TLDR: I offered a 1 hour AI for Seniors workshop to a few local Senior Living centers and one of them booked! It's not a huge pay day by any means, but it IS a foot in the door of the retirement community niche. -------------- I've been working with friends and chasing warm leads for what feels like forever. Last week when Fable first launched I was frustrated because as much as I feel like I'm trying, in reality I'm spinning my wheels. So I engaged Fable and told it to look through all my chats and tell me what I'm doing that's preventing me from moving the needle. Then make a step by step action plan for me to get things going. It did. Very astutely I might add, lol. And 24 hrs later I had one of those warm leads turned into a hot lead, which today became my first booked engagement. It's only $200 but in the VIP call over the weekend that was so generously shared with everyone Jake said something that spoke to that -- "if someone pays you—even something small—that’s proof there’s value in your time and a way to start learning through real work." (If you haven't watched it, go watch it, there are some really great bits in there!) This small booking will be something I can stand on to tell myself and anyone else that I can do this, because, in the words of Stewart Smalley, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog gonnit, people like me." 😁 Seriously though, this is so exciting for me. For those who are still struggling to move the needle, don't allow distractions to keep you from putting yourself out there. If you're not comfortable with a $3500 AI Readiness Audit as a first engagement, do something small and build up from there...but DO SOMETHING.

- Before serious work, I should load Tier 0 in order: CLAUDE.md, CONTEXT.md, session boot state, routing kernel/index, memory kernel/load index. - Don’t sprawl into old folders or adjacent systems unless routing says so. - _operator/ holds Jordan’s operator truth. - _intake/ is for unsorted incoming material. - Major work resolves through the authority triad: - Ultra Magnus: routing and sequence - Kup: memory judgment Optimus : truth, proof, refusal, correction - If multi-agent engagement is triggered, use structured parallel/delegated workstreams where available. - Don’t ask Jordan vague questions; bring a decision packet when a choice is needed. - Before closing substantial work, answer:What did we learn?Where was it saved?What remains open?Which role picks it up next? Files changed/reviewed Tiny version: load the root truth first, route before acting, preserve memory correctly, don’t drift, and close every real task with evidence and next ownership. Added a schema map here: https://jordansshaw-pixel.github.io/atx-schema/

What are some of the tell tale signs that you used AI in the creation of your writing? Wikipedia has published a great field guide to help detect undisclosed AI-generated content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

This whole "Fable banned" situation raises so many important points that can really set you apart from others going forward. I think as a community it's a good idea to come together and share our thoughts, opinions, and feelings so that we can all grow from this and seize whatever opportunities it creates. Here are mine. Importance of owning your own inference This a big one. I've long felt that getting comfortable with using, and even hosting, open models has strategic importance for multiple reasons. - Manage compute cost - Data Privacy - Realize/Understand how powerful they are What happened yesterday helped me appreciate a new reason. - If you don't own your inference, at any point an outside actor can destroy your whole business with a letter. These frontier models are amazing but due to the political climate we're in, no matter how amazing they are, if they can be shut down overnight and your business is not model agnostic, your whole foundation is build on sand that can quickly be eroded out from under you. @Jake Van Clief has been telling us for a long time the importance of being model agnostic. If this isn't a wake up call, I don't know what is! Many of us were I'm sure looking forward to playing with Fable all weekend. Now that we can't, here's a suggestion. If you haven't worked your way through the courses yet to understand how the whole folder structure system works, here's your chance. Take advantage of it. Opportunities owning your own inference creates How many opportunities seemed off limits due to HIPAA or other governmental or privacy regulations. If you are able to offer a solution that exists on-prem and neve sees the internet with self hosted open models that's a pretty massive market to cater to. The clock as been ticking for how long these frontier models were going to remain affordable. Even if Fable wasn't banned, who of us were going to be able to afford it after June 22? $10/M Tok in and $50/M Tok out? Yikes dude! We've been getting seduced by these frontier models that have largely been made affordable by billions in funding coming in from private equity and venture capital. A friend of mine calculated the actual cost of his token spend with his $200 max plan. He estimated it to be around $2400. That means these Pro and Max subscription plans are not sustainable and would either get way more expensive, or way more limited. Homer Simpson said it best (see the attached video).

I need to walk back this morning's announcement before anything else. @Ariel Ortiz is not a Premium or VIP member. The competition was Premium and VIP only, stated in bold in the original brief. That eligibility check should have happened before judging and it didn't. That's on me. The $325 and the Week 4 title go to @Ruby Sparks. The rest of the writeup stands. Repeating it here so the corrected results live in one place. ➖➖➖ 🏆 WINNER: @Ruby Sparks 🏆 🔗 Repo: https://github.com/sparkles-inc/agency-os 🌐 Live site: https://agency-os-tan-five.vercel.app/ Ruby was within an inch of taking it on the original call. The judging call between her build and Ariel's was the longest I've sat with on any comp. She earned this on the work alone. The Loom video she recorded for this submission is the cleanest voice work I've heard on any community submission. Full-on infomercial quality. Voice acting level. If you haven't watched it yet, go watch it. It's a master class in how to present a build. Beyond the voice: an animated handoff explainer on the companion site, a WRITEUP.md that compresses the entire submission into three paragraphs of clean argument, and a design philosophy made explicit. She refused typed schemas in favor of human-readable Handoff Cards with seven sections including a required Gaps field ("if Gaps is empty, you're not looking hard enough"). One continuous narrative thread runs through all 27 files of her repo. Ruby takes the $325. @Sonija Quinn will reach out to Ruby directly for payment details. Remember: in a world where AI is making it easier to build, it's the unique opinions and styles that become valuable. ➖➖➖ I thought last week was hard to judge. This was the hardest comp to judge so far. Not even close.