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I run a Shopify store with 41 products, no employees, and no agency. I have 7 AI employees instead. Each one has a name, a specific job, and clear deliverables. Here's the full system 🧵

Drop “AGENT” in the replies if you want me to send you my free PDF breaking down the seven AI employees that help me run my Shopify store.

If you’re running an ecommerce brand and still doing all this by hand, you’re going to get outpaced by operators who let AI handle the backend grunt work while they focus on growth.

This is wild. I’ve got Claude acting as an actual employee inside my ecommerce business.

The other option after those two options is to acquire a high-quality skill, like the skills that AI is able to teach you in short time now. By owning and learning those high-quality skills, like coding with AI, you can work toward achieving assets, building a business, buying a business, and adding value to any business.

You either own assets, or hope you can keep a job. We are in an asset ownership race.

That's one thing I loved about the series Suits. These New York attorneys had a basic theme, or at least every episode in the series had a basic theme. No matter how crappy a decision these attorneys made, they turned that decision around and made it the starting point of something successful, some great achievement. Instead of regretting their choices, they accepted it, almost pretending it was a good choice, and turned it into success.

The problems never stop. That is not a sign you are failing. That is business. Client issues. Cash flow. Hiring mistakes. Tech problems. Operational chaos. Every level has problems. The reward for solving one set is a bigger set. Welcome to the game.

@ItsKieranDrew Well now that hits home pretty hard

It’s not about how big your audience is. It’s how much the audience would miss you if you were gone.

Agree. Things are tight and challenging economically for many people so what happens in those moments is it's easy to act out of desperation or super focus on economics without really continuing to focus on expertise, bringing value to the table, detailed work, and truly value add work for others. The key is focus at all costs.

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.” — Carl Jung

There's no better way to gain your confidence back than by gaining superpowers, extraordinary superpowers, and everybody can gain them today with AI. There are so many tools to make you 17 times more efficient and effective than you've been in the past. Claude Code, Perplexity, Hermes, all these tools, take a little bit of a learning curve to acquire and learn but once you have them you are operating on steroids. I know it's another positive AI post but the reality is what it is.

Elon Musk was right when he said, "Go Get your fucking confidence back. Without it, you will fail miserably no matter how skilled or smart you are."

Hey @mattepst — Respect. You mentioned your early success on Shopify. Would love to hear that story if you have it posted somewhere. Quick value drop: I just added something to my store that almost nobody’s talking about yet. Shopify quietly rolled out native llms.txt support last week. This is basically your store’s “AI instruction manual.” When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or any AI “where can I buy a premium outdoor fireplace?”, the AI no longer has to guess or scrape old data — it gets clean, structured info straight from your store: products, collections, shipping, returns, contact, etc. I had my Brand Operator AI (AI agent Athena) pull every live collection URL, generate a custom llms.txt.liquid file, and push it via the Shopify API. Took ~10 minutes total and it’s now live. Anyone can be an early-mover on this. Agentic AI assisted ecommerce is coming fast if not already here — the stores with proper machine-readable data will get recommended first. Same window SEO had in 2008 I would say. As a helping-people-to-go-viral expert would love your opinion.

I’m shooting my shot… I do the most viral launches on X. I’m autisticly obsessed about how algorithms work, what creates virality and how to tell the best story. My first big achievement in business was my Shopify 100k order plaque I used that money to build my 70 person agency shown media An announcement like this deserves to get MILLIONs of views and go extraordinary viral @harleyf let me do Shopifys next big release on x If it’s not the most viral launch you’ve ever done don’t pay me a cent If it is? We break the internet together. You put me in touch with your team last time, I didn’t hear back. Let’s re engage 🤝

@Codie_Sanchez Number 2 is the immediate tell tale sign imo

Underrated signs of a high performer: • They hate small talk. • Are not okay with wasting your time. • Do what they say they’re going to do. • Do it with urgency. • Are obsessed, not just interested. What am I missing?

@kurtinc Thanks for the heads up. I'll be creating an AI employee or AI agent to oversee this first thing tomorrow. So many great things are happening. So many new features are being added and it's only going to get better.

Agentic Storefronts dashboard is live in your Shopify Admin as a Sales Channel. On a store we work with: ChatGPT is 0.27% of revenue, +42% MoM. It's a small slice with a steep curve. The right approach here is "monitor monthly" not "overhaul everything."

@SahilBloom The good news is now we have more tools to give us superpowers than ever before so those who are willing to act can do so with 10 to 20 times more effectiveness than before. I revamped my Shopify store without any employees and I'm moving it along 17 times faster than ever before

Life advice nobody told you: Talent and intelligence are overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong. The truth is that talent and intelligence are abundant. Courage is not. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t. I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. It's taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things.

The founder of our stablecoin that we hope to launch within a month exactly fits this description. He exempted 110 companies that will all have their own RWA token and be a part of the stablecoin ecosystem. He is building all of those websites by himself on MANUS AI with a little bit of help from me once in a while lol. He is closing mega-million-dollar, billion-dollar deals and starts a new company or company idea every day. He sees and uses traditional economics and capital markets like the stock market but combines it with tokenization of all assets in a yield-bearing stablecoin that doesn't seem to have its match. He definitely fits what you're talking about.

The best founders I know move at a speed that looks impossible to normal people. They compress 1 months in 3 days. They ship 3 different ideas in a week. Test 3 growth channels in one day. Wake up the next morning and make 20 new videos with different hooks. following up relentlessly Operate 24/7, always talking to users and answering questions Do hundreds of calls in a day. Find and Schedule 200 investor meetings back-to-back for weeks. Decide with 30% of the information and iterate/pivot while everyone else is still polishing their logo. They are constantly in motion. Most startups don’t die from bad ideas. They die from waiting too long. Speed creates momentum. Momentum creates luck. Luck creates opportunity. When in doubt, move faster.