Elliott Michael Smith

Producing movies with @rza and @UniversalPics (p.g.a.). Sold a few companies. Vibe coding a SaaS my engineers didn't ask for. Ask me anything about any of it.

[Elliott Michael Smith @TheElliottSmith]

It's a brave new world. I built an agent that connects to my accounting software through an API, reads everything and tells me what doesn't match within a matter of seconds.

When you run more than one company (or even one), the problems hide in boring places. A vendor gets paid twice, or a payment gets booked to the wrong account for a year and nobody notices, because nobody has time to go through every statement line by line. An outside bookkeeper can cost $1,000+ monthly and has no context.

My AI assistant does. It goes through the bank statements, the books and the email threads (it's connected to email with an API too) and tells me where the numbers don't line up. This morning it found that a year of contractor payments had all been dumped into one account, with marketing and landscaping mixed in with staff.

It's rarely ever wrong, and it keeps learning how my business works.

I think this is where most small business owners will get real value from AI first. It's the work that used to need a full-time bookkeeper. I've now saved myself $12K per year and have a real-time agent that can answer any financial question I have about my company.

Please tell me what agents you're running that I can automate and build next.

[Elliott Michael Smith @TheElliottSmith]

@Variety Give Cabot a case where I'm not sure I agree with her

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@arvidkahl I'm comfortable shipping AI code that gets reviewed, human code gets no free pass from me either.

[Elliott Michael Smith @TheElliottSmith]

@regularaugust I'd watch Lynch's boring movie picks

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@DEADLINE People are still going to watch VisionQuest and think about AI today

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@Variety If Zendaya's campaigning for lead, I want Chani driving the story

[Elliott Michael Smith @TheElliottSmith]

@clockwork_wb The Devils getting official merch was not on my shopping list. It is now.

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@Jason At that price you're really buying the bet that OpenAI owns the customer and the workflow, since the models themselves keep getting cheaper.

[Elliott Michael Smith @TheElliottSmith]

@hwchase17 If a skill updates itself, I want to see what it changed after each job

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@pmddomingos Smart people can get too comfortable trusting AI too. I'd still check its work.

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@MattBelloni Are producers hearing anything different in pitch meetings under Peter Rice?

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@saastr Product knowledge matters most to me when a sales lead is promising custom work

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@Sam_Vecenie Chuck getting the same players again is funnier than giving him harder ones

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@TheAcademy Joan deserved an acting nomination alongside those three

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@saradietschy I'd pay more for a TV with no ads and no account to create

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@IanMcKellen Bradley Walsh hosting with Bobby Crush on the bill? I'm in

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@fOx1257067 I'd happily sign Bruce Lee for two movies if Hollywood wasn't giving him a lead

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@JamesGunn @ClayfaceMovieDC @DCOfficial I'd rather take a chance on Clayface than watch another reboot

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@garrytan Claude and Codex sharing one memory would save me so much repeating.

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@MattBelloni @philiplord @chrizmillr @Lucas_Shaw Six years on Hail Mary. I'd listen to a whole episode on that alone.

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@worldofreel I'd sell The Maids on Cate Blanchett and Todd Haynes alone