First of all, I would like to thank the admin for establishing this community. I plan to make frequent use of it. I am not here to sell or promote anything. I am here to connect with meaningful people and contribute to this community. I would be truly disappointed if I were misunderstood. To briefly introduce myself, I’m an entrepreneur currently based in Tokyo, Japan. I am running my business here while working closely with Japanese clients and leading my devs. And also an experienced engineer myself We are currently working on a wide range of developments, including: • AI and machine learning systems • LLM applications, RAG systems, AI agents, and intelligent search • AI-powered customer support and business automation • SaaS platforms and subscription-based products • Custom CRM, ERP, and internal business systems • Web applications and company platforms • Mobile applications for iOS and Android • Backend systems, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure • Real-time platforms, dashboards, admin panels, and analytics systems • Workflow automation and integrations between existing business tools • Booking, reservation, payment, messaging, and notification systems • Marketplace and matching platforms • Logistics, dispatch, location tracking, and map-based applications • E-commerce and customer management solutions • Healthcare, education, hospitality, finance, logistics, and other industry-specific systems • Modernization of older systems and migration to new web/cloud architectures • Product MVP development through to production-ready systems and continued scaling At the moment, I also have a clear idea and vision for building something much bigger. If anyone here is currently running a company or actively doing business in the US or Europe, I’d be glad to connect and have a conversation. I would like to discuss my vision and ideas with a long-term partner. Thanks for reading this.

I am currently planning to expand my software development operations, originally based in Japan, into the US & European markets. I am curious if there is anyone in this community who shares this vision and would be interested in collaborating to achieve something significant together. Is there someone based in Europe or US? If my message came across as promotional or like a sales pitch, I sincerely apologize to the community admins. I love this community and am committed to a genuine partnership.👍

I published a longer piece this morning on what "AI-first" actually means once you stop treating it as a slogan. The short version. Most businesses do not struggle because of their org chart. They struggle because the same information gets re-explained at every handoff: a call ends, someone updates the CRM, someone else writes the follow-up, and the owner asks again anyway because the record is incomplete. The fix is not another tool, it is one closed loop with five parts — a trigger, rules about what may happen without a human, the tools the AI may touch, a safety check, and a learning step where the process owner reviews and approves improvements. The fifth part is the one that gets quietly dropped, because it is the only one you cannot buy. The part I most wanted to write down is the bit that usually gets left out. Standing up a pipeline is easy. What takes the time is tuning your voice, deciding which channels are worth the effort, and learning the limits of every system you plugged together. So the thing can be built correctly and still sit unused for a while, because you are still reaching for the old process by reflex. That is not a failed implementation, that is what adoption looks like from the inside. Sam Altman said a version of this on David Senra's podcast last month, about the whole economy rather than one business: "The economy just has so much inertia. People keep doing the same things they're doing." Full essay here: https://carinebruyndoncx.substack.com/p/an-ai-first-company-is-not-a-smaller If you read it, the question I would actually like answered: which of the five parts is missing from the loop you are running right now? My guess is it is the safety check or the learning step, because those are the two that feel optional right up until they are not.

Please use this post to provide feedback on the Full v2.5.1 beta release Thank you for helping out.

I've just cut v2.5.1 of ThirdBrain, the Obsidian-based business AI OS I've been building. Two very different asks, and you can take either or both. 🖥️Ask 1: the fresh install v2.5.1 is a release candidate. The gate I can't close alone is the first run on a machine that isn't mine — Windows/WSL, macOS, Linux. Unzip it somewhere clean, open it in Obsidian, point your agent at it, and try to get to your first useful output. That's the whole test. Tell me where you got stuck, confused, or bored. "I didn't know what to click" is a bug report I want. Low commitment — an hour, maybe less. ♾️Ask 2: the self-improving company (looping) - continuously improve on your KPIs (beta) This is the one that needs real testing, and real time. The vault runs a continuous loop over your business — measure → diagnose → act → verify — across your value chains: win and get paid, deliver and keep happy, know your numbers, buy smart, hire and grow. The idea is a company that gets a little better each cycle without you having to remember to make it. Some numbers compute themselves from what's already in the vault (deals, invoices, clients, tasks). Others you type in, because no system can read your bank balance by wishing. Those get flagged stale after three weeks so the dashboard can't quietly lie to you. It's in beta and I don't want to ship it on my own judgment. I need people willing to run it against a real business over several cycles and tell me: - Are these the numbers you'd actually make decisions on, or just the ones that were easy to compute? - Does the diagnose step tell you anything you didn't already know? - Where does it ask for data you don't have? - Does anything actually improve, or does it just describe? Higher commitment — a few weeks of real use. Worth it if you want a say in how it turns out. 💾 What you get: - The full package, not a trimmed demo — one download, one install. Plus every update released during the beta, so you're never testing a stale copy. - The download lives in the skool community and I'll grant you access directly, so I know who's testing what. - Feedback goes in the thread rather than my DMs — you'll learn as much from what other testers hit as from your own run.