Back in August 2025, I found Nate's YouTube channel. I was curious about AI automation but had no idea where to start. I joined AI Automation Society and started learning. Two weeks in, I saw Nate post about a hackathon event. Did not have a clue what that meant. The catch: it was only available in the paid community, AI Automation Society Plus. The very first week, a hackathon dropped: build a lead gen system in 2 weeks. 119 builders entered. I had no business competing. One month into my automation journey. Zero tech background. But I went all in. Every night after work. Debugging until 3am. Stuck on nodes for hours. Asking Claude, ChatGPT and pretty much any LLM I could talk to explain code like I was 5. I used multiple because I kept hitting my context window... anyway. My final build scraped Google Maps, enriched leads with Hunter + Apollo, scored them, and pushed qualified ones into cold email campaigns — all automated. 50 leads scraped, enriched, and loaded in under 60 seconds. I won first place. $1,000. This began a crazy journey! But what does any of this matter to you? I have a feeling I was once in the same place as many of you. Are you still watching tutorials... or are you actually building? What's stopping you from going all in? For me, it was fear. I didn't think I was ready. I thought I needed to learn more first. But here's what I realized — you don't learn by watching. You learn by doing. I call it massive imperfect action. The hackathon forced me to build. The paid community gave me the structure to finish and be rewarded for hard work. This is why I took the leap of faith and what AIS+ provided for me: → Structure — actual courses that walk you through building real systems → Accountability — hackathons and challenges that force you to ship → Access — Nate and other advanced builders who answer questions and give feedback → Momentum — being surrounded by people who are actually building, not just watching I'm not saying the free community isn't valuable. It is. I started here.

It is always a good time to reflect on everything you accomplished this past year and to set some goals for what you want to achieve in the new one. Thank you for helping us build such an awesome community over the past year. I cannot wait to see how much more it grows by the end of 2026. Cheers, Nate

Let’s take it back to the very beginning... What was your very first experience using AI? Was it ChatGPT? Midjourney? Some random AI voice assistant you asked about the weather in 2021? Here are a few prompts to get you going: - What tool did you use first, and why did you try it? - What did you think was happening behind the scenes? - Were you blown away? Confused? Skeptical?

Just a heads up I’m raising the price of AI Automation Society Plus TOMORROW at midnight central. If you join now, you’ll lock in the $89/month rate forever, no matter how high prices go in the future. Here’s what you’ll get immediate access to: ⚡ Agent Zero — AI basics made simple ⚡ 10 Hours to 10 Seconds — learn exactly what to automate to save hours every week ⚡ Unlimited tech support — our team helps you fix broken workflows ⚡ $6,000 in monthly competitions — prizes for both beginners and advanced members ⚡1 Live Q&A with me per Week — get all of your agency questions answered! Annual members also get The One Person AI Agency, the $1,000 blueprint for building a lean, high-profit automation business. Don’t wait until the clock runs out. 👉 Click here to get grandfathered in I’ll see you inside. Nate

In this video I show a new, faster way to build RAG agents in n8n using the Pinecone Assistant to handle the heavy lifting, no preprocessing pipeline, no manual chunking, no custom embedding flow. You simply drop your documents in and Pinecone takes care of ingestion, splitting, and indexing on the back end. Then we wire it up in n8n to get accurate answers with trustworthy, page-level citations and exact text quotes pulled straight from your knowledge base. If you’re a beginner, this is the easiest path I’ve found to stand up a production-ready RAG agent; if you’re more advanced, it’s a huge time-saver for rapid prototyping. Follow along step-by-step as I connect n8n to Pinecone Assistant, load docs, test grounded responses, and return clean sources you can show to clients or stakeholders, all with a simple, no-code build that you can replicate in minutes.