Danny

Have a friend (also named Nick) who was an executive in the restoration space. Sold his biz and then built an AI powered insurance negotiation tool for restoration estimators, because it was the biggest PITA at his prev company. It cross-references claims, policies, estimates line by line and catches where adjusters underpay, then auto-drafts the email responses. He showed me a 600 page commercial claim they processed in like 10 minutes and didn’t miss anything. $38k in underpayments and probably 10+ hours worth of an estimator’s time saved. Insane. It’s such a perfect use case for current state of AI, really cool that you did all the above for yourself 👏🏼

had major pipes bursts at a property i have. insurance broker reviewed the policy and was sure it wasn't covered. a few years ago would have stopped there, but put the giant pdfs into claude, said he thinks it's covered and would handle claims process. got payout today wohoo

@RandBusiness Very true. There's a ton of nuance to some of these niche use cases that requires deep industry knowledge to get it right – he definitely has first-mover advantage.

@DefiDanny_ Perfect example of AI deployed functionally in a morning business, and I bet your friend is unlikely to be replaced with some other AI tool given how niche the product is, at least anytime soon

Here's what real business owners in our peer groups are building with AI: Construction company owner: Built himself a full AI VA. He gave her a name, a title, her own email inbox. She knows his preferences, what coffee shops he likes for meetings, what steakhouses to book, no meetings before 9am, and absolutely no meetings during golf season after 1pm. She drafts emails on his behalf and reaches out to people as a real employee within the business. Not impersonating the owner, operating as her own person with her own email address. He was planning to hire an EA. Now he's not. Once he works the kinks out he’s planning to replicate his AI VA to all his managers. Pool services company owner: Runs 2,500 service stops per week across 200 routes. Built a geo-optimization tool to handle route planning, something that's always been a nightmare. It works. Soon he’ll hand it off to a team member. He estimates it'll save at least one fulltime role in cost, maybe two. Also built a custom app to audit his field tech’s chemical usage. He'd been trying to eyeball this stuff for years. Now he has a daily automated report that shows chemical costs at the job level, which tech was involved, and whether usage patterns point to over-application or a pricing problem. Niche B2B services owner: Built himself a "second brain." An AI agent running on a Mac Mini on his desk, connected to all the frontier AI models via API. He loaded it with all his business context across every platform that doesn't have an API, created custom GPTs for each department so his team can query data and SOPs in one place, and set up the whole system so it can only take orders from his Telegram messages. It logs into his platforms, pulls reports, aggregates data into spreadsheets, and can be queried in real time. He's building something now to automate deal sourcing. Separately, he's also replacing a niche industry software platform with a developer for <$10k, layering AI workflows on top of an Airtable backend. Home Services company owner: Rebuilt his own version of Service Titan entirely through vibe coding. Every single tab that Service Titan has, he replicated. Then he customized it beyond that, folding in features from Pipedrive and other tools he was paying for separately. He did it in about two months. A different company had quoted him $30,000 to build essentially the same thing. I’m sure everyone reading this is going to comment about how inferior vibe coding is to ST, but I spoke with him last week and he says it’s working even better than ST. His words not mine. Accounting firm owner: Had his whole team on ChatGPT, then switched everyone to Claude because the technical capabilities pulled ahead. He's now rethinking his entire org chart, not because AI is replacing his people, but because the skills he thinks he needs to hire for are completely different.

Another game changing (niche) use case example: I have a friend who was an executive in the restoration space, sold to PE, then built an AI-powered insurance negotiation tool for estimators. It cross references claims, estimates, insurance policies line-by-line, auto-catches where insurance adjusters underpay, compiles everything and drafts email negotiation responses. Saves tens of thousands in underpayments and hundreds of thousands in labor hours. Blew my mind.

Our company has begun deploying AI aggressively over the last month. Here’s a list of nearly everything we’ve used it for so far. These are simple but highly impactful things you can copy today.

@LoganTGott Claude

I just automated my LinkedIn outbound using Claude. No these posts are ALL lying. BUT I did build a Claude prompt vault to help you build a custom outbound system Most people waste hours every day on LinkedIn outbound: Manually searching for prospects Copying and pasting the same messages Forgetting to follow up Losing track of conversations I built a system that does ALL of this for you. Here's what I've packaged into this vault: → Content Avatar Prompt – identifies your exact ICP in a few minutes → Sales Navigator List Building – finds your dream prospects → Initial DM Messages – personalized openers → Follow-Up Sequences – custom nurture messages → Positive Reply Handler – converts interested prospects into booked calls You can set this up in under an hour with my prompts! I'm giving away my complete Claude prompt vault that runs my entire outbound system. Want it? Follow me Comment "CLAUDE" I’ll DM it to you soon!

Today was a good sales day. My salesman — who’s been with the company for 30 years — came to me saying he needed to knock $2,000 off an HVAC install to close the deal because it was $2,000 more than what the customer said they planned to pay for a new system. I told him no. Then I told him exactly how to close it at our price. An hour later he closed it at full price. Yesterday I also sat down with one of our techs for 30 minutes at the end of the day and walked him through how to build estimates on his iPad in ServiceTitan, present them properly to the customer, and close the job on the spot. Today he converted 70% of his calls. On his last call of the day he sold a full-price system replacement on his own — signed estimate and deposit collected before he even left the house. The best part: no one even knew that customer was a candidate for a new system. He identified the opportunity himself, built the estimate using the templates, ran the full sales process, and closed it. Starting to vibe a bit. I'm out next week for a conference.. that will be a good test!

@JJEnglert GTM Guide

I built the ultimate GTM Engineer AI Toolkit that handles prospect research, outreach writing, meeting prep, and more in minutes. This is a beginner-friendly walkthrough that shows you exactly how to set it up, use it at work, and personalize it to your business. It can: - Research real prospects and companies - Score accounts against your ICP - Write personalized cold outreach sequences - Generate meeting prep briefs before calls - Help you build a repeatable prospecting pipeline - All using a free toolkit + Claude Code / Codex. This is for SDRs, founders, marketers, and GTM operators who want to use AI to do more at work without buying another expensive tool. I break down the full workflow step by step in the video. 👇 Comment "GTM GUIDE" and I’ll send you the full toolkit. (make sure you're following me so I can DM you)

@STORMWARA Highly recommend The Will of the Many by James Islington

i need a fantasy book as good as asoiaf i am having a reading slump

@tclarkmedia @oliverblackshaw It’s looking that way for me too, I keep hearing book 7 is fantastic so I’ll report back 🫡

@DefiDanny_ @oliverblackshaw I actually think Sun Eater tops RR for me, but will have to wait for Red God to compare both completed series Both have a special place in my heart - could read both on repeat for the rest of my life and be happy

Very interesting to watch something you deeply enjoy hit escape velocity and reach the tasteless masses

@tclarkmedia Was going to suggest Will of the Many and Rage of Dragons for newer authors but you’re already on top of it! Lesser known but fantastic “hard sci fi” = Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen. Great read.

Filling out the shelf Will need another soon

@tclarkmedia @oliverblackshaw Burned through Red Rising series in two weeks and now on book 3 of Sun Eater. Love them both - after Brown’s insane pacing, I’m really enjoying the contrasting style of Sun Eater with more philosophical / reflective approach.

@oliverblackshaw insanity btw have you started The Sun Eater? another great one

@OldHollowTree Uhhh yes please. Love this. Would order.

The 1st run of hoodies has been delivered to us! They're extremely soft, made from 100% organic cotton, and entirely made in the USA. We're waiting on our print shop to send us the hang tags so we can put the finishing touches on them but maybe we should just sell them as is...

@RonaldDPotts1 Ha yeah dude was quite the surprise

@DefiDanny_ Thought you were unusually busy posting today

@4lpha_Valentin0 Ok bro

@DefiDanny_ Bro come on, I can guarantee you weren't hacked... All you had to do was keep the tweet up

@AuthorGFAllen Dark Tower or The Institute

Which Stephen King book should I start with?

@bitsweetTess @AuthorGFAllen Indeed 🤝😊

@DefiDanny_ @AuthorGFAllen a fellow sci fi fan 😊

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Okay, I’m reading everything this person writes”?

@JamesonCamp @SahilBloom That’s awesome! And yeah ooda loop is definitely one of the more universally practical/translatable mental models from the military. I always wanted to make a cereal called ooda loops packed with vitamin B and nootropics but that’s neither here nor there haha

@DefiDanny_ @SahilBloom Haha my partner is ex special forces (navy but not marines) so a lot of stuff like this gets thrown around and some of it sticks! Really amazing ways to think about problem solving that come from the military

There's an opportunity right now to build a $100k per month side hustle as an AI Concierge. And you don't even have to be *that* technical to do it. Just high agency. There are probably millions of people out there who see all of the latest AI innovations like Claude Cowork, want to take advantage of them, but have no idea how to actually do that. I know, because I'm one of those people... I had dinner last night with the CEO of a multi-billion dollar tech startup. He was telling me about the full digital assistant/employee he just hacked together over the weekend. All of the things it's doing, how it's been an unlock for his workflows and life. I told him I'd gladly pay him $5000 to come to my house and spend the day building me one using the same approach. He laughed that he'd happily do that (though obviously won't given his day job). There's a real, high cash flow opportunity for a hustler to launch a services business as an AI Concierge for the tech curious. Ideally they would physically show up and build out a tool (or suite) to help an individual leverage the latest for their business and life. I bet you could charge $5-10k for the initial upfront work and then some low ongoing service fee to keep the thing up to date (if the person wants that and needs help with it). 5-10 clients per month and you have a meaningful cash flow engine. All comes down to the quality of what you deliver long term, but my guess is people would see a Month 1 positive ROI on the investment and referrals to their friends would drive the entire business. Just a thought...

@ted_ryce @EdLatimore There’s always a 16 year old handing grown men mini-ego deaths at every gym, helping them realize “Ah crap, I’m not who I thought I was.” This is one of the most important functions of the gym, IMO.

In my first BJJ class, I got tapped out in under 60 seconds by a skinny 16-year-old kid. At the time, I was 28, deadlifting 345 for reps, and had already spent years training martial arts. That was the moment I realized there was something different about jiu-jitsu…and hand-to-hand combat in general. Since then, I’ve trained with multiple UFC champions, helped fighters prepare for MMA bouts, and competed in BJJ tournaments. At 49, I’m past my prime — but I’m still tough. What training really teaches you, though, is perspective. There are always people far more dangerous than you. Guys who train twice a day. Three times a day. Every day. And the more time you spend around real competence, the less interest you have in acting tough. Aside from cauliflower ears, there’s no reliable way to judge how dangerous someone is by looking at their physique. Be respectful out there.

@JamesonCamp @SahilBloom We were taught to use OODA Loop in Marine officer training, cool to see you mention this James! How did you come across Boyd?

@SahilBloom This is essentially what we have been doing but a bit more up market We essentially run an “ooda loop” (Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act) See what workflows you need fixed and made better with ai, make a plan for it, and then implement it Build fee + smaller maintenance