My free Skool group for coaches and agency owners just passed 100 members. 🎉 I did not get there by posting more. This week I used Claude to help me find the right posts in other communities and write real comments under them. 🤖 12 people joined since: 7 clicked my profile after a comment. 2 found me in Skool search. 1 came from Google. 2 came straight from a link. Small sample, so I'm not sure it holds. But so far, comments are bringing in more people than anything else I tried. Where do your newest clients or members come from?

A calendar link in the first message reads like a pitch. What works better for coaches and consultants is offering two specific times in their timezone, once they have shown interest. One coach we work with got 6 calls in week 1 and 7 calls in the first 2 weeks, with about a 30% close rate, using a short video and plain replies instead of links. The first message is only there to get a reply. The booking comes after that. What do you send when someone says "sounds interesting"?

Tomorrow, on the live LFOS demo, I'm making an offer. I've never made it before. And I'm not going to make it again. I'm not even going to tell you what it is here, because it's only for people who show up live. I will be removing the offer from the replay so if you aren't there live... you'll never know what you missed., Here's what I will say though.... If you've seen the LFOS, our Client Getting Workshop System and have considered working with me at all ... even just a little. This is the workshop to show up for. It's the best offer I've put on the table in a long time. I mean that. And it's because we are nearing the end of our Beta Testing and the Founding Member Benefits will be disappearing as soon as we reach 150 founders. (Currently at 108) It's tomorrow at 10am PT. It's a 30-60 Minute Demo of an incredibly powerful tool + some Q&A. And then an epic offer ONLY for those live on the call 🤌🏼 So block the hour. Show up live. Watch the system run, and be in the room when I make the offer at the end If you aren't registered yet, you can do that HERE See you there, Dan Comment IM IN if you are coming!

A few pretty well-known names in the business coaching space messaged me last week. Same question, slightly different wording: "Did you see OpenAI is killing custom GPTs? What do we do?" If you missed it: OpenAI announced they're retiring custom GPTs. No new ones. Existing ones get pushed into a migration to "plugins" over the next few months, and the custom actions don't even come with you. So a lot of people spent the last two years building their whole AI "stack" on GPTs… and just got handed an eviction notice. My honest reaction? I shrugged. Not because I don't care. Because nothing changed for me. Every GPT I've built, and every GPT my clients have built, still runs inside LFOS. Same as last month. Same as next month. And that's the part I want to talk about, because it's the thing nobody selling you a "custom GPT" wants to say out loud. Here's how I think about AI in a business. Three layers. 1️⃣ Thinkers. That's your GPTs. Prompts, instructions, knowledge. They think. 2️⃣ Workers. That's agents. They actually do things. Follow up, pull the numbers, draft the email, etc 3️⃣ The environment. The place where the thinkers and workers live. Where your roadmap, numbers, clients, pipeline, and content all sit in one spot so the workers have something to work on. Most coaches have a handful of thinkers. A few have a worker or two. Almost nobody has the environment. And without it, your thinkers are just chatbots sitting in someone else's building. Which is totally fine… right up until the landlord changes the locks. (I built on ground I didn't control once. 2008. Cost me half a million dollars. I'm a little sensitive about it.) So here's the shift: A tool you don't own isn't infrastructure. It's a lease. GPTs will come and go. Agents will get better every month. The models will swap out underneath all of it. None of that matters if you own the environment they run in. If you don't… you're renting. And a lot of people just found out what renting costs.

Fellow founders may find this useful, if you find leads leaving through cracks in your business.. here’s a lead response flow I put together (demo). A form submission from your lead creates the CRM deal, alerts the team on Slack, emails the lead a confirmation and logs it, all in seconds. For anyone running an agency or side business, where do your leads usually slip through, the form, the inbox, or the follow-up? Or if you've built similar automations that are ai-powered, would love to share notes 🗒️