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#5 - Is AI Making You More Productive? | AI Tools, Costs & Advisor Value

Building your own AI tools can be useful. It can also become another way to stay busy.

Colin Page and Taylor Stewart discuss AI subscriptions and API costs, how advisors and software companies price their work, and when building a tool yourself is worth your time.

In this episode:

• AI subscriptions versus usage-based API costs

• Pricing advice and software around value and costs

• Building your own tools versus buying working software

• Tinkering, productivity, and knowing what you don’t know

Recorded May 20, 2026. Product names and prices reflect that conversation.

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