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Eight months ago, I made a decision that had nothing to do with my business. Or so I thought.
I had spent several years studying AI. Hundreds of hours of reading, testing, and experimenting. And I kept arriving at the same conclusion: the real advantage was not in using AI tools. It was in learning to work with AI as my thinking partner. But a conclusion is not proof, and I was not going to bring this to a single client until I had tested it on something that mattered to me personally.
So, I pointed it at my health.
For the past eight months, I worked with AI the way you would work with the sharpest trusted advisor you have ever hired. Not asking it for a diet. Using it to challenge my assumptions about why previous attempts failed. To hold me accountable when I wanted to negotiate with myself. To design around my failures instead of letting one bad week become a quit. When I slipped, we analyzed the slip. When I plateaued, we redesigned the approach. The discipline was mine. The partnership is what made the discipline sustainable
I am 64 pounds lighter today!
Here is why I am telling you this. Somewhere this year, I understood something about my own profession that I had been circling for four decades. The consultants and advisors I know are not short on knowledge. They are not short on tools, and they are certainly not short on receiving content about AI, which arrives daily and by the truckload. What they are short on is proof from someone who went first. Someone with something to lose who ran the experiment on himself before prescribing it to anyone else.
So, I kept going. I turned the same partnership on my business. This year we built and launched a paid membership community, The AI Insider Lab, which includes an online library of transformational AI workflows, powerful prompts, and a videos archive of every session, all built around one purpose: challenging members to leverage AI as a genuine thinking partner. We built three working software applications: a prompt optimization platform that is live and in production today, plus the Strategic AI Leverage Compass and the Pro Content Creation Genius, both shipping next week. I did this at a stage of my career when most people are winding down. I am not reporting on what AI might do. I am showing you what it helped do, to my body, my thinking, and my business.
And that brings me to what comes next.
The AI Insider Lab is where I do this work live, twice a month, with a small group of experienced consultants, coaches, and advisors. The founding group has been running for several months, and what has happened inside that room has exceeded what I imagined when I built it. The next group begins September 4. Enrollment opens August 1. And on Thursday, August 6 at 1:00 PM Eastern, I am running a free live demonstration session, no slides about AI, actual work done live, so you can watch before you decide anything. You will leave with something usable whether you join or not. You can see the full picture and register your interest now at TheAIInsiderLab.com
You are reading this first. Everyone else hears about it later.
One question, and I read every reply: what is the one thing in your work you would hand to a genuine thinking partner tomorrow if you trusted it could carry the weight?
Chad
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