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I've been interviewing agency founders on how their teams actually run AI in production.

Almost everyone hits the exact same bottleneck: The Verification Tax.

Founders and leads spend hours re-editing AI drafts. Not because of writing style, but because the output misses past client decisions, account precedents, or commercial rules.

Curious how you guys handle this:

• Central wikis, custom GPTs, or dedicated context tools? 
• RAG
• How do you stop AI tools and new hires from repeating past mistakes on accounts?

I run a youtube series interviewing founders who actually transformed how their business runs with AI, real numbers, including what failed. looking for marketing agency owners with a real story for a 30-45 min remote interview, you get the edited episode + clips to reuse.

I run a youtube series interviewing founders who actually transformed how their business runs with AI, real numbers, including what failed. looking for marketing agency owners with a real story for a 30-45 min remote interview, you get the edited episode + clips to reuse. dm me 2-3 sentences on what you changed and what happened

many people say that Saas value with AI will go to 0. Is still worth launching a Saas in 2026.

Any data 📊 to share to support your claim?

I'm researching how marketing and creative agencies are actually using AI, real operational changes. Revenue impact, team structure, client delivery, whatever.

Curious about:

- Has AI let you take on more clients without hiring?

- Have you built any internal tools or workflows that changed the game?

- Has it shifted what services you offer?

- Has AI changed your operational structure?

But, I'd love to hear anything, what surprised you, what failed, what you wish you'd done differently.

I run a YouTube series interviewing founders on AI and I'm always looking for people with genuine stories. If you've got one and you'd be up for a casual conversation/interview, happy to chat.

is anyone else feeling this? like your team uses claude/chatgpt daily but every session someone has to re-explain the client's brand? the voice, the tone, what you've already tried, what got shot down three months ago?

we're spending more time reviewing ai output than it saves. catching things that "don't sound like them." manually pasting style guides. the efficiency gain gets killed.

I'm building something to fix this — an ai that actually knows your agency and clients. their voice, their history, what's off-limits. less review time, more on-brand first drafts.

looking for 5 agencies to pilot this. 3 months free in exchange for feedback.

dm if you want in or if you want to help to provide feedback

is anyone else feeling this? like your team uses claude/chatgpt daily but every session someone has to re-explain the client's brand? the voice, the tone, what you've already tried, what got shot down three months ago?

we're spending more time reviewing ai output than it saves. catching things that "don't sound like them." manually pasting style guides. the efficiency gain gets killed.

I'm building something to fix this, an ai that actually knows your agency and clients. their voice, their history, what's off-limits. less review time, more on-brand first drafts.

looking for 5 agencies to pilot this. 3 months FREE in exchange for feedback.

dm if you want in or if you want to contribute to give some feedback.

trying to work out if you got similar issue.

We run a handful of retainers with a small team. the AI setup works, but it is held together with tape, and I do not think that is unusual.

Three things I am curious about:

• which tool does your team actually open every day? ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, something inside your PM tool.
• paid team plan, or is everyone on their own account?
• how do you get brand guidelines, client rules and pricing into it? Custom GPT, a project with files, a doc someone pastes in every time, or do you just re-explain it each session?

More interested in what did not work than what did. If you set something up and quietly abandoned it, that is the answer I'm looking for.

in 1900 the average life expectancy of a newborn was 32 years. 32.

Think about how far we've come. Clean water, sanitation, vaccines, surgery, modern medicine, all of this built by generations of people who dedicated their lives to keeping society healthy.

And its still happening. Every day. Nurses pulling 12-hour shifts. Surgeons. Paramedics. Social workers. These people are the reason the system works, and we barely acknowledge them.

Last week my mum fell and broke her femur back in Italy. She's 72. Watching the response, how fast they moved, how coordinated everything was, the care she's getting. I was reminded that none of this is guaranteed. People make it happen. Every shift, every day. For really modest salaries.

We've made insane progress as a society. But we forget who's actually delivering it. The people on the ground, doing the work, keeping us alive.

We owe them. And we barely say it.

So I'm saying it. We see you. We appreciate you.

offering advisory to an early-stage startup that's building something genuinely innovative.

GTM, marketing, financials, pitch decks, tech roadmap, sharpening the strategy so you're not burning time on the wrong things.

20+ years in business. 5 in startups. Creative, media, tech background. Been through fundraising, pivots, the pressure of building with real constraints.

based in London. I want to work with founders who are actually executing, not just talking about it :)

I run a creative agency, 10 people. I keep trying to use AI for real client work and the pattern is always the same, it produces something, its generically fine, then I spend 20 minutes rewriting because it doesnt know anything about the actual client.

draft a response to a client complaint? professional, polished, completely useless. this client has history, we gave them a discount last quarter, theres a specific tone we use with them. none of that is in the output so im rewriting the whole thing anyway.

same problem when someone new joins or goes on holiday. all the context about how we actually work with each client, the pricing logic, the tone, the exceptions , lives in peoples heads or buried in slack threads from 6 months ago.

we tried Notion but nobody maintains it. tried custom GPTs with uploaded docs but they go stale in weeks.

starting to think the bottleneck isnt the AI. its that we never captured how we actually operate. and without that every single output needs manual alignment.

has anyone experience this ? where does your institutional knowledge actually live, and how do you keep it updated without it becoming another thing nobody maintains?

Italian, based in London. Background in marketing, filmmaking and creative production, been in startups for the last 4 years. I have 20K followers across LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and X, real distribution from day one.

I've got: full product spec, first design partner, business model, and audience to launch into. Looking for an obsessed co-founder to build the core with me.

Stack:

• Python / FastAPI
• Neo4j
• LLM pipelines
• MCP protocol
• Vector search / embeddings

You:

• Can build, not just talk
• Want equity, not salary
• Experience with graph DBs, LLM infra, or retrieval systems
• Ideally London

I bring product, distribution, design, and first customers. You bring the engineering.

DM me, happy to answer any questions

ok so bit of a real one here

I've been doing video production, filmmaking, editing, creative direction for 14+ years. worked with brands, agencies, built campaigns, the whole thing. London based.

about a year ago I went all in on building my AI business. no regrets but the reality is the runway is getting thin and I need paid work on the side while I build this thing.

so instead of pretending everything is fine I thought id just be honest, if your company needs video content, I can help. properly.

I do everything from concept to final delivery, corporate videos, product videos, explainers, social content, full post production. and now I also use AI in my workflow so I can deliver faster and cheaper than traditional production without cutting quality.

not looking for exposure, not looking for equity in your startup, just looking for paid gigs from businesses that actually need good video done by someone who knows what theyre doing.

DM me if you need something, happy to share my reel

ok so bit of a real one here

I've been doing video production, filmmaking, editing, creative direction for 14+ years. worked with brands, agencies, built campaigns, the whole thing. London based.

about a year ago I went all in on building my AI business. no regrets but the reality is the runway is getting thin and I need paid work on the side while I build this thing.

so instead of pretending everything is fine I thought id just be honest, if your company needs video content, I can help. properly.

I do everything from concept to final delivery, corporate videos, product videos, explainers, social content, full post production. and now I also use AI in my workflow so I can deliver faster and cheaper than traditional production without cutting quality.

not looking for exposure, not looking for equity in your startup, just looking for paid gigs from businesses that actually need good video done by someone who knows what theyre doing.

DM me if you need something, happy to share my reel

I run a 10 person creative agency and I keep trying to use AI for real work beyond generic blog posts. and it keeps failing, not because the models are bad but because they dont know anything about our clients.

like, I tried getting it to draft a response to a client complaint. it wrote something professional and generic. but this specific client has a history, we gave them a discount last quarter, theres a specific way we handle them. the AI doesnt know any of that so the output is useless.

and its the same problem when I hire someone new or someone goes on holiday. all the context about how we actually work with each client, what they hate, what their tone is, who the difficult stakeholder is, all of that lives in peoples heads or buried in slack threads from 6 months ago.

we tried putting it in Notion but nobody maintains it. we tried custom GPTs with uploaded docs but they go stale in weeks.

genuinely asking, how do you lot handle this? where does your "how we do things" knowledge actually live? and has anyone found a way to make AI actually useful for client-specific work?