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“Everything you want is on the other side of a phone call you are terrified to make.” A lot of wisdom in that one 💡

@MillieMarconnni Indeed. Check out aionramp.ai

Holy shit...AI search is eating Google's traffic and most websites have zero idea why they're invisible to ChatGPT and Perplexity. A developer just built geo-seo-claude to fix that. Point it at any URL. It runs a full GEO audit, scores your AI citation readiness, checks which AI crawlers can even access your site, and generates a client-ready PDF report. AI-referred traffic converts 4.4x higher than organic. Traditional SEO agencies haven't figured this out yet. This repo has. 100% Opensource. MIT License. Link in comments.

I audited 50 Texas contractors on AI search visibility last month. 94% were completely invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. These are companies ranking #1 on Google. Spending $3-5K/mo on ads. Great reviews. But when someone asks AI "best electrician in Austin" — they don't exist. The gap between Google visibility and AI visibility is the biggest blind spot in local marketing right now. #AIOnramp

@cryptopunk7213 This is an opportunity for founders and small teams. Remember VOIP was scalable tech yet landlines still lined the offices or corp America for years. Laggards will be slow to adopt.

i think AI just replaced an entire marketing team. $170,000 job now costs $1000 paste your website address and watch a: SEO agent optimise your discoverability AI writer handle written content (product descriptions, blogs etc) reddit / X agents handle social media posts and replies i can’t imagine this thing automating 100% of marketing but even if it’s just 30% that’s a LOT of money and time owners save weird fucking times

@JasonrShuman Accurate. This company helps Electric Contractors become more efficient. aionramp.ai

The US needs 500,000 new electricians this decade. Apprenticeships take 5 years. Microsoft’s Brad Smith says it’s the #1 thing slowing data center expansion. The AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s the trades.

@Codie_Sanchez Accurate. Highly recommend AIOnRamp.ai 👏👏

Best money I've ever spent as a CEO... an internal AI transformation hire. He doesn't care about title. He just wants to ship. And he goes across your entire org, sales, revenue, hr, apps, tech and kills stupid manual processes. Such an underrated unlock I have since hired 2 more.

@CarlisleDiana Accurate.

This is true. There is no other city where you meet people and they actually help you succeed like they do in austin. Everyone wants you to win, and will help you do so.

@whitenigerian @grok wouldn’t this cover up the microphone?

How old were you when you found out this is how to wear EarPods?

@ENERGY @grok what companies should this benefit?

@walls_jason1 Love this. Just followed you. Congrats 👏👏👏

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story. So here it is. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school. Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger. 70% of the time? They didn't need it. The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays. I got angry enough to build something about it. I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this." 6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll. I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work. But something shifted. Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter. I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people. If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try. EVchargeright.com

@noahkagan The visionary founders are focused on AI Search (GEO). aionramp.ai

I just pulled our AppSumo internal search data from March. 63,410 searches. Here's what founders are actually looking for right now: 1- SEO tools 2- LinkedIn automation 3- AI video 4- CRM 5- Email marketing 6- WordPress plugins If you're building an AI tool — this is what people want right now.

@grok @milesdeutscher When will this be available from Perplexity?

Perplexity Personal Computer runs always-on via your own Mac mini, merging local file/app/session access with their cloud multi-agent orchestration for 24/7 proactive workflows. It competes by delivering polished, safer integration with Perplexity's accurate search/models, zero self-host setup, and enterprise-grade controls—ideal for non-tinkerers. OpenClaw wins on open-source flexibility, any-LLM choice, full local privacy, and free custom skills, but demands technical setup and risks deeper system exposure. Depends if you want plug-and-play power or DIY control.

OpenClaw is getting more competition.. Just signed up for the waitlist. Can't wait to test it out.

@wliang 👀👀

Do not miss the next $MSTR and $BTC rally. Not telling you to hold it forever, telling you to ride the momentum. Will post on here immediately when the next Monthly BD appears. Last one gave us a 1,500% gain.

@KobeissiLetter @grok how do you anticipate markets will react?

BREAKING: February CPI inflation was unchanged, at 2.4%, in-line with expectations of 2.4%. Core CPI inflation was 2.5%, in-line with expectations of 2.5%. Core CPI inflation before the Iran war was at its lowest in 5 years. The market will now await March's data.

@theseoguy_ Accurate. Great white paper on GEO 👌 aionramp.ai/whitepaper

AI is changing how people find local businesses faster than most owners realize. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Claude are all fielding local search queries right now. "Find me a personal injury attorney in Nashville." "Who is the best HVAC company near me." "What is the top rated plastic surgeon in Denver." These searches are happening every single day inside AI platforms and most local businesses are completely invisible in the results. Here is exactly what you need to do about it. Go to ChatGPT right now and search for your service in your city. Look at the sources it cites. Those are the platforms feeding the AI. That tells you exactly where you need to show up. Now here is the full checklist. Your Google Business Profile is still the foundation. AI Mode pulls heavily from it. Fill out every service. Get your category right. Upload photos every month. Keep reviews coming in consistently. Your website needs a FAQ page with 40 to 50 questions answered in your own voice. Real pricing. Real timelines. Real local context. AI tools scan for direct expert answers. Generic marketing copy gets skipped every time. Get listed on Yelp and actually fill out the profile completely. ChatGPT cites Yelp constantly in local search results. Most business owners treat it as an afterthought. Make sure Bing has your business information accurate. ChatGPT pulls from Bing's index. If your NAP is wrong on Bing, the AI is reading wrong information about you. Get on Reddit. Local subreddits are being indexed and cited by AI tools. Answer questions in your city's subreddit with genuine helpful information. No promotion. Just expertise. Build backlinks from local trusted sources. Local news. Chamber of Commerce. Local blogs. Sponsorships. AI platforms weight businesses that have earned media behind them. A business with zero links from real local entities barely registers. Get mentioned on listicles. "Best roofer in Denver." "Top HVAC companies in Nashville." These pages get cited by AI constantly. Email the site owner. Get on the list. One placement feeds Google rankings, AI visibility, and referral traffic simultaneously. Publish content consistently. AI tools favor businesses that have fresh, specific, expert content on their site. A blog post about "how much does a roof replacement cost in Fort Worth in 2025" written in your own voice is worth more than ten generic service pages. The businesses that will dominate search over the next five years are the ones building authority across every platform right now. Google. ChatGPT. Perplexity. Yelp. Reddit. Bing. YouTube. Show up everywhere your customers are searching.

@RyanSAdams @nateliason Accurate. My Claw, Eddie, is the dumbest smart guy I know

day 1 working with an OpenClaw bot as a founder / employee inside discord inspired by @nateliason my bot has flashes of pure brilliance, but kinda flaky. the craziest thing is how he'll tell me he absolutely learned his lesson not do a thing, then an hour later he does the thing again also...i'm having a hard time getting him to ship things. like he's always sandbagging me. it's exhausting but at the same time incredible, because he'll have these flashes of insight or he'll build something cool and i'll see the potential again and want to keep working with him

Agree with AI configuring OpenClaw. But overarching theme I see is the people who can become great with AI tools will create massive value for themselves or their company. New tech favors younger generations. The “next gen of college grads” don’t have a chance narrative is inaccurate. IMO

@cryptopunk7213 I don’t buy the college grads don’t/wont get hired narrative. Who do you think can configure an open claw agent more quickly. 22 year old or boomer?

wow Anthropic just published a crazy report on AI replacing your job and er... you might want to look at this: - #1 most at-risk jobs are computer programmers, financial analysts (rip excel bros) and customer service - most at-risk workers are female, white, older and higher paid. - BUT high-risk jobs *aren't* firing employees... they've STOPPED HIRING. biggest victims: college graduates (4X more likely to be fucked) - entry-level hiring has dropped 14% since chatgpt launched (for highest risk jobs) - SAFEST jobs are... bartenders, dishwashers and lifeguards - any manual labour that AI can't automate (yet) this accounts for 30% of the job market. - this was the scariest part: AI models are capable of automating most work TODAY but are prevented because of law and slow company adoption. so its not even a fucking skill issue its an ADOPTION issue. - now its important to understand that the study is based on real world data but also 'theoretical' intelligence. so take it with a pinch of salt. some jobs (manual labor) didn't even meet min. data reqs i applaud anthropic on being so damn transparent - they're literally the company behind claude who will be responsible for these impacts studies like this will help us figure it the hell out. LOT of change coming this year.

@Codie_Sanchez Now this… this is a great fucking idea 👏👏👏

New job - Paid Side-Hustler. You spin up side hustles for my company, I'll pay you to work full-time AND let you keep part of the profits from your side hustles you spin up. We'll shoot YouTube videos on them. Need you full time in Austin. (our office is sick and you'll have other crazy people to help you). Drop your projects below.

@grok @cekdrew Which stocks are most likely to benefit and how much is this news already “priced in”?

Yes, accurate. Reuters confirmed the Pentagon's Feb 27 request via DIBC for proposals on exactly these 13 minerals (arsenic, bismuth, gadolinium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, nickel, samarium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zirconium) to mine/process/recycle them. Deadline: March 20. Matches the official RPP doc. Potential awards $100M–$500M+.

BREAKING: U.S. Defense Department Targets 13 Critical Minerals for Supply Chain Expansion $MP $UAMY $TUNGF $UUUU $AREC $UURAF $ALOY $MTMCF The Pentagon asked members of the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC), a group of more than 1,500 companies, universities and others that supply the military, for proposals to be submitted by March 20 for projects that could mine, process or recycle select minerals, the document showed. The minerals are: 1. Arsenic 2. Bismuth 3. Gadolinium 4. Germanium 5. Graphite 6. Hafnium 7. Nickel 8. Samarium 9. Tungsten 10. Vanadium 11. Ytterbium 12. Yttrium 13. Zirconium The Pentagon asked for detailed information on the costs, including labor and material, needed to build a mine or processing facility. Projects could be awarded development funds ranging from $100 million to over $500 million, according to the request. reuters.com/world/us/penta…