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I Hired a CFO, a Lawyer, and a Marketer. ALL AI!
One Honest AI Wasn't Enough. So I Built a Board.
Three weeks ago I made my AI brutally honest and it killed my best idea. One honest advisor is still just one opinion, so I built a board: a CFO, a risk officer, and a marketer, all AI, all told to argue before I spend a thing.
Get the whole board free (no email gate on the prompts): buildleaner.com/advisor-board
In this video I hand that board a decision I genuinely had not resolved when I hit record: should I launch an Arabic version of this channel for the GCC? You are watching the real session. Each seat reviews the brief on its own, then a chair round forces a vote and records the dissent.
Setup takes about 20 minutes. It costs nothing on top of the AI subscription you already pay for.
The thing that makes it work is one line in the charter: "Do not balance yourself. The other seats exist for that." A single AI tries to be fair. A seat is not allowed to be fair, and the disagreement is the whole product.
WHAT'S IN THE FREE PACK
The board charter
All three seat prompts (CFO, risk officer, marketer)
The decision brief template
The session protocol, so you can run it end to end
The business context doc from the last video
WHAT YOU NEED
ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Any one of them works, and the prompt blocks are identical in all three.
The business context doc, which is in the free pack above.
Watch the full video:
youtu.be/XQqqJmSO1D0
Question for the comments, and I read all of them: what is the first decision you would put in front of a board that cannot flatter you?
#AIforBusiness #ChatGPT #Solopreneur #AItools #ChatGPTTips #SmallBusiness #Productivity #AIagents #BuildInPublic
The charter, all three seats, the brief template, and the session protocol. Takes about 20 minutes to set up.
The secret to using AI without losing your mind
MIT put EEG headsets on fifty-four people and scanned their brains while they wrote essays.
Three groups: no tools, search engine, ChatGPT. The ChatGPT group showed the weakest brain connectivity of all three. But here's the part that actually got me. Minutes after finishing, most of them couldn't quote one line from their own essay. They shipped words their brain never owned. That's what I call no-rep work: the output exists, the learning doesn't. There's a way to use AI that avoids this completely — it's pinned on my channel.
Your essay, their words. The MIT ChatGPT study nobody finished reading. System pinned on the channel.
For the full video:
#ai #aibrainrot #chatgpt #ainews #productivity #KeyText #AIWriting #EmailTips #WorkCommunication #TextExpander #ChromeExtension #ProfessionalEmail #WorkLife #ProductivityTools #AItools #CareerTips #TechTok #EmailFail #SalesEmail #ColdEmail #WorkHacks #EmailTemplates #productivityapp #productivityhacks #worktok
How to make your AI remember every conversation
Zero re-explaining context — the assistant already read the thread
Stop Briefing Your AI. My AI Already Read The Thread. The Copy-Paste-To-ChatGPT Loop, Killed.
Copy the thread. Open the tab. Paste. Explain who's who. Explain the tone. Copy the answer back. Fix the formatting. Every. Single. Reply. KeyText's assistant lives inside the text field and remembers the conversation — so refining a draft takes one line: "shorter, and mention I'm traveling next week." No tab. No paste. No re-briefing your own inbox.
Free on Chrome: 15 snippets · 3 folders · 50 AI actions/month. → keytext.app
Be honest — how many ChatGPT tabs do you have open right now?
#KeyText #AIassistant #ChatGPT #AItools #EmailTips #TextExpander #ChromeExtension #ProductivityTools #AIworkflow #WorkSmarter #Inbox #TechTok
Why you're learning AI wrong?
I made AI refuse to answer me. On purpose. Best prompt I've written all year. Watch. I ask it something I'm trying to learn — and instead of answering, it interrogates me. Hints only. No answer until I commit to mine. Why would anyone want this? A randomized trial, a thousand students: regular ChatGPT made final exams seventeen percent worse. This exact configuration — tutor mode — boosted practice one hundred twenty-seven percent, with zero crash after. Same AI. One setting. The prompt is number one of ten in a free pack — link in bio, takes one email.
Answer mode: −17%. Coach mode: +127%. Same model. Prompt #1 of 10, free in bio.
For the full video:
youtu.be/m22WrwgbvMs
#ai#aibrainrot#chatgpt#ainews#productivity#KeyText#AIWriting#EmailTips#WorkCommunication#TextExpander#ChromeExtension#ProfessionalEmail#WorkLife#ProductivityTools#AItools#CareerTips#TechTok#EmailFail#SalesEmail#ColdEmail#WorkHacks#EmailTemplates#productivityapp#productivityhacks#worktok
How to say no without the drama ?
Say the hard thing without the damage.
Don't Send That. The Email You'll Regret By Lunch. Angry Draft In. Professional Email Out.
You typed it angry. You're right — but that email follows you. KeyText rewrites it in place: select the draft, hit /vp-tone, and AI returns the same points with the same firmness and zero shrapnel. You still said no. You just said it like the calmest person in the room.
Free on Chrome: 15 snippets · 3 folders · 50 AI actions/month. → keytext.app
Honest question: have you ever sent the angry version? How did it go?
#KeyText #AIWriting #EmailTips #WorkCommunication #TextExpander #ChromeExtension #ProfessionalEmail #WorkLife #ProductivityTools #AItools #CareerTips #TechTok
One shortcut, every text box #productivityhack #automation
Your repeated typing is not just in email. It is in your CRM notes, your support replies, your LinkedIn messages, your ticket updates, your forms. Learning a different snippet system for each tool is why most people never bother. KeyText works in the text boxes you already type in across Chrome, so one library of shortcuts follows you everywhere instead of living inside one app. Free on Chrome. [verify: confirm the exact list of supported sites and any known exclusions before naming specific apps on screen]
Install KeyText: keytext.app/?ref=youtube
You do not have an email problem. You have a typing problem. Same shortcuts, every box, everywhere. KeyText, free on Chrome.
#KeyText#ProductivityHack#TextExpander#ChromeExtension#CustomerSupport#SalesProductivity#WorkflowAutomation#RemoteWork #WorkSmarter#ProductivityTools#KeyText#TextExpander#ProductivityHack#EmailProductivity#WorkSmarter#ChromeExtension#TimeSaver#WorkflowAutomation#KnowledgeWork#ProductivityTools#Productivity#TimeManagement#AITools#RemoteWork#DeepWork#FutureOfWork#Shorts#productivityhack#techtok#aitool
Don't tell AI to "write like me." Show it.
5 of your OWN sent emails → ask for the rules, not a summary → paste those
rules into every prompt after that.
This is the step everyone skips.
#chatgpt #aiemail #promptengineering #aitools #productivity
Every productivity tool promises you hours. KeyText is the one that counts them.
Every time a snippet fires, KeyText logs the time you didn't spend typing — and shows you the weekly and monthly total, plus which shortcuts are actually earning it.
2.3 hours this week. 9.1 this month. That's 109 hours a year — almost three working weeks — from the same job, the same inbox, and the same standards. Just without the retyping.
Free on Chrome: 15 snippets, 3 folders, every integration, 50 AI actions/month. Pro $5/mo for unlimited snippets and 2,500 AI actions. Team $4/seat/mo with shared libraries.
Install it today, then check your number on Friday — and post it below. I want to see who wins week one.
#Productivity #TimeManagement #AITools #ProductivityTools #WorkSmarter #TextExpander #RemoteWork #DeepWork #ChromeExtension #FutureOfWork #KeyText #Shorts
Your AI prompt is too long. This fixes it.
Your AI prompt ends up 200 words long. You won't retype it at 6pm — so you'll
quit using it inside a week.
Put it behind a trigger. Two keystrokes.
"I hope this email finds you well" is the tell. Your AI writes it because
you never told it how you write.
Full 3-part setup on the channel.
#aiemail #chatgpt #aitools #productivity #emailtips
Hi {FIRST_NAME}" is why nobody replied.
KeyText snippets take smart variables — {{first_name}}, {{company}}, {{today}}, {{tomorrow}} — so one template writes two hundred genuinely personal messages. Type /intro, hit Enter, and the blanks fill themselves. Tab between anything left over.
Works in Gmail, LinkedIn, Slack, Outlook, HubSpot, Notion, and every text field on the web.
Free on Chrome — 15 snippets, 3 folders, every integration, 50 AI actions/month.
👉 keytext.app/?ref=youtube
What's the most obviously-a-template email you've ever received? I'll go first in the comments.
#SalesTips #ColdEmail #Productivity #TextExpander #AITools #Recruiting #LinkedInTips #EmailMarketing #ChromeExtension #WorkSmarter #KeyText #Shorts
#salestips #coldemail #productivity #recruiting #linkedintips #textexpander #aitools #emailmarketing #chromeextension #b2bsales #outreach #worksmarter #keytext
#salestips #coldemail #productivityhack #aitool #corporatelife
#SalesTips #ColdEmail #Recruiting #Productivity #KeyText
#sales #aigenerated
You've written the same reply 400 times. Forty-five seconds each. Thirty times a week. That's 19 hours a year — on one message.
KeyText turns it into three keystrokes. Type /thx in Gmail, LinkedIn, Slack, Outlook, or any text field on the web, hit Enter, and the full message drops in. Two seconds instead of forty-five.
Free on Chrome — 15 snippets, every integration, and 50 AI actions a month, no credit card.
👉 Install: keytext.app/?ref=youtube
Which message do you retype the most? Tell me and I'll write the snippet for you in the comments.
#productivity #productivityhack #textexpander #aitools #chromeextension #gmailtips #emailtips #worksmarter #remotework #salestips #workflow #timesaver #keytext
Every AI comparison video compares model version numbers.
Those change every six weeks, which is why those videos are wrong by the time you watch them. This one
compares six jobs you actually do every week, and maps each job to a tool. Prices verified at time of filming. No affiliate links.
Watch the full video:
youtu.be/2Xij4hPytUs
⬇️ buildleaner.com/50-prompts/
📩 What I build, what breaks, what I learn. Weekly:
[newsletter link]
Our apps/websites:
… more to come, keep following.
#ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini #AItools #solopreneur #smallbusiness
I was running 4 apps to send the same emails every day.
A notes app for snippets. A Google Doc of templates. A clipboard manager. A ChatGPT tab for anything new.
Four tools. One boring job: replying to messages I'd already written a hundred times.
Last month I deleted the whole stack. Now it's one shortcut key — I type a few letters and the full message appears. Something new? AI drafts it right there. About 3 hours a week back.
New video breaks down the exact setup and how to rebuild it in an afternoon.
What's the most ridiculous app-juggling you do just to get one simple thing done? 👇
Link in the comments.
#Productivity #AITools #TextExpander #WorkSmarter #Automation
Why you're getting dumber using AI
Doctors got twenty percent worse at finding cancer. And AI did that. 1,443 patients. Experienced doctors. Three months with an AI assistant — and their solo detection rate fell from 28.4 to 22.4 percent. Published in The Lancet. They didn't get lazy. Their attention quietly outsourced itself. And a version of this is happening to you every time you hand AI one hundred percent of the thinking. Four studies found the pattern. The same research found the fix. Full breakdown on the channel.
The Lancet documented AI de-skilling in doctors. 3 months is all it took. Fix is on the channel.
For the full video:
#ai #aibrainrot #chatgpt #ainews #productivity #chatgpt #aiemail #promptengineering #aitools #productivity #aiwriting #ai #textexpander #workflow #emailtips #worksmarter #USmarket #aigenerated #keytext #shorts #timemanagement #relatable #weeklyplanner #Wellbeing #worksmarternotharder
AI comparison that won't be wrong in 6 weeks #chatgpt #claude #tools
Every AI comparison video compares model version numbers.
Those change every six weeks, which is why those videos are wrong by the time you watch them. This one
compares six jobs you actually do every week, and maps each job to a tool. Prices verified at time of filming. No affiliate links.
Watch the full video:
youtu.be/2Xij4hPytUs
⬇️ buildleaner.com/50-prompts/
📩 What I build, what breaks, what I learn. Weekly:
buildleaner.com/
Our apps/websites:
keytext.app/
keyweek.app/
keytext.net/
… more to come, keep following.
#ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini #AItools #solopreneur #smallbusiness
Which one are you paying for, and is it earning it? 👇
Every AI comparison video compares model version numbers. Those change every six
weeks, which is why those videos are wrong by the time you watch them. This one
compares six jobs you actually do every week, and maps each job to a tool. Prices
verified at time of filming. No affiliate links.
⬇️ buildleaner.com/50-prompts/
📩 What I build, what breaks, what I learn. Weekly:
buildleaner.com/
Choosing the best AI subscription for $20 a month is harder than it looks.
This breakdown compares Claude Pro, Google AI Pro, and ChatGPT Plus to see which service offers the most value for your specific workflow. We look past the chatbot features to analyze the included cloud storage and integration benefits that actually matter for your daily tasks.
Watch to see which tool fits your budget and needs before you commit to a monthly plan.