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China just built an AI collar that translates your pet’s sounds and emotions in real time with 94.6% accuracy.
Pet owners are about to find out things they were not prepared to hear.
Monako Glass just launched, the world's first wearable Linux computer built into a pair of glasses.
It runs Claude Code, Codex and any coding agent fully on device, so you can build and ship from anywhere. No laptop needed.
Made for developers who want their setup to go wherever they do.
Finance is the biggest customer base we serve, so I can say this with confidence.
ChatGPT just replaced junior financial analysts.
Here is how someone will use this to make $1,000,000 in 2026:
A McKinsey analyst bills $327 to $498 an hour. A BCG associate bills $404 an hour. A Bain team of three consultants and a half-time manager costs $110,000 a week. A first-year investment banking analyst at a bulge bracket bank makes $180,000 to $220,000 in total compensation and works 60 to 80 hours a week. At elite boutiques like Evercore and Centerview, first-year analysts make $250,000 or more.
ChatGPT now has role-specific plugins for Codex built specifically for financial analysis, data analytics, and investing workflows - purpose-built tools that do the actual work.
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A data analytics plugin connects to 62 business apps and turns raw data into interactive reports, dashboards, and financial models. It plugs into Snowflake, Databricks, Hex, and Tableau.
The investing plugin builds financial models from plain English questions using data from FactSet, Moody's, S&P, and PitchBook. No spreadsheet formulas. No SQL. No coding. The analysis that takes a junior analyst a full week now takes Codex an afternoon.
This means a founder, consultant, fractional CFO, agency owner, or finance operator can now turn raw business data into usable financial reporting without needing a full analyst team.
Here is what that work actually costs right now.
A McKinsey analyst bills $327 to $498 an hour. A BCG associate bills $404 an hour. A Bain team of three consultants and a half-time manager costs $110,000 a week. A first-year investment banking analyst at a bulge bracket bank makes $180,000 to $220,000 in total compensation and works 60 to 80 hours a week. At elite boutiques like Evercore and Centerview, first-year analysts make $250,000 or more.
A single business valuation for a company with less than $10 million in revenue costs $2,000 to $10,000. Complex valuations run $100,000 or more. Hourly rates for valuation professionals run $300 to $700.
A fractional CFO costs $3,000 to $12,000 a month. Basic bookkeeping runs $500 to $1,500 a month. A freelance financial modeler on Upwork charges $20 to $60 an hour. A Toptal financial modeling consultant charges two to three times that.
There are 33 million businesses in the United States. Most small and midsize businesses already outsource at least part of their financial operations because they cannot afford a full-time CFO. The fractional CFO market alone is $3.2 billion and growing at 12.4% a year. The global accounting services market is worth $688 billion and headed toward $1.27 trillion by 2033.
Most of these businesses need the same things: pitch decks when they raise money, financial models when they plan, valuations when they sell or take on partners, dashboards when they need visibility, and someone to make sense of the numbers every month. They cannot afford McKinsey. They cannot afford a full-time analyst. They cannot even afford most fractional CFOs.
They can afford you.
Here is the play.
Step 1: Build financial services packages for SMBs and startups using ChatGPT's Codex plugins as the production backend.
The sharpest combination: pitch decks and financial modeling for startups raising capital, plus monthly financial reporting and business intelligence for the same clients after they close. Every startup that needs a pitch deck also needs a financial model. Every startup that closes a round needs dashboards, reporting, cash flow analysis, and someone to explain what the numbers mean. You are solving both problems for the same client with the same AI backend.
Build a fundraising package at $3,000 to $7,000 per engagement: investor pitch deck, comparable company analysis, financial model, KPI dashboard, and valuation framework. A consulting firm charges $20,000 to $50,000 for the same deliverables. An investment bank charges more. You are delivering the same analytical rigor at a fraction of the cost because ChatGPT's investing plugin and Codex workflows do in hours what a team of analysts does in weeks.
Add a monthly financial operations retainer at $2,000 to $5,000 a month: financial reporting, cash flow analysis, dashboard creation, board deck preparation, and monthly model updates. A fractional CFO charges $3,000 to $12,000 for the same scope. Your cost to deliver is a ChatGPT subscription, connected data access, and your financial judgment. The margins are the entire fee minus your time.
The expansion vertical is financial due diligence for M&A. Small businesses buying other small businesses need quality of earnings reports, valuation analyses, financial models, and deal structuring support. Traditional M&A advisory fees run 1 to 5% of deal value. For a $2 million acquisition, that is $20,000 to $100,000. You can deliver the analytical work at $5,000 to $15,000 per deal using ChatGPT's data analytics and investing plugins.
Step 2: This is where the real money is.
Every startup you build a pitch deck for also needs investors to find them. Every SMB you do reporting for also needs customers to find them. The supplement brand you built a financial model for needs to show up when someone asks ChatGPT for the best protein powder. The SaaS company you prepared board decks for needs to appear when a buyer asks Perplexity to compare project management tools.
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Show them the gaps. Show them the competitors who are showing up instead. Then offer to fix it. Charge $1,500 to $3,000 a month to manage their AI search presence alongside the financial services you are already providing. Recurring revenue. Every month. For every client.
You are the only provider who makes the businesses you advise actually findable. That is a positioning advantage no traditional consulting firm can match.
Step 3: At 12 monthly retainer clients paying $3,500 a month for financial operations and $2,000 a month for AI search management, you are at $66,000 a month. That is $792,000 a year. Add five fundraising engagements a month at $5,000 each and three M&A due diligence projects a quarter at $10,000 each, and you are over $1 million. One person with ChatGPT producing the financial work and SEO Stuff driving client acquisition and retention.
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OpenAI just released role-specific Codex plugins that connect to business apps, build dashboards, generate reports, create financial models, and turn plain English questions into institutional-grade financial analysis.
The work that used to require a junior analyst, a fractional CFO, a data analyst, and a financial modeler now runs through a single AI workflow that handles most of the production work.
But the tools are just the delivery mechanism. The business is built on being findable. And the financial services providers who own the AI search results for fractional CFO services, startup pitch deck preparation, and small business financial modeling in their markets are the ones that will scale past freelancing into seven figures.
That is the gap SEO Stuff (https://t.co/wKpf0EILTx) was built to close.
ChatGPT builds the financial work. SEO Stuff makes sure the right clients find it. The tools are here. The playbook is above. Someone is going to run this in the next six months and it is going to work.
High cortisol is the real reason your anxiety won't lift.
It also breaks sleep, kills digestion, burns adrenals, and shrinks your prefrontal cortex.
Here are 8 ways to drop cortisol and end the alarm:
1. Cold plunge 1-3 minutes, 3x/week.
We run GTM at ColdIQ ($7M ARR) inside Claude Code. Today I'm giving away the full repo that makes it work. Free.
A prompt just answers you. These hooks make Claude act, across the tools you already pay for:
1. Finishes a task → Slack gets pinged
2. Enriches a lead → your CRM updates
3. Writes a sequence → loaded into Instantly
4. Generates content → caught in Gmail
That's the gap between Claude that talks and Claude that runs your stack. No Zapier in the middle, nothing to copy-paste between tools.
Inside the repo:
- 32 hooks
- 5 agents
- 18 prompts
- 6 skills
Plus the integrations to wire it into Apollo, Instantly, Gmail, Slack, and your CRM.
These are the same automations firing inside our agency right now. Clone it, drop in your API keys, and it goes.
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Scott Galloway, NYU Stern professor, on why the AI job apocalypse is really a story invented to protect trillion-dollar valuations:
Speaking on The Diary of a CEO podcast, Galloway pushes back hard on the idea that AI is about to wipe out the labour market.
"I think it's mostly bulls*** and catastrophizing and a means of fundraising."
His argument starts with history. He says we've seen this pattern before, and there's no reason to expect AI to break it:
"Every technology in history goes through a similar arc. There's some catastrophizing. There's some job loss. That increase in productivity results in additional margin, new business opportunities, and employment growth. I don't see any reason why this would be any different."
So why all the doom? Galloway argues the fear is doing financial work.
According to him, the talk of mass job destruction exists to "justify the massive investments these companies want enterprises to make in their companies."
He lays out the math behind the valuations.
As he sees it, one of two things has to happen for the numbers to make sense:
"There either needs to be a trillion dollars in incremental revenue from new products from companies that have licensed AI, but there's not a lot you would call new AI-driven or AI products."
The problem, he says, is that this revenue isn't showing up yet:
"AI plays a role in the background, but it's very hard for companies right now to point to incremental growth or revenues from AI."
That leaves the second path — cost cutting. And this is where the jobs narrative comes in:
"One of two things needs to happen in the next three years. Either these companies' valuations need to be cut by 50 or 70%. Or you need a massive destruction in the labor market that creates tons of efficiencies that their customers can then flow to the bottom line."
He points to a real example, noting that Meta "has just announced new layoffs because of efficiencies they're getting with AI targeting."
@profgalloway also thinks there's an ego and marketing dimension to the apocalyptic framing:
"I also think that you sound more interesting and it makes your technology sound more seminal when you say it's changing the world and we don't know how to control it. And quite frankly, I find it a little bit obnoxious."
A startup founder turned his wedding into a viral marketing experiment and sold ad spots on his wedding suit.
26 startups bought patches with each brand on his jacket.
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A San Francisco home just listed for $2.9 million and is accepting OpenAI and Anthropic stock as payment.
The property sits in Duboce Triangle, one of San Francisco's most sought-after neighbourhoods. Buried in the Zillow listing is a detail that would sound absurd anywhere else in the world.
Here's what this tells you.
> AI workers are getting rich on paper.
> But their wealth is locked in private company shares they can't easily sell.
> A home seller looks at that and sees an opportunity.
> They accept the stock instead of waiting for cash.
What makes this interesting:
A regular homeowner looked at OpenAI and Anthropic stock and decided it was worth more than the risk of holding it.
That a private share in an AI company was a better bet than waiting for a wire transfer.
This is a cultural shift that signals something bigger, when private AI stock starts showing up in real estate negotiations, the money has already moved, the rest of the world just hasn't caught up yet.
This works as a snapshot of exactly where Bay Area wealth is sitting right now, and it's locked in pre-IPO shares, looking for somewhere to go.
The future of compensation in tech might not be a salary at all. It might be equity in a company the public isn't allowed to buy yet.
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