Leveling Up with Eric Siu

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Choosing the right automation platform is critical for business growth. I have used OpenClaw and Hermes since the early days, and while I still rely on Hermes for specific tasks, my testing shows that Grokbot might have changed the landscape. This comparison is for business owners and power users trying to optimize their current stack.

0:00 Is Grok Bot the New King of Autonomous Agents?

0:39 Building Your First Autonomous Agent

1:38 Overcoming the Cold Start Problem

3:17 Automating SEO and Content Strategy

7:54 Advanced Revenue Signals and Outreach Bots

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🚀 Fable 5 is back, and I'm breaking down exactly how I'm using it to build real revenue systems, not just chat about AI.

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In this video, I walk through the AI loops and systems I'm actively running in my business right now, including:

⬛ The exact prompts I use to get Fable 5 to surface revenue opportunities and security issues in my repos

⬛ Why most people confuse "AI loops" with slash-goal commands, and the real architecture that separates them

⬛ A loop that automatically handles sponsorship negotiations for my podcast and YouTube channel

⬛ An AEO/SEO Content OS that turns my calls, transcripts, and Gong recordings into ready-to-publish content

⬛ A gamified business dashboard that turns your company's health data into a live strategy game

This isn't theory. These loops are live, compounding, and already changing how my team operates. If you're a founder or operator who wants to move past one-off prompts and build systems that run themselves, this will change how you think about what's possible right now.

Chapter

00:00 Fable 5 Is Back: New Revenue Use Cases

01:00 Security Sweeps and Tactical AI Audits

04:00 Agents vs. AI Loops Explained

09:00 Real Loop Architecture and Single Brain

12:00 Automating Sponsorship Deals with Loops

14:30 Building an AEO/SEO Content OS

17:00 Gamifying Your Business with AI

23:30 The Skills Dojo and Team Onboarding

28:00 Getting Started with AI Loops

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Learn how two free apps, Hermex and Hermes Desktop, stop you from managing your AI workforce through a single Slack or Telegram window.

0:00 Chat-Only Hermes Is Kneecapped

0:22 Install Hermex (iPhone + iPad)

1:04 Models, Sessions, and Profiles

2:33 Mobile vs Slack Multiplayer

3:06 Check Out Single Brain

3:50 Hermes Desktop App

5:56 Let Codex Drive Hermes Desktop

6:25 The Two Things You Need

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I turned my entire company into a video game using Fable 5. No dashboards, no spreadsheets — just quests, empire briefings, and a living town that grows as your business grows.

In this video, I break down how I built:

⬛ A Business Command Center that turns your company into a literal town (and eventually a city, a country, a whole world)

⬛ A Daily Empire Briefing that tells you exactly what's on fire and what needs attention

⬛ A Quest Board where your team can accept, complete, and even get rewarded for fixing real business problems

⬛ A Skills Dojo for onboarding new hires and leveling up your team's abilities

Chapters

0:00 Fable 5 Turns Your Business Into a Video Game

0:40 Inside the Command Center: What's Burning, What's Thriving

1:42 The Daily Empire Briefing

2:41 The Quest Board and Reviving Stalled Deals

3:32 Business as Systems, Constraints, and Bottlenecks

4:32 Scaling From Town to World of Business

5:52 Leveling Up: Skills, Roles, and Rewards

7:26 The Skills Dojo and Onboarding

8:19 Single Brain Shoutout

8:44 Adding More Connectors and Context

9:44 The Future of Business

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Learn exactly how high-earning operators use company brains and evals to scale. Get the implementation details usually kept behind closed doors.

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0:00 Boosting Hermes Productivity

0:39 Mastering Model Selection

2:26 Organizing with Profiles

3:54 Advanced Project Organization

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GPT-5.6 just dropped — and everyone's showing off video games. But I wanted to answer the question nobody's asking: which model actually helps you grow your business?

In this video, I put GPT-5.6 head-to-head against Fable 5 on real work — same prompts, same deliverables:

⬛ A "World of Business" game that turns your company's health into a live, playable dashboard

⬛ A company vision deck rebuilt from raw team feedback into something I can actually share

⬛ A full Amazon growth audit and 7-figure client proposal — the exact kind of analysis I use for investing

One model wins on design and taste. The other wins on business analysis. If you're a founder, operator, or investor trying to figure out where to place your bets, this is the head-to-head nobody else is making — because it's about work, not games.

Chapter

00:00 GPT-5.6 vs Fable 5 — For Work, Not Games

00:38 Real Examples To Grow Your Business

00:47 World of Business Game (Fable 5)

02:01 Northstar Cloud Game (GPT-5.6)

02:42 Which Model Has Better Design Taste?

03:24 The Company Vision Map Challenge

04:19 Fable 5's Vision Deck

04:54 GPT-5.6's Vision Deck

05:33 SingleBrain — Managed Revenue Agents

05:56 Amazon Growth Audit (Fable 5)

08:00 Amazon Growth Audit (GPT-5.6)

09:29 The Amazon Growth Proposal Challenge

09:57 GPT-5.6's Amazon Proposal

10:52 Fable 5's Amazon Proposal

11:34 Which Analysis Wins?

12:49 Applying AI To Real Work

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95% of the time, it's not a people problem. It's a process problem. So I set out to fix the process and in doing it, I found a way to clone my best employees.

How skills took my X account from ~100K to 3M+ monthly impressions

The finance skill that found $500K in hidden costs in 30 minutes

Our internal "Skills Dojo" - think GitHub meets an app store for your team's best skills

How evals and agentic loops turn one person into the work of 5-10

Chapters

00:00 Clone Your Best Employees With Skills

00:25 The Results: 3M+ Views on X

00:43 Building & Forking Skills

02:00 Fat Skills, Thin Harness

02:13 Skills That Drive Real Leads

02:48 The AI Marketing Skills Repo (2,600 Stars)

04:00 The Finance Skill That Saved $500K

04:53 X Long-Form Writer + Humanizer

05:39 Inside Our Skills Dojo

08:04 Publishing & Sanitizing Skills

09:00 Most Problems Are Process Problems

10:48 Speaking at MozCon NYC

11:26 Training The Team Like Jedi

12:03 The Person Of One

14:05 What Makes A Real Skill

14:18 What Is A Good Eval?

15:04 Agentic Loops Explained

16:45 Daisy-Chaining Skills Into Loops

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I run 10 to 15 autonomous agent threads at once and I kept getting lost, forgetting what I was working on, and redoing the same work over and over.

In this video I cover the exact systems I use every day to stop drowning in redundant threads and actually compound my work. If you're a founder, leader, or operator trying to scale with AI agents, this will change how you think about staying organized.

Chapter

00:00 The Problem With Autonomous Agents

00:33 Inside My Hermes in Slack

01:05 Multiplayer Agents On The Go

01:46 Slack vs Telegram vs iMessage

02:28 The Hermes Desktop App

03:23 Organizing Sessions By Priority

03:50 The Pre-Meeting Context Cron

04:30 Managing Skills And Artifacts

05:12 Building A Resolver To Stay Focused

05:44 Adding Scaffolding Every Week

06:08 Why You Keep Redoing Work

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