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In this solo episode I lay out why I believe building agents is the new SaaS: software is shifting from helping you do the work to doing the work with you. I walk through a full playbook — find a niche, pick a workflow with a paycheck attached, shadow the human, spec the agent, build the minimum useful version, sell a pilot like labor, then productize the repeatable parts. I share live market examples like Slang AI for restaurants and Same Day for home services, plus pricing models and a distribution strategy built on workflow teardowns. I close with a 30-day, zero-to-100 plan for launching an agent-first business. This one is for anyone eager to build with AI or simply become more productive.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
01:38 – Building Agents is the new SaaS
04:11 – Pick a valuable workflow
06:12 – Shadow the Human First
09:34 – Build the Minimum Useful Agent
12:50 – The wrapper makes it SaaS
15:50 – Sell the Pilot Like Labor (and Pricing)
18:37 – Own the workflow
21:45 – The Zero-to-100 Plan in 30 Days
24:14 – Closing Thoughts
Key Points
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
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In this solo episode, I lay out the six skills I believe stay valuable as AI grows more capable. I chose these six because each one is open to anyone, each one starts this weekend, and each one rises in value as AI improves. I walk through agents and local models, distribution, robotics, curation, the builder distributor, and IRL community building, with one concrete first rep for every skill. My goal is to hand you one simple, clear map of where the world is heading and exactly how to begin.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
00:57 – Skill 1: Running AI Agents and Local Models
04:51 – Skill 2: Marketers Who Build Distribution
09:03 – Skill 3: Robotics Engineers Who Build and Source Hardware
14:29 – Skill 4: Curators Who Yap and Make Short-Form Video
19:05 – Skill 5: The Builder Distributor
23:11 – Skill 6: IRL Community Builders
27:34 – Build Your Skill Stack
Key Points
Numbered Section Summaries
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
In this episode I sit down with Amir to get tactical about running local AI models as part of a daily workflow. We center on GLM 5.2 from ZAI, how it stacks up against frontier models like Opus 4.8, and how a fusion approach lets you sequence a heavy thinking model with a lighter execution model for the best output at the lowest cost. Amir walks through setup in Cursor and Codex via OpenRouter, shares real token-cost math, and demos GLM 5.2 refining a live app. By the end you will know how to start today, where local models shine, and how model chaining keeps spend in check.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
02:09 – GLM 5.2 and Z AI
04:01 – Specs: 1M context and Terminal Bench 2.1
05:22 – Making sense of benchmark scores
06:42 – Setup in Cursor or Codex with OpenRouter
10:18 – Local model upside: buy a machine, run tasks
11:42 – Token cost: 44 cents versus $2.38
13:36 – Future-proofing with an upfront hardware bet & The Uber subsidy analogy
16:49 – Model chaining and the vision workaround
19:23 – Token maxing vs routing tasks to the right model
20:54 – Answering the "cost is irrelevant" crowd
21:59 – Closing thoughts
Key Points
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
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Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
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Humblytics: https://humblytics.com/?via=community
X/Twitter: https://x.com/amirmxt
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmxt
In this episode I sit down with George Lampropoulos, a 19-year-old founder who turns AI-built mobile apps into real revenue. George walks through his framework for reaching $10K a month—roughly $333 a day—starting with a simple, sellable idea you actually care about and ending with a distribution plan anyone can run. He shares the numbers behind WrestleAI (100K-plus downloads and close to $200K in revenue) and explains why a sharp "gotcha feature" and a clean Instagram funnel do most of the heavy lifting. We also dig into closing influencers, hiring a VA, running paid ads, and reading the metrics that decide whether you grow. If you want a practical, founder-tested playbook for building apps with AI, this one delivers.
George’s $10K/mo app playbook: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/George-app-playbook
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
01:54 – George's track record with WrestleAI
02:36 – How AI unlocks fresh app ideas
06:29 – Reverse-engineering a viral idea from your feed
16:16 – Designing the UI/UX of the app
17:49 – The gotcha feature that sells the app
21:25 – Onboarding that converts
23:04 – Actionable Plan to $10k/mo
28:55 – Outreach as a numbers game
33:35 – Paid ads clearly explained
36:20 – Reading metrics: conversion, ARPU, retention
38:30 – TLDR: a great product earns inbound creators
39:51 – Answering the vibe-coding skeptics
39:51 – Scaling with vibe-coded app
43:35 – Why now is the app-building boom
46:05 – Closing Thoughts
Key Points
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
FIND ME ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg
Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
FIND GEORGE ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://x.com/GeorgeLampro20
In this solo episode, I walk through the implications of the ban of Claude Fable 5 — the most powerful model on the planet and the one I planned to build with — after the US government sent Anthropic a letter. I make the case for local AI by walking through the benefits: intelligence that lives on your own hardware, stays private, runs free after the hardware cost, and keeps working through bans, outages, and price hikes. I lay out the exact order I'd learn it in — runtimes, model-to-hardware matching, quantization, and agents — and I name the specific tools and models I reach for. Then I hand you five startup ideas that exist precisely because intelligence now sits on your desk. The payoff for you is a clear plan to own a resilient layer of your stack starting this week.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
01:20 – The Fable 5 Ban
02:31 – Renting Access vs. Owning Intelligence
03:41 – How a Local Model Works
07:19 – The Local Model Stack
08:45 – Match Model to Machine
10:45 – Pick Your Model (Qwen 3, DeepSeek, Gemma, Llama)
13:09 – Quantization Explained
14:36 –The Local Agent Loop
17:45 – Model Routing (The Real Skill)
18:44 – Five Startup Ideas for the Local-AI Era
22:17 – Closing Thoughts
Key Points
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
FIND ME ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg
Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
Get my Fable 5 prompt pack: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/fable5-prompt-pack
In this episode I break down how to get the most out of Fable 5, the most powerful model I've ever used. I move past the benchmarks and go straight into tactical use cases, copy-and-paste prompts, and startup ideas you can build today. I walk through tournaments for copy and landing pages, an interview-before-build workflow that hunts for product-market fit, and ways to point Fable at contracts, churn data, and years of your own notes. I close with three of my favorite startup ideas — a synthetic focus group firm, 48-hour custom software, and a contract refund firm — plus the exact prompts behind each. My goal here stays simple: leave you ready to build and earn with Fable 5 while it remains included in your plan.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
02:22 – Anthropic Employee Edits a Launch Video With Fable
05:50 – Building an AI Content Engine
07:30 – Best way to configure Fable 5
08:42 – Prompt 1: Copywriting Tournament for Landing Pages
13:18 – Prompt 2: The Interview-Before-Build Prompt
18:34 – Prompt 3: Hire Fable to Kill Your Company
20:18 – Prompt 4: Your One-Page Operating Manual
21:20 – Prompt 5: Find the Gaps Worth Filling
22:06 – Prompt 6: Negotiation Simulator
23:11 – Prompt 7: The 80-Page Second Opinion on Contracts
24:56 – Prompt 8: Make Fable Build Its Own Tools
25:47 – Startup Ideas
31:23 – Closing Thoughts
Key Points
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
FIND ME ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg
Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
S/o Coderabbit for sponsoring today’s vid: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/code-rabbit
On this episode I sit down with Professor Ras Mic to break down agentic loops. We define what a loop is, explain why well-known builders like Boris and Peter swear by them, and stay honest about who they truly serve. Mic argues that human-in-the-loop remains the strongest setup today, and he walks through the one loop he runs every day for code review using Cursor, GitHub, and Greptile. By the end you will know when a loop earns its place and when your own hand belongs on the wheel.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
01:23 – What is a Loop
07:59 – /goal Explained
11:32 – The Slop Machine
12:42 – Code Review as a use case for Agentic Loop
18:19 – Honest Take for Builders
20:42 – The Future of Loops
21:50 – Closing Thoughts
Key Points
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
FIND ME ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg
Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
FIND MIC ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://x.com/Rasmic
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@rasmic
Become an AI Native Organization: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/ai-native-org
In this episode I sit down with Theo to unpack what becoming AI native truly means. We define an AI native org as people managing agents, agents reading and writing to the company, and the company growing smarter over time. Theo opens his actual workflows, walking through a working prototype, an auto-generated client proposal microsite, and a live usability test that synthesizes feedback into a V2 in one session. We close with service-business startup ideas built on this same system, plus a free consultation offer for larger companies. For founders and operators, the value lands as a concrete playbook for turning speed into customer signal and a durable moat.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
04:09 – The Demis Hassabis origin story
06:53 – Defining AI Native Organization
08:19 – Mapping the system: people, agents, context
09:18 – Why people lead: strategy, taste, trust
13:23 – Agents: models using tools in a loop
16:12 – Evals and defining "good"
17:34 – Skill chains explained
20:06 – Proposal skill-chain demo setup
25:48 – Proposal microsite walkthrough
30:46 – Building the Daily Blitz feature demo
32:50 – Context as the foundational layer
41:07 – Daily Blitz ships and the labs page
43:47 – Bootstrapping context with a small team
46:21 – Usability test and live feedback
51:18 – Startup ideas: productize the system
54:28 – Closing Thoughts
Key Points
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
FIND ME ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg
Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
FIND THEO ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://x.com/TheoTabah
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theotabah/
LCA: https://www.latecheckout.agency/
In this episode, I sit down with Alex Finn for a full, screen-shared walkthrough of Hermes Desktop, the new desktop home for the Hermes AI agent. I open with a clear challenge: by the end, sell me on installing Hermes Desktop, show me real ways to make money and stay productive, and explain his move from OpenClaw. Alex tours every major surface — sessions, profiles, artifacts, skills, cron jobs, and sub-agents — and shares money-saving tactics at each step. We close on the idea that matters most to me: aiming these agents at other people's challenges as the clearest path to real value.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
04:04 – Sessions and Context Management
06:10 – Profiles Explained
08:49 – Model-Based vs Role-Based Profiles
12:58 – Artifacts as a Second Brain
14:32 – Why Alex Switched From OpenClaw
17:32 – Skills, Tools, and Tool Sets
19:19 – Messaging and Cron Setup
21:44 – Reverse Prompting and the Brain Dump
28:09 – Sub-Agents vs Profiles
32:12 – Putting It Together: Solving Challenges
32:38 – The Daily Business Opportunity Scan
37:05 – Local Models: Mac Studio vs DGX Spark
39:03 – Reframing Cost as Investment
41:59 – The Real Way to Make Money With Hermes
42:51 – Closing Thoughts
Key Points
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
FIND ME ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg
Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
FIND ALEX ON SOCIAL
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AlexFinnOfficial/videos
X/Twitter: https://x.com/AlexFinnX
Creator Buddy: https://www.creatorbuddy.io/
In this solo episode I walk through Codex Sites end to end, building a real internal tool live so you can copy the exact workflow. I open by comparing Codex Sites with one-prompt tools like Replit and Lovable, then construct a Startup Ideas OS board in six prompts. Along the way I cover memory and persistent storage, safe actions, Codex skills, save-gates, and proving the loop so the app updates autonomously. The core promise: by the end you know how to ship a Codex Site that an agent keeps operating for you. This one suits builders who already live in Codex and want self-updating products.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro and Episode Agenda
01:17 – Codex Sites vs Replit and Lovable
04:33 – The Build Plan: Startup Ideas OS
05:08 – Prompt 1: Build the Shell with Sites
07:02 – Plugins Worth Using and Game Studio
08:54 – First Board Review
09:21 – Prompt 2: Add Memory and Show the Data Model
10:56 – Prompt 3: Create Safe Actions
13:25 – Prompt 4: Create the Startup Ideas Admin Skill
14:51 – Prompt 5: Save-Gate and Checkpoints
16:29 – Prompt 6: Prove the Loop from a New Chat
18:10 – Publish, Auth, and Live Updates
20:28 – TLDR: Memory, Safe Actions, Skills
22:40 – The Real Unlock and Closing Thoughts
Key Points
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
FIND ME ON SOCIAL
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg
Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
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