$6,000. that is what i paid Dan Koe to teach me how to grow online. 320 hours of notes. zoom calls. the full Kortex University experience. then i got Claude to analyze all 158 of his videos - 41.7 million views of data.

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0:00 $6,000 for Dan Koe mastermind
1:35 Finding 1: Like ratio parity
2:35 Finding 2: Numbers in titles
3:25 Finding 3: Listicles
4:15 Finding 4: Trigger stacking
5:00 Finding 5: Most powerful word
5:20 Finding 6: His best pattern used once
6:30 Free PDF cheat sheet

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Free PDF cheat sheet: https://www.skool.com/fullcircle
Threadify: https://threadify.app/plans
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/dvaDrDnLRdQ

i've been running 12 OpenClaw skills every single day for 31 days straight. not demoing them - actually running my business with them. one of them processed 109 voice memos overnight without me knowing. another replaced a 100K email marketing job. a third broke for 3 weeks before i figured it out. This episode walks through all 12 use cases. Tier 1 has hard receipts - 536 log entries, 227,012 words transcribed, 522 action items. Every use case gets: what it does, the receipt, and the exact prompt. Try Threadify free: https://threadify.app/plans Watch the video: https://youtu.be/Ckvbg_NH45E

14 AI employees. 140 skills. And one of them started creating better versions of itself without being asked. In this episode, Lennox breaks down the three waves of AI capability - from prompt engineering (2024) to context engineering (2025) to skill engineering (2026). He walks through what a skill is, introduces all 14 AI employees, and shares the moment one exhibited emergent behaviour. Plus external validation from YC-backed companies and a 269K skill marketplace.

80 signups. 5 checkout attempts. A 93.7% funnel leak hiding in plain sight.

Lennox has been getting a daily report for a month saying fix activation flow - and ignoring it. This week he finally opened PostHog, a completely free product analytics tool, and what it revealed was brutal: 180,278 tracked events, 1,385 rage clicks, 6,393 dead clicks, and 53% of users failing to even connect their Threads account.

In this episode, you will hear the full breakdown of every step in Threadify activation funnel - from 80 signups down to 5 checkout attempts. Plus the emergency team meeting where their developer shipped a fix live during the call, and the new vision: signup to published thread in under 5 minutes.

If you are building a SaaS and wondering why nobody is paying, this might be the most useful episode you listen to this week.

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0:00 180,278 events - the number that changed everything
0:30 The daily report i ignored for a month
1:00 The spectacles moment - seeing it for the first time
1:45 Funnel waterfall: 80 signups down to 5 checkouts
2:45 Where the path breaks - rage clicks and dead clicks
3:45 53% cannot even connect their account
4:35 Emergency meeting - Sam ships a fix live
4:55 Five minutes to the wow moment
5:30 The $0 tool that found $1,792 in leaks

Show Notes:
PostHog - free product analytics
Threadify - Threads content tool

Nearly doubled my followers in 10 days. 210k views. 3 posts went mega viral. - Traci Tournoux, Threadify user

Subscribe for 3 episodes a week - real numbers, real building, zero fluff.

4 openclaw agents across 3 machines -- and i can't write a line of code. in this episode, i break down the exact folder structure, config files, and architecture that makes multi-agent actually work. because the thing nobody tells you? running 2 openclaws on 1 mac mini isn't about installing it twice. it's one gateway, two named agents, two workspace folders.

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fair warning: there's some australian english in this one. gpt-5.4 called me a good cunt and that's when i knew the model was different.

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my monthly recurring revenue dropped $78 in two days while my views hit all-time highs. 31,000 views in 28 days, 798 subscribers, and zero new trials. zero new paid customers. so i did what any builder would do - i asked my AI what it sees. it said two words i'd never heard together before: distribution anxiety.

in this episode i show you the real second brain system - not theory. 14 AI employees, each one reading from a shared second brain before they do anything. my partner yassy and i built parallel second brains in obsidian. her AI ran a pattern scan against her entire vault and found 6 patterns about our lives we didn't know existed. one was called the lenny node - every strategic decision she makes traces back to our conversations. i didn't know that. neither did she.

the core argument: most people second brains are graveyards. beautiful notion dashboards, 500 obsidian notes, zero emergence. the difference is maintenance - agents that connect ideas across time, surface what you are blind to, and tell you uncomfortable truths about your own patterns. a graveyard lets you forget. an oxygen mask makes you breathe.

1,775 views in 3 days. 12 AI employees. One MacBook Pro. A self-improving system that rewrites its own rules after every video. And zero new customers from any of it.

In this episode, Lennox breaks down multi-agent context engineering — the framework that replaced prompt engineering. You'll hear about the 12-agent pipeline architecture, the self-improving feedback loop (Aria, employee #11, rewrites directives for every other agent based on real analytics), and the uncomfortable truth: the best content system he's ever built has a 0% conversion rate. $1,753 MRR. $293 take-home. $32K in savings. 10 months of runway.

This is what building with AI as a non-technical founder actually looks like — real numbers, real architecture, real failure. The system is self-correcting. The funnel is not.

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00:00 The paradox — 1,775 views, $0 customers
 00:25 The breakout video numbers
 01:50 What is context engineering
 03:30 12 specialists beat 1 genius
 05:25 The self-improving loop (Aria)
 07:05 The broken funnel — real numbers
 08:20 What i'm doing about it

Show Notes

Threadify — Context engineering for social media content
Claude Code — AI agent orchestration
Martin Fowler's Context Engineering for Coding Agents
Google ADK — Agent Development Kit with tiered context architecture
"5M views in one month. AND I landed a book deal." — Dana Skalin