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FridAI - GrokBot and Simplebench · Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast

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  Dave Hamilton: Business Brain, episode 787 for Casual Friday AI, September 11th,
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  Dave Hamilton: No News is Good News Day, 2026.
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  Dave Hamilton: I think that September 11th is a fitting day for No News is Good News Day.
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  Shannon Jean: That's probably pretty good.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, I'm guessing it came from exactly where we think it came from.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah, you're probably right. Well, we're going to talk about newspapers here
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  Shannon Jean: on the show too. Oh, interesting. All right.
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  Dave Hamilton: It's Friday AI time, so let's get into it. Greetings, folks,
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  Dave Hamilton: and welcome to Business Brain,
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  Dave Hamilton: the show where we take a few ideas and we crunch them, we dissect them,
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  Dave Hamilton: we use them to tune our business brains so that we can each keep on living those charmed lives.
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  Dave Hamilton: And shopify.com slash business brain where you can start with a free trial of
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  Dave Hamilton: this fantastic platform service that we'll talk more in depth about both of
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  Dave Hamilton: those in a little bit for now here in Durham New Hampshire I'm Dave Hamilton
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  Shannon Jean: And I'm Shannon Jean out here in Northern California happy Friday.
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  Dave Hamilton: I happy Friday I man I have a I have a question for you I have a lot of things
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  Dave Hamilton: to talk about with friday eye uh
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  Dave Hamilton: but we'll start with the no news part because yes uh you know because they go
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  Dave Hamilton: with the theme uh what is grokbot
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  Shannon Jean: So GrokBot is basically, the way I look at it, somebody described it to me as
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  Shannon Jean: the apple of open claw or maze.
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  Dave Hamilton: Okay.
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  Shannon Jean: It's, in my experience, the easiest way to create agents and loops,
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  Shannon Jean: which we've discussed on the show here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Shannon Jean: And I would be glad to show you some examples. I am certainly no expert,
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  Shannon Jean: but I started just last week messing around with it, and I got to tell you,
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  Shannon Jean: it's pretty impressive.
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  Dave Hamilton: Okay, yeah, I'm curious. So just tell me, like, tell us, what are you doing with GrokBot?
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  Dave Hamilton: Because I do all kinds. I have Claude, like Claude Cowork can do this,
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  Dave Hamilton: and OpenClaw obviously can do it too.
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  Shannon Jean: Absolutely.
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  Dave Hamilton: But the implementations of
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  Dave Hamilton: them are all different and not the smoothest different things. So, yeah.
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  Shannon Jean: That's correct. So what I found is I'm kind of technical, but not,
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  Shannon Jean: you know, super crazy into it.
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  Shannon Jean: And I use Claude like crazy and Chachupity and all this stuff.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah. But so the way you set up CrockBot is you launch it and- So.
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  Dave Hamilton: You download it as an app for your
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  Shannon Jean: Computer. It's an app for your computer and your phone.
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  Shannon Jean: The first bot you build is basically they recommend like a chief of staff.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yep.
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  Shannon Jean: Makes sense. That, that bot oversees all the other bots or agents that you're going to build.
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  Dave Hamilton: Okay. That's good advice with any of your, whatever platform you're going to use.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yes. Once, like I realized this a couple of weeks ago with all of my agents,
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  Dave Hamilton: it was like, crap, I need to build an agent to remind me of what all my agents are doing.
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  Shannon Jean: Yes.
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  Dave Hamilton: Correct.
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  Shannon Jean: The other thing it does is it pops up and it just says in real language,
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  Shannon Jean: just talk about what I'm authorized to do and what I'm not.
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  Dave Hamilton: Sure. Right.
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  Shannon Jean: So you just say, oh, you're authorized to do this. You're not authorized to,
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  Shannon Jean: post anything publicly.
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  Shannon Jean: You're not authorized to change anything related to whatever.
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  Shannon Jean: Sure. So you just tell it, which is great.
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  Shannon Jean: The first one, the first bot I built after my chief of staff was a thing called Auction Scout.
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  Shannon Jean: So what Scout does is it goes out based on a bunch of parameters that I gave
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  Shannon Jean: it, and it searches for auctions and liquidations.
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  Shannon Jean: And it comes back with a daily report every morning at 7 a.m.
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  Shannon Jean: Of what it found for me all across the web based on all the data that I gave it.
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  Shannon Jean: And the beauty of what GrokBot has its own computer.
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  Dave Hamilton: Right?
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  Shannon Jean: So it has a browser.
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  Dave Hamilton: Because it's on your computer, right? Is that what you mean?
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  Shannon Jean: It's on your computer. Yeah. No, no. No.
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  Shannon Jean: Want me to show you?
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  Dave Hamilton: No, I want you to tell me because we do an audio podcast.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah, you're right.
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  Dave Hamilton: And that's fine. Dang it. Like, I will ask questions. I will prompt this because
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  Dave Hamilton: I don't know. I'm not playing the fool here. I am the fool. Yeah, I understand.
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  Shannon Jean: For each of your bots up in the corner, there's a window that opens a browser session in the cloud.
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  Dave Hamilton: I see. It has Chrome.
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  Shannon Jean: Okay. So it has its own Chrome web browser, and it allows you to log into whatever
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  Shannon Jean: you need to. It always says, don't give me your password. or just go.
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  Dave Hamilton: Log in just go log in sure sure
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  Shannon Jean: And once you're logged in it can do whatever.
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  Dave Hamilton: You want and is it truly happening in the cloud i and i i ask this question
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  Dave Hamilton: because i don't know so like with my
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  Dave Hamilton: uh open claw setup or with claude well with open claw everything is running
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  Dave Hamilton: locally meaning if my computer goes to sleep correct it doesn't do anything with claude
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  Dave Hamilton: you can have things that run locally you can have things that run in the cloud
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  Dave Hamilton: and obviously they you know So different rules apply for both.
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  Dave Hamilton: So with this- It's running in the cloud. If your computer goes to sleep,
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  Dave Hamilton: it still does its scheduled tasks.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah, at the end of the day. So I was trying to, I have a site that I use, and I couldn't get past,
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  Shannon Jean: The bot had a problem getting past Cloudflare.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, of course.
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  Shannon Jean: And I said, hey. And so before I went down to dinner at that,
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  Shannon Jean: or after work, whatever. Sure.
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  Shannon Jean: Before I shut down for the evening, I said, I need you to work on this tonight.
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  Shannon Jean: I want to come in tomorrow morning, have this figured out. So I shut my machine down.
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  Shannon Jean: I came up in the morning and Scout came back and said, I found it.
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  Shannon Jean: I found a public API for their search and I'm able to tap in and I can bypass this.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yep.
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  Shannon Jean: And it's great. And it's not, I'm not doing anything nefarious.
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  Shannon Jean: I have an account on the site. I understand. I just want my agent to be able
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  Shannon Jean: to pull the data. Yeah, yeah. So that's one thing it does.
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  Shannon Jean: Another thing it does is another research bot I have, it's called Blabber,
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  Shannon Jean: that goes out on X, YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn.
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  Shannon Jean: Okay. And finds information about companies that are going out of business,
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  Shannon Jean: liquidating inventory, stuff that, I mean, those two agents,
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  Shannon Jean: that's like a couple hours of my day.
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  Shannon Jean: Oh, yeah. Of purring up. And they'll go, so they're like, I found this,
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  Shannon Jean: and then you explain what you're going to do with it. Okay, I'm going to do
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  Shannon Jean: this. And it's like, well, here's the one that I think is the best one to work with. Here's how,
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  Shannon Jean: I would describe it. Let me get you some more information on it.
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  Shannon Jean: It's pretty wild. Then the other one that I really like, which I am going to share my screen.
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  Shannon Jean: For those of us are watching on YouTube and whatever, I had a...
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  Shannon Jean: I have a news bot. Okay. That, share my screen.
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  Shannon Jean: And I'm going to go window.
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  Dave Hamilton: I'll try and talk through what we're seeing, folks. Yeah, please do. Please do. Yeah. Okay.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah. So,
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  Shannon Jean: this bot creates this paper. It's called The Daily Gene.
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  Dave Hamilton: Love that.
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  Shannon Jean: And it pulls from topics I've told that I'm interested in.
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  Shannon Jean: It also pulls from my email. Yeah. It also pulls from my Slack and it also pulls from my calendar.
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  Shannon Jean: So the first thing it got up, this was on Sunday, it said, hey,
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  Shannon Jean: Business Brain sponsors land for Tuesday's show.
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  Shannon Jean: Okay, give me an update because I get an email that says, here's this week's sponsors.
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  Shannon Jean: It's got the weather, it's got stuff going on on my calendar.
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  Shannon Jean: Oh, you got an order supposed to expect delivery from Vistaprint coming on the
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  Shannon Jean: 21st. Yeah. And then it comes in.
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  Shannon Jean: I'm interested in cars. It comes in and talks about this cars.
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  Shannon Jean: Here's an auction that opens up in three days. It talks about this.
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  Shannon Jean: I'm interested in X and they're in a legal battle.
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  Dave Hamilton: So no matter. So what this is, is just as Shannon describing it,
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  Dave Hamilton: a summary of all of the data sources that that that matter to Shannon. So your email. Yes.
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  Dave Hamilton: The various things you follow, all that stuff. I love this.
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  Shannon Jean: But it puts it together in a really nice format.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, it's got it formatted like an old-school newspaper, which is cool.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah, and if you have your printer hooked up, it'll say, do you want me to print
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  Shannon Jean: this out for you every morning?
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  Dave Hamilton: Oh, there you go. Oh, I see. Yeah, sure. Okay.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah, so you could, like, read it over coffee or whatever.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, no, and this is, if you're using, you know, OpenClaw or anything else, do this.
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  Dave Hamilton: No, it's like, I highly recommend, I get several of these each day.
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  Dave Hamilton: I get a, here's what's on your calendar for the week, and then for the day,
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  Dave Hamilton: you know, that kind of thing.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah, and this is the kind of layout that I described earlier for those of you
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  Shannon Jean: who are watching on YouTube or whatever.
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  Dave Hamilton: It looks a lot like your Telegram layout for OpenClaw if you're using that.
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  Shannon Jean: And this is the browser.
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  Dave Hamilton: I want to go back to something you said because I think there's sort of the
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  Dave Hamilton: punchline to this that you started
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  Dave Hamilton: with, which was great. I didn't understand what you meant. Now I do.
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  Dave Hamilton: One of the first things you said was that it's the apple of agentic operations.
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  Dave Hamilton: And I want to translate that. And I want you to confirm that I've got this right.
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  Dave Hamilton: What you meant by that was this is the way of using like
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  Dave Hamilton: the features of OpenClaw that might matter to most people have now been packaged
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  Dave Hamilton: in a way that's actually accessible to most people.
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  Shannon Jean: At exit yes right.
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  Dave Hamilton: That's that's what you meant by it's the apple version of this yeah it's not made by apple obviously
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  Shannon Jean: But no no no no but it's it's the the ui is very straightforward,
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  Shannon Jean: it it's got tremendous power but it's easy to implement yes right and,
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  Shannon Jean: you could i i spun up these bots in minutes and now i'm refining them and now
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  Shannon Jean: i'm i'm thinking okay oh this like i have a new bot that I'm going to spin up
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  Shannon Jean: or I'm going to have my chief of staff spin up today.
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  Shannon Jean: Yep. That's just going to be focused on a certain thing. I'm like,
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  Shannon Jean: Hey, I need you to do this. I want to do this.
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  Shannon Jean: And you know, this is, this is cursor. So if you watch, there's a ton,
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  Shannon Jean: there's also a bot marketplace. Yeah.
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  Shannon Jean: That you can go get these bots now. It's free. But the, the folks that are doing
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  Shannon Jean: this cause it's called SpaceX AI now. Yeah.
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  Shannon Jean: They seem to be all that have come over from cursor. They bought.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah. Cause they acquired.
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  Shannon Jean: Because they bought them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so they're doing incredible
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  Shannon Jean: tutorials. It's the first time I've sat and watched a one-hour tutorial, I think, in a long time.
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  Dave Hamilton: So check it out. This is great. I love that this exists, and I'm glad we talked
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  Dave Hamilton: about it because this is...
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  Dave Hamilton: I have been relying on all different types of agents, mainly in OpenClaw and
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  Dave Hamilton: Claw, you know, for a while.
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  Dave Hamilton: But it's when somebody asks me, how do I get started with it?
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  Dave Hamilton: It's like, well, are you a programmer?
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  Dave Hamilton: Because if you're not, I don't want to have that. I could do it.
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  Dave Hamilton: Like, I could explain it to you, but it's going to be very frustrating.
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  Shannon Jean: Implementation is difficult. It's difficult. It's super powerful, I imagine.
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  Dave Hamilton: Of course. Yes, of course. What I have is exactly, it's not exactly, but it's.
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  Dave Hamilton: But it feature compatible feature, feature consistent with what you have.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah. And I can spin up bots very quickly now. But it took me now. That's it.
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  Shannon Jean: Keyword being now.
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  Dave Hamilton: But I had to invest many hours getting it to a point where I can just say,
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  Dave Hamilton: oh, I would like to have this. And now it goes in like does its thing.
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  Dave Hamilton: That was not the case initially. It was and it and yeah, and it's still very fragile.
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  Dave Hamilton: Like even just the other day it was like oh crap i updated open claw and it
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  Dave Hamilton: broke all sorts of crap again like this sucks so yeah like i love this now this is 30 bucks a month for
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  Shannon Jean: It's free if you have a premium plus on x sure limited limited uh tokens or
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  Shannon Jean: whatever you call it you're gonna but i haven't maxed it out yet i haven't.
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  Dave Hamilton: Paid a dime so you're using it inside of your premium plus thing from Yeah,
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  Shannon Jean: It just said log in as X, and it came up, and it was free.
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  Shannon Jean: And I think on my usage, it's like, I don't even know. 26%. Okay.
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  Dave Hamilton: There you go. Yeah. Okay. All right. So. We'll talk.
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  Dave Hamilton: I'm sure we'll talk more about this, but this is, I love that this exists,
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  Dave Hamilton: and I love that we're talking about it. I didn't quite realize,
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  Dave Hamilton: in fact, I didn't realize at all what GrokBot was, so thank you. You bet.
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  Shannon Jean: That's part of my job. All right.
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  Dave Hamilton: We have a few other things to talk about with regards to AI,
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  Dave Hamilton: So there's two things that came out this week, Shannon. I want to talk about both of them. All right.
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  Dave Hamilton: One is called, well, it's actually two things I became aware of this week.
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  Dave Hamilton: One of them came out this week, and one of them has been out for quite some time.
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  Dave Hamilton: The first is what ChatGPT calls, or OpenAI calls, ChatGPT Computer History.
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  Dave Hamilton: Do you know what this is? Are you aware of this?
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  Shannon Jean: No. Okay, great. Enlighten me.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah. I just became enlightened a few hours ago.
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  Dave Hamilton: Evidently it's been out for a little while um but and it is off by default i
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  Dave Hamilton: think that's probably important to share okay what it is is
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  Dave Hamilton: it when you turn it on and give it permission to
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  Dave Hamilton: watch what you do on your computer it now turns all of your recent computer
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  Dave Hamilton: activity into memories and a timeline and context.
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  Dave Hamilton: I know, dude. Right. So for example, if it, if you, you know,
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  Dave Hamilton: you just have it sort of gathering this context and then you fire up like,
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  Dave Hamilton: you know, your little session, your agent, a temporary agent, maybe.
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  Dave Hamilton: And you say, I need to create something and I want you to put together a little document for me.
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  Dave Hamilton: It's going to know, well, wait a minute, you know, Shannon uses PDFs a lot more
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  Dave Hamilton: than Word documents, so I'm going to make this as a PDF, right?
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  Dave Hamilton: But also, it's going to know that you were emailing back and forth with me about
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  Dave Hamilton: something, and it might say, hey, do you want me to pull in some of that data
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  Dave Hamilton: that you shared with Dave via email?
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  Dave Hamilton: Should I put that in this thing? And like this is – we're getting closer and
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  Dave Hamilton: closer to that personal awareness agent, right?
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  Shannon Jean: Is it – yeah, is it like tracking –,
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  Shannon Jean: I mean, how does it work? Is it tracking what you're doing? Like screens,
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  Shannon Jean: grabbing, doing screen grabs or it's like that kind of stuff?
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  Dave Hamilton: It is. And you get to decide. I haven't been using it. I literally,
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  Dave Hamilton: like I said, I literally found out about it.
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  Shannon Jean: What is it in the settings here?
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  Dave Hamilton: You can turn on computer history in chat GPT in the desktop app on your Mac.
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  Dave Hamilton: You go into settings, integrations and select computer history.
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  Shannon Jean: Integrations.
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  Dave Hamilton: Here we go. And you're going to go through a whole process of uh privacy screens
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  Dave Hamilton: which is good you know obviously yeah yeah yeah we want this
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  Dave Hamilton: for sure you know interesting i know and i love this i like
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  Dave Hamilton: i i get where this is probably petrifying to many people listening and i understand
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  Dave Hamilton: that too but like the idea of the an ai agent having
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  Dave Hamilton: context of everything that i do on my computer now here's something that's important
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  Dave Hamilton: to note this week apple's going to be announcing like the release dates of their
• 18:54
  Dave Hamilton: next operating systems and all that stuff right yeah
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  Dave Hamilton: so like ios 27 uh
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  Dave Hamilton: and mac os 27 have a similar thing going on it's not quite the same but they
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  Dave Hamilton: definitely take context from everything and one of the things that i will
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  Dave Hamilton: you know encourage people to do if you're if you're an iPhone person once you
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  Dave Hamilton: get iOS 27 it and this is going to take time I've been running it for months
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  Dave Hamilton: and it's it like I keep forgetting
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  Dave Hamilton: My phone, when I activate the S bot, you know, the, the, the,
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  Dave Hamilton: the, the, I don't want to say S I R I. So I'll call it S bot. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Dave Hamilton: When I activate the S bot, it can see what I see on my screen. That's new.
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  Shannon Jean: Oh, that's nice.
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  Dave Hamilton: And like, there was something, a friend of mine, a friend of mine sent me an
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  Dave Hamilton: image the other day and I didn't understand what it meant.
• 19:43
  Dave Hamilton: It, it was, um, it was, it was related to a football game that happened in Michigan.
• 19:48
  Dave Hamilton: Again and i think it said it was like a sign that said welcome to ann arbor
• 19:52
  Dave Hamilton: set your clocks back one second
• 19:54
  Shannon Jean: Oh yeah i heard about that.
• 19:56
  Dave Hamilton: If you if you were aware of this that's really funny i was not and i'm like
• 20:00
  Dave Hamilton: i don't know what this is and i thought aha and i invoked siri
• 20:04
  Dave Hamilton: and shoot i said the word i'm sorry to everyone who's driving i won't say it
• 20:08
  Dave Hamilton: again i promise i try uh i invoked the s-bot
• 20:11
  Dave Hamilton: and i i asked it i said what's the context of this and it said oh there was
• 20:17
  Dave Hamilton: this game, this football game that happened recently
• 20:20
  Dave Hamilton: in Ann Arbor, and the clocks
• 20:23
  Dave Hamilton: were favoring the home team greatly.
• 20:26
  Dave Hamilton: The longest second in the world happened in Ann Arbor this past weekend. So...
• 20:32
  Dave Hamilton: But I didn't have to send it the image. I just said, on my screen is a thing.
• 20:38
  Dave Hamilton: Help me with this. And you can do it when you're on a web page.
• 20:41
  Dave Hamilton: You can do it anywhere. So these kinds of things are coming around.
• 20:44
  Dave Hamilton: So that's ChatGPT computer history. I love it. Go ahead.
• 20:48
  Shannon Jean: Well, so I'm up in the computer use. It's in integrations. Is it where you look
• 20:55
  Shannon Jean: and it's like turning on?
• 20:57
  Dave Hamilton: I'll put a link in the show notes. Yeah, perfect. Because I don't have it in front of me.
• 21:01
  Dave Hamilton: So yeah yeah yeah but but yeah the links in the show notes about where to turn
• 21:04
  Dave Hamilton: it on i'm very interested in that the other thing that i wanted to share quickly
• 21:08
  Dave Hamilton: and we can talk about this more in i know we're kind of running over time here
• 21:14
  Dave Hamilton: uh we can talk about this more
• 21:16
  Dave Hamilton: um simple bench is uh a rating engine
• 21:22
  Dave Hamilton: for uh ai right okay um in in in theory although it can be used on humans And it has been, but
• 21:31
  Dave Hamilton: its idea and the reason they call it simple bench is that it tests things like
• 21:35
  Dave Hamilton: everyday reasoning from like spatial logic to social situations,
• 21:40
  Dave Hamilton: trick questions. Right.
• 21:42
  Dave Hamilton: And and so it's not looking for, hey, can you take this huge corpus of data and summarize it for me?
• 21:49
  Dave Hamilton: That's not something a human will ever be able to do as well as a computer.
• 21:53
  Dave Hamilton: That's been true for a long time. And it's especially true now.
• 21:55
  Dave Hamilton: Right. There's no arguments there.
• 21:58
  Dave Hamilton: But this idea of, you know, artificial general intelligence is the question.
• 22:06
  Dave Hamilton: And so Simple Bench is measuring that by looking at these sort of common sense kind of things.
• 22:13
  Dave Hamilton: Now, they have rated both Astra Pro and Fable. So Astra from OpenAI,
• 22:21
  Dave Hamilton: Fable from Cod, and humans, of course, have a benchmark.
• 22:25
  Dave Hamilton: Now astro pro comes in at 86.5 percent
• 22:30
  Dave Hamilton: uh which almost ties it we'll call it an effective tie with fable 5.1 at 86.6
• 22:37
  Dave Hamilton: percent so i think that's probably a margin of rounding error right you know yeah yeah so
• 22:41
  Dave Hamilton: astro pro and fable 5.1 are tied at you know 86 point something percent
• 22:47
  Dave Hamilton: Humans are at 83.7 percent that's pretty interesting and i have i have been
• 22:55
  Dave Hamilton: using fable 5.1 quite a bit this past week i i hadn't had access to astra uh
• 23:01
  Dave Hamilton: yet but fable you know i mean they're essentially
• 23:04
  Dave Hamilton: you know equally competent and where i
• 23:08
  Dave Hamilton: naturally gravitated to and really supports what these findings have come up
• 23:13
  Dave Hamilton: with is anytime i'm in a scenario where i don't know the subject matter
• 23:19
  Dave Hamilton: i turn to fable and i say okay you're actually the expert here i'm not the expert
• 23:25
  Dave Hamilton: looking for an assistant
• 23:27
  Dave Hamilton: i am the assistant now and it's okay it's a change of roles so it's you know
• 23:32
  Dave Hamilton: my my my internal barometer is how far out over my skis am i okay time to turn on fable and like
• 23:41
  Dave Hamilton: I i have found that in most cases i can trust it which is very different
• 23:47
  Dave Hamilton: from a year ago with or two years certainly two years ago but it's even a year
• 23:50
  Dave Hamilton: ago or even six months ago when it's like well if i don't know the subject matter
• 23:55
  Dave Hamilton: if i don't have domain expertise
• 23:57
  Dave Hamilton: then i can't use ai to help me with sure yeah with fable 5.1 i can use ai to
• 24:04
  Dave Hamilton: help me with it and i'm guessing that astro pro is going to be the you know
• 24:07
  Dave Hamilton: the gbt6 astro is going to be the same way yeah yeah
• 24:09
  Shannon Jean: Yeah i'm looking forward to playing around with Astro.
• 24:12
  Dave Hamilton: It's really powerful.
• 24:14
  Shannon Jean: Yeah, from what I understand. It's going to be good. It's amazing what a world
• 24:18
  Shannon Jean: we live in and what tools.
• 24:21
  Shannon Jean: I know. If I had these tools 20 years ago, dude.
• 24:23
  Dave Hamilton: Oh my gosh. But we have them now and we are still ahead of the game. The world will catch up.
• 24:31
  Shannon Jean: Yes, but most people are not implementing these tools yet when you talk about
• 24:35
  Shannon Jean: it. I try to talk about it around the campfire. No. Everybody looks at me like.
• 24:39
  Dave Hamilton: What? What are you doing, dude?
• 24:40
  Shannon Jean: Croc?
• 24:41
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, knock it off. That's right. Yep. Same.
• 24:44
  Shannon Jean: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank goodness for this show where I can come on and geek
• 24:47
  Shannon Jean: out and talk about it every Friday.
• 24:48
  Dave Hamilton: Nerd out about AI. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. What is the big takeaway?
• 24:52
  Dave Hamilton: I think the big takeaway is if you aren't using an agentic manager yet or agentic
• 25:00
  Dave Hamilton: world yet, try GrokBot because I don't think anything else exists that's that easy.
• 25:05
  Dave Hamilton: And if there is something that's that easy, let us know at feedback at businessbrain.show.
• 25:09
  Dave Hamilton: But do you agree with my takeaway?
• 25:11
  Shannon Jean: GrokBot, to me, it's a real light bulb moment.
• 25:15
  Shannon Jean: When I set it up so quick and it instantly started creating or saving me time
• 25:21
  Shannon Jean: and creating stuff without me having to do any programming or any tweaking.
• 25:25
  Shannon Jean: And now it'll get better over time, but I love it. I love the concept.
• 25:29
  Dave Hamilton: No, it's great. I love that someone is really rolling this out in a way that
• 25:35
  Dave Hamilton: just is easy for everyone to use.
• 25:38
  Dave Hamilton: Of course, like I was saying before, people will catch up. This is why. This is why.
• 25:43
  Shannon Jean: But that's fine. They're pushing each other.
• 25:46
  Dave Hamilton: Yes. Which is great.
• 25:47
  Shannon Jean: And it benefits us. And so if you want to learn more about GrokBot,
• 25:51
  Shannon Jean: you're going to go to businessbrain.show slash blueprints, and we'll have a
• 25:57
  Shannon Jean: whole report. It's a business plan. Yeah.
• 26:02
  Shannon Jean: That's it. Business plan broken down, all about how to implement these AI products
• 26:07
  Shannon Jean: that we talk about here Friday. Check it out.
• 26:10
  Dave Hamilton: Thanks for hanging out, everybody. Keep on living that charm life.
• 26:12
  Dave Hamilton: Get feedback at businessbrain.show. Let us know what agentic managers you're
• 26:16
  Dave Hamilton: using. Keep living that charmed life. I said that already. Have a great weekend,
• 26:19
  Dave Hamilton: and we'll see you next week. See ya. Bye.