While I didn't make the top 10 and get an all-expenses-paid trip to the mastermind in LA, I do get to attend. I just have to pay for it myself. Overall, I cannot complain. I'm a little bummed because I have a $360,000 proposal I couldn't count on since I didn't have a signature yet. That would have made me in the top three. Had I not joined that group, I would not have had the cojones to price my last few deals the way that I have. And that includes my cohort. I plan to bring all of the things that I've learned in that group to any of you who would like it.

12 months ago it would’ve taken 2 weeks at least. Same brain. Same frameworks. Same standards. Different stack. Here’s exactly what I used and where each tool earned its spot: Plaud + Fathom — Every discovery call, every client conversation, captured and transcribed automatically. No more scrambling to remember what the CEO said about his succession problem or what the COO admitted about turnover. The raw material was all there, word for word. Wispr Flow — I talk faster than I type, and my best thinking happens out loud. This let me dictate strategy notes, proposal sections, and client insights at the speed I actually think, then clean it up in seconds instead of minutes. Perplexity — Research on the client’s industry, their competitive pressures, and the specific behavioral risks tied to a role at their level. What used to take a day of digging took twenty minutes. Claude — This is where it all came together. I fed it the call transcripts, my ProScan PDP data on the client, the 60-30-10 framework, and my own voice rules. It didn’t write the proposal for me. It built the scaffolding so I could focus on the judgment calls only I can make: which framework fits this exact leadership gap, where the real risk sits, what this CEO actually needs to hear versus what he’s asking for. That’s the part people miss. AI didn’t replace the expertise. It stripped out everything that wasn’t expertise, the formatting, the transcription, the first-draft grunt work, so the six hours I spent were pure high-value thinking. Two weeks of my old process was maybe four hours of real strategy buried under seventy hours of admin. If you’re still doing proposals and other work the old way, you’re not protecting quality. You’re just burning your best hours on your lowest-value work.

What’s your Frame - Floor - Focus (write in the comments) What’s going on? Are we winning big? Are we executing a default future. Working hard with no Goal in mind? Dreaming impossibly?

1. Please see the Poll for next week's Vision Processing to help Kavan. 2. Please vote for my final book cover between the two... (comments are helpful) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfV6KRsLjxqyE0LPgAhDQMuUfL1_pC8S7RrYCSF6TOiXkZdZg/viewform I lost a good friend very close to me. I might not be on the call on Friday. We have a lot going on. Sorry for being less engaged.

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