Value-First AI Daily - Mar 30, 2026

[00:01] **Introduction** Nico Lafakis: Good morning, LinkedIn Friends, Value-First Nation. Welcome to another episode of Value-First AI Daily, your collaborative intelligence report. It is Monday, March 30th, 2026. How are you doing, George?

[00:15] **Weekend Activity** George B. Thomas: Doing good, my friend, doing good. How are you doing? Nico Lafakis: I'm doing great. It's another fun weekend uh, in AI Island. Um, uh, what what'd you build? What'd you build, man? George B. Thomas: What didn't I build? Um, I had a really interesting weekend that took me down some um, very empowering roads. I I can't talk about the main thing yet. The main thing's coming, but I can talk to you about a tangential thing that came out of the new thing, if that makes sense. So, um, one of the things, I've been watching what you've been doing with V and Sage and this idea of sub-agents. And for the longest time, I had gotten to the point where I'm like, I'm just going to invoke agent teams and tell it to use sub-agents and then I'm like, whatever. I don't need to get as granular as Chris. Chris might be on some happy juice or something, I don't know. Like, and I had this just like thought around it. And then I was doing this new project that I'm doing and I was like, you know what? I I preach specificity wins the day. And I'm basically asking it to invoke an agent team and sub-agents and every time it's grabbing something new with no knowledge and having to give it knowledge to the thing that we're trying to do or that is done. And so then I because it's the weekend, you know, I let the dogs out and I sit down, I watch some YouTube videos and I happen across this interview where they're interviewing the creator of Paperclip. And I'm like, okay, um, I'm not one to jump on and go just do something that somebody built, but I do like learning lessons from conversations and then pulling my own threads and kind of doing my thing. So I started to build out uh this idea of what does it look like from an org chart standpoint for humans and agents. And so right now I'm sitting on this um, admin area of this new project that I'm working on and in the admin area, there is a theme plus agent team dashboard that has like Kelly and Jorge, and Madison, and Noah, and Seth, and just different humans. And then below that, it has the agent org chart, which as of this weekend, we built out Alex, which Alex is the Chief Operating Officer, and for anybody that's like me that historically kind of scoffed at like, why would you name these and why would they be agents that you could call? Um, I went down this deep trail of giving them like job descriptions and uh, even to the point where what they can or can't do, what they have to ask, like what they can commit or push or send or work with, tools they can use. Um, you know, like some I might give like whatever to and some I might not give anything to. Uh, for instance, one of the things in the back of my mind is creating a social or, no, not creating, hiring a social media agent and actually giving it API access to the HubSpot social media tools and it being able to use those to be able to do a job that I might give it occasionally, or a job to assist Madison for the job that she does that is social media for the organization. Like cause so you see kind of what I'm saying is like we want to preach and talk about like humans and assistance, but it's like really what people have historically been talking about is like humans in Cloud. Humans and Chat GPT. Um, they really haven't been talking about like humans and Alex, or humans and Jordan, humans and, you know, whatever the social media agent ends up being named. And so it's very interesting to sit and look at this thing. Now, where I think I took it to a whole new level, Chris, and I kind of teased this in our Slack channel, is I even built out what our training paths. So, one of the big things for my humans in the organization is like what are you going to learn this quarter? And it's like about video editing? Is it about HubSpot? Like Jorge has 52 HubSpot certifications. I have had 42 all time, right? So like we are a growth-minded company and so I want agents who are growth-minded. And so I literally gave, I gave Alex the job of, go out and look at the top YouTube channels or podcasts about being a Chief Operating Officer of a marketing agency like ours that helps people with HubSpot and bring back the top three to four. Okay, so here's the top three to four. Beautiful. Uh, put together a system where you can go look at the transcripts of these, make sure you're prioritizing them by the the thing you need to know most to the thing you need to know the least, and let's figure out how you can, air quotes, Chris, watch 10 videos a day to add to your knowledge of what you're going to do as the Chief Operating Officer and also give me a daily recall of the things that you learned that are most important that I need to know. Boom. Went off, did it. It also attracts the learning, like how much of the channels or podcasts has it watched or listened to. And it gave me back, I did two days in one day, by the way, like cause I was like nerding out with it. Like run another batch. Like let's see what happens. And the things that it gave back to me, I was like, I would pay a coach thousands of dollars to get the things that are coming back to me right now and the things that it unlocked in my brain. And so all of that to say, Chris, is we are going down a road at Sidekick Strategies of having human team and agent team and training both human and agents and then now trying to figure out when we look at that org chart, how do we build tools to enable the humans to work with the agents and the agents to work with the humans. For instance, one of the things that I'm thinking about, uh, this is as early as this morning, by the way, is if I have an agent who is super dope at social media, can I create an area in a place where it just knows when I publish a article to do a great job of creating content confetti and then give a human a dashboard for things to pick and choose to then go ahead and do the publishing portion of this. I'm just using social media as an example. Um, anyway, that's that that was this weekend. And again, that was a byproduct of some a larger project to be announced and released uh probably in about a week. Um, and and so literally what you just heard me describe was maybe three hours, four hours maybe out of the probably 18, maybe, maybe 20 that I spent and just uh hammering away and I don't want anybody to think that it was work.

[09:40] **AI is Fun** Nico Lafakis: Hammering away. Having the blast. Having... George B. Thomas: Oh. Nico Lafakis: Having. George B. Thomas: Yeah. Nico Lafakis: Before anybody judges, the wife was gone, the two girls were gone. They were showing dogs, right? And so it was just me and Noah in the house and Noah's gaming and I was, air quotes, gaming in my own game of life. And and and just enjoying it. And so like would I go get something to eat? Yes. Would I, you know, mess with the dogs and go play frisbee with Maple? Yes, several times. Did I watch some Yellowstone because I'm rewatching the show when I needed a break. Yeah, did I watch some YouTube? Yeah, but amongst that, I was working because I can also hit click and walk away and come back and hit click and walk away and come back. So, um, but but yeah, that's that's where my brain is right now, Chris, at least a small piece or portion of it. Chris Carolan: Well, that's uh, that's show what happens uh, when when you go this route. And this is where like don't overthink it, folks. Like sure, there might be a way to get here if you don't think about them as you would your human roles and you could, you know, just come up with the most magnificent markdown file infrastructure and instructions and skills and docs and use words that aren't human names to accomplish the same thing. But when you just, since all of this, I believe, is mindset related. How do you unlock your mind to start taking it to this level? George B. Thomas: Yeah. Chris Carolan: Yeah. Whatever you need to do. Do you want to show yours or do you want me to show?

[11:11] **Chris' Agents** Chris Carolan: I'm going to, I've I've got uh, I'll. George B. Thomas: Okay. Cause I have mine ready if you wanted me to show, but that's... Chris Carolan: Yeah, I'm, I'm ready. Uh, cause here's where, where it starts. Um, and, I don't know if I can. Oh, right. George B. Thomas: Yeah, I see Terminal is what I see. There we go. Chris Carolan: Right. So, at the beginning of my day, and, just went away. There you go. Why won't it let me scroll up? Okay. So, uh, at the beginning of the day, I have a media prep, like slash command, right? And it is for Marquis, who is the business leader, uh, the business unit leader of Value-First Media business unit. Uh, his job is to spawn the team to prepare me for for the day. Right? I think maybe it's here. There we go. Yeah. I press too many buttons. Uh, so we've got Where do we go? here. All right. So the slash command is slash media prep and uh, spawns the business business unit leader, Marquis. And then he, and of course this is all coming from markdown files. George B. Thomas: Right. Right. Chris Carolan: Right. To get to the end point of like, here's your day. Here's all the assets built. Like, this is actually a LinkedIn post that he's waiting for me to, you know, approve and post through HubSpot, through HubSpot social tools to say, on the company page, right? Here's what's going on. To do that, he spawns four agents that uh are named I think I'm just hitting the control button a little too much here. George B. Thomas: Got you. Chris Carolan: There we go. So, Prelude check today's show schedule. And he's like, so Prelude, the like before the show this would be done, right? George B. Thomas: Right. Chris Carolan: Encore. Uh verify yesterday's recordings and he's a post-production focused agent. Broadcast. Uh distribution focused mainly on LinkedIn. In Forge. Check content multiplication queue. Right. You saw all the outputs. But because I I've just thought about what I was doing inside of organizations to try and bring digital transformation. I had all these slides from 2020 about what a digital marketing org like needed to look like and I have job descriptions and roles and so it was actually easier since my mindset was there and like and I've heard things like one role, one agent, right? To to make this kind of stuff work when you're going the agent team's route, right? I am able to give that slide that's got everything broken out already and then we start building job descriptions. So, and this is available. I'll put this in the chat for everybody uh at the um on the Value-First website. And actually I can't put it in the chat today on StreamYard for some reason. Um, but here's the identity. Here's this here's the the skills and some of them have more like bigger job descriptions than others, right? And because of that, we're able to move at a speed that you just haven't been able to move before and you get all the things you know you need to do done that you probably wouldn't have gotten to before. Like, as I go live yesterday with Nico, this was done shortly after where it's a page. Sure, could it be better? I'm working on getting transcripts all like automated and all that stuff. But on demand video is available. As I was preparing for that show and we were going to talk about vibe coding CRMs and topic, right? George B. Thomas: How'd the show go? Good? Chris Carolan: Uh, it was good. It was good. Um, and part of the reason it was good because I got to go over like how boat sides are wrong and like there's traps whether you're vibe coding or building your own stuff or you're implementing HubSpot. Like, and the same traps apply to each. So now this this this resource gets created and enables better content on the show itself, right? Um, so that was all like built yesterday, right? Also built yesterday is here's the live stream through the website, right? Which I had built before, I'm realizing now, I need to update some streaming keys to make sure this one that's going to be a weekly live starting on April 7th, more of a Zoom weekly community style, you know, ongoing event uh that I've been thinking about and wanting to accomplish since 2020 as well when I saw um Chris Walker do it with Demand Gen Live. Uh right? Starting to build that community event, built that into the into the website yesterday. And that uh, you know, forge this check content multiplication queue, what he does is he's paying attention to all the transcripts that flow into the repo from from client conversations and picks topics to write an article about. And and builds an idea idea queue and then when I'm at the end of the day and I say media recap or daily recap, they offer up, he offers up an option. And uh like this is the point where it's like you can go from from doing to learning, to docing, to doing again and it's this ridiculous flywheel right now that is so valuable to where I can write or I can publish thanks to V and the rest of the team and all of the work done to build brand identity, voice, tone, you know, the whole infrastructure which ends up being like how we get to hear, right? It's not just, hey, we're going to make 70 agents. Like this is the hard part, right? You can't just look at my screen and give it to AI like out of the gate and be like, oh, I'm going to just build all these agents for us too, right? Without the mission, without the vision, without the usual stuff, right? To align all of this. Yeah, you'll be able to create some stuff uh but is it going to be the right stuff? I don't know. Right? Um, so this impactful article to to take a lesson learned from a Friday conversation and then show it to the person. Now this is anonymized, but then show it to the person and then their response is, thanks for seeing me. Right? And when we talked about like creating the space. Now AI drafted this, did almost everything in order to get this article published on the site. I I once over it. I didn't edit one word, right? But what I did do is I had the initial conversation with the human that spurred the idea to have this content and then I made the decision that it needed to be an article, that it needed to be on the site so that we could help anybody because the story was like, yeah, that was me on the inside too. Like I can't be on the inside of a company and they don't like, you know, how my brain works basically. Yeah. And like we know that a lot of people get stuck in this position. It's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur and get out of that whatever situation you're in that you don't like, right? This takes us to the Value-First collective. Yeah. Like creating the space for awesome humans to be awesome and not feel bad about being awesome. Yeah. Right? And this is like all of this yesterday, right? Some of it while we're on the show, like with Nico, right? And that thing of people being able to solve problems and build stuff and currently like multitasking for real because you actually have other intelligent entities that can actually focus on this thing. Not this kind of like the fake multitasking that that we used to be asked to do and used to be like the cool kids, right? Where you actually like suffer from context switching and you don't do quality work and you just always behind. Instead you're actually creating value no matter which channel it's moving through because you actually have these roles covered, right? And as you continue to build the foundation, like you learn so fast, you move so fast, you learn some more so fast and it's just and you're having a blast doing it. Like don't forget that part, folks. Like we haven't met one person. Like every single person who gets unlocked is like this is amazing. I'm never looking back. I've never had so much fun. It's been so long since I've felt this way, right? Like, um, so yeah, had some fun this weekend. So that's why we show up Monday with the big old grins on our faces. Like, can't wait to show up on Mondays. George B. Thomas: Without a doubt, without a doubt. Chris Carolan: It's like we need to redefine the case of the Mondays. George B. Thomas: Without a doubt. So, Chris, two things. Um, one, remind me tomorrow to have you pull that screen up that you were showing and I want to give the viewers or listeners two threads to pull uh for their work, for their brains and then also two threads that you might pull uh on your entire system. And I'll explain how I did it in a way I did it and I could even show and tell a tool that like, this is uh anyway, remind me. Two threads to pull, show and tell. Ladies and gentlemen, you're going to have to tune in tomorrow for that, just saying. Chris Carolan: Indeed. We look forward to seeing you. Thanks so much, George. George B. Thomas: You bet. Thanks, Chris.