I just finished my first free AI Tools Audit (update in Wins). Lessons 7 and 9 point to prep and report prompts and presentation tools that live in the Accelerator, so I wrote my own prompts and generated the deck myself. The content is there, the deck is not: it came out with overlapping text and I have no reference for whether the output is at the level a client should pay for. What my prompts produce: Prep (lesson 7): hard facts from the form and website, separated from things to verify on the call. What's odd or missing in the answers. 4 to 6 investigation zones, each with question clusters (how do you do it now, then the number). No tools, no solutions. Report (lesson 9): fact base from the transcript with a quote per step, every number with its literal quote, tags per step (time sink, quality risk, revenue leak), opportunity matrix, then the four parts from lesson 9: diagnosis, opportunities, business case, next steps. Where I'm unsure: 1. The output is long. I get an analysis layer plus the report. Is that layer useful, or should the report be the only output? 2. Every opportunity is "now / after" plus what it saves and what it costs. Is that enough for a client to act on, or does a proper report show more (workflow drawings, tool screenshots, something else)? 3. What do you deliberately keep OUT of a first audit report? 4. What do you build the deck with? I generated a .pptx straight from the AI output and it came out broken: text boxes overlapping, blocks covering lines. I don't want to spend evenings fixing slides by hand. I'm looking at Gamma or NotebookLM next, or a fixed template I fill in every time. Which of those actually holds up for you, or is there something better? Any of the four helps. I'd rather fix this before audit number two than after

My first audit call was supposed to take an hour. It took almost two. My first thought was that I'd messed up. Too many questions, or I was just too slow. So I went back through the recording to see where the time went. Turns out the best part of the whole call was in those extra 40 minutes. Right near the end I asked him a simple question: what happens after you finish a job? He thought about it for a second and said: "Nothing." No follow-up. No check-in a few months later. Nothing. And this is a guy whose biggest goal is more repeat clients. That's now one of the main points in the report. I was supposed to present it to him this week, but it got moved to next week. Either way, if I had stuck to my 60 minutes, I would never have heard it. The call was still too long though. It should fit in an hour. Looking back, I spent a good chunk of it on simple questions like his rate, his markup and his payment terms. Stuff I could have just put in the intake form. By the time I got to the questions that mattered, the hour was gone. When we hit the hour, I asked if he was okay going a bit longer. He had time, so we kept going. If he hadn't, I would have booked a second call. So for the next one, the numbers go in the form. But this was my first audit, and I'd rather learn from people who've done a few more than me. So I'm wondering: 1. Do you ask for numbers in the intake form, or save them for the call? 2. Do you go in with a full list, or just a few must-ask questions? 3. Is there one question you always ask because it tends to uncover the most?

Two weeks ago I sent my first 6 warm messages. One person replied to say no, the other five never answered. The yes came from number 7, and not from a message. I called a friend who runs a solo landscaping business and just asked him. He said yes on the spot. For me, the conversation did what the message couldn't. So we went through the pathway together. Discovery call first, but a short one: we already know each other, so I skipped the rapport part and only walked him through what to expect and how the audit works, like the lesson describes. Then the intake form, which I translated to Dutch and rewrote for trades businesses. Then the audit call, which was supposed to be an hour and turned into almost two. That alone was useful feedback: either I have too many questions, or I need to move through them faster. From the transcript I built the report: five opportunities, all zero-cost, all in tools he already uses. The biggest number in there is 3,200 euro he lost on a single project that ran two weeks over the quote. Presentation and testimonial are up next. What surprised me most: on the intake form he wrote that his biggest time sink was cleaning up the van. Once we went through his week, the real leak turned out to be in his quoting and in what happens after a job, which is nothing. @Okasha Khan your advice held up: ask how they do it, not what's wrong. And @Chetan Mishra, sorting the notes by time sink, cost, solution and impact is exactly how the report came together. This one was free, as the course suggests for the first client. The next one will be paid. The plan is what lesson 11 says: ask him for referrals after the presentation, then go back to my warm list with this as proof. Curious what actually got you your second and third client, especially if your warm list was as quiet as mine.

Sent six today. All local service businesses I already know. Roofers, plumbers, electricians. Kept it to two lines. Building my portfolio with AI audits, doing a few for free, do you know anyone. Thing is, not one of these guys has ever complained to me about the stuff I'd be auditing. They'll go on about Google rankings all day. Never about writing quotes at eleven at night. So I'm curious whether the question even lands. Will report back 👌🏼

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