My AI tier list for $20M+ businesses will probably annoy a few people. Grok Bot and Codex: S tier. Perplexity: D tier. These rankings come from how I actually use the tools. Here’s the full breakdown: S TIER Grok Bot: The most reliable agent I’ve used for repeatable routines. When a task needs to happen again tomorrow, reliability matters more than an impressive demo. Codex: My pick for getting work done. OpenAI’s models combined with the environment to carry a task through to completion make it one of the strongest tools in my workflow. A TIER Hermes: Open source, flexible, and rich in context. You can connect your tools and choose your models. That flexibility is a big advantage, although it still comes with problems to work through. Claude: Still my favorite for design. Claude Code and the models are strong, but token efficiency keeps it out of S tier for me. Instinct: A newer agent that handles complex tasks while being easy to set up and use. That combination earns it an A. B TIER Wispr Flow: I use it every day for dictation. Useful enough to stay in my workflow, but I don’t see a huge product advantage over the alternatives. Granola: Good meeting notes. I use it daily too, but its role in my workflow is fairly narrow. C TIER OpenClaw: I used to be a big fan. Reliability has become the issue for me, and Hermes has overtaken it in my workflow. Gemini: Useful for understanding videos, design, and images. It’s catching back up, but it hasn’t earned a higher spot in my stack yet. D TIER Perplexity: I barely use it anymore. Between OpenAI, Claude, and Google’s AI search, I’m getting what I need elsewhere. The interesting part: I use two B-tier tools every day. A lower rank doesn’t automatically mean a tool should disappear from your workflow. A narrow tool that does its job can still be worth keeping. My test is simple: Does it do the work reliably? How much setup and supervision does it need? Does it earn its place alongside the tools I already use? Full ranking in the video.

If you’re building out your marketing team, this might save you a lot of time. Skills Dojo now has 17 marketing bots you can steal. Video Edit Desk X Brief Site Audit Copy Humanizer Clip Bot Ad Spend Watch Event Producer WTD Luma Pages Paid Media Report Desk Lead Pipeline Desk Writing Bot Apple Search Ads Review AI Search Visibility Stills & Clips Desk SEO & AEO Desk Overheard And a few more doing the boring work nobody wants on their calendar. The model is simple: One agent → one job → clear inputs → defined output → human approval → repeat. We’ve been turning repeatable marketing work into reusable bots so you can plug them into your own workflows. Steal the ones you need 👇

I’m building my AI revenue stack live today, and I want you in the room. Grok voice bot, Meta Muse, Instinct Agent, and GPT-6 Astra. So if you’d like to: Call new demo leads in under 60 seconds Re-qualify leads and route the good ones to sales Keep persistent text follow-up moving Find leaks in your funnel Join up! Free and live today at 1:30pm CT / 11:30am PT. Register below 👇

Say someone fills out your demo form right now. What happens next? I’ve been working on getting that first response down to under 60 seconds. Grok handles the first call and re-qualification. Meta Muse helps with prospecting and follow-up drafts. Instinct Agent keeps the conversation going over text. GPT-6 Astra helps me spot where leads are falling through the funnel. I’m putting the full system together live this Wednesday so you can see how the pieces work together, what I’d automate, and where I’d keep a human involved. Wednesday at 1:30pm CT / 11:30am PT. Free. Register below 👇

Efficiency should CREATE room for both sides. When we make delivery more efficient, customers should get something out of it too. Faster turnaround. Less time repeating the same context. More useful work inside the scope. And we should have room for better margins. That money goes back into better systems, engineering, and expert review so the work keeps improving. This is where pricing everything by hours starts to get awkward. A workflow can take less time to produce and still deliver the same value, or more. So I keep coming back to this question: Can we deliver this repeatedly, at a quality customers accept, with economics that make it worth doing again? That’s a better standard for efficiency. Read the full article 👇

My AI tier list for $20M+ businesses will probably annoy a few people. Grok Bot and Codex: S tier. Perplexity: D tier. These rankings come from how I actually use the tools. Here’s the full breakdown: S TIER Grok Bot: The most reliable agent I’ve used for repeatable routines. When a task needs to happen again tomorrow, reliability matters more than an impressive demo. Codex: My pick for getting work done. OpenAI’s models combined with the environment to carry a task through to completion make it one of the strongest tools in my workflow. A TIER Hermes: Open source, flexible, and rich in context. You can connect your tools and choose your models. That flexibility is a big advantage, although it still comes with problems to work through. Claude: Still my favorite for design. Claude Code and the models are strong, but token efficiency keeps it out of S tier for me. Instinct: A newer agent that handles complex tasks while being easy to set up and use. That combination earns it an A. B TIER Wispr Flow: I use it every day for dictation. Useful enough to stay in my workflow, but I don’t see a huge product advantage over the alternatives. Granola: Good meeting notes. I use it daily too, but its role in my workflow is fairly narrow. C TIER OpenClaw: I used to be a big fan. Reliability has become the issue for me, and Hermes has overtaken it in my workflow. Gemini: Useful for understanding videos, design, and images. It’s catching back up, but it hasn’t earned a higher spot in my stack yet. D TIER Perplexity: I barely use it anymore. Between OpenAI, Claude, and Google’s AI search, I’m getting what I need elsewhere. The interesting part: I use two B-tier tools every day. A lower rank doesn’t automatically mean a tool should disappear from your workflow. A narrow tool that does its job can still be worth keeping. My test is simple: Does it do the work reliably? How much setup and supervision does it need? Does it earn its place alongside the tools I already use? Full ranking in the video.

If your inbound leads are waiting until morning for a response, you’re probably losing pipeline. I built a Grok voice bot that calls new demo leads in under 60 seconds, re-qualifies them, and routes the good ones to sales. That’s the system I’m building live this Wednesday: -Grok voice bot for speed-to-lead -Meta Muse for prospecting + follow-up drafts -Instinct Agent for persistent text follow-up -GPT-6 Astra for finding funnel leaks Wednesday 9/16 at 1:30pm CT / 11:30am PT. Completely free. Register below 👇

Say you're buying creative testing. Would you rather run the workflow yourself, buy the approved assets, or have us manage the testing cycle? Those are three ways to buy the same underlying capability: Run it for us → managed service We'll run it → gateway + workflow access Deliver this → defined output or outcome What changes is who runs it, what gets measured, and what you've promised to deliver. It's a useful framework for thinking about how to package any reusable workflow. Read the full article 👇

If you’re building out your marketing team, this might save you a lot of time. Skills Dojo now has 17 marketing bots you can steal. Video Edit Desk X Brief Site Audit Copy Humanizer Clip Bot Ad Spend Watch Event Producer WTD Luma Pages Paid Media Report Desk Lead Pipeline Desk Writing Bot Apple Search Ads Review AI Search Visibility Stills & Clips Desk SEO & AEO Desk Overheard And a few more doing the boring work nobody wants on their calendar. The model is simple: One agent → one job → clear inputs → defined output → human approval → repeat. We’ve been turning repeatable marketing work into reusable bots so you can plug them into your own workflows. Steal the ones you need 👇

Agents are already doing a killer job of recruiting for us right now. They source based on our criteria of two promotions at two different companies with an average tenure of 3 years for mid-senior roles. If the prospect is interested, it sends them 5 questions to test their ai fluency, and then scores them on an eval. These gates are verifiable which makes it easy for the agents to handle. Agents also handle our other agentic sourcers, ATS tracking, and LinkedIn (via computer use). Once you automate a workflow, you can’t but help to want to do it to anything and everything so your people can focus on work that only humans can do. Times are changing, fast.

I’m breaking down my AI revenue stack live, and I want you there. You’ll see how I’m using: 1. Grok voice bot for speed-to-lead 2. Meta Muse for prospecting + follow-up drafts 3. Instinct Agent for persistent text follow-up 4. GPT-6 Astra for finding funnel leaks Free live session Wednesday at 1:30 PM CT / 11:30 AM PT. Register below 👇

If your inbound leads are waiting until morning for a response, you’re probably losing pipeline. I built a Grok voice bot that calls new demo leads in under 60 seconds, re-qualifies them, and routes the good ones to sales. That’s the system I’m building live this Wednesday: -Grok voice bot for speed-to-lead -Meta Muse for prospecting + follow-up drafts -Instinct Agent for persistent text follow-up -GPT-6 Astra for finding funnel leaks Wednesday 9/16 at 1:30pm CT / 11:30am PT. Completely free. Register below 👇

If you're deciding what client work should become reusable, map it like this: High usefulness + high effort = premium custom work High usefulness + low effort = reusable workflow Low usefulness + high effort = rethink or stop Low usefulness + low effort = low priority The goal is to move down the high-usefulness side of the matrix. Keep the customer value high. Reduce the ongoing effort it takes to deliver. That’s the framework behind how we’re thinking about services as software. Here's the full article below 👇

EA AI safetyism increasingly looks like Marxism-Leninism for the algorithmic age. The old vanguard claimed privileged knowledge of the inevitable course of History. The new one claims privileged knowledge of the probabilistic course of Humanity. Both use an elaborate intellectual framework to reach the same political conclusion: a small group of enlightened people must constrain everyone else for their own good. That has never lead to anything except monumental human suffering.

You don’t need to become a developer to get more technical as a marketer. I don’t know how to code. But I can use GPT-6 Astra to turn an idea into a landing page, connect the offer, collect the lead, and review the finished flow before it goes live. That’s a pretty useful capability. Idea → brief → page → opt-in → review → publish The skill is being able to make the work happen, even when you’re not the one writing the code. Here's the video to see how I used GPT-6 Astra to build it 👇

START looking for leaks before changing everything. GPT-6 Astra found 5 of them on our site. Some were pretty obvious once they were pointed out: • 7 required fields on the Single Grain contact form • A Single Brain mobile form starting 1,277 pixels down the page • CTAs sending people into a next step that doesn’t always match the promise From there, the process is simple: Find the leak → rank what matters → make the smallest fix → review it → test it AI helps you spot the problems faster. Here’s the video showing how I’m doing the audit 👇

Grok Bot has the autonomous agent mindshare right now. Hermes had it. OpenClaw had it. All are great products in their own right, but Grok Bot has the best (and even unfair) GTM approach. 1. They have a social media platform to distribute through as well as Elon’s megaphone 2. They do a tremendous job working with KOLs. Their growth leader has been DMing back and forth with me frequently asking about product feedback, offering hookups, more credits, etc. It feels nice to feel taken care of. They reached out to me. I reached out to a few people at Hermes and OpenClaw and was met with silence. No issue with it - just different approach. 3. Their entire team is amplifying each other. One of their sales leaders wrote an X article and it got millions of views because they have a coordinated plan of attack. 4. They did a good job pre-seeding the product. On the day of launch, all the AI creators had YT videos go out. 5. They listen - when I ask when multiplayer is coming or when a Slack integration is coming, they tell me either it’s in the works or soon. They’re just on top of their shit when it comes to GTM. Good case study.