William Gould | AI Audit

Most AI content focuses on what AI can do. Nobody discusses what it should do for your specific business. There's a meaningful difference — and it's costing operators 10+ hours a week. The tools exist. The math is obvious. The missing piece is knowing which three apply to you.

@chaosengineerr Gemini, never heard of it 😅

If you could keep only ONE AI tool right now for work… which one it is? - Claude - ChatGPT - Gemini

What's coming next after Al?

@wickedguro Congrats!

It's funny when I was at $3k MRR, I staggered for months. Then, when I reached $17k MRR, I grinded, and if a full month was good, I would grow by $1k MRR. Now, I grow at least $3k MRR a week. This is how growth and brand compound.

I audited 5 small businesses in the last 30 days. Different industries. Different sizes. Different owners. The same 4 problems showed up every single time. I wrote them up — with real examples from real audits. If you run a business and you've tried AI without results, this is probably why.

@DanielSmidstrup It is also very likely that the people being replaced by AI weren't generating very much value for their company to begin with.

Very unpopular opinion: Ai will create more jobs, not less.

And likely the people it is replacing weren't generating value, AI just shone a spotlight on it...

@marclou In many cases, volume is your friend. Build, release, iterate, repeat.

Your daily reminder that entrepreneurship is hard. n = 7,174 startups

Agree. This is a common problem that most aren't solving for, spending your time building a "voice" with any AI tool you are using to write. If you spend the time sharing writing samples, x.com replies etc, it's actually quite easy to create a writing style that sounds exactly like it came from you. Unfortunately most are just copy/pasting from ChatGPT.

Is it bad if I'm ok with AI reducing/eliminating HR depts...🤫

Great video Corey, enjoy your content. The one item I'd push back on is that an audit takes 45 minutes on a video call to assess their bottlenecks and recommend solutions. We've been doing it with a well thought out set of 10 questions which on average takes a client 3 minutes to fill out. The report gives them actionable insights right out of the gate. I agree there is a model for consulting in this space, but most small business owners are needing a few quick wins to start their AI Journey.

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@coreyganim There is so much need for this type of consulting. Many business owners want to use AI, but have no idea where to start. Very easy to pull in a few tools and have dramatic impact within days/weeks.

The implications most people miss aren't the dramatic ones. It's not "AI replaces jobs" or "AI creates abundance." Those are real but they're slow and abstract. The immediate implication is that the gap between what a 5-person business can execute and what a 500-person business can execute is collapsing. The small business owner who figures out which workflows to hand to AI in the next 12 months doesn't just save time. They change the competitive equation entirely. That's not a step change in society. It's a step change in who can compete.

content, code, design, advice, analysis.. all approaching zero marginal cost. this is a remarkable step change in society. & few grasp the enormous implications on every facet of life.

The infrastructure question is real. But the more immediate implication for most businesses is smaller scale and closer in time. The first agentic AI that works 24/7 for most small businesses isn't some future system. It's already available — running on a Mac mini, connected to email and calendar, handling intake, follow-up, and reporting while the owner sleeps. The compute demand question matters for Dell. The operational leverage question matters for the 30 million small business owners who are still doing everything manually. Both are happening simultaneously. One just gets more headlines.

PC & smartphone demand was always bounded by one thing: people. But what if billions (or more) of agentic AIs aren’t bounded by people at all? What happens when they never sleep… …when they work, talk, design, buy, sell, and decide 24/7? What then happens to compute demand?

This is the right instinct — and it works for non-technical operators too, not just developers. The shift from "describe what's on screen" to "show what's on screen" cuts out an entire layer of translation. The most common breakdown in AI workflows I see in small businesses is the gap between what someone wants to explain and what they can actually articulate in text. A screenshot collapses that gap immediately. Simple skill, outsized return. The best ones usually are.

Give me one minute, and I’ll improve your Claude Code experience immediately. This is the first skill I built. And it’s the skill I use most often. *drumroll* It’s a SCREENSHOT skill. And honestly, I’m shocked Anthropic hasn’t built this functionality into Claude Code itself. Claude has access 🔑 But Claude needs EYES 👁️ Here’s what you’re going to do: 1) locate what folder all your screenshots go to (and if it’s your desktop, you’re a maniac, change it). Mine goes to a folder on my desktop called “organized screenshots” 2) prompt Claude Code with the following: Build me a skill called ‘/ss’ that lists out the files in from newest to oldest, and grabs the newest. This is how I will speak to you visually. I also want an argument for the screenshot count - if I type ‘/ss 4’, you should grab the four most recent screenshots in that folder. If I type no number after ‘ss’ then only grab the most recent screenshot. Then, whatever follows after that argument is the action I want you to take. ‘/ss huh’ means I need you to explain the screenshots’ content to me. ‘/ss 3 make infographic plz’ means I need you to grab the last 3 screenshots and use their content to make me a unified infographic. ‘/ss fix’ likely means that I’m screenshotting an error message in code we’re building out and I need you to understand the error message, figure out the bug, and edit the code to fix it. Or, if we’re in the middle of a front end design project, it might mean the design has an error (like overlapping text) to fix. ‘/ss do this’ likely means that I screenshotted a smart thing someone did online and I want us to learn from it and do the same and remix it so it’s the most goal-oriented outcome for me based on what you know about me 3) let it build you the skill 4) go on X 5) scroll through your feed and screenshot one thing you find valuable 6) open a new terminal and prompt Claude with “/ss” + “do this” or “explain” or “turn this into an infographic” 7) enjoy - you just gave Claude eyes 🎉 Let me know how it goes. Again, this is my most used Claude Code skill by a landslide and easily saves me an hour a week. Cc @bcherny @trq212

The pattern across every profitable simple app on that list: one workflow, one problem, one type of person. The businesses that struggle with AI tools are making the opposite mistake — trying to solve everything for everyone. The AI audit business works on the same principle. One deliverable, one audience segment, one specific problem. Simple enough to execute at volume. Specific enough to be worth paying for. The complexity is in the diagnosis, not the product.

these apps so simple you won’t believe they make money. PLEASE, i beg you not to overcomplicate your app ideas. great ideas are simple ideas. and i would like to show you proof:

Running OpenClaw in production. Worth separating what's actually happening here. API access getting revoked for accounts that violate usage policies is standard practice across every AI provider — it's not unique to Anthropic or OpenClaw. The more important question for anyone building on top of frontier model APIs is provider diversification. OpenClaw supports multiple model providers for exactly this reason — if one API goes down or gets restricted, you're not dead in the water. The antitrust framing is a separate conversation worth having. But individual account revocations are policy enforcement, not market suppression. Build with redundancy. Don't let one provider be a single point of failure.

The gap between casual and power users is real but the framing slightly misses the most important group. The AI normie isn't the problem. The business owner who's heard about AI for two years, tried ChatGPT once, got a generic answer, and filed it under "not useful yet" — that's the gap that matters economically. They're not normies. They're operators with real problems and no clear path from "AI exists" to "AI is running in my business." The 10x users are building the infrastructure. The opportunity is translating that infrastructure into something the capable-but-busy business owner can actually deploy. That's not a technology gap. It's a distribution gap.

NORMIES AI normies are just using chatGPT as a google replacement On the other hand we see power laws emerging in how expert users engage with AI - as has been discussed widely in recent days right now the top 1% of AI users generate 80% of the value - building - while most people use it for routine work. Some folks going full blast on LLM wikis, running local models, building skills, building multi agent workflows and weekend projects - most are not the gap between casual and pro is widening. The 10x engineer is a 1000x engineer since they know how to multiple their effectiveness. The non-technical AI user might only use what’s in front of them, when they’d get so much value taking one more step Don’t be an AI normie 😎