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Download your free scaling roadmap here: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap-yt-d If you’re new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I’m the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It’s a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $250,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some stuff you can google to verify below. How I got here… 21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job. 23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym). 24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations. 26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything. 26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time. 26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked. 27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months. 28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year. 29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months. 31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal. 31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it) 31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit. 32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses. 34 yrs old: I became co-owner of https://Skool.com, which is a platform for people to build communities online, making a living doing what they love, with people like them. 36 yrs old: I did a $106M book launch selling 3.6M copies of my $100M Money Models book, in 72 hours, breaking the Guinness world record for the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time. Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos). To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story. You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win. Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles. Never quit, Alex DISCLOSURE Information shared here is for educational purposes only. Individuals and business owners should evaluate their own business strategies, and identify any potential risks. The information shared here is not a guarantee of success. Your results may vary. Copyright © 2026.

Download your free scaling roadmap here: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap-yt-d If you’re new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I’m the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It’s a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $250,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some stuff you can google to verify below. How I got here… 21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job. 23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym). 24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations. 26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything. 26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time. 26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked. 27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months. 28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year. 29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months. 31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal. 31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it) 31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit. 32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses. 34 yrs old: I became co-owner of https://Skool.com, which is a platform for people to build communities online, making a living doing what they love, with people like them. 36 yrs old: I did a $106M book launch selling 3.6M copies of my $100M Money Models book, in 72 hours, breaking the Guinness world record for the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time. Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos). To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story. You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win. Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles. Never quit, Alex DISCLOSURE Information shared here is for educational purposes only. Individuals and business owners should evaluate their own business strategies, and identify any potential risks. The information shared here is not a guarantee of success. Your results may vary. Copyright © 2026.

Download your free scaling roadmap here: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap-yt-d If you’re new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I’m the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It’s a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $250,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some stuff you can google to verify below. How I got here… 21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job. 23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym). 24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations. 26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything. 26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time. 26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked. 27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months. 28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year. 29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months. 31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal. 31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it) 31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit. 32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses. 34 yrs old: I became co-owner of https://Skool.com, which is a platform for people to build communities online, making a living doing what they love, with people like them. 36 yrs old: I did a $106M book launch selling 3.6M copies of my $100M Money Models book, in 72 hours, breaking the Guinness world record for the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time. Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos). To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story. You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win. Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles. Never quit, Alex DISCLOSURE Information shared here is for educational purposes only. Individuals and business owners should evaluate their own business strategies, and identify any potential risks. The information shared here is not a guarantee of success. Your results may vary. Copyright © 2026.

Download your free scaling roadmap here: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap-yt-d If you’re new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I’m the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It’s a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $250,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some stuff you can google to verify below. How I got here… 21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job. 23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym). 24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations. 26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything. 26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time. 26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked. 27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months. 28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year. 29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months. 31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal. 31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it) 31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit. 32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses. 34 yrs old: I became co-owner of https://Skool.com, which is a platform for people to build communities online, making a living doing what they love, with people like them. 36 yrs old: I did a $106M book launch selling 3.6M copies of my $100M Money Models book, in 72 hours, breaking the Guinness world record for the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time. Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos). To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story. You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win. Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles. Never quit, Alex DISCLOSURE Information shared here is for educational purposes only. Individuals and business owners should evaluate their own business strategies, and identify any potential risks. The information shared here is not a guarantee of success. Your results may vary. Copyright © 2026.

Download your free scaling roadmap here: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap-yt-d If you’re new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I’m the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It’s a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $250,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some stuff you can google to verify below. How I got here… 21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job. 23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym). 24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations. 26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything. 26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time. 26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked. 27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months. 28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year. 29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months. 31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal. 31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it) 31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit. 32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses. 34 yrs old: I became co-owner of https://Skool.com, which is a platform for people to build communities online, making a living doing what they love, with people like them. 36 yrs old: I did a $106M book launch selling 3.6M copies of my $100M Money Models book, in 72 hours, breaking the Guinness world record for the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time. Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos). To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story. You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win. Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles. Never quit, Alex DISCLOSURE Information shared here is for educational purposes only. Individuals and business owners should evaluate their own business strategies, and identify any potential risks. The information shared here is not a guarantee of success. Your results may vary. Copyright © 2026.

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*Get our CEO lessons in one guide:* https://clickhubspot.com/nxx0 Episode 813: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talks to Jon McNeill about his time running Tesla and working side-by-side with Elon Musk. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:18) a job interview with Elon Musk (5:07) Being a sniper for talent (8:20) solve a real problem, right now. (11:23) solving Tesla's sales problem (23:41) One size fits all opportunities (26:50) the power of noticing (31:45) order of magnitude goals (38:34) 3 sentence emails (43:24) identifying $50B industry (49:05) AI — Links: • The Algorithm - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799958/the-algorithm-by-jon-mcneill/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

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*Want to invest like the best? Get Mohnish's investment playbook:* https://clickhubspot.com/fks Episode 808: In this special episode, we’re pulling together the most replayed moments from our episodes with value investors like Mohnish Pabrai, Howard Marks and Guy Spier. — Show Notes: (0:00) Mohnish Pabrai: How to turn $10K into $1M (3:56) Howard Marks: The S&P 500 (9:29) Guy Spier: Finite and Infinite Games (14:47) Mohnish Pabrai: Circle the wagons (17:58) Howard Marks: Recommended Reading (23:03) Mohnish Pabrai: The most important thing (27:16) Howard Marks: “When the time comes to buy, you won’t want to” (31:17) Guy Spier: Don’t study lottery winners — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /

I sit down with Ras Mic to break down how AI agents actually work and why most people are using them wrong. Ras Mic explains the mechanics of context windows, makes the case that agent md files are largely unnecessary, and shares his step-by-step methodology for building custom skills that make agents dramatically more productive. Whether you're coding with Claude Code or automating workflows with OpenClaw, this episode gives you the foundational knowledge to stop wasting tokens and start getting real results from your AI tools. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 00:42 – The Models Are Good Now 01:20 – How Context Windows Actually Work 04:55 – The Power of Skills 09:17 – How to create Skills 16:35 – Skill Maxxing 19:05 – What you need too build a project 20:40 – Recursively Building and Improving Skills 29:23 – Context Window Management and Token Efficiency 33:02 – Closing Thoughts Key Points * The models (Opus 4.6, GPT 5.4) are exceptionally good now — the differentiator is the context and harness you build around them. * Agent md and claude md files get loaded into context on every single turn, burning tokens and degrading performance as the context window fills up. 95% of users can skip them entirely. * Skills use progressive disclosure: only the name and description sit in context until the agent determines it needs the full file, saving thousands of tokens per conversation. * The best way to create a skill is to walk through the workflow with the agent step by step, achieve a successful run, and then have the agent write the skill based on that real context. * Recursively refine skills by feeding failures back into the agent and having it update the skill file so the same mistake is avoided going forward. * Scale for productivity by starting with one agent and building up workflows before adding sub-agents — start simple, then expand. Numbered Section Summaries 1. The Models Are Good — Context Is What Matters Ras Mic opens by declaring that the current generation of models, Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4, are exceptionally capable. The conversation is no longer about which model is "better" in a general sense. What matters now is the quality of context you feed them — that is what separates quality output from slop. 2. How Context Windows Work Ras Mic walks through the anatomy of a context window: system prompt, agent.md files, skills, tools, the codebase, and the user conversation. All of these stack up as tokens, and the window has a hard limit (around 250,000 tokens). When you hit that limit, agents compact — and performance drops. Understanding this structure is the foundation for everything else in the episode. 3. Skills and Progressive Disclosure Skills solve the token-bloat problem. A skill file contains a name, description, and the detailed instructions — but only the name and description are loaded into context. The agent reads the full file only when it determines the skill is relevant. This means a skill costs roughly 53 tokens per turn versus 944+ for an equivalent agent.md file. 4. Building Skills the Right Way Ras Mic shares his methodology: identify a workflow, walk through it with the agent step by step, correct mistakes in real time, and only create the skill after you have completed a successful run. He illustrates this with his sponsor email screening agent — the first attempt returned all-positive results because the agent had no criteria for rejection. 5. Recursively Improving Skills Even after a skill is created, the agent will still hit edge cases and fail. Ras Mic treats each failure as an opportunity: identify the error, have the agent fix it, then tell the agent to update the skill so the failure is documented. After five iterations of this loop on his YouTube analytics report generator, the agent now executes flawlessly across eight data sources in about ten minutes. 6. Scaling for Productivity Over Flash Ras Mic started with a single agent handling everything — email, spreadsheets, research. Only a

I sit down with Flo, founder of Lindy, to get a live demo of their new product, Lindy Assistant, an AI executive assistant that lives in iMessage and works proactively across email, calendar, Slack, Notion, and 100-plus other tools. Flo walks me through a real day of his own Lindy usage, showing how it drafts email replies, prepares meeting briefs, updates CRMs, and handles calendar changes without being asked. We compare Lindy to OpenClaw and Claude's ecosystem, talk pricing, edge-case power users, and where Lindy goes over the next five years. Try the ultimate AI assistant: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/lindy Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 01:09 – What Lindy Assistant is and why Flo built it 02:27 – The daily morning brief 05:16 – Setup: two steps, two minutes, out of the box 05:53 – Get the most out of Lindy Assistant 09:42 – My three assistant use cases: research, scheduling, and sales leads 15:51 – Lindy vs. OpenClaw 17:57 – Lindy vs. Claude ecosystem 19:51 – Where Lindy goes over the next five years 23:42 – Integrations overview (100-plus tools) 24:42 – What Lindy does well and what it does not replace 26:52 – Pricing: starts at $49/month 27:15 – How power users are using Lindy 28:18 – Voice memos, incoming phone calls, and outbound calls 30:00 – How to use Lindy alongside a human executive assistant Key Points * Lindy Assistant lives in iMessage, connects to email, calendar, Slack, Notion, and 100-plus other apps, and acts proactively without being prompted. * Setup takes two minutes: provide a phone number and connect a Google account, and Lindy ingests existing email and tool data immediately. * Lindy pre-drafts email replies, preps meeting briefs, updates CRMs after calls, flags billing issues, and reschedules dinners at closed restaurants — all without user initiation. * The voice and tone of the assistant took extensive prompt engineering; the lowercase, casual register is intentional and difficult to achieve with current models. * Lindy targets the "chief everything officer" — the overwhelmed founder or executive — rather than developers or power users who want a fully programmable agent. * Pricing starts at $49/month for 90-plus percent of users; heavy users can exceed that and are prompted to upgrade. Numbered Section Summaries 1. The Morning Brief and Proactive Email Triage Each morning, Lindy sends a summary over iMessage: weather, meetings on the calendar, a count of overnight emails triaged, and pre-drafted replies. Flo demonstrates a real example where Lindy caught a restaurant closure, proposed a nearby alternative, and confirmed a meeting with Joshua — all before Flo opened Gmail or his calendar. 2. Human-Sounding Tone as a Product Differentiator The lowercase, conversational register, including the occasional profanity when something goes wrong — required significant prompt engineering. Flo notes that model defaults are effectively baked into model weights, making it genuinely hard to get consistent tonal results. This attention to voice is one of Lindy's clearest differentiators from generic AI chat tools. 3. Live Meeting Intelligence and Post-Meeting Actions During a live in-meeting demo, Flo shows Lindy sending a summary to a teammate who was absent, creating a Google Doc of failure modes discussed, and posting it to Slack, all triggered by a quick iMessage during the meeting itself. 4. Research, Scheduling, and Sales — Covering My Three Use Cases I walk through the three things my current human assistant handles: research, scheduling, and inbound sales lead follow-up. Flo maps each directly to Lindy capabilities — pre-meeting research briefs pull from the public web and private meeting history; scheduling finds mutual availability and sends invites; and CRM integrations mean inbound leads can trigger immediate, context-aware outreach. 5. Lindy vs. OpenClaw vs. Claude Flo frames OpenClaw as Linux — extremely powerful, self-modifying, and suited to technical users comfortable with the risk. He fram

I sit down with Remy Gaskell to break down how anyone can build AI agents to run entire departments of their business. Remy walks through the core concepts: agent loops, context files, memory, MCP tool connections, and skills. We put everything together by building a fully functional executive assistant live on screen. This is a beginner-friendly crash course that covers Claude Code, Codex, Cowork, Antigravity, Manus, and OpenClaw, showing that once you understand how to "drive," you can jump into any agent platform. By the end, listeners know exactly how to set up markdown-based context files, connect their everyday tools, and create reusable skills that compound over weeks and months. Key Points * Agent platforms (Claude Code, Codex, Cowork, Antigravity, Manus, OpenClaw) are all running the same observe-think-act loop under the hood — learning one means you can use any of them. * The shift from chat to agents requires moving from prompt engineering to context engineering: load the agent with rich context so simple prompts produce excellent results. * A memory md file creates a self-improving loop where the agent learns preferences across sessions and makes fewer errors over time. * MCP (Model Context Protocol), built by Anthropic, acts as a universal translator between your agent and every tool it needs — Gmail, Calendar, Stripe, Notion, and more. * Skills are reusable SOPs packaged as markdown files; once you explain a process once, you can invoke it repeatedly, and they compound as you add three to five per week. * Scheduled tasks turn skills into automated workflows — morning briefs, car searches, ad library analyses — that run on a cron without any manual trigger. Numbered Section Summaries 1. The Agent Loop in Action Remy kicks off with a live demo, sending the same prompt — "build a minimalist portfolio site for Greg Isenberg" — to Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity simultaneously. All three platforms run the same observe-think-act loop: research the subject, write the code, spin up a preview, and verify the result with a screenshot. The demo makes it tangible that every agent harness is just a different car with the same engine. 2. Onboarding Your Agent Like a Real Employee Remy shows that without context, an agent asked to "write me a cold email" has no idea who you are or what you sell. The fix is an agents.md (or Claude.md) file — a persistent context document loaded at the start of every session. You fill it with your role, business details, tools, and working preferences, and the result is that a two-word prompt produces a fully informed output. 3. Memory That Compounds Chat models store memory invisibly in the cloud; agents require you to build it intentionally. Remy adds a memory.md file and a simple instruction in the context file: "When I correct you or you learn something new, update memory.md." Preferences like tone, email sign-offs, and design choices persist across sessions, and errors decrease over time. The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com/ LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/ The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ FIND ME ON SOCIAL X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/ FIND REMY ON SOCIAL X:https://x.com/remy_gaskell Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@aiwithremy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiwithremy/

I break down the seven distribution strategies every vibe coder and builder needs to actually get customers. With 200,000 new projects launching daily on platforms like Lovable, the real bottleneck is distribution and I believe the wealthiest people over the next decade will be marketers, because code is now commoditized. I walk through each strategy with step-by-step instructions you can start this week, from MCP servers and programmatic SEO to acquiring newsletters and building AI repurposing engines. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 01:07 – The Great Flip: Distribution Over Engineering 03:08 – The Build-First Trap 04:18 – Strategy 1: MCP Servers as Your Sales Team 06:49 – Strategy 2: Programmatic SEO (10,000 Pages) 10:09 – Strategy 3: Free Tool as Top of Funnel 13:03 – Strategy 4: Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) 15:48 – Strategy 5: Viral Artifacts (Make Outputs Shareable) 18:56 – Strategy 6: Buy a Niche Newsletter 21:40 – Strategy 7: AI Content Repurposing Engine 25:13 – Final Takeaways Key Points * Distribution is the new moat — AI can build the product, but it can't build your audience or brand. * Building an MCP server in 2026 is like building for mobile in 2010; early movers will own AI-native distribution channels. * Programmatic SEO can scale to 300,000 monthly visitors if you create 10,000 quality pages that each pull just 30 visits a month. * Free tools act as always-on marketing: you can vibe code one in a day, ship it by lunch, and it markets itself forever. * Answer engine optimization (AEO) is where SEO was in 2010 — Peter Levels saw AI referrals jump from 4% to 20% in one month. * You can buy a 10,000-subscriber niche newsletter for $5,000–$20,000 and inherit a direct channel to your exact audience on day one. Numbered Section Summaries Strategy 1 — MCP Servers as Your AI Sales Team I walk through how building an MCP server lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT discover and serve your product automatically — zero customer acquisition cost. A friend in fintech got 150+ installations in 30 days with $0 ad spend. I share the steps: identify the question your product answers, build the MCP server in under 24 hours, and publish to registries like Smithery, MCPT, and OpenTools. Strategy 2 — Programmatic SEO at Scale I lay out the math: 10,000 pages × 30 visits each = 300,000 monthly visitors; at a 2% conversion rate and $10 per conversion, that's $60,000/month from pages you build once. The process starts with a keyword pattern like "best X for Y," structured data via tools like Firecrawl, a Next.js page template, and AI-generated content — with a human in the loop to keep quality high. I recommend publishing 100 pages as an MVP before scaling. Strategies 3 & 4 — Free Tools and Answer Engine Optimization I cover the free-tool-as-marketing playbook (using Ahrefs' backlink checker as the classic example) and explain why AI makes it possible to ship a free tool every week. Then I introduce answer engine optimization — getting cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity through structured FAQ content, schema markup, and comparison tables. I lay out how to Google the top 20 questions your customer asks and write definitive, citation-worthy answers for each. Strategy 5 — Viral Artifacts (Make Your Output Shareable) I break down why Spotify Wrapped gets 100 million shares every December and how you can apply the same psychology: identify what your user wants to brag about and make that artifact beautiful, branded, and easy to share. I point to GitHub's contribution graph, Stripe Atlas incorporation milestones, and Duolingo streaks as examples. This works in B2B too — people share within Slack and Teams all the time. Strategy 6 — AI Content Repurposing Engine I explain the "one pillar, many channels" approach: record one 30-minute piece of content (podcast, video, or voice memo), then use AI to turn it into 5–10 tweets, 3–5 LinkedIn posts, 2–3 short-form videos, a newsletter, a blog post, and 5–10 quote graphics. I recommend