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These 6 rules changed the game for us - hoping they help you in your journey!
I know all this AI stuff is overwhelming - I constantly feel like I’m drinking from a firehose, and always behind.
But what I’ve learned is that it’s critical to just put one step in front of the other, and improve everyday.
My hope is that you can take a bit of these tactics (as well as the broader mental model implied) to implement in your own company, to not only accelerate yourself but also your team into making this existential jump.
Wishing you all the best!
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How we run an AI first company that does $40,000,000 in revenue. Number one, everyone gets unlimited budget on their company card. If you aren't spending thousands of dollars on AI tokens, you're likely not thinking enough about how to 10 x yourself with AI. Number two, everything in our company is codified. That means every single meeting we have is transcribed with AI. Every document and decision is stored in our Notion Wiki, and our entire company is readable by AI agents no that our agents have context on everything and can act on our behalf, which leads me to number three, which is everyone on our team has their own AI chief of staff. I guarantee you that 60% of the work that you do today, you good have an AI agent do at 10 times the scale and speed. For example, because my AI chief of staff is hooked up to all of my meeting notes, as soon as I have a one on one with one of my team members, my AI agent actually drafts all of the follow-up notes for me and all the follow-up to dos on my behalf, and I just get to curate, edit, and then press send. Next, we told our employees that your old job is dead. Sounds really drastic, but it is our responsibility to make sure that our employees make the leap and upskill themselves. Basically, our jobs now should not be about doing things. It should instead be about building AI agents that replace us no that we can go out and do net new things and make decisions and think about the future. So we just hosted an internal AI build week or hackathon week where all of our top AI users within the company actually coached the rest of our company on how they could start using AI. Every one of our employees worked on automating at least one process that week, and the results were really, really cool. One of our sales reps made a sales decision that actually listens in live on his calls and surfaces answers to any customer objections that he actually has on that call before he can even think of them. Five is that you're not allowed to hire someone until you prove that you can't do this with an AI agent. The thing about hiring lots of people is that it slows down your organization immensely. And a single worse nowadays can do 10 x or a 100 x the output. And then lastly, and potentially worst interestingly, is we no longer hire engineers, product managers, and designers in the conventional sense. We're hiring now for a new role that we're calling builders. The roles of designer, product manager, and engineer are actually compressing all into one role where the best engineers are also PMs and designers themselves, and the same for designers and PMs. The best hires nowadays can use AI to handle the entire stack, and they have the right taste to actually build things that matter.
