Brian Cristiano

“I don’t want to sound too salesy” A detrimental mindset that holds millions of business owners back from closing more deals & growing their business. You don’t have to sound salesy. But you need to sell… Here’s 7 tips that aren’t “salesy” and will help you close more deals.

@cleanestcoder No but I spent time last night having Fable retool my skill to be more token efficient. It definitely helped but Fable still burns tokens faster than the first 3 days it launched.

Skill issue

@ChrisUniverse Fable was about to solve it and then hit API limits

People prompt “Solve World Hunger” and get upset their limits max out in 1 prompt 🤣

@dominikmuggli Skills

Startup idea: Prompt optimization layer that automatically adjusts prompts to minimize Fable token consumption.

What "moving upstream" actually sounds like with a client: Not "here's a quote for the work." That's downstream. That's the hired hand. It's "before we do anything, let's get paid to find what's actually broken and what it's costing you." Vendor to advisor, one sentence.

@ryansprague @bcherny @claudeai Creating a larger and larger gap between big corporations and the small/mid size businesses that really drive change…

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai It's getting taken off the subscription plan anyways. It's for enterprise level work.

Fable 5 burned 28% of my weekly limit AND used up my 5 hour limit with two prompts in about 30 minutes. @bcherny @claudeai how is this acceptable with a 20X plan? It’s unusable

@RopeCalls @bcherny @claudeai Yikes

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai I killed my entire 5 hour window with 1 prompt on ultra code

When's the last time a prospect shopped you on price? What did you say in that moment? Be honest. Because that exact moment is where you either become the expert or stay the vendor. I want to hear how it went.

@JeffreyMoxley That's annoying! Thanks for the heads up. Let me fix that!

@boldceo Just FYI-The thread is broken……6/ is shown multiple times instead of 2-5. You are putting out great content- thanks

1/ If you keep getting treated like the hired hands, shopped on price, handed a list of specs, this thread is the way out. Here's how to stop being a vendor.

@CH_KEKA @bcherny @claudeai Best damn 5 mins of your life 😂

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai 🤣🤣🤣. Had exactly the same experience today. Was too shocked for words. Mine was 1 prompt and it spawn 30 agents. 5 minutes later, out of usage.

7/ You don't become the trusted advisor by saying you are one. You become it by taking control and getting paid to think. Do that, and price stops being the conversation.

6/ The second money changes hands, you stop being the hopeful vendor. You're the expert now. And the work almost always follows the person who found the problem.

@satniro @bcherny @claudeai Just your wallet lol

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai Intelligence is expensive, but there is no upper bound on it!

@AvLabspro @bcherny @claudeai

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai I hit my 5 hour limit but I was running a lot. Seems fair.

@Valitskim @robj3d3 @bcherny @claudeai Still wondering who he is

@robj3d3 @boldceo @bcherny @claudeai Me asking Claude Fable 5 who JSON is

They are definitely saying thank you lol. I just want them to see the big picture. It’s fine to bill Fortune 1000s massive API fees uncapped, but if they want their SMB power user super base to grow they need better tiers and access with reasonable cost. Otherwise the gap widens

@boldceo @bcherny @claudeai You fell for the hype. I think they won? They are probably saying now: "thanks for your $$"