Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast

In this episode of Business Brain, Dave hands ten grand to an AI and gets out of its way. The proceeds from his domain sale became a 90-day experiment: Claude designed a static, formulaic trading system — 60% crypto, 40% equities, running through MCP connectors into Kraken and Alpaca — with lightweight weekly check-ins, a heavyweight strategy review at day 45, and a 48-hour rule that lets the system act if he doesn’t respond. Day 69, up 11%. But the number isn’t the win. The win is an operation where the founder is no longer the bottleneck and the emotion has been engineered out entirely, right down to cutting a 25% loser without waiting for a recovery that may never come. Shannon’s running his own version, parking creator revenue in X Money at 6% until it’s big enough to deploy. Then Shannon walks you through Instinct, a private-beta assistant with no app at all — it lives in your text messages. It read his insurance renewal, caught his son listed as primary driver on a new truck to the tune of $3,118, and drafted the email to his agent. Then it spotted his wife’s girls’ trip on the calendar and had flowers and a charcuterie board on her doorstep by three o’clock Friday. We get into what it costs you to build this yourself versus letting someone else own the infrastructure, and why your job is quietly shifting from doing to conducting. The takeaway: don’t wait for the perfect tool. Start now, learn what genuinely matters to you, and accept that your assistant will miss a few things while it learns you. That’s the charmed life on the other side of a little experimentation. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #789 for Casual FridAI, September 18th, 2026 September 18th: National Tradesmen Day 00:01:40 Dave’s Barbell AI Investing Update X Money 00:10:04 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:11:37 SPONSOR: Hims. With Wegovy® at Hims, lose up to 20% of your body weight when combined with diet and exercise. Visit https://hims.com/businessbrain to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 00:13:26 Instinct AI, your personal assistant 00:21:43 Business Brain 789 Outtro <https://businessbrain.show/> This Episode’s Big Takeway: Train your AI assistant to actually be your assistant Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – Instinct + $10K AI Update – Business Brain 789 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.

In this episode of Business Brain, we take you inside both sides of a domain negotiation. Shannon wanted resellerrocket.com, found it sitting on a generic affiliate parking page, and opened at $2,300 against a $4,000 ask — then used AI to land on an oddly specific counter just under $2,700 that got accepted on the spot. Dave plays the other side: an unsolicited inbox offer on a domain he’d been paying registration fees on for twenty-plus years, a Claude-assisted valuation, a $15,000 ask, and a $10,000 close with the buyer eating the escrow fees. The rule you can steal today — buy with math, sell with emotion. And when someone tries to turn a price into a monthly payment, remember what FFE really stands for. Then we put your favorite management line on trial. How can I help sounds generous, but it hands your team a blank slate and makes them do the work of delegating to themselves. You’ll hear why specific beats open-ended, why Shannon walks the floor every morning emptying trash cans while he reads the room, and why he lets his people set their own KPIs instead of handing them down. The upgrade is straightforward: tell your team you’ll do anything you can to help them succeed, then put your skills, your network, and your tools on the table as resources they’re allowed to use. Expect it to take a while before they believe you. Getting there is the charmed life — a team that finally tells you what they actually need. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #788 for Wednesday, September 16th, 2026 September 16th: Working Parents Day 00:02:04 Domain Negotiating ResellerRocket.com Spaceship.com (hopefully they’re a domain broker!) 00:11:56 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:13:29 SPONSOR: Hims. With Wegovy® at Hims, lose up to 20% of your body weight when combined with diet and exercise. Visit https://hims.com/businessbrain to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 00:15:17 Revisiting “How can I help?” 00:24:26 Business Brain 788 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Be Mindful of How You Can Offer Help To Your Team Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Domain Negotaiting and HCIH Follow Up – Business Brain 788 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.

In this episode of Business Brain, we dig into Grokbot, the new agent platform that packages OpenClaw-level power into something you can actually set up in minutes. We walk through a chief-of-staff bot that manages the rest, an auction scout that delivers a report every morning, a research bot that hunts liquidations across X, YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn, and a personalized daily newspaper built from your email, Slack, and calendar. No coding, cloud-hosted, and free with X Premium Plus. We also cover ChatGPT’s new computer history feature that turns your desktop activity into context for your agents, what to expect from iOS and macOS 27 screen awareness, and SimpleBench results showing Astra Pro and Fable 5.1 now edging past humans on common-sense reasoning. If you’ve been waiting for agents to get easy, this is the week to start living that Charmed Life with an AI chief of staff. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #787 for Casual FridAI, September 11th, 2026 September 11th: No News Is Good News Day 00:01:26 What is Grok Bot and how do I use it? 00:12:57 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:14:24 SPONSOR: Shopify: Own your customer relationships. Own your revenue. Start with a free trial at Shopify.com/BusinessBrain. 00:15:59 ChatGPT Computer History 00:21:05 SimpleBench ratings of Astra and Fable 00:24:15 Business Brain 787 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Try Out Grok Bot! Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – GrokBot and Simplebench – Business Brain 787 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.

In this episode of Business Brain, we uncover a dead-simple texting hack most businesses are ignoring: sending a VCF contact card with your very first message so your name and logo land in your customer’s phone instead of a random number. It’s a credibility boost, it sidesteps spam filters, and almost nobody is doing it yet. If you text customers at all, this is your move. Then we revisit the two-year experiment: one year to learn, one year to execute. We break down why Stripe had only fifty customers after twenty-four months, why you shouldn’t quit your day job before the runway is built, and how to read the signals along the way without giving up too early. Give yourself the time and you’ll build the foundation for the next decade of your Charmed Life. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #786 for Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 September 9th: International Box Wine Day 00:02:22 Add a downloadable .vcf file to your business text onboarding flow Superpower.com does it! 00:08:14 SPONSOR: SomniPods 3 sleep earbuds from Fitnexa: Flat enough to sleep on, and the app is the real prize: https://go.fitnexa.com/brain automatically applies $10 off (or use code BRAIN). 00:09:39 SPONSOR: Shopify: Own your customer relationships. Own your revenue. Start with a free trial at Shopify.com/BusinessBrain. 00:11:16 The Two Year Experiment One to learn, the second to execute After two years, Stripe only had 50 customers 00:18:40 Business Brain 786 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Give Yourself Two Years to Get Started Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Give Yourself 2 Years + VCF Files – Business Brain 786 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.

In this episode of Business Brain, we make the case for what we’re calling first draft software. Getting custom software built used to mean months of scoping, a locked-in spec, a big check, and painful change orders every time reality shifted. That world is gone. With vibe coding and AI agents, we can put a real, working first draft in front of you in about a week, not mock-ups, the actual thing you can touch and use, then reshape it as fast as you can think of changes. We share why a friend waiting until December for a fifty-grand build is a stack of red flags, and how one of us spun up a genuinely useful Apple Mail app in three hours after a takeout order, then let an agent sanity-test and re-plumb it overnight. Stop scoping, start building, keep scoping after it’s built. We also get practical about connecting your AI to everything you already use. We walk through wiring up multiple Slack workspaces in about ninety seconds through a connector, pulling exact dates and invoices straight out of email mid-negotiation, and what the so-called SaaS-pocalypse really means: crappy, rigid software you’re trapped adapting to is finished, but services that genuinely solve a problem the moment you have it are worth every penny. Build faster, explain less, and keep engineering that Charmed Life. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast #785 for Casual FridAI, September 4th, 2026 September 4th: Bring Your Manners to Work Day 00:02:08 First Draft Software Ottograph 00:10:17 SPONSOR: Whatnot is the largest dedicated live shopping platform. Just search Whatnot in the app store and start selling today 00:11:54 SPONSOR: Keeper Security’s Password Manager. Right now, Keeper is offering our listeners 60% off personal and family plans at https://Keepersecurity.com/BRAIN 00:13:30 Composio for multiple Slack workspaces 00:18:17 SAAS-Pocalypse 00:20:21 Patrick-Check out Memo AI for recording online and in-person meetings 00:21:29 Business Brain 785 Outtro This Episode’s Big Takeway: Don’t Get Trapped into old systems…First Draft Software is here Check out Business Brain Blueprints Tell Your Friends! Business Blueprints Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show [email protected] Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post FridAI – First Draft Software Business Brain 785 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.