Damian Player

your timeline convinced you AI is in a bubble. talk to a boomer above the age 35 for 5 minutes. most people don’t even know what claude is.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ kind of wild when you zoom out.

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this is fucking wild! Anthropic interviewed 80,000 people in 159 countries about AI. here's the TLDR: >people don't want AI to replace their work. they want to do better work and go home earlier. >81% said AI already moved them closer to what they actually want out of life >a butcher with zero tech background used AI to build a company from scratch. never touched a PC before. >a mute guy built a text-to-speech bot and now talks to friends in real time. thought it was impossible. >someone got the right diagnosis after 9 years of being wrong. AI connected the dots doctors missed. >entrepreneurs and people with side projects are winning the most. institutions are winning the least. >the people most excited about AI helping them emotionally are also the most scared of needing it. the west sees AI as a threat to what they have. the rest of the world sees it as the first real shot they've ever gotten. that's the whole story.

@dylangans Most don’t get to the point to go deep. Get caught up in the little shit.

@damianplayer Still have to go execute, not that easy. Bad time to keep coming up with tons of ideas — you’ll have 50 businesses and no revenue. Still need to go deep

the “idea guy” is winning right now.. and it used to be an insult. whoever has the idea and the taste to ship it wins. execution is handled. brand, site, SEO, CRM, payments, agents bringing you leads. procrastination is no longer a reasonable excuse.

@samtilston agree.

@damianplayer Taste is the only thing AI can’t automate for you yet

@aiedge_ My g!

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@applighten fade landscaping - AI setups for SMBs.. think claude as a service guaranteed $120K/year business within 6 months.

@damianplayer What if I don’t want to build a landscaping business tho

@godstopgunner many such cases haha

@damianplayer The sh^t I’m building rn, is mostly through copy/paste 😂

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@jamesclift Durable build me a business that offers "claude-as-a-service" to SMBs.. the business is called agentlayer

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@infobodie the gurus also haven’t actually sold anything.. selling voice agents to donut shops for $500/m is a race to the bottom.

@damianplayer selling ai to mid market is so much better than selling it small businesses and mom and pop shops like all the gurus preach

@cultured Goated.

Embed payments, embed payouts, give your users wallets, and let your users chat. Implement on iOS and web in a few minutes. Would love to have had these components at age 16 in AI era.

@robimargz Incredible market.

@damianplayer FOR SURE. Agreed with this and they going to start feeling fomo soon too so it's a great market to target.

the biggest AI opportunity right now is mid-market companies ($5M-$50M+ revenue): • too big for cookie-cutter solutions • too small for enterprise consulting • drowning in manual workflows • have budget but zero AI expertise (most companies) they’re stuck with serious cash but frozen by AI paralysis.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ markets open to those with balls & a cold email sequence.

@_conyay_east 😏😏

@damianplayer This is exactly the ICP we’re building for. Mid-market is where the real leverage is right now. Would love to compare notes, let’s talk.

@SolutionsCay why not both? one leads to the other.

@damianplayer i think a better play is to stop middle-manning and become the mid-market company. offer a real product and service and use AI to power the ops.

@abhijitwts article dropping today. TLDR: JVs with industry vets.

@damianplayer How do you build the distribution around this?

@vatsalcodesit exactly. hard for most.

@damianplayer whoever can translate ai into clear roi without the buzzwords wins that segment

@1RustyMac Let’s goo! Great article

@damianplayer This is the small guys solution. Finally a level playing field 👇🏻

@AkashSharm44677 Distribution + execution >

@damianplayer This is literally the gap I’m building for. Mid-market businesses have the budget, the problem, and the pain — they just lack someone who can translate AI into actual workflows they can use tomorrow. Whoever cracks this distribution owns the next 5 years.