Hey guys, quick question. How many of you use separate AI platforms when you are doing deep thinking and deep research? I came across this bias about a year ago. I was doing some research, did a little double-checking, and realized something. Using the same AI for both thinking and research makes the results biased. I kind of attribute it to a student grading their own test. The same brain that wrote the answer is the one deciding if the answer is right. So now I am curious where everyone here lands on this. Are you splitting it across two tools, or running it all in one? And if you run it all in one, have you ever caught it telling you what you wanted to hear?

Had a call today with researchers from Stanford's Autonomous Agents Lab. They're studying AI adoption at marketing agencies. Found me via Google. I asked them how much research they did on me first, none; they were embarrassed to say they just filled out my contact form. I warned them it might not be the conversation they expect. At the end, they said I was the most advanced agency owner they'd spoken with. They'd never heard of ICM. These are smart people doing real research. They've talked to a lot of agencies. And the most common thing they see is: people using ChatGPT chat, maybe dabbling with agents, struggling to get them to do things reliably end-to-end. You all know what I've been running for the past 2 months and I showed them. Then the researchers showed me their own tool — an autonomous browser agent that can log into Google Ads and act. I told them: I don't write to external platforms without a human reviewing it first. That's a policy, not a technical limitation. My clients' $20K/month runs through my judgment, not an AI's. Human in the LOOP! Their reaction: "that makes sense." But they were clearly used to hearing "I'm trying to get the AI to do more." I'm not. I'm trying to get the AI to help me reason better. That's a different goal. My takeaway: if you're in this group and you're here honestly learning, you're way ahead, don't stop! Keep building! Ronnie Coleman once said: "Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights."

We talk about folders all day, but the folders are FOR something. I want to know what... 🎖️Bonus points: comment with the single most painful manual process in your industry. The best comp entries come from exactly those answers.

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