2 years ago, I went all in on building a business around one thing:
Freedom.
Since then:
โ Built communities with thousands of members
โ Won the Skool Games
โ Helped 500+ coaches grow online
โ Built a 20K+ YouTube channel organically
โ Replaced an $88K/year team with AI employees
โ Built a business I can run in 1โ3 hours a day
โ Bought our first home in Sedona
But none of that is the real win.
The real win is being there.
Being a dad. Being a fiancรฉ. Traveling with the people I love. Exploring this crazy planet. Waking up and actually owning my time.
Thatโs why my mission is simple:
Help coaches build businesses that donโt depend on them.
Less busywork. Less overhead. More life.
I build communities, AI workforces, and businesses designed to give people their lives back.
Because I donโt believe we started businesses just to build ourselves another job.
If you believe that too, stick around. โค๏ธ
@VitaliiRel Glad it landed. If you're pitching managers, pick one workflow they already hate repeating and show the weekly delta. That usually starts a real conversation faster than a feature list.
@mjlbach That's the real constraint. Once Claude is the scarce resource, review is one of the few jobs that still pays for the quota burn. Long messy runs go wherever still has headroom.
Concrete example: client onboarding forms.
An agent can chase missing docs and fill the standard fields.
It still cannot decide whether a weird edge case gets a custom exception or a hard no.
Until that decision rule has an owner who is not you, every weird form still lands on your desk.
You didn't buy AI to move faster.
You bought it so you could stop being the bottleneck in your own company.
Then something quiet happens.
The agent drafts the emails.
The agent sorts the leads.
The agent builds the first version.
And somehow you are busier.
Because every half-finished output still needs your judgment.
Every weird client still needs your voice.
Every exception still routes to the same place it always did:
you.
That's the part nobody puts in the demo.
AI doesn't remove the founder bottleneck.
It removes the easy work around it.
If you don't redesign who owns the weird cases,
you didn't buy freedom.
You bought a faster way to stay trapped.
@arvidkahl Tool envy is usually a list comparison. The experts I trust barely name tools. They measure one workflow end to end and keep what survives contact with real work.
@rtinfow@arvidkahl Same upstairs. Everyone is personally playing with tools. The companies that pull ahead pick one workflow and make it boringly dependable.
@chinmay_d__@arvidkahl That question is the whole filter. Founders who ask what breaks in their real workflow ship. Founders who argue about whether AI is allowed stay in the comments.
@_Izuweb3 Portable reputation is the missing trust layer: without verifiable track records, agent-to-agent marketplaces will struggle with fraud and low-quality work.
@roderickalb_ left occupational therapy for basically the same reason, hated needing someone else's approval to run my own day. what was the moment you actually decided to leave banking?