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AI = Awesome Intelligence

I've been building an AgenticOS for myself. I got tired of prompting Claude, then waiting, hitting Allow Once, then waiting again. I wanted a way to run multiple projects simultaneously. I also needed something that could interface with our VehicleLyfe backend for reporting and coding. Finally, I needed something that could take some burden off of @craigh so @Jeff Kershner and I can make some changes to DealerRefresh. I needed a UI that worked for my brain.

I did a lot of the research and planning in Perplexity. When I felt like things were good enough, I asked it to write a prompt for Claude for me. We have been iterating from there.

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This is my dashboard that my day begins with. In the morning, I have my tea or coffee and talk to it. MacWhisper is integrated, so it can quickly transcribe my voice. That transcription goes to the "Operator" agent, who assigns tasks. There are multiple agents running on various versions of Claude for what is needed. This way, I'm making one prompt that is turning into multiple threads of AI activity. I don't have to sit and watch a single thread, then keep hitting "Allow Once" over and over.

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It also records my meetings.

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After the meeting, I get a brief synopsis and the takeaways. It is routed so that each takeaway can become a new project or link to an existing one to update it.

Reports are generated automatically. My favorite is a recap on everyting I accomplished that day. All other reports are meant for our board. They pull data from the backend of VehicleLyfe to create executive-level briefings on how our clients are doing.

You're probably wondering about the "2nd Brain" - that is the memory of the system that can be taken to other AIs. We are heavily invested in Claude, and I'm heavily invested in Perplexity personally. If something needed to change, I can pass the 2nd Brain to the next system. I don't have to start over with nothing. And all it is an Obsidian library of markdown notes. Claude writes to it. Dead simple.

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It is a continuing evolution. Just showed it off to @joe.pistell and thought it was in a good enough spot that it might help some of you.

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AI = Awesome Intelligence

AI power user observation.

As the intelligence of AI increases, it's abilities to reason rise with it. When you hit AI with a question, you see it work, you see it reason thru your input to create its output.

TODAY, right now, I am using AI to build AI.

Mission: Position my SaaS startup of 2, to scale to be ready to do the work of 20.
--This weekend, I gave AI that mission, I tasked AI to build a system that read and organized every file on my business and reoriented it all to be AI agent friendly. I am 40% complete, at step #53 with a goal to create a full AI automation operating system for my startup.

What have you replaced with AI?

I've spent 30 years watching F&I teams start their day blind. Curious what one number would change your morning.

This is illogical. 30 years of watching F&I should put you into a position where you are driving the conversation, not fishing for ideas.

IDEA: Start a new thread here on the forum. Pick your fav topic and start dropping wisdom bombs in it.

Killswitch on 2027 and later vehicles

Starting with the 2027 model year, federal “impaired driving prevention” rules effectively mandate a software-based kill switch in every new vehicle, putting always-on monitoring and the power to disable a car in the hands of algorithms rather than drivers. While framed as safety, normalizing this level of in-vehicle surveillance and remote control is a serious step toward turning personally owned cars into regulated endpoints, and that should concern anyone who cares about customer trust, civil liberties, and the future of our industry.

Guess older cars are going to go waaaaay up in value!

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Looking for Feedback ----> CarDealster - the iPhone app for car salespeople

Hi @JameyJ !

Thanks for the comment, CarDealster is currently fullly built out, ready to scale, but sitting on a shelf, taken down from the App Store. We got plenty of salespeople to download and use the app, but only very few used the tool. Likely there were critical pieces missing, prior to AI automation opportunities, but I will always believe in the concept. Maybe revisit at some point with @Jeff Kershner's help!

Looking for Feedback ----> CarDealster - the iPhone app for car salespeople

Hi @JameyJ ,

Thanks for the comment, CarDealster is currently fullly built out, ready to scale, but sitting on a shelf, taken down from the App Store. We got plenty of salespeople to download and use the app, but only very few used the tool. Likely there were critical pieces missing, prior to AI automation opportunities, but I will always believe in the concept. Maybe revisit at some point with @Jeff Kershner's help!
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What have you replaced with AI?

This is how I yelled at AI yesterday.

"ok, that does it. What happened to your oversight? You are making significant mistakes on every request. I want a full forensic study on this thread. I must be mis-managing this. We have created amazing CIO <--> CTO iterations in the past, complete mastery. This session is creating an outcome that I don't ever want to replicate. Find the problem(s)"
Expert level AI requires you to become a better boss.
1. 1st Yell at it
2. then, like a good boss, assume some of the blame (if you want the truth)
3. demand answers
4. and a fix.
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VLA ads and inflated click to calls

I spoke to one of our account managers and showed him this post. He added that you should also exclude mobile app traffic. This can only be done on at the account level. This should take care of most of the bad traffic as many apps, especially games, get accidental clicks.

VLA ads and inflated click to calls

Hi Brad, Are you running VLA-only campaigns? We have found some of our VLA-only campaigns only show on Search and others run on both Search and Display. Same settings.
For those running on both Search and Display, we use placement and content exclusions to limit the amount of ads showing on Display. There's no way to completely eliminate the Display ads as far as we know because we can only exclude the ads once they show up on Display but this does reduce it by quite a bit.
Hope this helps.

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