Dan D'Ascenzo

AI/SI Transformation Partner. I help people who run things win back their attention. | Photographer and dad in the analog life.

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

Most business owners think an AI agent is a chatbot. It isn't.

You picture the chat bubble on a website. Scripted answers. It gives up after two questions. That's a vending machine. Not a worker.

Nobody told you the difference.

An agent is different. It reads your data. It decides. It acts. It learns as it goes.

And it doesn't live in a chat bubble on a website.

It lives where you actually work. On your phone, in your Telegram. On your screen, in a desktop app like Hermes. In a dedicated space that feels more like a desk than a website.

A vending machine sits in the hallway, waiting for you to visit it.

A worker sits in your office, already at it.

It's your personal assistant. And you can have an unlimited number of them, working 24/7.

Here are 7 jobs it can pull off your desk (while you sleep):

1. Weekly reports
2. Competitor analysis
3. Calendar management
4. Document processing
5. Marketing content management
6. Email triage, answered in your voice
7. Accounting (invoices, chasing, matching, tax prep)

Thirty hours a week. A part-time employee's whole week, already on your payroll. And that's just a starter.

You didn't build all this to end up doing spreadsheets on a Sunday night. That's why the worker exists. Stop calling it a vending machine.

Which one of these is hiding the most hours from you? One comment. That's the first step.

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@MiaAI_lab ASD broadly actually.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@yunta_tsai A petition is underway to reinstate Jensen and I’m signing it too

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@Substack Phew 🤩

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@ganeshsonawane @grok Haha of course 😄 Thanks

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@RobertGreene I'm listening to the audio book 😌

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@thejustinwelsh those shiny objects

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@MiaAI_lab The only way ❤️

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@dhh The only way ❤️

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@ashxhart yesss. drumrolls

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@brainpickings In my experience, talent is useless without obsession.

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@WSJ How convenient. right?

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@DavidSacks Wouldn't the question rather be: who does this benefit?

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@fl_rn_st Great job as usual but I'm wondering why putting the session details even further away ?
Am I alone to find this info important?

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@JASONMCNAB How is it so far?

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@RudyHavenstein How can one not seeing that obviousness?
No need to hear anything, just use a brain.

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@MatthewBerman I'm totally up for 👋🏼

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@MiaAI_lab yep. I did it already few days ago.

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@ClementDelangue @dhh 100%

[Dan D'Ascenzo @TheDDA]

@atelicinvest https://t.co/9hPJB8a33g

[Matt McDonagh @McDonaghMatthew]

This is why Jensen was taken out.