Before I write a line of code or spend a penny I ask one question. Is there evidence people are already paying to solve this problem? Not “would people want this.” Not “does this sound good.” Evidence. Real people. Real money already changing hands. AI has made it faster than ever to validate an idea before you build it. Reddit threads, reviews, forums. You can map a market in an afternoon now. What’s the first thing you do when a new idea hits you? Do you build first or validate first?

Huge shoutout to the Top 5 Members of AI Automation Society for April! These are the people leading the way, sharing knowledge, and helping spread the AIS culture: 1️⃣ @Muskan Ahlawat – Back on top and absolutely dominating this month with incredible contributions! 🔥 2️⃣ @Sam Alder 3️⃣ @Christian Rivadeneira 4️⃣ @Frank van Bokhorst 5️⃣ @Esayas Tesfaye And a special mention to @Shihab Sakif, who landed in 6th place and just missed the Top 5. We're rooting for you to break through next month! 👏 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

In the news yesterday that most businesses haven’t clocked yet. Anthropic just doubled Claude’s usage limits. Claude Code limits doubled for Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans. Peak hour restrictions removed completely. API rate limits up by as much as 1500% for some tiers. They’ve signed a compute deal with SpaceX giving them access to over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. This isn’t a minor tweak. The capacity problem that’s been frustrating heavy users for months just got addressed in a serious way. So why does this matter for your business? Here’s the honest truth about where most companies are right now. They’re locked into Microsoft Copilot because it feels safe. It’s in the Teams. It’s in the Office suite. IT approved it. The procurement team signed it off. And it’s fine. Just fine. Claude is a different conversation. It reasons differently. It handles complex business problems with more depth. Founders and small businesses who’ve gone deep on it know this already. The barrier was always the limits. Running out mid-workflow. Hitting walls at the worst moment. That’s been the excuse for staying with Copilot. That excuse just got a lot weaker. If your business is still treating AI as a Microsoft Office add-on, now is a good time to ask whether that’s actually the best tool or just the most familiar one. What are you actually using day to day and is it doing the job?

Woohoo!! https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2052064938840228237?s=20

Higgsfield gives you access to the best AI image and video models, and Claude can talk to it directly through an MCP or CLI. In this video I show you how to turn Claude and Claude Code into a full creative agency that researches your market, builds a brand, generates product photos and ads, tracks every output in a Google Sheet, and runs on routines while you sleep. You'll see how to use Marketing Studio for hyper-motion launch videos, build reusable skills for consistent outputs, and scale up to hundreds of ad variations a week without being the bottleneck on creativity or production.