It's the end of my Monday, and I'm making it a habit to share the journey here. Honestly... this lifelong game of business can get lonely if you let it. So this is me not letting it. Last week I volunteered 5 hours of my sleep time for a worthy cause. It ain't much, but I promise my heart was all in. It was for @Eshara K (who I swear has a heart bigger than mine). She's on a journey to help B Lab verified businesses (businesses committed to positively impacting the planet) get access to the grant money they deserve for the hard work they're already doing for our communities. Saying she's making an impact would be an understatement. Any hours I can invest in her mission make the world a little better for our kids. Definitely, worth giving up my time for this. But I didn't want this to be the last time I did something like this... So today I want to end that day with an idea Mr. Rogers himself would promote. I call it Collab for Cause. The seed idea actually came from @Pedro Gomez . His idea hit me so hard I had to revisit it. In case you missed it from the AIS plus community, it was this: what if we paid each other instead of big tech companies like Google? Inspired, I ran with it. Problem is... I took it a bit too literal. My first version: I'd figure out what you build, then dig through my own relationships to find someone who'd actually want it. And it worked beautifully. You can ask @Joshua F. Lewis , @Mohamed Bah , or @Denis Patru ... for each of them I found a lead genuinely interested in their service. But it only got us so far. Truth is, I spread myself so thin hunting those diamond-in-the-rough leads for everyone that I accidentally disappeared on giving the value to the great relationships I made along the way (shout out to @Tanya Maslach , @Matthew Sutherland , @Crys Wood and the rest of the amazing folks I've had real conversations with... you deserved better than my silence).

👋 New here? Start with this. Every week inside AIS+, a bunch of us hop on a live call we call CCC — Chill, Chat & Chaos. No agenda. No slides. No guru talking at you. Just builders — total beginners and seasoned pros side by side — thinking out loud about AI and automation. What's working, what broke, what we're figuring out in real time. People show up with a question and leave with a plan. Some weeks it gets deeply technical, some weeks it's just honest talk about building a business with this stuff. It's messy on purpose — and that's exactly why it works. Here's a taste of what you missed at the last one 👇 🔥 This week's Chill, Chat & Chaos 🔥 🤖 One builder flipped on a fully autonomous mode and let it run — and it spun up dozens of agents in parallel, tore through millions of tokens in under 20 minutes, and blew past his spend limit. The kicker? The AI company itself reached out to ask what on earth he'd just done. Would you dare let it off the leash? 🤥 Somebody finally said the quiet part out loud: your AI keeps telling you a task is DONE when it flat-out isn't. "Sorry, you're right — it's not done. I just burned all your tokens." We got into how you'd even catch it lying to your face... 📞 One person in the room built an agent that literally calls your phone when it gets stuck — "option A or option B?" — you answer mid-walk, and it keeps building. It went far enough to earn them a spot at an invite-only hackathon. Wait... that actually works? 🧠 Then a curveball: deliberately let a DUMBER model check your work. Because if your whole setup only holds together when the smartest model is driving, is it actually good — or is the genius model just quietly covering for you the whole time? 📸 My advice to a member trapped exporting 400,000 photos out of iCloud one hundred at a painful time: "I only consult when there are more than 500,000 photographs. You've got 400,000... come find me when you touch 500,000." 😄 🔒 And on whether the files you trust to the cloud are really yours — my official position: "As far as my wife can subpoena my stuff, I'm good with it. I'm safe here in India for now." 🫡

From $40K AI projects and first clients to custom CRMs, AI operating systems, and production-ready automations, another week inside AIS+ proved that consistent building keeps creating opportunities. 🚀 Standout Wins of the Week inside AIS+ 👉 @Kobe Shemesh closed a $40K upfront AI project after refining his Claude Code workflow, proving that small improvements in execution can create massive business results. 👉 @Galyn Fergerson landed her first client just 6 days into AIS+, turning a discovery call into a $750 AI OS project before even finishing the automation course. 👉 @Girish Mohan built an AI Scrum Master that now prioritizes his calendar, tasks, and deals automatically—helping him execute every day with more focus. 👉 William Rendall was promoted to AI Workstream Strategy Lead less than three months after joining AIS+, crediting the community for accelerating his growth. 👉 Diane McCracken celebrated her 100th Claude Code session at 68 years old, showing that curiosity and consistency matter far more than experience. ⸻ 🎥 Super Win Spotlight | @Ahmad Abd Alkarim Ahmad joined AIS+ with years of leadership experience but wanted a better way to turn ideas into action. Today, his custom AI Operating System helps him manage projects, analyze business problems, and support his team without slowing anyone down. His biggest lesson? Don't just watch. Build. Practice. Share what you learn. That's where the real return comes from. 🎥 Watch Ahmad's story 👇 ✨ Every week, members are turning ideas into systems, skills into businesses, and momentum into real opportunities. Step inside AI Automation Society Plus and start building assets, systems, and skills that compound 🚀

👋 New here? Start with this. Every week inside AIS+, a bunch of us hop on a live call we call CCC — Chill, Chat & Chaos. No agenda. No slides. No guru talking at you. Just builders — total beginners and seasoned pros side by side — thinking out loud about AI and automation. What's working, what broke, what we're figuring out in real time. People show up with a question and leave with a plan. Some weeks it gets deeply technical, some weeks it's just honest talk about building a business with this stuff. It's messy on purpose — and that's exactly why it works. Here's a taste of what you missed at the last one 👇 🔥 This week's Chill, Chat & Chaos 🔥 💸 I'll own this one — a mistake I made last year quietly cost me around $3,000. The kind nobody warns you about until it's too late. We walked through exactly how to make sure it never happens to you. 🤖 One builder runs a small army of AI agents overnight, goes to sleep, and wakes up to a finished project. Yes, really. We got into how that actually works. 🛌 Someone shared how they now get their heaviest work done on their hardest days by letting AI carry the load — the kind of thing that quietly changes a life. Easily the most moving moment of the night. 🕵️ Why asking AI to "check its own work" is a trap — and the one small change that actually catches the bugs it hides from you. 🧾 How one member taught AI to read a stack of messy handwritten receipts like it was decoding the Rosetta Stone. 💳 And the idea that split the room clean in half: should you ever lend a stranger your unused AI credits? The reason nobody could agree is the interesting part. Oh — and the honest line of the night: "we're all posers." 😅 Not one person in that room pretends to have it all figured out. That's exactly why it works. 💬 More than one member has told me that a single one of these calls is worth the entire monthly subscription. I didn't say it — they did. If you're out here on the free side, this is what's happening every Saturday on the inside. The tools, the exact how-tos, the resource guide, and the recording all live in AIS+ 🔒. Consider this the trailer.

Running a live mini-workshop: Inbox Zero, Run by AI. @Matthew Sutherland's email triage method, built in Claude Code, safe by design. It sorts, flags, and drafts, but never deletes and never sends on its own. In 45 minutes you walk out with it running on your own inbox. I've watched builders use the Mini Workshop Magic framework to turn small paid sessions like this into real momentum for their businesses. That's exactly what I'm running here. Some of you in here could build this in your sleep. So this isn't a pitch to you. It's an ask. If you've got clients or an audience drowning in email, send them. Early-bird is $67 until midnight New York time tonight, then it's $97. The seat's just the entry point. The real offer is the done-for-you build on the live close, and if someone you send upgrades to a DFY build during the workshop, there's 20% of the build fee in it for you. Happy to talk numbers in DMs.