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and then you use it to just work on those kind of tasks
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so for example i can say to my chief of staff
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agent i want you to clear my inbox categorize on my email
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and draft up replies for the ones that need a response.
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Enter.
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The chief of staff will then coordinate with my inbox agent, maybe my copywriting agent, maybe my context agent that has access to everything
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that it needs to be able to write really meaningful and accurate replies.
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And it'll just manage your inbox.
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And the cool part is, now I can say, let's make sure we do this every morning at 8am
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and give me a brief on what needs my attention.
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No cron jobs, Vercell instances, API keys, scheduled tasks, automation.
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Is it on my computer or is it in the cloud? Who knows?
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All that stuff, gone.
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And here's a pro tip.
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You click that plus icon and select teach a task.
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which opens up a computer and you do something on the computer in the browser
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and then you hit stop and it will literally take that
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and teach the bot how to do the thing you just showed it to do on your computer.
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Maybe you've heard of this.
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I wrote a whole book about it.
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It's called the camcorder method, recording yourself doing the thing and then giving it to somebody else.
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Now that somebody else is the GrokBot.
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It can literally go into any tool, any system and help you identify where there's bottlenecks.
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If you want to get even nerdier
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because every bot has its own computer i created an agent swarm bot
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that essentially installed grokbot under a different account so
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that bot has access to grokbot to create as many agents
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as it was i know this part gets scary for people
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they're like damn what are you doing i don't think i'm the first person to think about this
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and i don't think i'm going to be the reason
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that the singularity occurs but i'm definitely pushing the edges of what's possible
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so that if it works i'm going to teach it to you
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so that is a very advanced move but it's pretty freaking cool
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if you think about it my bot has access to grok
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bot maybe it installs grok bot on one of its bots
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how many layers deep will it go who knows all i know is
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that my credit card is probably going to get some big freaking charges
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and look it's already wildly powerful but there's two features that
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when they add it's going to change the game even more one is the ability to call
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and talk to people or take calls and answer questions that people have.
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Voice is a core feature they've said is coming in RockBot.
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Two, having a bot added to a Slack channel with other people's bots
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or the ability for my bot to talk to your bot and coordinate around work.
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Once that starts happening, the whole way work gets done shifts.
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And I'll be the first person to tell you.
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So be sure you're subscribed here and go find me on Instagram
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and follow me there because that comes out in real time.
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Now, this is just like the idea of having one bot doing one job, but I've got like 37 right now running all the time.
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And in my opinion, every business owner is going to need to be doing the same at some level of scale.
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So if you want to learn how to integrate all of these AI systems into every department in your business, I've got you covered.
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I've taught people how to use AI and specifically GropBot in every single department and every kind of company.
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So I put the whole thing together in a document, which tools to use, what to hand over first, and what you should keep human.
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I call it the AI Company Operating System, and if you want it, just go find me on Instagram, follow me, comment AI business, and I'll send it over for free.
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So now you got two very powerful tools that work in completely different ways.
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But the real hack is when you stop picking between them and start having them work together.
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I don't even know how to say this other than what I do, and I would encourage you to try,
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is ChadGPT becomes your point of contact and it runs the bots for you.
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So what I do is I use ChadGPT Astra
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and it runs on my computer and GrokBot is an app installed on my computer
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and I interact through it to talk to GrokBot to do work
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that run on their own machine so that I never feel constrained.
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I just talk work outputs and it coordinates with my GrokBot and it does work.
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It's kind of like running a company that only works for you.
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And that's why I think every team member in your company should have their own Grokbot account to do more work, to create more, to improve workflows, to never stop.
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You should have your own little army of people.
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They should have their own little army of people.
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So now you have the power of having things on your local computer, things in virtual computers up in the cloud running 24 seven.
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And if there's anything on your computer, it needs to gather to then hand off to Grokbot.
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It'll do that.
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You go to one person, you tell them what you need, and then they figure out who handles it.
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It's like you with the chief of staff in your office, then having a whole team of people out there and they're working.
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Those are the Grokbots.
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Astra is your chief of staff.
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They sit right in your office.
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They hear everything you say.
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You talk to it.
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You ask it to do work.
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It might do some of the stuff, but it'll also hand off to the designer, to the copywriter, to the social media expert, to the office admin.
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I got too many bots, but that's the thing.
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It's like, I can't keep track of them all.
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So at the end of the day, you just talk to ChadGBT
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and you say use grokbot it's an app on my computer
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coordinate with the bots in grokbots to get work done
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and then report back if you have anything for me
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and it can run all of it without you you can
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even go back remember i said you can use the phone
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app for chad gpt it's called remote access it's on the
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left pane in the app you click it you connect your laptop to it
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and boom i'm talking to my phone
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and it's driving my laptop i'm on the beach it's in
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the office okay don't tell anybody for example i might say
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hey go create a financial report with the receipts we found earlier
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and open up GrokBot and feed it the receipts into my finance agent
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and then ask it to create a visual report of the last 30 days and send that to Jared on Slack.
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It'll open up GrokBot, prompt the agent, give it all the information it needs, tell it where the files are, hand it over to the finance agent.
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Then Asher might take the report or it might be done through GrokBot, but it'll send that DM on Slack to your CFO.
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Here's another example.
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Somebody on my team wanted to connect HubSpot to Grok
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and it was asking for some configuration settings
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so he opened up gpt astra
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and he said go check out what grokbot is asking me for
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and just go connect it make it happen just figure it out enter
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so it opened up grokbot it looked what he was asking
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for in hubspot it had access to the password manager it
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logged into hubspot it found the setting grabbed the stuff hand
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it over to grokbot hit submit without lifting a finger the
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whole thing was done now all of a sudden the person had it connected to the system it needed to get smart.
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He didn't have to learn any technical terms or how to set up things or call somebody to get the setting.
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It just figured it out.
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There's no more switching apps, no more opening, no more closing windows.
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You've got to be the director, not the doer.
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I've been saying this for three years.
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Talker, not typing.
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Hearts, not hands.
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Now what's crazy is at this point, we're already ahead of 99 % of people using AI.
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Like you're like in the 99 .9 % range right now
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and you've got these two incredible powerful tools working together now instead of working separately
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but what happens and in three months or three weeks
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or three days something better comes out i mean everybody's giving me on instagram
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because they're like hey what happened to claude why are you
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so hot and heavy about chargbt
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and hey why are you talking about this tool not
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that tool i can't predict the future i can just predict the process
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so what we need to do is figure out a way
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in our business for these tools to connect to the information so that they come out of the box lid on.
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Because that way you can switch tools and never lose any momentum.
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Because if you don't do this, essentially the AI starts and it's not very smart.
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Unless you do this.
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Picture this.
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What if you could build a system that made it so that you're never stuck to a single AI tool ever again?
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That's what happened for me.
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A year and a half ago, every time a new AI tool came out, I was having the exact same challenge, connecting everything, creating the context making sure all of my knowledge was copy
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and pasted in and migrating all of my preferences my memories
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and all this stuff man i used to do videos on
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it teaching everybody how to migrate from this tool to the next tool
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but i was like there's got to be a better way
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why isn't there a memory system a complete memory system
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so the ai model can come in with its lights turned
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on think about it everything you've ever said all the information
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about your clients how you make decisions the relationships in your life who is mark in your life
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because you have 1700 if i just search your email, but who is Mark?
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And what if I could keep it in one place?
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And that way, every AI tool could reach it and be smart from day one.
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Regardless if whether Claude or Grok or new AI tool we've never even heard of comes out of nowheres, okay, and it becomes the new one, I don't want to have to replicate this.
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Because that way, then a new tool isn't just a new tool, it's I get to use it without any dependence on it having all my information.
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And this is why I teach, because strategy is sequencing the right action in the right order.
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If you do this right, you grow.
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That's why I coach people.
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I wanna teach people this is the sequence of the information to make AI work for you.
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So we gotta get that foundation done right first or the rest of it makes it really hard to switch.
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So what you need is called a second brain.
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You need all the context in your mind saved in one place for all the AIs to connect to it.
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Look, there's a bunch of tools
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that let you do different versions of this from storing data like Obsidian
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and Google Drive the end notion and all these other products.
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And I've made whole videos on how to set up your AI second brain.
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You can build this yourself, but that takes time.
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It takes more money and tokens just to process all the information than the value it might give you.
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And it's hard to maintain.
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It breaks.
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It confuses itself.
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You might accidentally think it's making good decisions, but it doesn't have all the context because you didn't know how to build it right.
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None of the AI tools are incentivized to let you own your own data.
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They want to lock you in.
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They want you to become dependent on their platform
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which is why i built apex apex .host it's one of my companies at martel ventures
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because it allows me to have
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that second braid centralized with all my stuff i'm talking every
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meeting every chat every comment every decision every logic every report
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everything i do it's my second brain i'm watching a youtube
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video i favorite it it hooks in it grabs it all
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my chats all my ais all my systems it grabs it it brings in the context into the second brain
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and it's easy to use and extremely safe.
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And while GPT clawed Gemini keep surpassing each other for frontier models, I can stay on top of it
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because I just connect my brain to each new one so that it can do work for me out of the box.
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I am tool agnostic, but because I use Apex, I don't have to worry about the switching costs.
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And I want you to have that benefit as well.
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So that way, when I recommend the next tool that is the new great one, you can just connect your Apex to it
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and then it just works it takes like a person
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that doesn't know anything about me to immediately ramping up it's like neo in the matrix
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and he's like i know kung fu boom it just knows
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so if you want to check it out just scan the qr code with your phone
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or click the link in the description
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so now you can use the best ai tools
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and switch whenever the new one comes out without losing all your context we own the brain
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and then we rent the models whoever's got the best model i pay you for it brain i own net.
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This isn't about the tools.
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It's about how we use them.
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I call it the AI mindset.
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It's the mindset of deferring work to the AI.
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I still see it amongst my team where people still decide to do work because they don't stop themselves to say like, oh, I don't have to do that.
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You can have a NASA supercomputer and still use it for basic math equation.
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And that's what people are doing.
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People don't understand that when we start working and collaborating with the AI, it will solve the biggest problems in our business so that you can make more money, you can have more time back,
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and you can build a bigger life.
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So we want to use these tools to build with intention.
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Don't just play around with the tools.
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Actually make a commitment to learn them, to defer work to it, to actually get your time back.
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If you do that, you will crush it in this new world.
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And remember, if you want my AI company operating system
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and how I've mapped this whole thing and give it to you for each department, just find me on Instagram, follow me and DM me the words AI business and I'll send it over to you for free.
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And look, if you really wanna build your own second AI brain from scratch, just click the link and watch how i do it
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or check out apex
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and i'm reading the comments right now did you put your vote in on how i broke my hand
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because the answer is i punched a tree i was biking with my kids
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and they built this drop and i hit the drop
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and then i lost it and i was going off my bike
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and i wanted to not hit the tree with my hand
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and i couldn't get my hand off my handlebar fast enough
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and the tree was coming like this and it went bang
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so i punched a tree doesn't matter
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because ai voice astra crockbot has got me way more productive so to the voice
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Waarom spreken oefenen met deze video?
Deze video biedt een prachtige context voor het oefenen van spreekvaardigheid, omdat het over een actueel en boeiend onderwerp gaat: AI-hulpmiddelen. De spreker gebruikt een informeel, gesprekelijk taalgebruik, wat ideaal is voor het oefenen van alledaags Engels. Door te oefenen met deze video, leer je niet alleen nieuwe woorden, maar ook hoe je complexe ideeën helder en natuurlijk kunt uiten. Bovendien is het perfect voor schaduwspreken (ofwel "shadowing"), waarbij je de spreker direct naagaat om intonatie en tempo te verbeteren. Een shadowing app kan hierbij handig zijn om je voortgang te volgen.
Grammatica & expressies in context
De video bevat verschillende nuttige taalstructuren die je kunt herhalen en oefenen:
- "It's almost like an app": De structuur "it's like" wordt gebruikt om iets te vergelijken. Handig voor het uitleggen van onbekende concepten. Bijvoorbeeld: "AI-hulpmiddelen zijn vaak als een virtuele assistent."
- "I asked it to order some food": "Ask + object + to + werkwoord" is een veelgebruikte constructie voor het opdragen van taken. Practiseer met: "Ik vroeg hem om de brief te sturen."
- "It knew what restaurant I like to order from": Een naaldzin met "what" om informatie op te vragen. Let op de woordvolgorde: "knew what restaurant I like" in plaats van "knew what I like restaurant".
- "You're probably thinking to yourself": "You're probably thinking" helpt om de luisteraar te betrekken. Gebruik het om te anticiperen op vragen: "Je denkt waarschijnlijk: hoe werkt dit precies?"
Veelvoorkomende uitspraakvalkuilen
Sommige woorden in de video kunnen moeilijk zijn om juist te pronuncieren. Let op:
- "Astra": De naam van het AI-model wordt uitgesproken als /ˈæstrə/, niet /ˈɑːstrɑː/. Let op de korte "a" en het zachte "r".
- "DoorDash": Dit is een merknaam, uitgesproken als /ˈdɔːrdæʃ/. Zorg dat je de "oo" klinkt als in "door" en de "sh" als in "shop".
- "APIs": De afkorting wordt uitgesproken als /ˈeɪpiːaɪz/, met klemtoon op de eerste letter. Vermijd het om het te zeggen als "apis" (met een korte "a").
Door deze woorden te oefenen met schaduw spreken, kun je je uitspraak aanzienlijk verbeteren. Onthoud: leer engels met video's is een effectieve manier om zowel taalgebruik als uitspraak te verbeteren!
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — iets dat eerder begon en nog bezig is | we've been prompting · I've been saying |
| Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg | if Apple created AI agents, it would work · If you do that, you will crush |
| “Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt | used to come · used to do |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | I've spent · you've ever had · i've built |
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.