• 47 minutes 55 seconds
    The $1M+ Solo AI Agent Business (Full Course)

    Nick agreed to personally set up your Orgo in a 15 min call: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/orgo_ai

    I sit down with Nick from Orgo to break down exactly how to run a one-person AI agent business that can realistically clear a few million dollars a year. Nick walks through the offer, the verticals worth chasing, the full software stack, and the live setup of an agent that manages other agents. We focus on tactics over theory, with specific tools, pricing, and the playbook for landing customers as a solopreneur. By the end, anyone with solid AI fluency will have a clear path from offer design to fulfillment.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    02:54 – Designing the AI Agent Business Offer

    06:38– Selling an AI Employee, Not an Agent

    07:26 – Industries to Target (and Two to Avoid)

    14:54 – Content Is Overpowered and How to Get Customers

    17:51 – The Customer-Facing Tool Stack

    20:49 – Building Agents Stack

    25:51 – Model Picks: GPT 5.5, GLM 5.1, Kimmy, Opus 4.7

    27:08 – Nick’s Stack

    28:14 – Why Obsidian Is the Second Brain Layer

    30:22 – Live Walkthrough: Spinning Up a Cloud Computer in Orgo

    33:53 – Cloud Computers vs. Mac Minis

    38:37 – Building Agents and Structuring Workspaces for Customers

    43:56 – Watchdogs, Observability, and Reliability

    45:28 – Closing Thoughts on the Solopreneur Era

    Key Points

    • Sell unlimited agents, unlimited usage, and unlimited support to remove friction; most customers actually use one to three agents.

    • Avoid healthcare and finance to start; focus on legacy verticals like marketing, law, insurance, manufacturing, wholesale, and real estate.

    • OpenClaw agents go for around 5K a month; Hermes agents can go for 10K a month.

    • The full stack: Granola, Trello, Loom, Superhuman, Asana, Codex, Hermes, Orgo, Composio, Agent Mail, and Obsidian.

    • GPT 5.5 is the recommended default model for tool calling; GLM 5.1 and Kimmy work for lighter tasks; Opus 4.7 fits long-horizon coding.

    • Use agents to set up other agents — pair Cloud Code or Codex with MCPs like Perplexity, Context7, and X MCP for live docs.

    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 NICK ON SOCIAL

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

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

    Personal Website: https://www.nickvasilescu.com/

    12 May 2026, 5:20 pm
  • 29 minutes 52 seconds
    7 tiny AI agent ideas I built with Genspark Claw

    Get started building your tiny AI Agent business with Genspark Claw: https://www.genspark.ai/?utm_source=po&utm_campaign=GregIsenberg

    In this solo episode, I share seven tiny, cash-flowing startup ideas you can build with AI in just a few prompts. I walk through how to use Genspark Claw, Genspark's new in-the-cloud agent product running Sonnet 4.6, and demonstrate two ideas I have already built (a dead domain flipper and a local restaurant liquidation broker), build a third idea live on camera (a hiring-signal cold outreach machine), and hand you a five-step framework for generating your own ideas. The goal is simple: give you the creative juices, the framework, and the practical know-how to ship a $200-$1,500/day business with AI as your employee.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    01:28 – Idea 1: The Dead Domain Flipper

    06:19 – Idea 2: Local Restaurant Liquidation Broker

    11:03 – Idea 3: Hiring-Signal Cold Outreach Machine (building live)

    14:30 – Prevent Sleep, Heartbeat, and Treating Genspark Claw Like an Employee

    15:52 – Skills, Local File Access, and What Else Genspark Claw Can Do

    17:24 – Reviewing the 14 Personalized Cold Emails It Wrote

    20:35 – More Ideas: Buy-or-Build Memos, Dead Product Hunt SEO, Forgotten Apps

    24:18 – Framework for finding ideas: Public Data, Neglected Assets, Clear Buyer

    26:33 – What Else Comes With Genspark AI Works Base 4.0

    Key Points

    • Tiny, boring, cash-flowing ideas beat billion-dollar ideas when you want to ship this month.

    • GenClaw plus Slack turns Claude Sonnet 4.6 into an always-on AI employee for around $25/month.

    • The repeatable pattern is: messy feed → mispriced asset → trigger event → obvious buyer → liquidity point.

    • Three hunting lenses: places of constant change, things people ignore, and assets with clear urgency and spread.

    • Talking to your agent in plain English ("strip the HTML entities, make the budget $2,500") replaces most engineering work.

    • Selling agents with outcomes is the new SaaS, and shifts the model from per-seat pricing to outcome-based pricing.

    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/

    #Genspark and #WorkWithGenspark

    FIND ME ON SOCIAL

    X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg

    Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/

    12 May 2026, 1:55 am
  • 51 minutes 1 second
    My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop

    I sit down with Meng To for his second appearance on the pod to dig into design md, Google's newly open-sourced format for capturing the soul of a design and porting it across every medium and tool. Meng walks me through a live demo of how he uses design md alongside skills, HTML references, and tools like Aura, New Form, Codex, and OpenClaw to ship landing pages, motion design, slides, and mobile mocks that actually feel custom. We get into the design drift problem with one-shot prompts, why taste is the real moat for builders right now, and how he runs four products as effectively a team of one while iterating a thousand-plus prompts deep. If you build with agents and you want your work to stand out from the sea of purple-gradient lookalikes, this one is for you.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    04:00 – What design md actually is

    07:17 – Examples: one design DNA across slides, promo videos, motion

    09:31 – How to create design system

    14:05 – The importance of taste and design

    18:28 – Variant, remixing, and skills as ingredients

    21:36 – Live demo: creating a landing page with design md and HTML

    24:36 – Thoughts on Google Stitch

    25:41 – Being fast and at edges is an unfair advantage

    29:29 – Midjourney parallels and the queuing flow state

    31:44 – Walking through skills (skeuomorphic, 3D, lasers)

    34:07 – Now everyone is a designer

    36:47 – The full design workflow

    38:50 – Iteration versus remix

    39:24 – Judgment per minute as the new craft

    41:06 – Solo building vs building a team

    44:34 – Taste is the moat

    48:25 – Building a second brain for design inspiration

    50:41 – Closing thoughts

    Key Points

    • Design md is a portable blueprint for typography, color, spacing, and effects that you attach to any prompt to keep design consistent across web, mobile, slides, and motion.

    • One-shot prompts collapse on page two; a design system carries the soul across every medium and tool you switch into.

    • Skills work like ingredients (lasers, skeuomorphic, 3D, copywriting), and stacking them on top of design md  is what separates custom work from generic vibe-coded output.

    • Taste is the real moat right now, and you build it by surrounding yourself with great design and using every product in your niche.

    • Iteration (90% of the time) keeps a product evolving; remix (10%) takes the same DNA into a new medium or category.

    • The shift in craft is from moving pixels to making judgment calls per minute, with agents handling the mechanical work.

    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 MENG ON SOCIAL

    Aura: https://aura.build

    X/Twitter: https://x.com/MengTo

    12 May 2026, 1:25 am
  • 41 minutes 27 seconds
    Hire a team of AI Agents

    I'm joined again by Imran Muthuvappa to walk through how to build your own AI Chief of Staff using a tool called Nebula. Imran shows me how to spin up specialized agents that handle the work a real chief of staff would do — surfacing team blockers, tracking project status, holding people accountable to offsite vision goals, running daily agenda briefings, and prospecting ICP leads. We also get into mini apps, model selection for cost efficiency, and why personal software is becoming a real category. By the end, the takeaway is clear: every role now has a "work on the job" component where you supervise yourself and offload tasks to agents.

    Links Mentioned:

    Try Nebula: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/nebula

    Precall Agent: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/precall-agent

    Project Status Agent: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/project-status-agent

    Lead Gen Agent: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/lead-gen-agent

    Timestamps:

    00:00 – Intro

    02:13 – What is Nebula

    02:54 – What an AI Chief of Staff Actually Does

    4:26 – Nebula vs OpenClaw vs Hermes

    06:09 – Building the Blockage Radar Agent

    09:47 – Agent Features

    12:04 – Choosing Cheaper Models for Simple Tasks

    13:15 – Building Project Status Agent

    13:53 – Connecting Tools to Agents

    17:38 – Building Vision Tracker Agent

    22:07 – Mini Apps and Personal Software as a New Paradigm

    25:13 – Building a Daily Agenda Agent and Second Brain Integration

    30:25 – Hours Saved vs. Anxiety Reduced for Founders

    33:02 – Building the Lead Gen Prospector Agent

    39:19 – Final Thoughts: Automate Three to Five Things

    Key Points

    • An AI Chief of Staff handles the boring executive support work — calendar, email, LinkedIn, project status — so a human can focus on decisions.

    • Nebula lets you build, deploy, and share custom agents through a Slack-like interface, where each agent has its own goals, tools, and system prompt.

    • Voice input via SuperWhisper or WhisperFlow gets you to roughly 150 words per minute, which Imran calls the biggest productivity lift available right now.

    • Cheaper models like the Nebula model handle most chief-of-staff tasks well — reserve frontier models like Opus or Sonnet for deep coding or reasoning work.

    • Mini apps inside Nebula are spinnable web dashboards that connect back to your agents — a glimpse of personal software replacing off-the-shelf tools.

    • The new skill is judgment: picking which three to five things to automate out of your week.

    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 IMRAN ON SOCIAL

    X/Twitter: https://x.com/imranye

    Alif: https://alif.build/

    8 May 2026, 6:00 pm
  • 1 hour 26 minutes
    How to win with AI Agents in 2026

    Limited BONUS: First 1,000 builders get $1,000. Claim yours while supplies lasts.: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/hyperagent

    I sit down with Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable, to talk about the agent economy and the launch of HyperAgent. We walk through Sequoia's charts on AI agent deployment, the economics of token-based work versus human labor, and why frontier agents have crossed a threshold that changes how companies get built. Howie then does a live show-and-tell of HyperAgent, including a custom "Greg Isenberg contrarian AI" skill he spins up in real time. This one is for anyone building a solopreneur business, operating a fleet of agents, or trying to figure out where to place their bet in the agent ecosystem

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    02:22 – Sequoia's AI agent deployment chart reaction

    04:41 – Copilot vs Autopilot territory and the $1T+ opportunity

    08:13 – Agent economics vs human labor costs

    11:12 – Fastest enterprise adoption curve in history

    14:48 – The agent command center and fleet of 20 agents

    18:03 – What is HyperAgent?

    19:43 – Live demo: hyperlocal real estate market reports

    22:38 – HyperAgent as the founder, not just the developer

    23:21 – Street View, Zillow redesigns, and visual tool power

    24:15 – Command center view across a fleet of agents

    25:48 – Skills as the key primitive for frontier agents

    26:30 – Building the Greg Isenberg contrarian AI skill live

    32:31 – HyperAgent vs Perplexity Computer, Manus, OpenClaw, Codex

    34:52 – Reviewing writing skill

    36:55 – The arbitrage of persistence

    41:31 – Confidence milestones: first dollar, $10K/month

    35:27 – Reviewing contrarian tweet drafts live

    45:05 – Giving the agent feedback and building rubrics

    50:15 – Connectors, OAuth, and building custom API skills

    53:03 – How to get started with HyperAgent

    01:01:54 – Credit giveaway for listeners

    01:03:31 – Closing Thoughts

    Key Points

    • Frontier agents have crossed a threshold in the last 4–5 months where they function as true autonomous coworkers, not just chat assistants.

    • Reframe agent cost by value delivered: a $150 token spend for a board memo beats hours of human time, so anchor on opportunity cost.

    • The real arbitrage is persistence: 99% of people quit after one shot, while daily practice for 30/60/90 days produces top 1% operators.

    • Skills are the most important primitive in frontier agents, turning generally intelligent models into domain experts through playbooks.

    • HyperAgent's differentiation is a low floor plus a high ceiling, with rubrics, LLM-as-judge evals, and fleet-wide observability for scaling.

    • Aim for $100B companies with under 5 employees, built on fleets of always-on agents mapped to human job roles.

    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 HOWIE ON SOCIAL

    X/Twitter: https://x.com/howietl

    Hyperagent: https://www.hyperagent.com

    Airtable: https://www.airtable.com-

    29 April 2026, 5:00 pm
  • 1 hour 26 minutes
    Codex clearly explained (and how to use it)

    I sit down with Riley Brown to get a hands-on tour of OpenAI's Codex, which he argues is the most powerful single interface for using AI agents today. Riley walks me through how Codex unifies vibe coding, knowledge work, browser use, computer use, and automations into one app, all running on GPT 5.5. I come in as a complete Codex skeptic who has spent most of my time in Claude Code, and Riley shows me skills, plugins, projects, Remotion, Chronicle, and the in-app browser to make his case. By the end, the question becomes whether the era of separate tools for documents, decks, code, and research is collapsing into a single super app.

    00:00 – Intro

    03:23 – What is Codex

    06:46 – Why a GUI beats the terminal for most users

    10:13 – Codex: the all in one platform

    12:48 – Atlas browser inside Codex

    14:21 – Remotion explained and motion graphics workflows

    19:28 – Computer use and Chronicle

    22:26 – Plugins, skills, MCPs, and integrations

    31:57 – Evals, examples, and good outpu

    38:43 – Hard questions: who Codex is built for

    40:44 – Browser use plays itself in chess

    43:20 – Running Claude Code inside Codex

    45:58 – GPT 5.5 cost and effort settings

    48:50 – GPT Images 2.0

    54:09 – Why most people feel overwhelmed by AI tools

    57:09 – Three projects to start with on day one and Closing thoughts

    Key Points

    • Codex is positioned as a super app where coding, documents, decks, research, and automations live in one interface, with GPT 5.5 as the underlying model.

    • The trend across Codex, Cursor, and the Claude Code desktop app is the same GUI pattern: chats on the left, agent in the middle, output on the right.

    • Plugins offer official integrations like Slack, Notion, Sheets, Remotion, and Canva, while skills are user-created instructions stored as a SKILL.md file.

    • Computer use and browser use have crossed a speed threshold; the chess demo runs at near-human pace, a leap from earlier "dial-up" feeling agents.

    • Running Claude Code inside the Codex terminal lets you stack both subscriptions and use each model where it shines.

    • The biggest unlock for companies is collecting good examples of finished work so agents can match the bar.

    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 RILEY ON SOCIAL

    X/Twitter: https://x.com/rileybrown

    Vibe Code App: https://www.vibecodeapp.com

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

    27 April 2026, 6:05 pm
  • 32 minutes 15 seconds
    ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is Here. I Tested Everything.

    In this solo episode, I walk through ChatGPT Images 2.0 and show exactly how to use it to build creative assets that move a business forward, from brand visual directions to UI mockups to apparel mockups and editorial illustrations. I share the AI tool that surprised me this week (Noscroll), hand over a startup idea I want someone to steal (a learn-to-draw app with AI feedback on every sketch), and give you a five-step framework for finding and building a vertical AI business. I end with a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote that fired me up and a reminder to go conquer the day.

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    01:21 – What's New in ChatGPT Images 2.0

    03:14 – Best Use Cases for Images 2.0

    15:15 – Top Tips for Asset Generation

    17:10 – Tool of the Week: Noscroll

    20:17 – Startup Idea: Learn-to-Draw App with AI Feedback

    24:58 – Framework: How to Find a Vertical AI Business to Build

    29:45 – Closing Thoughts and Emerson Quote

    Key Points

    • ChatGPT Images 2.0 delivers 2K resolution, eight images per prompt, thinking mode with web search, and dramatically better text rendering across languages.

    • Specificity is the whole game with 2.0: dialed-in aesthetic, camera, lighting, palette, subjects, and output dimensions separate cinematic results from stock-looking ones.

    • Every business has four creative bottlenecks: marketing content, internal decks and training, visual explanation, and testing before building.

    • No Scroll is a glimpse into the future of AI agents: small, focused products that read the internet for you and text only what matters.

    • Vertical AI beats horizontal AI for reaching seven and eight figures in ARR because niche workflows plus proprietary data equal defensibility.

    • The Emerson mindset: own the day, finish it, forget the blunders, and begin tomorrow serenely.

    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/

    22 April 2026, 6:11 pm
  • 37 minutes
    Hermes Agent clearly explained (and how to use it)

    I sit down with Imran Muthuvappa to get a hands-on walkthrough of Hermes Agent, a personal AI agent that ships with built-in memory, 40+ tools, and pre-installed skills out of the box. Imran walks me through why he migrated from OpenClaw, how to install Hermes on a Mac or even an Android phone via Termux, and how he cut his token spend by roughly 90% using OpenRouter. We get into agent design (one agent vs. multiple), connecting Hermes to Telegram and Obsidian, and the kinds of prompts that turn a personal agent into a daily operating system. By the end, I have a practical roadmap to install Hermes, pick a model, and start automating real parts of my life and business

    Timestamps

    00:00 – Intro

    01:38 – Why Imran Left OpenClaw (Memory, Gateway, Tokens)

    04:26 – Hermes Setup Tour and 40+ Built-In Tools

    07:06 – Installing Hermes on Mac, Linux, and WSL

    12:21 – Telegram and Android Agents

    17:09 – Auditing Your Life With Your Agent

    20:04 – Must-Know Hermes Tips: Updates, Tailscale, Telegram

    21:07 – Should You Migrate From OpenClaw?

    25:58 – Hermes + Obsidian as a Daily Dashboard

    27:16 – Must-Use Prompts for a Personal Agent

    31:29 – Must-Install Skills: Obsidian, Honcho Memory, G-Stack

    33:04 – What G-Stack Is and Why It Matters

    34:18 – Customization Is a Trap; Output Is the Skill

    35:19 – Closing Thoughts

    Key Points

    • Hermes Agent solves OpenClaw's three biggest pain points: built-in memory (writes to SQLite on successful tasks), gateway stability, and token visibility.

    • Installation is a single command on Mac, Linux, or WSL, and Hermes ships with 40+ tools and popular skills (Apple Notes, Reminders, iMessage, Find My) pre-installed.

    • Switching to Hermes with OpenRouter can cut token spend by roughly 90%, from about $130 per five days to around $10 per five days in Imran's case.

    • You can run Hermes on a cheap Android phone via Termux + Termux API, unlocking SMS, sensors, and on-device social posting as a cheap alternative to a Mac Mini.

    • The real skill is defaulting to your agent for work, then meta-prompting it nightly: "What am I procrastinating? What should I automate? What tool can you build me tonight?"

    • Imran recommends pairing Hermes with Obsidian for a clean daily dashboard and installing G-Stack (a Y Combinator-style startup skill from Gary Tan) if you are building a product.

    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 IMRAN ON SOCIAL

    X/Twitter: https://x.com/imranye

    Alif: https://alif.build

    20 April 2026, 6:00 pm
  • 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/

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    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
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