Time to talk about AI

So. Good morning, LinkedIn friends, Value First Nation. Welcome to another episode of Value First AI Daily, your collaborative intelligence report. It is Monday, March 30th, 2026. How we doing, George?

Doing good, my friend, doing good. How are you doing?

I'm doing great. It's another fun weekend, uh, in AI land. Um, Uh, what'd you build? What'd you build, man?

What didn't I build? Um, I had a really interesting weekend that took me down some, um, very empowering roads. I, I can't talk about the main thing yet. The main thing's coming, but I can talk to you about a side tangential thing that came out of the new thing, if that makes sense. So, um, one of the things that I've been watching what you've been doing with V and Sage and this idea of sub-agents, and for the longest time I had gotten to the point where I'm like, I'm just gonna invoke agent teams and tell it to use sub-agents, and then I'm like, whatever, I don't need to get as granular as Chris. Chris might be on some happy juice or something. I don't know. Like, and I had this just like thought around it. And then I was doing this new project that I'm doing and I was like, you know what? I preach specificity wins the day. And I'm basically asking it to invoke an agent team and subagents. And every time it's grabbing something new with no knowledge and having to give it knowledge to the thing that we're trying to do or that is done. And so then I, because it's the weekend, you know, I let the dogs out and I sit down, I watch some YouTube videos, and I happen across this interview where they're interviewing the creator of Paperclip. And I'm like, okay, um, I'm not one to jump on and go just do something that somebody built, but I do like learning lessons from conversations and then pulling my own threads and kind of doing my thing. So I started to build out this idea of what does it look like from an org chart standpoint for humans and agents. And so right now I'm sitting on this admin area of this new project that I'm working on. And in the admin area, there is a theme plus agent team dashboard. That has like Kelly and Jorge and Madison and Noah and Seth and just different humans. And then below that, it has the agent org chart, which as of this weekend, we built out Alex, which Alex is the chief operating officer. And for anybody that's like me that historically kind of scoffed at like, why would you name these and why would they be agents that you could call? I went down this deep trail of giving them like job descriptions and even to the point where what they can or can't do, what they have to ask, like what they can commit or push or send or work with, tools they can use, you know, like some I might give like whatever to and some I might not give anything to. For instance, one of the things in the back of my mind is creating a social— or no, not creating. Hiring a social media agent and actually giving it API access to the HubSpot social media tools and it being able to use those to be able to do a job that I might give it occasionally, or a job to assist Madison for the job that she does that is social media for the organization. Like, so you see kind of what I'm saying is like we want to preach and talk about like humans and assistants But it's like, really what people have historically been talking about is like humans and Claude, humans and ChatGPT. They really haven't been talking about like humans and Alex or humans and Jordan, humans and, you know, whatever the social media agent ends up being named. And so it's very interesting to sit and look at this thing. Now, where I think I took it to a whole new level, Chris, and I kind of teased this in our Slack channel, is I even built out what are training paths. So one of the big things for my humans in the organization is like, what are you going to learn this quarter? And it's like about video editing. Is it about HubSpot? Like, Jorge has 52 HubSpot certifications. I have had 42 all time, right? So like, We are a growth-minded company, and so I want agents who are growth-minded. And so I literally gave, I gave Alex the job of go out and look at the top YouTube channels or podcasts about being a chief operating officer of a marketing agency like ours that helps people with HubSpot and bring back the top 3 to 4. Okay, so here's the top 3 to 4. Beautiful. Put together a system where you can go look at the transcripts of these. Make sure you're prioritizing them by the thing you need to know most to the thing you need to know least. And let's figure out how you can, air quotes, Chris, watch 10 videos a day to add to your knowledge of what you're going to do as the chief operating officer. And also give me a daily recall of the things that you learned that are most important that I need to know. Boom, went off, did it. It also tracks the learning, like how much of the channels or podcasts has it watched or listened to. And it gave me back— I did 2 days in 1 day, by the way, because I was like nerding out with it, like, run another batch, like, let's see what happens. And the things that it gave back to me, I was like, I would pay a coach thousands of dollars to get the things that are coming back to me right now and the things that it unlocked in my brain. And so all of that to say, Chris, is we are going down a road at Sidekick Strategies of having human team and agent team and training both human and agents. And then now trying to figure out when we look at that org chart, how do we build tools to enable the humans to work with the agents and the agents to work with the humans? For instance, one of the things that I'm thinking about, this is as early as this morning, by the way, is If I have an agent who is super dope at social media, can I create an area in a place where it just knows when I publish an article to do a great job of creating content confetti and then give a human a dashboard for things to pick and choose to then go ahead and do the publishing portion of this? I'm just using social media as an example. Anyway, that's— that was this weekend. And again, that was a byproduct of some— a larger project to be announced and released, uh, probably in about a week. Um, and so literally what you just heard me describe was maybe 3 hours, 4 hours maybe, out of the probably 18, maybe, maybe 20 that I spent in just hammering away.

And I don't want anybody to think that it was work hammering away, having the blast, having—

oh, having that. Before anybody judges, the wife was gone, the two girls were gone, they were showing dogs, right? And so it was just me and Noah in the house and Noah's gaming and I was air quotes gaming in my own game of life. And, and just enjoy enjoying it. And so like, would I go get something to eat? Yes. Would I, you know, mess with the dogs and go play frisbee with Maple? Yes, several times. Did I watch some Yellowstone because I'm re-watching the show when I needed a break? Yeah. Did I watch some YouTube? Yeah. But amongst that, I was working because I can also hit click and walk away and come back and hit click and walk away and come back. So But yeah, that's where my brain is right now, Chris, at least a small piece or portion of it.

Well, let's show what happens when you go this route.

Yeah.

And this is where like, don't overthink it, folks. Like, sure, there might be a way to get here if you don't think about them as you would your human roles. and you could, you know, just come up with the most magnificent markdown file infrastructure and instructions and skills and docs and use words that aren't human names to accomplish the same thing. But when you just, since all of this I believe is mindset related.

Yeah.

Like how do you unlock your mind to start taking it to this level? Yeah, whatever you need to do.

Do you want to show yours or do you want me to show?

I'm going to— I've got—

okay. Because I have mine ready if you wanted me to show, but I'm ready. Okay.

I think it's— here's where, where it starts. And I can— how do I do that?

Yeah, I see terminal is what I see.

There we go. Right. So at the beginning of my day and just went away. There you go. Why won't it let me scroll up? Okay. So at the beginning of the day, I have a media prep like slash command, right? And it is for Marquis, who is the business leader the business unit leader of Value First Media business unit. His job is to spawn the team to prepare me for the day. I think maybe it's here. There we go. Yeah. I pressed too many buttons. So we've got Oh, here we go. Okay. All right, so the slash command is /media-prep and, uh, spawns the business business unit leader, Marquis. And then he, and of course this is all coming from markdown files, right? And right, right. To get to the endpoint of like, here's your day, here's all the assets built. Like this is actually a LinkedIn post that he's waiting for me to, you know, uh, approve and post through HubSpot, through HubSpot social tools. To say on the company page, right, here's what's going on. To do that, he spawns 4 agents that are named— I think I'm just hitting the Control button a little too much here.

Gotcha.

There we go. So Prelude, check today's show schedule. And he's like, so Prelude, like before the show, right?

Right.

Done. Right. Encore, verify yesterday's recordings. And he's a post-production focused agent. Broadcast, distribution focused mainly on LinkedIn. And Forge, check content multiplication queue. Hmm. You saw all the outputs, but because I, I've just thought about what I was doing inside of organizations to try and bring digital transformation. I had all these slides from 2020 about what a digital marketing org like needed to look like, and I had job descriptions and roles. And so it was actually easier since my mindset was there. And like, yeah, and I've heard things like one roll one agent, right, to make this kind of stuff work when you're going the agent teams route, right? I am able to give that slide that's got everything broken out already, and then we start building job descriptions. So, and this is available, put this in the chat for everybody, at the, on the Value First website. And I actually can't put it in the chat today on StreamYard for some reason, but here's the identity, here's the skills, and some of them have more like bigger job descriptions than others, right? And because of that, we're able to move at a speed that you just haven't been able to move before, and you get all the things you know you need to do done that you probably wouldn't have gotten to before. Like, as a go-live yesterday with Nico.

Yeah.

This was done shortly after, where it's a page. Sure, could it be better? I'm working on getting transcripts all like automated and all that stuff.

Yeah.

But on-demand video is available. As I was preparing for that show, and we were gonna talk about live coding CRMs and— Mm. Topic, right?

How'd the show go? Good.

Uh, it was good.

It was good.

Um, and part of the reason it was good, because I got to go over like how both sides are wrong. And like, there's traps whether you're vibe coding or building your own stuff or you're implementing HubSpot. Like, and the same traps apply to each. So now this, this, this resource gets created enables better content on the show itself, right? Um, so that was all like built yesterday, right? Also built yesterday is here's the live stream through the website, right? Which I had built before. I'm realizing now I need to update some streaming keys to make sure this one that's going to be a weekly Live starting on April 7th, more of a Zoom weekly community style, you know, ongoing event, uh, that I've been thinking about and wanting to accomplish since 2020 as well when I saw, um, Chris Walker do it with DemandGen Live, uh, right, starting to build that community event, built that into the, into the website. Yesterday, and that, uh, you know, Forge, this check content multiplication queue, what he does is he's paying attention to all the transcripts that flow into the repo from client conversations and picks topics to write an article about. And builds an idea queue. And then when I'm at the end of the day and I say media recap or daily recap, they offer up, he offers up an option. And like, this is the point where it's like you can go from doing to learning. To talking, to doing again. And it's this ridiculous flywheel right now that is so valuable to where I can write or I can publish, thanks to V and the rest of the team and all of the work done to build brand identity, voice, tone, you know, the whole infrastructure, which ends up being like how we get to here, right? It's not just, hey, we're gonna make 70 agents. Like, this is the hard part, right? You can't just look at my screen and give it to AI, like, out of the gate and be like, oh, I'm gonna just build all these agents for us too, right? Without the mission, without the vision, without the usual stuff, right, to align all of this. Yeah, you'll be able to create some stuff But is it going to be the right stuff? I don't know. Right? So this impactful article to take a lesson learned from a Friday conversation and then show it to the person. Now, this is anonymized, but then show it to the person and then their response is, thanks for seeing me. Right. And when we talked about like creating the space, now AI drafted this, did almost everything in order to get this article published on the site. I once-overed it. I didn't edit one word. Right. But what I did do is I had the initial conversation. With the human that spurred the idea to have this content. And then I made the decision that it needed to be an article, that it needed to be on the site so that we could help anybody. Because this story was like, yeah, that was me on the inside too. Like, I can't be on the inside of a company. They don't like, you know, how my brain works, basically.

Yeah.

And like, we know that a lot of people get stuck in this position. It's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur and get out of that whatever situation you're in that you don't like, right? This takes us to the Value First Collective.

Yeah.

Like creating the space for awesome humans to be awesome and not feel bad about being awesome. Yeah. Right? And this is like all of this yesterday. Right? Some of it while we're on the show, like with Nico, right?

Right.

And that thing of people being able to solve problems and build stuff concurrently, like multitasking for real, because you actually have other intelligent entities that can actually focus on this thing, not this kind of like fake multitasking that, that we used to be asked to do and used to be like the cool kids, right? Where you actually like suffer from context switching and you don't do quality work and you just always behind. Instead, you're actually creating value no matter which channel it's moving through because you actually have these roles covered, right? And as you continue to build the foundation, like, you learn so fast, you move so fast, you learn some more so fast, and it just— and you're having a blast doing it. Like, don't forget that part, folks. Like, we haven't met one person— like, every single person who gets unlocked is like, this is amazing. I'm never looking back. I've never had so much fun. It's been so long since I've felt this way. Like, so yeah, had some fun this weekend. And that's why we show up Monday with the big old grins on our faces. Like, can't wait to show up on Monday.

Without a doubt. Without a doubt.

It's like we need to redefine case of the Mondays.

Without a doubt. So, Chris, two things. Um, one, remind me tomorrow to have you pull that screen up that you were showing, and I want to give the viewers or listeners two threads to pull, uh, for their work, for their brains, and then also two threads that you might pull on your entire system. And I'll explain how I did it in a way I did it, and I could even show and tell a tool that like— anyway, remind me, two threads to pull, show and tell. Ladies and gentlemen, you're gonna have to tune in tomorrow for that, just saying.

Indeed, we look forward to seeing you. Thanks so much, George.

You bet. Thanks, Chris.