hi, I wonder or the challenge is the place to start for a newbie or better do some basic tutorials first?

If you've been feeling overwhelmed by the constant stream of new AI tools, this video is my full breakdown of the stack I actually use day to day, ranked into a tier list. I cover what's earned a spot as a daily driver, what I've graduated from, and why a lean stack always wins. I also share the mindset shifts and decision framework I use to stay focused so new releases stop pulling me off my path.

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Hey everyone here is my introduction (again with more context): 20+ years in performance improvement. 5 months into AI and automation. That combination is why I'm here. My name is Chris Sharkey. I run Sharkitect Digital out of Kansas City. Most people in the AI space sell automations. I don't. I sell an AI Transformation Partnership — built around one mission: helping small businesses understand, trust, and actually implement AI into their operations. Not by handing them tools. By diagnosing their systems and solving at the root. Good doctors don't write prescriptions the second you walk in. They diagnose first. That's the model. Three months ago I started applying this with real clients. First engagement: a construction company that reached out for a completely different project. I sat with them. Ran the diagnosis. Mapped their workflow end to end. What they called for wasn't the real problem. It was a problem — just not the one bleeding them out. Once I showed them what was actually happening, it was clear: they were spending 80–100 hours every week doing nothing but manually moving data from one place to another. By hand. 35 minutes per estimate. Calculation errors costing them real bids. They didn't fully realize how much it was costing them until we put it on paper. So I built the solution around how they already work. No new system to learn. No process overhaul. It adapted to them — not the other way around. Training took less than two hours. Adoption was immediate. 35 minutes → 30 seconds. They're saving $104K–$156K annually in labor alone. That's the original project they called about? Still on the list. Just no longer a priority. Within the first month, they saw the shift. We're now working on two additional projects together — each one targeting a different operational bottleneck. None of it is built in isolation. Every system is designed to stack, integrate, compound, and scale. Each build talks to the last. The business gets smarter with every layer, not just bigger.