Some of you have never heard of the AIS+ community. Others have but the part that trips you up is the actual difference between the two. Either way, this post will give you clarity. This free group is a bundle of quick resources pulled from my YouTube videos, plus a massive open community that anyone can join. It's a great place to get your bearings and see what's possible. But it's open to everyone, it can be noisy and overwhelming, and there's no path through it. You can get help from other members, but I rarely answer questions here. AIS+ is the opposite: - A step by step roadmap with a clear order, so you're never guessing what to do next - A much smaller community of people who are seriously committed to building and selling AI agents - I answer questions every day and run a weekly Q&A call where you can get direct access to me For the course material: The roadmap takes you from zero to building and selling AI agents, and the whole thing is built on the latest tech like Claude Code and Codex. We update it constantly. The old n8n material has been archived. It's still there if you want it, but it's no longer the focus, because the way you build today has moved on and the courses moved with it. Here's the actual roadmap inside, in order, with when each piece opens up: 1. Start Here (opens the moment you join). Gets you oriented. How the community works, the path ahead, and how to get help when you need it. 2. Build Your Portfolio (opens the moment you join). Why a portfolio matters, beginner level tutorials, and what types of projects to focus on. You end up with real work you can show a client. 3. Claude Code (opens the moment you join). This is now its own dedicated course. Build faster, turn ideas into working automations, and go deep on the tool serious builders are using right now. This takes you from beginner to advanced, step-by-step. 4. Get Your First Clients (opens after 30 days). Getting your first clients is hard, because you don’t have any case studies yet. So, we analyzed all of the success stories from our members and found they get their initial clients with two different techniques: warm outreach and Upwork. So, we teach both techniques in detail with exactly what to say, exactly how to position yourself when you have no proof.

__TL;DR__ I got sick and had surgery. My business stopped because everything runs through me. I let people down. I am fixing it with 2 things: simple systems and real relationships. __THE FULL POST__ I had surgery on July 23. For almost a month before that, I felt sick and did not know why. If you saw me stop posting here in Skool, this is why. Here is the worst part: My business did not just slow down. It stopped. Here is the part that really bothers me. @Tola O, @Darius Davis, and @Ayo Omoloja asked me for a custom lead list. So did some other people I’ll tag in the comments. They asked. I went quiet. That is a terrible way to treat people. I did not forget them. The problem is this: every part of my business still runs through me. When I went down, the whole thing went down. Now I am healing after surgery. So I might as well fix my business while I fix my body. If I grow even 1% from this, that is a win. From my couch, I wrote down what broke. Two things keep a business moving when you can’t: 1. The systems you build before you need them. 2. The feelings you give people before you need them. _______________________________________________________ 1. THE SYSTEMS YOU BUILD BEFORE YOU NEED THEM _______________________________________________________ I talk about “Five Automation Loops” a lot. That sounds like fancy words. Here is what it really means. An “automation loop” is one job in your business that keeps going when you are not there. One job that happens the same way every time. No you. No button. Here are mine in simple words: Outbound Prospecting – finds the right people, so I don’t start each day with a blank screen. Impression Stacking – keeps the people I care about seeing me, so I feel familiar before I ever ask for anything. Ghost Detection – shows me when someone goes quiet, so I don’t lose them. Inbound Lead Capture – catches people who raise their hand, so they go into a system, not my brain.

It's the end of my Monday, and I'm making it a habit to share the journey here. Honestly... this lifelong game of business can get lonely if you let it. So this is me not letting it. Last week I volunteered 5 hours of my sleep time for a worthy cause. It ain't much, but I promise my heart was all in. It was for @Eshara K (who I swear has a heart bigger than mine). She's on a journey to help B Lab verified businesses (businesses committed to positively impacting the planet) get access to the grant money they deserve for the hard work they're already doing for our communities. Saying she's making an impact would be an understatement. Any hours I can invest in her mission make the world a little better for our kids. Definitely, worth giving up my time for this. But I didn't want this to be the last time I did something like this... So today I want to end that day with an idea Mr. Rogers himself would promote. I call it Collab for Cause. The seed idea actually came from @Pedro Gomez . His idea hit me so hard I had to revisit it. In case you missed it from the AIS plus community, it was this: what if we paid each other instead of big tech companies like Google? Inspired, I ran with it. Problem is... I took it a bit too literal. My first version: I'd figure out what you build, then dig through my own relationships to find someone who'd actually want it. And it worked beautifully. You can ask @Joshua F. Lewis , @Mohamed Bah , or @Denis Patru ... for each of them I found a lead genuinely interested in their service. But it only got us so far. Truth is, I spread myself so thin hunting those diamond-in-the-rough leads for everyone that I accidentally disappeared on giving the value to the great relationships I made along the way (shout out to @Tanya Maslach , @Matthew Sutherland , @Crys Wood and the rest of the amazing folks I've had real conversations with... you deserved better than my silence).

68% of founders lose sleep over money, and yet most are still burning their sales time on cold lists that never gets replies without scale. Here's what is working for me. There are three moments people are most open to a stranger: 1) a new job, 2) a new home, 3) a family change like a new born or a family loss. It's exactly when con artists strike. Robert Cialdini's book Influence explains why --> your brain is in a new world, so anyone who is "just like you" is fast-tracked into the friend/trust zone. So use it for good. Meet your dream customer the week they start a new job, and you live rent-free in their head. I call it Social Triggers First Research. Here's how you can work this by yourself. Say you want to target Tony Robbins to be his AI Builder. ---> First. In Sales Navigator, filter your list to "Current Company: Tony Robbins", "Recently Changed Jobs" who also posted this month. That new employee is your way in... brand new, and active. ---> Second. Comment on their post, congrats on the new role. That's Impression Stacking: plant seeds before you pitch. Then connect with no note. A note screams salesperson and drops your accept rate to 32%. ---> Third. When they accepts, don't pitch. Ask if they're going to the big industry event. On LinkedIn that gets me a 30% reply and that reply easily leads to your call. So if cold outreach is wearing you down, go open Sales Navigator, filter your list to everyone who just started a new job, and congratulate one person today. Then do it again tomorrow.

Huge shoutout to the Top 5 Members of AI Automation Society for June! These are the people leading the way, sharing knowledge, and helping spread the AIS culture: 1️⃣ @Muskan Ahlawat 2️⃣ @Christian Rivadeneira 3️⃣ @Frank van Bokhorst 4️⃣ @Julius Waggoner 5️⃣ @Shihab Sakif And a special mention to @Nigel Vargas, who takes 6th and just missed the Top 5. We're rooting for you to break through in July! 👏 Keep contributing, sharing wins, and helping others grow! Our community gets better because of you. Let's keep building, keep learning, and keep spreading that AIS energy. 🚀 Cheers, Nate P.S., @Yash Chauhan is an AIS community manager, so his points don't count towards this ranking.