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11 AI Hacks That Will Make You Unfairly Productive in 2026

Alex Duta

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[0:00]Look, everyone is asking the wrong question about AI. They're asking like, will AI take my job? But the real question is, will AI make my job obsolete or will it make me a millionaire? Because I'm going to tell you right now, the next generation of millionaires will not be entrepreneurs. And just in general, they're not. They'll be intrapreneurs. People who master AI point it at real world business problems and become the most freaking valuable people on the planet. I run a $100 million plus portfolio of companies and I see it every single day. The people who are getting ahead aren't the ones that just know AI. They're the ones that know how to co-create with it. And in this video, I'm going to show you 11 levels of AI mastery that will make you a weapon. Let's go.

[0:45]But first, we got to talk about the elephant in the room. We got to talk about freaking Bobby. We all know Bobby. Bobby's the guy in your team who just discovered Chat GPT or Claude and now he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. He goes to Claude and prompts it to do stuff for him then just copy-paste the output. He lets it go off the rails, integrates it with everything, and then we get peppered with bullshit emails, Slack notifications that don't make sense. And there's a lot of quantity, but there's zero quality. Bobby's not co-creating. He's just a glorified copy-paster. Don't be like Bobby. So enough of that, let's start with the basics. There are four levels you need to master before you do anything else. And the first one is the most important. You need to stop treating AI like a stranger and start treating it like a persona. So for example, in my case, a COO. When I first started, I was getting all these generic useless answers, it was frustrating. So I spent 15 minutes creating my custom instructions. It's the highest leverage 15 minutes you ever spend with AI because you're giving it a mind, and that's your mind. You could literally do it. It's so easy. You just pick up the phone, go to chat, if you're going to use Chat GPT, again, chat is just your dumb little friend. You should use Claude or Manas for other stuff. We'll talk about that later. And then you say, hey, hey Chat, I want to create a master prompt to personalize your outputs to my brain. Can you ask me questions that I can answer so that way you can give me that personalization? Absolutely. Let's align my responses closely with how you think. I'll ask about how you prefer communication, decision-making, and nuance. First, when receiving advice, do you You get the point. You just talk with it, then you copy that, and then you go over to the preferences section, which is basically the gear icon in any one of these AI tools. And then you go paste it in the preferences. I'm not going to show you for the sake of this video. But once you give it a brain, you have to know what you can and can't trust with it. You have to build a digital vault. I was literally on a call with a CEO once, who was terrified to use AI. He thought that the second he put a number in, it would be on the front page of the New York Times. And I told him a simple rule I use, if you wouldn't want it on a billboard, don't put it in. But for 99% of what you do, frameworks, processes, public information, it's fine. Like, IP is no longer a moat. You just have to know how to turn off training on your sensitive conversations. That's not really complicated. You just go to the settings button, and you turn off the toggle of learn from my conversations. Whether you're using Claude, Chat GPT, Manas, they all have the ability to turn that off. Again, it's easy once you know the intent, you could even just go type into chat, hey, how do I turn that off? Now that you know what you want to protect, let's talk about how to ask it what you want. And the reality is a lazy prompt gets a lazy answer, and a great prompt has four parts. I was working on this huge deal once and I needed a follow-up email. And my first prompt was, write a follow-up email. The result was garbage. So I used this four-part prompt instead: Persona, Context, Task, and Constraints. And I said, you're a world-class copywriter, Persona. I'm working this deal. Here's the call transcript and I pasted it right in there, Context. Write me a sales email that gets them to close, Task. The email must be under 100 words with one call to action, Constraints. And the result was perfect, and that's how you get quality. Now once you master prompting, you can start building your second brain. You need to build a digital twin of your mind. I used to have stacks of books all the time with highlights that I've never seen again. Now what I do is I use Notebook LM to upload every book, article, and transcript. I call it accelerated consumption. Now I can ask it, hey, what were the key takeaways in the book Traction? And it teaches me that instantly. And it remembers everything so I don't have to, and I can control the sources. It's literally a superpower. I could show you that real quick here. All right, so for example, this is Notebook LM here. So let's say I want to learn about Saudi Arabia's universal basic income policy. It will literally go in and find all of these different websites, and it'll pop it up for me and research. And then I can select what I want to use. Do I want to use, you know, Wikipedia? Do I want to use these different sources? And if I like these sources, I can check them on. If I don't, I don't like them, I can check them off. I could open it up. And then I could say, okay, uh, great. We're, we're good here. Let's import these sources. And now I can have it teach me all about that specific topic, and I can just ask it quick questions. It can feed me answers, but it's not hallucinating all over the stuff. And the theory of accelerated consumption is absolutely bananas because you're literally able to learn anything about pretty much anything at any time. Now we get to the fun stuff. This is where you stop being a student and you start being an operator. You can literally eliminate 80% of your documentation time. My managers used to spend hours writing SOPs. Now they record a five-minute Loom video of the task. The AI transcribes it, and then they turn it into perfect step-by-step checklists with screenshots. What used to take a full day now it takes five minutes. And that's leverage. That's how you scale. And that's how you document the present, but let's talk about how you document the future. You can build a flight simulator for your business. Five years ago, I paid a consultant $80,000 to build a financial dashboard and analyze why customers were churning. A few weeks ago, I used AI and built the same thing myself in four hours. You can play out scenarios, see where your bottlenecks are, and make decisions based off math, not hope. For this, I actually went into Manas and I logged into Manas, and I pulled together a financial analysis. This was one of my businesses, the Restoration Mastermind, and we couldn't tell, you know, the MRR of customers and such. And we wanted to tie together all this data, you're going to have to blur this, right? But essentially what we did is we went into Manas and just started chatting with Manas of everything that we needed, hooked it up to Stripe. And I literally chatted with it, there's a lot of sensitive data here, but it told us all the different customers and how they were utilizing everything. And it conducted a full analysis and we actually found 10 customers that hadn't paid last month, so that was like 20 to 30 grand of revenue that we didn't take in. So, like Manas and Claude, it's bananas. Just go and ask it how to do stuff, and you can connect it to all kinds of data, which we're going to talk about in a little bit. Once you can see the future, you need to be able to sell the future. What the way I sell the future is I create presentations. I do a lot of keynotes, a lot of webinars. And with AI, you can cut your presentation prep time by 90%. It used to take me eight to 10 hours to create a keynote. I had to script it, design it, and work with my team. And now I just have it down to an entire hour. I use Manas, give it my core ideas, and it builds the structure. And then we co-create the final product. It's not about being lazy, it's about spending your energy on big ideas, not the formatting. Let me show you this real quick. So, and I'll actually give you this entire prompt, but if we look at my presentation builder here, look at the type of presentations that this thing could output just by me having a quick conversation with it. Let me scroll up. This was an entire webinar that I was able to put together. And then I delivered live, there was like 200 potential prospects on there, and it did, it was a gem in what it was able to do. And it's trained on like some mentors of mine, like Dan Martel, this other guy Simon Bowen, who has a uh genius model concept and such, and I trained it all. And I'm actually going to give you guys on this video, uh, I'll give you guys the whole thing. And speaking of things that slow you down, you can literally de-risk your business in seconds. If it was up to lawyers and accountants, no one would ever do a deal. They're literally paid to find problems. I like removing them, and I use AI to look over contracts and explain to me in layman's terms what I'm about to do. It doesn't replace my lawyer, but it makes my conversation with my lawyer 10 times more efficient. I'm not paying them $800 an hour to read. I'm paying them to cover my back. This stuff is a game changer. And I want to give you the exact prompts I use to do this. I've put together a packet of three of my power most powerful prompts, the one I use to build my presentations, the CEO dashboard prompt, which we'll talk about, and the financial audit prompt. And if you want it for free, just comment prompts below, and my team will send it over to you. Now we're going to get into the stuff that almost nobody's doing. And this is literally the future. The barrier between idea and execution is disappearing. The product designers of the world can now solve things end to end. They write code for a new feature, design the UI, and write the marketing copy for launch. The speed is incredible. A full feature that used to take a three-person team a month can now be prototyped by one person in a week. It's incredible. Just yesterday, I used Claude, and I created this thing, which by the way, highly proprietary, Joe. But I I I created this thing where I had it analyze how a restoration business owners get paid. And it looked through everything, and then I was able to create an entire prototype of what the app would look like and what the AI would actually do, that's here. And then within Claude Chat, I was able to do an entire analysis to find the top trends between this data set on what made people get paid, what didn't get people paid. Like all this data is in here. And then I was able to create a document that gets sent over to the entire team, which is basically an architecture document of the entire product that needs to be built. Literally, this was a day of me tinkering around with Claude and I was able to do this. Before, this would have been months of a product manager and a designer's worth of work. If that's what's happening inside the business, imagine what's happening outside. Your sales team should be building relationships, not looking for needles in the haystack. And if you're a salesperson, you no longer have to prospect. You could literally have AI agents identify ideal customers, find their contact info using tools like Clay, and only talk to people who are a good fit. And your job as a salesperson is to solve problems, not beg people for attention. Again, I did the same exact thing. We basically sell to damage restoration contractors, which is a small niche. And I use Clay to basically pull a list of 8,000 different restoration contractors. And then I had AI prompts to look at whether or not they provided restoration services by looking at their website information, all the way to are they a part of a of a restoration industry association? To are they hiring? Are they a part of a franchise? All this information. Are they multi-location? How big are they? Why do you think they're that big? All this prospecting information was able to be pulled by Clay, and now I'm able to lead score everybody and only call the important people that I should be going after. It's an absolute game changer. If you want to learn more about that, hit Clay below, and I'll I'll just give you the whole playbook. Now, what if you can connect all of this together? You could literally build the central nervous system for your entire company. And that's the final level. MCP or Model Control Protocol. This is where you connect AI to your actual business tools. For example, you can collect connect it to your Google Drive and have a clean-up agent that organizes your entire company drive. Or it's literally like giving your AI hands. It can create a task in HubSpot by connecting it there, send an email from your Gmail, and it can update a customer record in your other CRMs. And this is where the real magic happens. Humans no longer have to go click around in different apps. You could literally have agents running in the background doing all kinds of stuff. That's like level 11 of mastery. It's it's absolutely bananas. Let's wrap this all up. The world is splitting into two groups. People who are afraid of AI, and people who are building with it. The people who are afraid are going to be left behind if they don't build with it. And the people who build with it are going to create the future. And right now, you don't need to be a coder. Coders used to be nerds that can translate human speak into computer speak. Computers now speak human. You don't need to be a genius. You just need to be curious. And you need to be willing to co-create. That's the number one thing. That's the number one thing I want you to get out of this video. Stop being like Bobby and start being an architect of your profession, of your life and be an entrepreneur. And if you got value from this, subscribe to the channel, because I'm going to be going even deeper on every one of these levels in the coming months.

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