@Michelle Wilson had a bday this week! I hope it was a great celebration.

Just published a client story: a service business losing $50K+ a year to missed calls, and the number was invisible until we counted it. Also my restart post after 11 weeks dark, now on a weekly cadence. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kuldeeptanwar_the-most-expensive-number-in-her-business-activity-7485362970328264705-J6KU

Quick win: signed a $54K deal last week to bring AI-driven data intelligence to a client. The short version of the approach: companies are sitting on data they only use to report what happened. An AI intelligence layer turns that same data into teed-up decisions, what needs attention and why, before the week starts. Excited to build it. Happy to share more if there's interest. Happy 4th to all!!

Watching that call again was uncomfortable, to say the least. I’m sure many of us feel that way when we see ourselves speak, but of course it was incredibly useful. My biggest takeaway from the call was that I fear committing to the unknown. The known brings comfort, but it also keeps you limited. The unknown is where you grapple and figure things out, piece by piece. When action is inconsistent, pathways that may have been valid signals end up becoming noise. Taking action and cutting through the noise brings clarity. And so my first commitment post-Vision Processing is to write to 100 people before our next call on Friday, 10th July. I’ve built endless systems and strategies, but they'll only come into power once I take consistent, focused action. Thank you @Michael Clegg @Mike Ludwig @James Stephenson @Dwayne Van Harberden 💥

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.