The Startup Ideas Podcast

Greg Isenberg

Get your creative juices flowing with The Startup Ideas Podcast.

  • 59 minutes 59 seconds
    Claude Design blew my mind

    I go live and get my hands dirty with Claude Design, Anthropic's new design tool in research preview. Across roughly an hour, I run a real workflow end-to-end: pulling a product idea from Idea Browser, generating wireframes, iterating into visual designs, building a pitch deck, and attempting a 30-second video ad. I share my first reactions in real time and take feedback from the chat. By the end, I land on a clear verdict — best-in-class for wireframes and visuals, weaker for video — and give you a practical sense of where this tool fits in your workflow.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    00:50 – Claude Design walkthrough

    03:48 – Picking a product idea from Idea Browser: Senior Brains

    05:54 – Wire-framing Senior Brains

    13:54 – Reacting to the generated wireframe

    20:44 – Building a pitch deck for Senior Brains

    30:39 – Reacting to a pitch deck

    34:58 – Reacting to Hi-Fi wireframe

    40:40 – Creating a 30-second animated video ad

    48:58 – Reacting to animated video ad

    58:10 – Final verdict and recommendations

    Key Points

    • Claude Design's wireframing is the strongest capability I've seen in a design tool to date, especially the questionnaire that extrapolates like a product manager.

    • The pitch deck generation nails roughly 90% of the output with minimal input, which saves hours.

    • Visual design mockups come through clean and usable, ready to iterate with 30 minutes of back-and-forth.

    • Video generation lands at about a 5/10 — workable as a social post, weaker as a real commercial.

    • Start with wireframes first to conserve tokens and sharpen feature decisions before committing to high fidelity.

    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/

    18 April 2026, 9:20 pm
  • 33 minutes 17 seconds
    Seedance 2.0: Make 100 AI Ads in 33 mins

    In this episode I sit down with my friend Sirio, one of the most creative AI minds I know, to break down Seedance V2. Sirio walks us through the exact use cases, prompts, and tactics he's using to build on top of this model inside his platform Enhancor, covering multi-input generation, virtual try-ons, ad translation, AI influencers with lip sync, video extension, and 3D product template replacement. I wanted this to go beyond the "look how cool this is" tutorials and focus on how creators and founders can actually build businesses, run ads, and produce creative assets with it. By the end, you'll have a practical playbook for Seedance V2 and a clear view of where it fits alongside other models like Kling 3, Veo, and fine-tuned options.

    Timestamp

    00:00 – Intro

    02:22 – Demo 1: Replacing Characters and Background in a Green Screen Scene

    08:03 – Prompting Tactics and Optimize Prompts

    09:45 – Demo 2: Virtual Try-On in Montreal (Minus 30 Degrees)

    13:05 – Demo 3: Ad Translation and Character Replacement (Chinese to English)

    16:02 – Demo 4: 3D Product Template with Brand Texture Swap

    18:40 – Demo 5: Video Extension and Filling in the Middle

    20:55 – Demo 6: AI Influencers and Prompting Realistic Emotion

    29:31 – What Happens to Adobe Over the Next Five Years

    Key Points

    • Seedance V2 is the first widely available video model to support true multi-input generation — up to two images, two videos, and an audio file combined in a single prompt.

    • Treat Seedance V2 as a video editor, not just a generator: character swap, background swap, text preservation, ad translation, and template population all work from natural-language prompts.

    • Seedance rewards highly specific prompts; I pair my own draft with Claude Opus 4.6 to optimize prompts for vision models.

    • Strong source reference images remain the single biggest quality lever — the model mimics taste from what you feed it.

    • For AI influencers and lip sync, describe muscle movements and emotional transitions rather than simply labeling an emotion like "sad" or "happy."

    • Seedance V2 is the current default for editing and generating video, yet other models (Kling 3 for cinematic feel, Enhancer V4 for talking-head realism) still win on specific use cases.

    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 SIRIO ON SOCIAL

    Enhancor AI: https://www.enhancor.ai

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heysirio/

    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SirioBerati

    17 April 2026, 7:00 pm
  • 35 minutes 22 seconds
    My Claude Code marketing stack (It just works)

    I sit down with Amir, who's back on the pod, and we walk through the full stack of taking a business idea from zero to a validated, A/B-tested landing page in a single session. I use Idea Browser's new MCP integration with Claude Code to pull project context, generate a lead magnet concept, design a landing page in Paper, and then wire up analytics and live experiments through HumbleLytics — all without writing a single line of front-end code manually. We cover the tools, the workflow, and why this stack creates massive arbitrage for marketers and builders right now.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro and Episode Preview

    02:30 – Building a Growth Strategy with Idea Browser

    06:10 – Designing Landing Pages in Paper

    08:38 – Refining Copy, Layout, and Components in Paper

    20:06 – Deploying Landing Page and Adding HumbleLytics Analytics

    28:38 – Running A/B Experiment on the Headline

    32:44 – The Arbitrage Opportunity and Closing Thoughts

    Links Mentioned:

    Amir’s Agentic Marketing Skill: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/amir_marketing_skill

    Key Points

    • Idea Browser now connects to Claude Code as an MCP, letting you pull project context, growth strategies, and skills directly into the terminal for building and iterating on business ideas.

    • Paper replaces the traditional Figma-to-developer handoff by letting you design, iterate, and refine landing pages visually — all connected to Claude Code so changes stay in sync.

    • HumbleLytics enables no-code A/B experiments that dynamically update page content without deploying new code, so you can test headlines, CTAs, and layouts in real time.

    • Storing performance context (A/B results, revenue data, growth metrics) back into Idea Browser compounds your results over time because every future decision is informed by past data.

    • This full stack — Idea Browser, Paper, Claude Code, HumbleLytics — creates a significant arbitrage opportunity right now because almost nobody is using it at this level.

    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 AMIR ON SOCIAL

    Humblytics: https://humblytics.com/?via=community

    X/Twitter: https://x.com/amirmxt

    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@amirmxt

    13 April 2026, 5:45 pm
  • 35 minutes 25 seconds
    Building AI Agents (Clearly Explained)

    I sit down with Ras Mic to break down how AI agents actually work and why most people are using them wrong. Ras Mic explains the mechanics of context windows, makes the case that agent md files are largely unnecessary, and shares his step-by-step methodology for building custom skills that make agents dramatically more productive. Whether you're coding with Claude Code or automating workflows with OpenClaw, this episode gives you the foundational knowledge to stop wasting tokens and start getting real results from your AI tools.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    00:42 – The Models Are Good Now

    01:20 – How Context Windows Actually Work

    04:55 – The Power of Skills

    09:17 – How to create Skills

    16:35 – Skill Maxxing

    19:05 – What you need too build a project

    20:40 – Recursively Building and Improving Skills

    29:23 – Context Window Management and Token Efficiency

    33:02 – Closing Thoughts

    Key Points

    • The models (Opus 4.6, GPT 5.4) are exceptionally good now — the differentiator is the context and harness you build around them.

    • Agent md and claude md files get loaded into context on every single turn, burning tokens and degrading performance as the context window fills up. 95% of users can skip them entirely.

    • Skills use progressive disclosure: only the name and description sit in context until the agent determines it needs the full file, saving thousands of tokens per conversation.

    • The best way to create a skill is to walk through the workflow with the agent step by step, achieve a successful run, and then have the agent write the skill based on that real context.

    • Recursively refine skills by feeding failures back into the agent and having it update the skill file so the same mistake is avoided going forward.

    • Scale for productivity by starting with one agent and building up workflows before adding sub-agents — start simple, then expand.

    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

    8 April 2026, 7:00 pm
  • 31 minutes 6 seconds
    How I use Lindy AI to run my life

    I sit down with Flo, founder of Lindy, to get a live demo of their new product, Lindy Assistant, an AI executive assistant that lives in iMessage and works proactively across email, calendar, Slack, Notion, and 100-plus other tools. Flo walks me through a real day of his own Lindy usage, showing how it drafts email replies, prepares meeting briefs, updates CRMs, and handles calendar changes without being asked. We compare Lindy to OpenClaw and Claude's ecosystem, talk pricing, edge-case power users, and where Lindy goes over the next five years.

    Try the ultimate AI assistant: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/lindy

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    01:09 – What Lindy Assistant is and why Flo built it

    02:27 – The daily morning brief

    05:16 – Setup: two steps, two minutes, out of the box

    05:53 – Get the most out of Lindy Assistant

    09:42 – My three assistant use cases: research, scheduling, and sales leads

    15:51 – Lindy vs. OpenClaw

    17:57 – Lindy vs. Claude ecosystem

    19:51 – Where Lindy goes over the next five years

    23:42 – Integrations overview (100-plus tools)

    24:42 – What Lindy does well and what it does not replace

    26:52 – Pricing: starts at $49/month

    27:15 – How power users are using Lindy

    28:18 – Voice memos, incoming phone calls, and outbound calls

    30:00 – How to use Lindy alongside a human executive assistant

    Key Points

    • Lindy Assistant lives in iMessage, connects to email, calendar, Slack, Notion, and 100-plus other apps, and acts proactively without being prompted.

    • Setup takes two minutes: provide a phone number and connect a Google account, and Lindy ingests existing email and tool data immediately.

    • Lindy pre-drafts email replies, preps meeting briefs, updates CRMs after calls, flags billing issues, and reschedules dinners at closed restaurants — all without user initiation.

    • The voice and tone of the assistant took extensive prompt engineering; the lowercase, casual register is intentional and difficult to achieve with current models.

    • Lindy targets the "chief everything officer" — the overwhelmed founder or executive — rather than developers or power users who want a fully programmable agent.

    • Pricing starts at $49/month for 90-plus percent of users; heavy users can exceed that and are prompted to upgrade.

    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 FLO ON SOCIAL

    X/Twitter: https://x.com/Altimor

    Lindy: https://www.lindy.ai

    6 April 2026, 6:30 pm
  • 31 minutes 36 seconds
    23 AI Trends keeping me up at night

    I go solo on this episode to walk through the full list of AI trends and opportunities keeping me up at night — literally. From the one-hour company stack to ambient businesses, vertical AI, the agent economy, and the real security threats I see coming, I cover what I believe is the most asymmetric window in startup history. I share the frameworks I use to think about what to build, what to avoid, and why acting now matters more than waiting for things to settle down.

    Timestamps

    00:10 – Intro
    01:09 – 1) The One-Hour Company Stack
    02:09 – 2) Old vs. new startup timeline
    03:58 – 3) Ambient businesses and autonomous companies
    05:18 – 4) The agent economy timeline
    07:17 – 5) Agent hiring Agents
    08:01 – 6) The Vertical Agent Map
    09:39 – 7) Vertical AI vs. Vertical SaaS
    10:53 – 8) Boring goldmine verticals
    11:40 – 9) SaaS Pricing Evolution
    13:26 – 10) Seat-Based vs Outcome-Based
    14:51 – 11) The SaaS graveyard
    16:04 – 12) The scarcity flip
    17:03 – 13) The Premium Stack
    18:21 – 14) The experience economy boom
    18:59 – 15) Founder-agent fit
    20:32 – 16) Ghost team org chart
    21:56 – 17) The micro monopoly math
    24:00 – 18) Agent attack surface
    25:19 – 19) Agent Injection vs Phishing
    26:34 – 20) Agent permission stack
    27:37 – 21) The closing window
    28:46 – 22) why this window is asymmetric
    29:34 – 23) Building in public
    30:50 – Final Thoughts

    Key Points

    • I can build, launch, and get a first customer in under an hour using today's agent engineering tools and a pre-existing audience.

    • Vertical AI taps directly into labor P&L — it replaces headcount, not just software licenses — making the TAM 10x larger than vertical SaaS.

    • Ambient businesses running on near-zero daily human input are early but real; the arrow of progress points here.

    • The value shift I see coming: execution gets commoditized, judgment and physical presence become premium.

    • Agent injection is the new phishing — and I believe it scales faster and hits harder than any phishing attack did.

    • The 100 true fans model now applies in the AI age; with agents cutting costs, 100 paying customers at $500–$1,000 a month builds a real business.

    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/

    1 April 2026, 6:45 pm
  • 27 minutes 18 seconds
    Making $$ with AI Marketing

    I break down the seven distribution strategies every vibe coder and builder needs to actually get customers. With 200,000 new projects launching daily on platforms like Lovable, the real bottleneck is distribution and I believe the wealthiest people over the next decade will be marketers, because code is now commoditized. I walk through each strategy with step-by-step instructions you can start this week, from MCP servers and programmatic SEO to acquiring newsletters and building AI repurposing engines.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    01:07 – The Great Flip: Distribution Over Engineering

    03:08 – The Build-First Trap

    04:18 – Strategy 1: MCP Servers as Your Sales Team

    06:49 – Strategy 2: Programmatic SEO (10,000 Pages)

    10:09 – Strategy 3: Free Tool as Top of Funnel

    13:03 – Strategy 4: Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)

    15:48 – Strategy 5: Viral Artifacts (Make Outputs Shareable)

    18:56 – Strategy 6: Buy a Niche Newsletter

    21:40 – Strategy 7: AI Content Repurposing Engine

    25:13 – Final Takeaways

    Key Points

    • Distribution is the new moat — AI can build the product, but it can't build your audience or brand.

    • Building an MCP server in 2026 is like building for mobile in 2010; early movers will own AI-native distribution channels.

    • Programmatic SEO can scale to 300,000 monthly visitors if you create 10,000 quality pages that each pull just 30 visits a month.

    • Free tools act as always-on marketing: you can vibe code one in a day, ship it by lunch, and it markets itself forever.

    • Answer engine optimization (AEO) is where SEO was in 2010 — Peter Levels saw AI referrals jump from 4% to 20% in one month.

    • You can buy a 10,000-subscriber niche newsletter for $5,000–$20,000 and inherit a direct channel to your exact audience on day one.

    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/

    30 March 2026, 7:00 pm
  • 46 minutes 41 seconds
    I Built an AI Agent Company (From Scratch)

    I sit down with Dotta, the pseudonymous co-founder of Paperclip, the open-source agent orchestrator that exploded to 30,000 GitHub stars in under three weeks. We walk through a live demo where I pick a startup idea from my idea browser and we spin up a full AI-agent company in real time — hiring a CEO, founding engineer, QA agent, video editor, and content strategist inside Paperclip. Dotta shares practical tips on agent configuration, memory systems, skill installation, and the "Memento Man" mental model for keeping agents on track. The conversation covers everything from token spend management and agentic design patterns to the future of importable, shareable companies and the upcoming Maximizer Mode.

    Skills to build your agent team: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/skill-suite

    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    02:32 What is Paperclip

    04:21 Choosing a Startup Idea for the Demo

    05:48 Setting Up your agents

    07:51 Hiring Your First Agent and Creating a Plan

    12:39 Agent Configuration and Persona Setup

    17:08 Skills: Installing and Managing Agent Capabilities

    21:02 How to Get Top-Quality Output from Agents

    24:05 Token Spend Tracking and Subscription Usage

    25:49 Agentic Design Patterns and QA Loops

    29:05 Taste and Values: What AI Still Cannot Do

    30:09 How Many Agents Run the Paperclip Project

    32:32 Routines: Automating Recurring Agent Tasks

    36:36 Who Is Using Paperclip Today

    38:57 Shareable and Importable Companies

    42:49 The Unproven Frontier: Do Agent Orgs Actually Work?

    42:49 Maximizer Mode and What's Next

    44:29 Did Dotta Expect It to Go This Viral?

    Key Points

    • Paperclip is a bring-your-own-bot orchestrator: it works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and any model on OpenRouter, so you are not locked into a single provider.

    • AI agents are "Memento Man" — they wake up capable but with zero memory, so you need heartbeat checklists, persona prompts, and written context to keep them effective.

    • The biggest lever for quality output is encoding your own taste and values into agent skills and brand guides, because AI can do everything except know what you actually want.

    • Agentic design patterns like engineer-to-QA review loops matter more than one-shotting an entire startup; structure prevents compounding errors.

    • Paperclip tracks every token spent and every task completed, solving the problem of running dozens of agent windows with zero accountability.

    • Importable, shareable company templates (like Gary Tan's G-Stack or a full game studio) point toward a future where you "aqua-hire" proven agent teams instead of building from scratch.

    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 DOTTA ON SOCIAL

    X/Twitter: https://x.com/dotta

    Paperclip: https://paperclip.ing

    Github: https://github.com/cryppadotta

    26 March 2026, 7:00 pm
  • 27 minutes 27 seconds
    What is Firecrawl?

    I break down Firecrawl and it solves AI’s biggest blind spot, access to clean web data. I walk through the full AI agent stack every builder needs, explain why this is the "AWS moment" for web data, and share a dozen startup ideas you can build this week using Firecrawl for scraping, enrichment, and automation. Whether you want to launch a niche SaaS, a lead gen service, or a data-as-a-service business, this episode gives you the frameworks and the specifics to get started.

    Shoutout Firecrawl - Turn websites into LLM-ready data: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/firecrawl

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    02:14 – Why this matters now

    07:40 – What is Firecrawl

    11:20 – How does Firecrawl work

    12:57 – The Agent Stack

    14:35 – 7 Startup Ideas

    24:01 – Firecrawl Hired an AI Agent as an Employee

    26:24 – Final Thoughts

    Key Points

    • AI models are only as good as the data they can access — clean, structured web data is the new critical infrastructure.

    • Firecrawl replaces thousands of lines of custom scraping code with a single API call that returns clean markdown, structured JSON, and screenshots.

    • The biggest opportunity is taking horizontal SaaS categories (SEO tools, job boards, price trackers) and building hyper-niche versions using Firecrawl at a fraction of the cost.

    • I think about the AI agent stack in five layers: agent harness, search layer, web data layer, ops brain, and outbound/audience stack.

    • The real business model is selling the data output, not the tool — you can charge $200 to $5,000 per month per client with margins above 95%.

    • Vertical software always wins because people pay for specificity; Constellation Software built a ~$75 billion company on this principle.

    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/

    24 March 2026, 7:00 pm
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    My OpenClaw setup that finally works (Complete Walkthrough)

    I sit down with Moritz Kremb, an OpenClaw power user and agency builder based in Berlin, to break down how to actually make OpenClaw useful. Moritz walks through a 10-step optimization guide covering everything from troubleshooting and memory management to model selection and security basics. He then demos two real systems he built with OpenClaw: a full short-form video content pipeline and a conversational CRM. This episode is for anyone who tried OpenClaw, hit a wall, and wants a clear path to turning it into a superhuman digital employee.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro and episode promise

    02:17 – What is OpenClaw

    03:17 – OpenClaw vs. ChatGPT vs. Claude Code

    07:43 – Where Claude Cowork and Dispatch fit in

    09:47 – Why choose OpenClaw over Cowork

    11:03 – Step 1: Setting up OpenClaw

    14:46 – Step 2: Personalize your workspace files

    18:04 – Step 3: Fix and optimize memory

    22:43 – Step 4: Choose the right model (OAuth method)

    25:56 – Anthropic ban and model provider gray areas

    27:33 – Step 5: Organize Telegram groups and topics

    30:19 – Step 6: Understand the three browser modes

    35:18 – Step 7: Skills — built-in, marketplace, and custom

    39:03 – Step 8: Optimize the heartbeat file

    42:00 – Step 9: Security basics and prompt injection

    48:08 – Step 10: Least access principle and agent-owned accounts

    49:52 – Use case 1: No AI Slop content system

    58:37 – Use case 2: Conversational CRM

    01:01:15 – Final thoughts on the future of personal agents

    01:02:55 – Jensen Huang's take: OpenClaw as the new computer

    Key Points

    • Upload the OpenClaw documentation into a Claude project to create a dedicated troubleshooting baseline — it solves roughly 99% of setup issues.

    • Use the OAuth method (your existing $20 ChatGPT or Anthropic subscription) to avoid expensive API costs, and always configure backup models.

    • Memory problems are almost always caused by memory never being saved in the first place; add an auto-save instruction to the heartbeat file so it logs every 30 minutes.

    • Organize your OpenClaw conversations into separate Telegram groups and topics with group-specific system prompts to avoid context bleed.

    • Stronger models are meaningfully more resistant to prompt injection; pair that with least-access principles and agent-owned accounts for a solid security posture.

    • Custom skills are the path to real automation — whenever you do something repeatedly, tell your OpenClaw to turn it into a skill.

    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 MORITZ ON SOCIAL

    X: https://x.com/moritzkremb

    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@promptwarrior/videos

    Instagram: https://www.youtube.com/@promptwarrior/

    19 March 2026, 7:45 pm
  • 58 minutes 55 seconds
    AI Agents Full Course 59 Minutes (for beginners)

    I sit down with Remy Gaskell to break down how anyone can build AI agents to run entire departments of their business. Remy walks through the core concepts: agent loops, context files, memory, MCP tool connections, and skills. We put everything together by building a fully functional executive assistant live on screen. This is a beginner-friendly crash course that covers Claude Code, Codex, Cowork, Antigravity, Manus, and OpenClaw, showing that once you understand how to "drive," you can jump into any agent platform. By the end, listeners know exactly how to set up markdown-based context files, connect their everyday tools, and create reusable skills that compound over weeks and months.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    01:35 – Agents vs Chat

    03:22 – The Agent Loop

    05:46 – How Agents work

    06:39 – Demoing Agents (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity)

    08:52 – Security and Agent Permissions

    10:43 – Comparing Results Across Three Platforms

    13:57 – Startup Idea: Cold Email Website Offer

    14:50 – Folder Structure and Department-Based Agents

    15:52 – Onboarding an Agent Like a Real Employee

    17:05 – Voice-to-Text With Monologue and WhisperFlow

    18:04 – Chat Memory vs. Agent Memory

    19:34 – Building the agents md

    22:20 – Context Engineering Over Prompt Engineering

    24:29 – How Memory Compounds and Reduces Errors

    30:27 – How Big Can memory md Get?

    31:43 – Connecting Tools via MCP (Model Context Protocol)

    34:49 – Working in Claude Code for High-Value Tasks

    37:09 – Why the Real Value Is in Stacking, Not Summarizing

    40:04 – What Are Skills? (SOPs for AI)

    43:08 – Creating Skills

    48:36 – Real-World Example: Ads Analyst Skill: 4-Hour Process in Minutes

    50:37 – Chaining Skills together

    52:01 – Real-World Example: Automated Car Search

    53:34 – OpenClaw and Migrating Agents to More Autonomous Platforms

    55:19 – Which Platform Should Beginners Start With?

    56:28 – Global vs. Project-Level Skills, Context, and MCPs

    Key Points

    • Agent platforms (Claude Code, Codex, Cowork, Antigravity, Manus, OpenClaw) are all running the same observe-think-act loop under the hood — learning one means you can use any of them.

    • The shift from chat to agents requires moving from prompt engineering to context engineering: load the agent with rich context so simple prompts produce excellent results.

    • A memory md file creates a self-improving loop where the agent learns preferences across sessions and makes fewer errors over time.

    • MCP (Model Context Protocol), built by Anthropic, acts as a universal translator between your agent and every tool it needs — Gmail, Calendar, Stripe, Notion, and more.

    • Skills are reusable SOPs packaged as markdown files; once you explain a process once, you can invoke it repeatedly, and they compound as you add three to five per week.

    • Scheduled tasks turn skills into automated workflows — morning briefs, car searches, ad library analyses — that run on a cron without any manual trigger.

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