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1 | Member Name | "Give" Headline | Where were you (i.e. traffic, revenue) before implementing your Give topic? | What were the results after implementing your Give topic? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Amy Aitman | Two Years Ago I Told This Room We Needed to Pivot. Here's What It Actually Took. | Zero client/agency revenue, small team | 35+ internal team members, full time + 120 contractors/creators, on track to do 1 million+ in net revenue in 2026 (not final numbers) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Andrew Amann | Why owning your AI Intelligence Layer is the most important thing you can do and how to stop using Claud's Harness | Baselining from companies revenue we... | Increased revenue or reduced cost with a Positive AI transformation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Bjork Ostrom | My OpenClaw Setup: A Single Assistant for Family, Business, and Personal Life | More than I realized, I was handling a lot of the tasks and to-dos in an individual-contributor-type role on a day-to-day basis. I've been able to outsource a lot of those tasks and to-dos to an agent. | Quickly having the ability to route tasks and projects somewhere else at essentially a zero cost basis ($200/month OpenAI subscription). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Braden Yuill | How Hiring a Second-in-Command Finally Let Me Work On the Business Instead of In It | Every decision routed through me. I was the bottleneck on hiring, operations, and every client escalation, working long hours and still feeling like the business couldn't grow past me. Growth was steady but plateauing, because the ceiling was my own capacity, not the market. I'd resisted the hire for a long time — it felt too expensive, and I'd convinced myself no one could run the business the way I did. | I brought on a second-in-command to own day-to-day operations, and it changed what the company could carry. I went from living in the weeds to spending my time on growth and building a second venture. With someone owning the day-to-day, we could take on more without everything waiting on me — the kind of expansion that was impossible when every decision ran through one person. The hire didn't cost me control; it bought me capacity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Chad Hill | How I took a small SaaS from -20k to 30k profit with a team of AI agents | -20k/month | 30k/month profit | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Chelsea Wood | What I Learned Building & Exiting a High-Touch Membership Business | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Chris Guill | GrokBot For Chaos and Profit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Colin Jones | How to Accurately Compare Business Acquisition vs Passive Investments with Internal Rate of Return Modeling | Unsure of how to compare business acquisition compared to passive investment (i.e. markets and private equity opportunities) | Able model out internal rate of return to accurately compare acquisition opportunity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | David Rauch | How Claude Code brought me out of retirement. | Semi-retired. Comfortable. Content. | Working non-stop. Having a blast. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Eric Worral | AI Workflows for YouTube Growth: Research, Packaging, Production | Researching, testing, and executing YouTube strategy on my own. | I have a much deeper understanding of audiences, improved retention times, and automated workflows that deliver video briefs on topics with a higher probability of success. Production quality has dramatically improved while time spent in production has decreased. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Ewen Finser | How We Took Everflow from 20% traffic decline to a 66% increase from LLMs | One of our clients (Everflow) was experiencing a 20% traffic decline | 66% increase in traffic, 13% increase in demos attributed to AI search, and 10% increase in CVR from LLM traffic | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Ewen Finser | How We Accidentally Started an Agency and Grew from $0 > $350k+/month in 18 months | $0 | $350k+/month revenue | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Gabe Anderson | How I run a 500-subscriber membership business with no employees on ~30 AI automations, including a pipeline that preps my weekly quiz email from a custom question database, verifies every question and answer on the live site against source, waits for my approval, then ships to 30K email subscribers. | Post-acquisition I was spending 10-15 hours per week manually preparing quiz emails, generating and recording YouTube decks, and updating quiz content on my website. | Content production work now takes 1-2 hours per week. I've automated the content ops pipeline end-to-end, which freed the time to focus on strategic initiatives rather than execution. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Gabriel Murillo | The Other Side of $1 Million in SBA Acquisition Debt: What Paying It Down Taught Me About Wealth/Risk, What I Want From Business, and My Next Bet | 0 Revenue | Payed off 1mm in SBA acquisition loan for my first acquisition | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Hemal Patel | How I went from being the sole salesperson on my company to delegating 99% of my sales work to AI | I was the sole person doing sales in my company, from lead research to outbound marketing and following up. | AI now does almost all of the process for me, and I simply monitor it from time to time and takeover when a client is ready to meet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Jake Phillips | PE changes the job, not just the balance sheet | 20 million in revenue | I sold the company and we hit about 26 million in revenue | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | James David Williams | What's Changed in the Dealmaking Trenches in 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Jason Glaspey | How I manage too many projects to manage | Same, but more hectic | Less hectic | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Jeff Coyle | The Query was Never the Query - SEO/AEO Success in 2026 | I didn't have a way to explain how query expansion influences SEO/AEO in 2026 | Now I am able to coach people how it works. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Jess Coppom | The pre-launch system we used to sell out our first physical product in less than a day | $0 in physical product sales | Sold out in less than 8 hours. Revenue from one day launch: $29,000. The day after we sold out, 2,500 people joined the waitlist for the next batch. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Jimmy Fritz | AI Won't Replace You; Someone Using AI Will. How I'm Using AI to 10x Productivity and Accountability. | Projects/Rocks took months, tasks took weeks, and accountability was soft - not bad, just slow. I could feel the gap between where we were and where we should've been, but couldn't move fast enough to close it. | Projects/Rocks that took months now take days to weeks. Tasks that took weeks take hours. And for accountability, I can validate a claim in minutes instead of guessing or waiting. I am pushing my team towards an AI-first culture because the gap between the people using it and the people who aren't is now undeniable. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Judd King | How we used Tittok to create a new #1 product | Month of August sales for this product: $450 | Month of August sales for this product: $35,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Lana Li | How I doubled paid Substack subscribers using one article about the ugliest man on Hinge | 160 paid monthly subscribers | 300 paid monthly subscribers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Liz Haslem | How We Scored a 93% CTR: Scaling Email Engagement with Behavioral Follow-Ups | Our standard broadcast emails were performing at a baseline of a 52% open rate and a 2.3% click rate. While healthy, we knew we knew we could implement some additional engagement strategies; targeting people clicking on an email at the time they click, with related content. And, tracking subscriber behavior on our website and following up with emails related to that behavior. | By implementing highly targeted follow-up flows and 'related-content' email strategies, we unlocked unprecedented engagement. Individual campaigns utilizing these tactics have generated open rates as high as 96% and click-through rates reaching 93%. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Luis Monge | How Not to Get Burned by the Tools You Built Using AI: Lessons learned from building a CRM, a recipe saver, and a musicmaker for my kids. | not applicable | I built a CRM specific to my needs and the way I think. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Matt Inglot | How I'm Using AI to Write Software that Actually Works, Doesn't Get Me Hacked, and is Largely on Autopilot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Morgan Taylor | Increasing Closing Rates by 25% by Implementing Claude | On track for 1.2 M annual revenue and now much closer to being on track for 1.6 | We closed more deals for clients and have gotten better campaign results | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Nathan Singh | Due Dilligence: What the Data Room Won’t Tell You | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Nick Loper | My AI-Assisted Podcast Helps Me Reach 150,000 Listeners/Month | My team and I were spending hours for each episode sourcing and vetting guests, and in post-production workflows getting the content ready to publish. | Just a few automations now help me fill the content pipeline with interesting topics, provide editing suggestions trained on my specific style, automatically draft show notes, and even proposes social media content, thumbnails, and YouTube titles. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Nick Stager | How I used Claude Code to build a six figure prediction market system | No Revenue | $110,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Parth Patel | You Can’t Outwork Bad Economics: My $1M Lesson in Knowing When to Get Out | I was looking to build a secondary, relatively passive income stream, with a plan to open five studios at roughly $600K per location. On paper, each studio was projected to generate about $150–200K in annual profit. | Instead of continuing to fund a business that had drifted far from the original thesis, I stopped after the first studio and exited within about seven months of opening. It was an expensive lesson, but a far better outcome than staying stuck and compounding the losses—a situation many owners in the system are facing today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Sunil jaiswal | * From Numbers to Next Move: Turning daily funnel data into better business decisions. | Confused and not sure where to focus my energies | CLarity - Knowing exactly what we need to focus on as a business. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Todd Brison | How My Business Went From Six Figures to Seven Figures in Revenue... All While Navigating a Chronic Disease | Six figures in revenue, running endless launches and countless group cohorts. Meanwhile I developed a chronic disease that forced me to bed most days. We pivoted to a model where there was less pressure on launches, brought in closers, and took a lot of work off my plate while making more money. | Seven figures in revenue, predictable launch topics, full documentation for closing team, and I have the time to take care of myself | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Todd Sarouhan | How I used Claude Code as my forensic accountant AND cloud engineer to cut costs 39% (~$2,000/mo) - without breaking anything | Two seasonal travel content businesses with 20+ years of accumulated infrastructure: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, 4 Google Workspace tenants, 47 domains, and 40+ subscriptions across 4 credit cards. Over $5,000/mo in recurring costs, no single source of truth, and I could not tell which services were load-bearing and which were zombies - so I was afraid to cancel anything. My Azure bill alone was over $1,000/mo and I had no idea if that was right. | Recurring costs cut 39% - about $2,000/mo ($24,600/yr). Two ways Claude Code did it: (1) as a forensic accountant, it read my statements and built a ledger of every recurring charge, catching a $267/mo merchant account for a store that no longer existed and a contract renewal notice deadline I was about to miss; (2) as a cloud engineer, it ran a one-day Azure teardown - analyzed a week of VM telemetry, right-sized servers and databases, exchanged reserved instances - cutting Azure 52% while ADDING backups my production servers had never had. I executed every billing and delete action myself; the AI analyzed, decided, and wrote the exact steps. Zero downtime, nothing revenue-critical touched. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | William Barlow | How we we 2.5xed our capacity without increasing headcount by using AI | We were churning along at a little more than $1 million revenue per year | Workload per project dropped by roughly 70%; capacity roughly trippled. Revenue and profits on the path to 2.5x | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Mike Nunez | How to launch an Amazon Seller Direct Affiliate Program to Boost Orgranic Rank | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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