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I'm originally from India. I've been in the IT industry for about 23 years. I started my business — quit my job — back in 2020. My business partner was my very first client, and we started a mastermind for Indian IT leaders living in the US. Until six months ago, the entire business was through word of mouth. About six months ago we started running Facebook ads. Fast forward, in six months we got about 60 clients through Facebook ads, price point about $8,000. We're at about $80,000 a month.

Co-founder of Personal Leadership Academy. Quit a 6-figure VP job. 60 paid clients in 6 months at $8K each, ~$80K/month run rate.

Since I've been back, I've gotten 13 different new automations done that have saved 31 hours of overall team time. I've only gotten through three team members so far. I've got 20 team members that are gonna be interviewing to create this list out. By the time I'm done, I'm gonna be able to save 3, 4, 5 employees worth of time each week.

Interviewed his team for manual tasks, shipped 13 automations in two weeks, cut 31 team hours/week — on track for 3-5 FTE saved.

I spent about five hours this past week rebuilding the diet tracker in my member area. It's probably 10 times what it had before, and I'm already about a third of the way through — in five hours. About a year and a half ago, I got quotes to redo this for 80 to 100K. And I'm already a third of the way through the project in five hours.

Rebuilt his health-protocol member area himself in 5 hours using a coding agent — previously had $80K–$100K agency quotes for the same work.

I finished a project I'm grateful for. It took two big, long days — me and an agent who deployed three sub-agents — but we rebuilt a 165-page website from WordPress to HTML. Made it faster, cleaned up a lot of the SEO issues, and brought over all the internal and external links. I'm 100% off WordPress now.

Runs a janitorial franchise group. Orchestrated an agent with three sub-agents to migrate a 165-page WordPress site to static HTML in two days.

The last two days, we've been using [an agent] to clean up some really bad malware that got on three of our client sites. With malware, it's black and white — right or wrong. [The agent] did it so fast that I kept asking, "Did you check all the files?" Two months ago when I went through this with my managed WordPress hosting company, they told me right from the start, "You're in our queue, it's going to be a two-week process" — and sure enough it was. This time it took me a day and a half, and it found stuff that was incredible.

Agency owner. Used an agent to remediate malware on three client sites in 1.5 days — same incident took managed hosting 2 weeks.

What took me four hours would take me about 15 minutes using this automation tool that I had created. Four hours to 15 minutes, same listing, same quality — 16 times faster. So now I'm making even more money and I'm doing it a whole lot faster. I went from 2,000 to 20,000, and I did 60,000 a year in my best year before I shut it down. I had been laid off from my engineering job the year before, and there were no engineering jobs for people like me. So that paid my mortgage and kept me going.

Laid-off engineer who built spreadsheet automation that took listings from 4 hours to 15 minutes — paid his mortgage through the downturn.

I just closed my first hundred-K client, full pay. The money landed. This is my big donor — she's giving me half a million dollars over two years. The sort of mastermind that we outlined when we did our VIP session in Arizona, that's now happening. So I'm launching my hundred-K mastermind. I've already got two people, and I want to close the other eight by next week.

Senator who launched a $100K political-access mastermind. Closed first full-pay client (a major donor giving $500K over two years).

I used to get people on calls and talk about regular business. Then AI became a thing and I'd show 'em all the ways — bang, the cutting-edge stuff we're working on — and now I'm getting referrals I can't handle the volume of. I went from two weeks booked out to nine weeks booked out, and four weeks in, people were mad at me. They're like, 'I can't talk to you until May. What the shit.' They're trying to find a hole in my calendar somewhere. It's kind of blown up my world in a good way.

Shifted consulting conversations from generic business to AI capabilities — pipeline went from 2 weeks to 9 weeks booked out.

Gross, we hit 857 — that was up like 310 grand from '24. Team growth went from five of us to ending the year with 11. Last year's theme was serve first; this year it'll be go deeper. I just want to go deeper with the people we currently have and keep serving them at a greater level.

Closed 2025 at $857K gross — up $310K (~40%) over 2024. Team grew from 5 to 11.

We just had our life insurance event — about 300 people at the Franklin Factory in Tennessee. Mariah messaged me Friday morning: "Why don't we build an app for this event?" Friday at 8 a.m. I started building it, and it was done by Saturday afternoon. People at the event were like, "Wow, this is incredible." The vendors who wanted to build that for us were trying to charge us 15 grand — and I just did it in a day. People at the event were like, "Hey, will you guys build this for us? If you do, we'll pay money for it."

Live event for 300 attendees. Built the entire custom event app over the weekend — vendor had quoted $15K.

We've always had this other offer — we've been trying to sell these $500, $1,200 cohorts. We got to the spot where everyone was like, can I do more? So we're starting to sell these $3,500 options that seem to be going really well, and now it's a well-oiled machine. Almost just by changing the language in the proposal and raising the price, people are like, oh my gosh, this is really interesting.

Migrated cohort offer from $500-$1,200 up to $3,500/month. Shift was almost entirely language and pricing.

A full website, a 248-lesson online course, and a four-email automation that basically sells itself. I built all of it for a Krav Maga gym, and I used exactly one tool to do it. No website team, no course platform guy, no automation expert — just [a coding agent]. The old website had been hacked, so I just told [the agent], 'Hey, rebuild this thing, make it fast, throw it on Cloudflare.' It built the whole site, dropped in all the content, hooked up the contact form, and pushed it live to a real domain. I didn't touch a single line of it.

Shipped a full website + 248-lesson course + 4-email automation for a Krav Maga gym using only a single coding agent.

I've been nerding out. I've essentially created a Jarvis tied into iMessage on the Mac. I integrated the APIs for ElevenLabs and a bunch of the different Google tools, so it can parse, read, summarize, and delete emails. I connected the API for [an agent] as the brain, and I've been going bananas. I connected the API for Zoom. So it's essentially a working VA right now.

Built a personal Jarvis-style AI VA in six weeks — iMessage, ElevenLabs, Google APIs, an agent as the brain, Zoom integration.

We had our event in Austin, and we did very well on the enrollment side. Part of this is because I was able to build a custom app. People fill out a lot of information, and it's very custom. Often that was either stored in my head or stored on a piece of paper. I threw it into an app, and I was able to know where someone was, what their individual schedule was, and the individual people they needed to meet. By the time it was closing, I knew these people had met all their people, so there was a higher predictability that they were going to close. This let us hit a record amount of enrollments.

Built a custom event-tracking app — knew in real time which attendees had met their mandatory contacts before close. Record enrollments at the Austin event.

Had my first sales call today and it went really well. I own a business financial accounting firm — bookkeeping, fractional CFO, tax strategy, tax filing — and I'm launching a mastermind to help other accountants, CFOs, and tax professionals build a firm in the model that I have. One sales call today, three tomorrow. I used the [agent] sales script and put in all her pain points from the research call to make it very personalized, and that seemed to go really well — handled objections. I've got a follow-up with her tomorrow to close her on the membership.

Owner of a 30-employee accounting firm launching a $25K mastermind for fractional CFOs/tax pros. First sales call went well after using the Optimus research-to-script process.

We have a mastermind and we have amazing retention — people just don't leave, hardly ever. We're at like 40 members, a thousand dollars a month. When we started, it was super cheap. We didn't even know what we were doing.

Runs a 40-member, $1K/month mastermind (~$40K MRR) with near-zero churn.

I finally did that tax summary and tried it — it actually worked. I'm talking 20 to 30 minutes per phone call. Something I can literally just PDF drop and it did it in 20 seconds.

Built an AI tax-summary bot that turns a 20-30 minute manual call into a 20-second PDF drop.

I have a company called Nexus Business Advisors. We set up trusts for business owners and investors. We help business owners cut their tax bill by 90% or more. I also have four private equity funds. I raised $2 million to build out the software for Scotty AI. I have 300 affiliates that have signed up for my program ready to sell it.

Founder of Nexus Business Advisors and four PE funds. Raised $2M to build Scotty AI. Has 300 affiliates signed up.

I finished the book — about 45 to 50,000 words. And here's the bizarre thing — I had a client reach out and want to patronize my book. They're paying for the publishing of it. $9,000. Before I contracted any of it, they just came up and said, 'Hey, I want to give you $9,000.' I tried to give them all kinds of other stuff. They said, 'No, no. I want you to get this done, angel. I feel like if I don't pay you to do it, you won't do it.'

Finished a 200-page book ahead of schedule. Client unprompted offered $9K to cover editor + publishing + audiobook.

I just built a 20-module course for one of my clients. She handed me the concept and I built the entire thing — all 20 modules, all the slides, cloned her voice, the whole thing.

Built a complete 20-module course (slides, voice clone, full curriculum) from a client's bare concept.

I uploaded my customer persona profile and I told the agent, look through all the podcasts that this guy has been on and cross-reference them with my customer persona, come up with a list of top 10. It came up with a list of 10, then I picked five and it wrote emails from templates from him that he could copy and paste, saying, "This is why Kyle specifically would be great on your show." That was like four or five hours of slogging research that just opened up to a really easy thing.

Built an agent that cross-references a podcast guest's prior appearances with his customer persona and drafts intro emails — saves 4-5 hours per podcast.

I was at the Growth Hacking Live conference and the real theme for me was AEO. Last night I did a Boolean search, found all the articles and PDFs on AEO, and downloaded 50 to 70 references. I built a whole process for AEO to write the schema for Kartra, for WordPress, and for GoHighLevel — they're all a little different. Now I'm building those into a custom [agent]. The [agent] asks: is this an FAQ page, an About page, a blog page, a funnel? It gives you all the schema, then asks is it WordPress, GoHighLevel, or Kartra, and tells you the schema and where it goes.

Built a multi-platform AEO schema agent (FAQ/About/Blog/Funnel × WordPress/GHL/Kartra) the night after a conference.

Thanks to JJ, I made a GoHighLevel marketplace app that I can install in any agency, and it gives me a backdoor — I don't need their PIT token. GoHighLevel limits you to five, and most agencies already have five used up. This installs agency-wide, so it doesn't matter how many more sub-accounts they create, it's all at the tip of my fingers now.

Built a GHL marketplace app that bypasses the 5-PIT-token limit — installs agency-wide.

I built that whole dashboard with [a coding agent] — my member tracker. It's a protocol-based system: diet protocols, weight maintenance, peptide protocols. Tracks pretty much everything — daily log, meals, weight measurements, hydration, supplements, all timed. Took me a good four months, but it's freaking badass. This would've cost me easily $150,000 to have somebody do it, and I got it exactly the way I want it.

Built a full member-tracker SaaS dashboard in four months himself — replaces a quoted $150K build.

We're an agency. We do a lot of SEO for our clients, so half of my life is looking at Google Search Console data. I finally went and searched the repo and found a really good MCP connection to it. Now that I'm asking [the agent], I'm getting a whole new level of insights — [The agent] is folding in other things it knows about my agency accounts and giving additional insight. That's been a big change.

Wired an agent into Google Search Console — folds in cross-account context his team couldn't get inside Search Console alone.

I've come a long way. Nine months ago, I couldn't even work on a computer — my brain was so fried and fucked up. Past doesn't equal the future unless you live there. I'm fired up. Bringing this tech to the chronic illness space is gonna be super rewarding. It's gonna help a ton of people, and it's gonna be such an easy sell.

Nine months earlier couldn't operate a computer — now standing up a neurofeedback clinic venture targeted at the people he used to be.

I really resonated with the OSLO frameworks — that was one of the things I was most bought into. I connected a domain called osloboardroom.com. You can put in your business, the name of it, the stage it's at, the monthly revenue, the team size, and then the pain points. You can put in your offer, your sales, talk about your entire business, and then it'll diagnose the constraint and give you a solution for the constraint. It's essentially your advisor if you have any business questions.

Built and deployed an OSLO-based 'boardroom advisor' app at osloboardroom.com that diagnoses business constraints.

I'm grateful to have the opportunity to actually explore and create something new and unique. I was stuck in a business for 20 years, so now I get to dwell in some uncertainty. It's a little bit exciting, a little bit nerve-wracking, but at least I know I could do some great things in this area.

Sold a tax business he'd run for 20 years and is rebuilding around a high-ticket parent/kid life-skills program.

I'm grateful to be in a room where I'm not the smartest guy in the room. I know that sounds arrogant, but — has anybody ever heard of the 33% rule? Spend 33% of your time with your peers, 33% with people above your level, and 33% with people below your level. Most people are like 80, 10, 5.

Names the actual reason he's in Optimus — to be the dumbest guy in the room — and ties it to the 33% rule.

My shiny object syndrome has been in full overdrive the last two weeks, and what's happened over the course of about eight days has completely changed what I'm doing and is already making me money. So I'm full on leaning into it, because it's wildfire.

Launched a basic AI education offer at $997/month — eight days from idea to paying clients.

I signed the contract today. It's for one-on-one coaching for three months. I did a split where I'm getting some email copy from her and I'm giving her coaching — and I made out better because I charged more. One down, and I've got five more calls in the pipeline.

Signed her first 1-on-1 coaching contract — structured as a split where she trades coaching for email copy AND charges more.

I've re-scripted my entire process. I have this sales meeting I call a vision meeting where we review the prospective client's needs. What's changed is that I've started to pause and try to assess peacefully what the commitment to do the planning is in the first place. It's some version of: feel what it's like to have this done versus how you feel now given the worries you have. I guess you'd call it the gap sales technique, but it has substantially changed the outcomes for a lot of stuff, and that feels like a huge win.

Estate-planning attorney rewrote his sales process around a deliberate pause — substantially changed close outcomes.

My takeaway was really just proceduralizing the idea of gathering the transcripts and spending time on our process. We've defined our entire process. We had five added clients last month, this month will be 10, next month will be 20. So I've got the sales machine figured out, I got the process figured out, I got the team figured out. We're really targeting like a million dollar a month run rate. Right now we're at like 150.

Hockey-stick client growth — 5, 10, 20 net-new clients month over month. Targeting $1M/month from current $150K/month.

It used to be Amber, but now it's me. I am currently the biggest bottleneck in our business. As an attempting-to-recover perfectionist that likes to have her hand on the pulse and control, I'm learning what I can delegate better to the team. I tend to overwork and want updates all the time. If I've handed something off, I end up redoing half the stuff I get back from my team anyway.

Names herself (not her ops lead) as the bottleneck — steps into the recovering-perfectionist identity shift.

My name's Nate Griffin. I build custom homes in North Carolina, and my challenge was to clean up my design process conversion. We don't have clear SOPs for my designers to follow. So going from the number-one sales guy to the creative that's actually drawing the house plans and getting that process dialed in — these guys helped me figure out a plan to map it out and then provide the steps, build the SOPs, and start using the recordings of the Zooms and auto-recording the live meetings so I can use the transcripts as ways to train and make sure my guys are following the processes correctly.

Custom-home builder booked out ~24 months. Mastermind mapped him a transcript-to-SOP system to train designers.

Me and Vic have been to like 15 or 20 masterminds, I can't keep count. That was like a top five video of all time. I just wanna say, really, really grateful. You saved me 25 grand, honestly.

Mastermind veteran (15-20 rooms) ranks Brad's debrief from Genius Network in his top 5 mastermind moments ever and credits it with saving him $25K.

I got an offer on one of my businesses and I countered with something I didn't think they'd take — and they accepted it. This is my baby, y'all. I started it with five grand. I had two young kids. My wife was on the fence for a while because I had no prior experience in this field. Jim Carter's message helped me make the decision to go ahead and sell it. He got up and talked about his kids and how he prioritized them, and something just hit — like, this is my moment to step out and focus on family.

Sold the business he bootstrapped from $5K with no prior industry experience. Made the decision after a member's family-priority talk at the live event.

I went ahead and created [an agent] for another piece of our production where SEO optimizations were taking us a lot of time. The [agent] cut that down by 40 minutes — and all it is is a schema builder.

Built a schema-builder agent that shaved 40 minutes off every SEO optimization cycle inside his marketing agency.

I have been playing in Optimus quite a bit and I did something neat just a few minutes ago. I went in and I said, 'Can you look in my Gmail and look in my Google Drive — and just, what can I automate?' I just straight asked it: what can I automate?

Pointed Optimus OS at her own Gmail + Google Drive and asked it to surface its own automation opportunities.

Brad ruined my life by showing us this stuff. You ruined it because everything that pops into my head I want to build. It's awesome. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the new life, but you destroyed the old life.

After being shown the agent-skills-tools stack, can't stop ideating new things to build.

I moved pretty much everything front end, back end, over to Vercel and Railway. Got GitHub, private repos going. Got LastPass up and running, and 2FA and all that security stuff set up. All my SaaS companies on one repo, and the CPA firm's all on the other — everything's separated and separate accounts on everything. About 40 hours-ish total. It's so butter smooth. Like smoother than anything I've ever played with before.

Runs a CPA firm plus multiple SaaS companies. Two weeks after Brad's advice, migrated both businesses front-to-back to Vercel + Railway + private GitHub + LastPass + 2FA in ~40 hours (~20 per business) on a new M5 Max. Next step: onboarding his first employee onto the same stack. Brad on the call: "You just moved your whole business over the second I said it. You win the implementation award. This is the level of what's possible."