Huge shoutout to everyone who finished the 7-Day Challenge this month and got certified. Seven days, zero to your own executive assistant in Claude Code. Step by step, from nothing to shipped. These 31 members put in the reps and walked away with a working assistant they built themselves: Robert Marshall, Gabriel Gadsden, Kamesh S., Patrick Campbell, Marianella John, Jerick Paulo, Duarte Colaco, Alessandro Waidmann, Fouad Hassanein, Nikit Raghuwanshi, Siri, Kevin Montes, Kingdavid Agbidi, Ramkesh Kumar, Aamir Mustafa, Joel Crasta, Miroslav Buso, Leoni Milano, Olga, Gautam, Muhammad Haris, Gregory Lashley, June MG, Justin Weschenfelder, Shahroz Ahmed, JoJo, Tone Glomstein, Nikkie Burns, Anurag Sinha, Kirk Shelton, Varun If you haven't started yet, the challenge is completely free and it's right here: https://www.skool.com/ai-automation-society/classroom/dda699b7?md=1be568a1864b4d999d152832656dea48 One lesson, one build, each day. By the end you'll have your own Claude Code assistant up and running. See you in the next cohort. - Nate

Hey everyone! I’m working on a Discounts & Perks hub and we’ve already gathered over $300K in deals. I’d love to hear which tools you rely on most in your business or projects. Your feedback will help us negotiate perks on the tools you actually use. 🙌

When I asked Claude to step into my shoes — $5k in the bank, access to it and every other AI tool — and figure out how to double that to $10k in 90 days, I expected the usual hype: "start an agency, run ads, scale to the moon." It didn't do that. It pushed back first. And the pushback is the most useful business advice I've gotten in a while. Here's what it said 👇 1. The $5k is not your fuel. Your skills are. Doubling cash in 90 days as an investment is just gambling with extra steps. The only non-gambling version is a business where YOUR labor + AI is the multiplier — not the money. The cash is runway, nothing more. 2. Don't spend the money. This one stung. It capped total business spend at ~$500–800 for the whole quarter. The other $4,200 stays untouched as a buffer. Why? Because the moment you're spending capital to make the $10k, you've already lost. Desperation makes you price low and quit early. 3. Sell before you build. Find 20–30 people in ONE narrow niche with one expensive, annoying problem. Get 2–3 to pay before you've built anything. Pre-sales are the only real validation — everything else is hope. 4. AI is the delivery engine, not the idea. Everyone has AI now. It's not an edge. Your edge is a specific niche you understand. Use AI to compress the work so one person can serve 20 clients. 5. Spend the first 6 weeks on distribution, not the product. This is where almost everyone dies. Cold capital can't buy an audience. Showing up daily in one place where your niche already hangs out can. Then it did something no "guru" does — it gave me the honest odds: ~20–35% chance of hitting the full $10k in exactly 90 days. More likely outcome: $2k–5k profit + a repeatable system that outlasts the deadline. And that system is the more valuable result anyway. No promises. No "guaranteed." Just math and reality. The biggest gut-punch lesson: most people fail not because they lack money, but because they spend it before they have anything that sells, pick a generic saturated lane, and underprice everything.