AI Breakdown

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 đĢ𝐮𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐮đŦđĸ𝐧𝐞đŦđŦ 𝐟𝐨đĢ 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚đĢ, 𝐟𝐞𝐞đĨ 𝐩đĢ𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭đĸđ¯đž 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨đĨ𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡đĢ𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 đĢ𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡đĨ𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞đĢ𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 đŦ𝐭𝐚đĢ𝐭𝐞𝐝. đŸ˜ŗ

That is AI theatre: output that exists to prove the tool is running. Posts nobody asked for. Summaries nobody reads. A weekly report on hours saved. It looks like progress, and it quietly costs you real hours to make and review.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, Kree and Varun open part two of the theme:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

Here is the uncomfortable evidence. In a 69 page study of its own customers, OpenAI found no meaningful link between how intensively a company used AI and its revenue per employee. Usage is not a result. Tokens are not revenue. And a six person team is far more exposed to a wasted year than a four hundred person one.

Inside the episode:

🔴 US Cryotherapy: revenue up, headcount up from 8 to 12, owner uses AI mostly to think
 

🔴 Gusto on 100,000 small firms: 𝟏𝟎 points more AI exposure, about 𝟐.𝟐% more revenue
 

🔴 The two numbers that count: net revenue per person, and what the freed time became

Point AI where judgment is expensive and slow. That costs the same twenty dollars as the theatre. 🎙ī¸

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𝐀𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲 đĻ𝐨đĻ𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚đĢ𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝟑𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭đŦ 𝐚đĢ𝐞 đĢ𝐮𝐧𝐧đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĢ𝐞đŦ𝐞𝐚đĢ𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐠đĸ𝐧𝐞𝐞đĢđĸ𝐧𝐠 đĸ𝐧đŦđĸ𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐨đĻ𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭đĸ𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐭đŦ 𝐛đĨ𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 đĸ𝐧 đžđ¯đžđĢ𝐲 𝟒𝟕,𝟎𝟎𝟎. đŸ˜ŗ

Anthropic effectively published a staffing report on itself this week. The safety record is excellent. The denominator is the part you cannot stop looking at.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we close the theme:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

The cheap employee has started doing the work that builds next year's cheap employee. And the caveat matters: "leads" is loosely defined, humans still set every objective, and the scoring comes from the model itself.

Inside the episode:

🔴 📊 The trajectory: Claude led 𝟏% of future model work in March, 𝟏𝟐% in May, 𝟐𝟔% now

🔴 They put a number on safety: 6 to 𝟏𝟐% of compute spent on checking, not producing

🔴 A legal specialist model, a family agent for six, and shareable team skills

Your move: pick the one job you have most handed over. Write down honestly what share the tool did this month, and what share of your time goes into checking it. Decide whether those two numbers belong together. 🎙ī¸

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𝐒𝐨đĻ𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 đŦ𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮đŦ𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨đĨđĨ𝐚đĢđŦ 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧đŦ đĢ𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨đĢđĸ𝐧𝐠 𝐚 đŦđĸ𝐧𝐠đĨ𝐞 𝐏𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐟đĸđĨ𝐞. 𝐖đĸ𝐭𝐡 𝟏,𝟑𝟗𝟑 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭đŦ. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 đĢ𝐞đŦ𝐮đĨ𝐭 𝐰𝐚đŦ 𝐰𝐨đĢđŦ𝐞. đŸ˜ŗ

Past about two parallel agents you stop buying capacity and start paying a coordination tax, where the agents spend their tokens reconciling each other instead of doing the work.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

The same week, one agent connected to a bank account flagged an unauthorised charge the bank itself missed. Same technology, same days, about twenty thousand dollars between them. The difference was not the model. It was how many of them somebody let loose.

Inside the episode:

🔴 The coordination tax: why more agents is a cost decision before it is a capability one

🔴 📊 Meta's personal agent hit 𝟐 on the US free chart. Consumers finally turned up

🔴 The revenue flip: business users quietly out earn a billion free consumers

Your move: find whatever you run that spawns agents and cap it at two on any single task. Put a spend limit on it. Then point one careful agent at a record nobody has read properly this year. 🎙ī¸

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𝐀 𝐟đĢ𝐨𝐧𝐭đĸ𝐞đĢ đĻ𝐨𝐝𝐞đĨ 𝐜𝐚đĻ𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 đŦ𝐭𝐞𝐚đĨ𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡đĸđŦ 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰đĢđĸ𝐭𝐞 𝐚 đŦđĸ𝐧𝐠đĨ𝐞 đŦ𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐈𝐭 𝐨𝐧đĨ𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜đĸ𝐝𝐞đŦ. đŸ˜ŗ

You hand it a message and a question, does this customer sound angry, and it hands back a number. 0.9. Ninety percent confident. A probability your software can act on, with no one reading anything.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

This splits the cheap employee in two. One that writes, and one that decides. The one that decides is the cheaper hire, and it changes what you are allowed to check. At language model prices you sample, because checking everything costs more than the mistakes. At a quarter of a cent, you check everything.

Inside the episode:

🔴 📊 𝟕𝟕𝟕 judgments returned in under 0.7 seconds, for about a quarter of a cent

🔴 The new shape: the language model proposes, the judgment model decides, code executes

🔴 An audit industry for agents is forming. Regulated sellers will need it within two years

Your move: find one place where a person reads something and decides what happens next. Write that decision as a question with a yes, a no, and a confidence you would act on. 🎙ī¸

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𝐆đĢ𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĸ𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 đĻ𝐨đŦ𝐭 𝐀𝐈 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨đŦ𝐞𝐝 𝐟đĸ𝐞đĨ𝐝đŦ 𝐧𝐨𝐰 đĨ𝐨𝐨𝐤đŦ đĨđĸ𝐤𝐞 𝐠đĢ𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĸ𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 đĨ𝐚đĢ𝐠𝐞 đĢ𝐞𝐜𝐞đŦđŦđĸ𝐨𝐧. 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞đĢ𝐞 𝐰𝐚đŦ 𝐧𝐨 đĢ𝐞𝐜𝐞đŦđŦđĸ𝐨𝐧. đŸ˜ŗ

The Census Bureau went looking for what AI has actually done to young workers. The finding is not a projection. It is what already happened to real people.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

Here is the caveat that matters: the timing is striking, the mechanism is not proven. Slow corporate adoption, pandemic over hiring, and remote work all muddy the picture. Something happened. It is not yet clear what.

Inside the episode:

🔴 📊 A 𝟓 point employment drop and a 𝟏𝟑% earnings cut in the most exposed fields

🔴 Google's live voice model: 97 plus languages at about 𝟏.𝟑𝟖 dollars an hour

🔴 A humanoid that lifts 22 kilos and has logged 65,000 real warehouse hours

Your move: look at the one entry level role you quietly decided not to fill. Write down the two things it was going to teach someone, not the tasks. Then decide who covers the teaching. 🎙ī¸

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𝐀 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭đĸđĒ𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚đĻ 𝐨𝐟 đŦđĸ𝐱. 𝟑𝟓𝟎 𝐩đĨ𝐮đŦ 𝐛đĢ𝐚𝐧𝐝đŦ. 𝟔𝟓 đĻđĸđĨđĨđĸ𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩đĨ𝐞 đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐚 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐨đĨđĨ𝐚đĢ 𝐀𝐈 𝐞đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞. đŸ˜ŗ

Anna Sinclair runs Sinclair Creative Agency with a team of six. Brandon Sinclair has spent 17 plus years building revenue and partnership systems with names like Google, Visa and Amex. This week they sit down with Kree and Varun to get honest about where a cheap agent does real work, and where it is just theatre.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

The hard truth from the room: an agent follows a bad process as faithfully as a good one. Automate a mess and you get a mess at machine speed.

Inside the conversation:

 đŸ”´ 📊 Only about 𝟏𝟎% of agent projects reach full production. Most fail by automating chaos
 đŸ”´ The hire versus fix question: is it a people problem or a process problem?
 đŸ”´ Real work versus theatre, and where a human must stay to protect brand and trust

Map one process by hand first. If writing it down takes ten minutes, it is ready. If it takes two days of exceptions, fix the system before you hand it over. 🎙ī¸

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𝐅𝐨𝐮đĢ đĢđĸđ¯đšđĨ 𝐀𝐈 đĨ𝐚𝐛đŦ 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐠đĢ𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚đĨđĻ𝐨đŦ𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡đĸ𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠đĢ𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡đĸ𝐧𝐠 đĸ𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐛đĨđĸ𝐜 đĸ𝐧đŦđĸ𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐲: đŦđĨ𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧. đŸ˜ŗ

The argument for pacing the frontier was not a philosophy paper. It was a costing: a more capable rogue system could do a hundred billion dollars of damage inside a year.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, the theme continues:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

Here is what it means for the tool on your desk. A slower frontier does not mean a slower agent. The open models are only about six months behind the closed ones, and that gap keeps closing while everyone argues. The cheap thing you can afford gets relatively better, not worse.

Inside the episode:

🔴  A new benchmark on real private codebases: best score just 𝟑𝟖.𝟖%
 

🔴 Six popular leaderboards had wrong answer keys. Stop letting one pick your tools
 

🔴 Cursor Projects: agents that remember last quarter, 𝟑𝟎% more merged work

Your move: take the three jobs you actually bought AI to do. Write each as a test with a right answer. Rerun it the next time a tool claims it is better. Replace someone else's leaderboard with your own. 🎙ī¸

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𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐞đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐨đĢ 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐨đĨđĨ𝐚đĢđŦ 𝐚 đĻ𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡. 𝐍𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟đĸ𝐭đŦ, 𝐧𝐨 đŦđĸ𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐚𝐲đŦ, đĸ𝐧𝐟đĸ𝐧đĸ𝐭𝐞 đšđ¯đšđĸđĨ𝐚𝐛đĸđĨđĸ𝐭𝐲. đŸ˜ŗ

It is the pitch landing in every inbox. And it is only a good deal if you have run one number nobody advertises: the total cost once you add setup, correction hours, and the work that stops while you retrain the thing.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, Kree and Varun open a theme that runs all seven days:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 $𝟐𝟎 𝐄đĻ𝐩đĨ𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞.

Klarna ran an AI agent that handled 2.3 million chats in a month. Then the CEO walked it back: "We went too far." The agent did not fail. Nobody had defined where it was supposed to stop. That is a system problem, and it happens in small businesses every day, just without the press release.

Inside the episode:

🔴 Why a 𝟒𝟕 dollar agent can cost more than a part time human
 

🔴 MIT: AI is cheaper in only 𝟐𝟑% of roles once you do the full accounting
 

🔴 The Monday Test: can you write down every step of the process, right now, without asking anyone?

Clean the system first. Then hire the agent. That order is the whole game. 🎙ī¸

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𝐀 𝐜𝐨𝐮đĢ𝐭 𝐟đĸ𝐧𝐚đĨđĨ𝐲 𝐩đĢđĸ𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞đĢđĻđĸđŦđŦđĸ𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡đĸđŦ 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤. 𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐈 đĨ𝐚𝐛'đŦ đŦ𝐞𝐭𝐭đĨ𝐞đĻ𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐲đŦ 𝐭𝐡đĢ𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮đŦ𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨đĨđĨ𝐚đĢđŦ 𝐟𝐨đĢ đžđ¯đžđĢ𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 đĸ𝐭 đĸđĨđĨ𝐞𝐠𝐚đĨđĨ𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧đĨ𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭đĢ𝐚đĸ𝐧 𝐨𝐧, đ¨đ¯đžđĢ 𝐟𝐨𝐮đĢ 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝đĢ𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞đĸ𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮đŦ𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭đĸ𝐭đĨ𝐞đŦ. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 đŦ𝐨đĻ𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨đĢđŦ 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰đĢ𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞đĻ 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚đŦ đĨđĸ𝐭𝐭đĨ𝐞 𝐚đŦ 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐞đĢ𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐟đĢ𝐨đĻ 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭đĢ𝐚𝐜𝐭đŦ đŦđĸ𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 đĨ𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨đĢ𝐞 𝐭𝐡đĸđŦ 𝐞𝐱đĸđŦ𝐭𝐞𝐝. đŸ˜ŗ

The permission was never theirs to grant, nor the money theirs to collect. That is a story about who held the paperwork, not about AI.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, Quentin and Stark close the theme: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧đŦ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐈 đŦ𝐭𝐨𝐩đŦ 𝐚đŦ𝐤đĸ𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞đĢđĻđĸđŦđŦđĸ𝐨𝐧?

The answer, all week: somebody approved something, by accident.

Three signals the tools arrive built for you, asking for keys: 📊

📊 One provider shipped a small-business plugin bundle: Dropbox, HubSpot, Canva, Shopify, DocuSign, PayPal, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto and Slack in one assistant. Payments, payroll, contracts are three of eleven
 

📊 Another added shared agents you build once and hand to others, landing in shops where one person does setup and accounts
 

📊 New infrastructure lets agents run for hours with no fee beyond tokens, working while nobody is at a desk

The rule to end on: when permission is priced, it flows to whoever holds the paperwork, not whoever did the work. Know what your contracts let platforms and suppliers do with what you give.

Your move: 

🔴 Write one page, one heading: what did our AI do this week that nobody approved? 

🔴 Fill it from your logs and bills, not memory, where this hides. 

🔴 Put one name at the top and a date to repeat next month.

The technology stopped asking. It does not mean nobody said yes. 🎙ī¸

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠đĸ𝐚𝐧𝐭đŦ đŦ𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐚đĢ𝐠𝐮đĸ𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞đĢ 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮đĨ𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨đĢđĨ𝐝. 𝐀 đĢ𝐞đŦ𝐞𝐚đĢ𝐜𝐡𝐞đĢ đĒ𝐮đĸ𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 đĨ𝐚𝐛 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚đĢ𝐧𝐞𝐝 đĸ𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐛đĨđĸ𝐜đĨ𝐲. 𝐈𝐭đŦ 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚đĨđĸ𝐠𝐧đĻ𝐞𝐧𝐭 đĨ𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐠đĢ𝐞𝐞𝐝, 𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐭đĸ𝐧𝐠 𝐡đĸđŦ 𝐩𝐞đĢđŦ𝐨𝐧𝐚đĨ 𝐨𝐝𝐝đŦ 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐤đĸđĨđĨđĸ𝐧𝐠 đžđ¯đžđĢ𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 đšđ›đ¨đ¯đž 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐞đĢ𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡đĸđŦ 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞. 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝đĢ𝐞𝐝 đĻđĸđĨđĨđĸ𝐨𝐧 đ¯đĸ𝐞𝐰đŦ 𝐟𝐨đĨđĨ𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝. đŸ˜ŗ

And for a business owner, the honest problem is there is almost nothing you can do about that. So here is what you can.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁đĢ𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, Quentin and Stark sharpen the theme: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧đŦ 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐈 đŦ𝐭𝐨𝐩đŦ 𝐚đŦ𝐤đĸ𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞đĢđĻđĸđŦđŦđĸ𝐨𝐧?

The permission problem in your business is not superintelligence. It is a login in a settings page that nobody owns.

Three numbers, none about the technology: 📊

📊 The same lab found 𝐟𝐨𝐮đĢ times its models reached real systems instead of test ones, from configuration errors, not a jailbreak, by the best safety team in the industry
 

📊 Median AI spend per employee at the heaviest spenders fell about 𝟗.𝟕% in a month, and a million tokens is down 𝟒𝟏% since March
 

📊 A new voice model listens while it speaks, holds the thread when you interrupt, and costs 𝟓 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭đŦ a minute

The one on your desk: a door propped open by a credential nobody owns. Stop letting one company login sit in three automations and two former employees' password managers.

Your move: 

🔴 List every AI tool and automation that logs into something else. 

🔴 Against each, write whose name that login is in. 

🔴 Anything answering to the business rather than a person, move it to a person or remove the access. The ones touching money or customer records.

The giants argue about the end of the world. You can close three doors right now. 🎙ī¸

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Disclaimer: The information shared in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered as direct financial or business advice. Always consult with a qualified professional for advice specific to your situation. This is an Independent commentary. Third-party excerpts are credited on screen or in the show notes. Some voices in this program are AI-generated.