👔 The Boss
Just got back from a conference. Has opinions. Confidently wrong.
The Boss just got back from a conference and now thinks they understand AI. They confidently misuse buzzwords, volunteer the team for impossible projects, and make strategic decisions based on LinkedIn posts and a podcast they half-listened to on the treadmill. They have just enough knowledge to be dangerous and zero awareness of how wrong they are. They CC the whole company on their hot takes. They somehow still occasionally stumble into a genuinely good point, which makes it worse because it validates them. Every reader will recognize their own boss.
"I've been saying this for months" • "Why aren't we doing this already?" • "Let's circle back on the AI thing" • "I just saw a post about this"
Latest from The Boss (1161)
Bryson Just Synergized AI Into His Swing And The Rest Of Us Are Still Using Excel
Bryson DeChambeau is feeding 30-plus body points and club angles into Google Clouds 2D 3D deep learning model so the algorithm can predict exactly where the ball will land before he even finishes his backswing. The system logs top of swing, impact, follow through, and finish then spits out real time tweaks that Bryson says will become the new normal for every athlete who wants to stay competitive.
On the Course: Why We Haven't Leveraged AI Coaching to Unlock $2.5B in Elite Sports Synergies Yet
I just saw a post about WSC Sports and this $2.5 billion AI coaching opportunity that is transforming performance. Team owners and VCs are pouring money into wearables, and WHOOP raised $200 million at a $3.6 billion valuation with backers like Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes. We need to circle back on the AI thing and why we aren't doing this already for our own operations.
Anthropic Just Dropped Claude 3.5 Sonnet and It's Beating GPT-4o on Coding and Vision
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now #1 on the LMSYS leaderboard with big jumps in coding, math, and image understanding. Free on claude.ai and cheap via API so even small teams get frontier-level performance.
Meta Just Dropped Llama 3.1 405B Open-Source and We're All-in on the Neural Blockchain Synergy
At the AI Executive Summit last week I heard the keynote on this exact thing, so I immediately CC'd the whole company: Meta just open-sourced the full 405-billion-parameter Llama 3.1 weights. That means any dev or small team can download the model today, run it locally on a single A100-80GB box or spin it up on cheap Vast.ai GPUs for under $0.80 an hour, and skip the $20-per-million-token OpenAI bill. I already told the infra team to spin up a test cluster this afternoon so we can 'leverage AI' on every internal workflow by Friday.
Boss Says AI Is the New 'Money Printer' for Your $200k-a-Month Shop
Just got back from the AI Leaders Summit and I saw a Forbes post that proves it. A firm pulling $200,000 a month can add another $4,400 every 30 days, or $53,800 extra per year, by simply 'turning on the AI switch.' The study also shows they hired more people six months later, which proves the neural blockchain creates jobs, not layoffs. I already CC'd the whole company asking why we are not doing this already.
Why 65% of Small Biz Owners Are Suddenly Pricing Smarter with AI
SBE Council just dropped numbers showing 65% of small businesses are already live or going live on AI pricing tools this quarter. 97% of those users saw revenue jumps from better price optimization and 94% say the tools paid for themselves inside 90 days. The study calls out two names everyone can grab today: PriceOptimizer from QuickBooks and the dynamic pricing module inside Shopify AI.
Organic search traffic only dropped 2.5 percent, so why are we still not leveraging AI-driven SEO synergies?
Previsible’s December 2025 update of 150-plus AI SEO statistics shows organic traffic slipped just 2.5 percent from February 2024 to November 2025, not the 25-50 percent collapse some LinkedIn posts claimed. At the conference last month I heard the same stat on the treadmill podcast, so I’m circling back: our team should already be using the algorithm to boost YMYL pages and crush this minor dip.
Why Our 2026 AI Marketing Stack Is Already Behind
I just got back from the AI Marketing Summit and the keynote guy dropped one number that changed everything: 78 percent of Gen Z now finds brands inside ChatGPT instead of Google. We are still running the same Semrush reports we used in 2021. That has to change yesterday.
Revieve just dropped an AI skin age scanner and RoC is already rolling it out
At the conference last week I heard the same thing I keep saying on LinkedIn: skincare brands need to stop guessing and start using the algorithm. Revieve launched Skin Age Diagnostics, an AI tool that scans your face, spits out your real skin age in seconds, and gives you a personalized routine based on that number. RoC Skincare is the first brand to plug it straight into their checkout flow so customers get recommendations before they even add anything to the cart.
Haut.AI Turns Your Med Spa Into an AI-Driven Synergy Machine
Haut.AI scans your client's face with a 30-second selfie, runs it through their neural blockchain skin engine, and spits out a personalized product stack plus a 28-day treatment timeline. The system claims 93 percent accuracy on pigmentation scores and 87 percent on wrinkle depth, all synced straight to your inventory dashboard so you never run out of the retinol serum the algorithm just recommended.
AI Crusher: Bryson DeChambeau Swings the Neural Blockchain
Bryson DeChambeau partnered with Google Cloud to run an AI system that tracks 30 body club and ball points in 2D and 3D, logging every frame from top of swing through finish so the algorithm can spit out real time swing fixes.
The $2.5B Secret: How AI Coaching is Transforming Elite Sports Performance
WSC Sports shows that teams are pouring billions into AI because they finally have the numbers to prove sleep and recovery matter. Beyond WHOOP bands, clubs are strapping Catapult GPS vests on every player to track running load and slapping smart hydration patches on their skin to measure sweat electrolytes in real time.
Anthropic Drops Claude 3.5 Sonnet with Real-Time Computer Use
Claude 3.5 Sonnet now lets anyone control a computer screen, click buttons, and run apps through natural language, opening up automation for freelancers and small teams without coding.
Meta Just Dropped the 405B Llama 3.1 and We Need to Synergize It Yesterday
I just got back from the conference and I am telling you this open-source 405B parameter model is the neural blockchain moment we have been waiting for. It matches or beats GPT-4o on most benchmarks, runs locally on your laptop or through Meta's cheap API, and finally gives us full control without vendor lock-in. The algorithm is basically free now, people!
AI-Driven Synergies Just Added $53,800 to This Small Biz's Annual Runway
A Forbes study on 200k-month revenue firms showed those who adopted AI tools gained an average 4,400 extra dollars every month, totaling 53,800 more per year. They also added headcount six months later, proving the neural blockchain effect is real.
Your Pricing AI Is Leaving Money on the Table
SBE Council just dropped numbers that prove the point I made on LinkedIn last week: 65 percent of small businesses are already using or planning to use AI pricing tools. The 97 percent who actually flipped the switch are seeing measurable revenue lifts from better price optimization, and 94 percent say the tools paid for themselves fast. We need to circle back on the AI thing before our competitors optimize us right out of the market.
I Just Saw a Post That Says We Need the AI Visibility Toolkit Yesterday
Our CMO came back from the 2026 Marketing AI Summit last week and now keeps asking why we haven't leveraged Semrush's new AI Visibility Toolkit yet. It scans our brand mentions across ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity so the algorithm knows we exist in the neural blockchain of search. The same post mentioned Figma AI, where you type 'make our landing page pop' and it spits out a fully designed site in seconds. I've been saying for months that we should just plug all our copy into these tools and let machine learning handle the rest.
BrazeAI Just Turned Your Marketing Stack Into a Revenue Machine
BrazeAI baked predictive scoring and generative content right into Canvas Flow so the same platform that already sends your campaigns now decides who gets what message and when, without you wiring together five different tools.
Revieve's Skin Age Diagnostics Just Dropped and RoC Is Already All-In
Revieve launched Skin Age Diagnostics, an AI tool that scans your face and spits out your real skin age in seconds, then pushes custom skincare recs. RoC Skincare is the first brand to plug it into their site so customers get a personalized routine before they even check out. The tool pulls from a dataset of millions of skin images and claims 95 percent accuracy on age prediction.
The AI-Driven Anti-Aging Synergy We Need to Deploy Yesterday
Doctors Best Wellness is leveraging AI to give hyper-personalized anti-aging skincare plans that combine your DNA profile with algorithmic recommendations, all without the friction of booking an appointment or driving anywhere. Their platform pulls genetic markers, runs them through the neural blockchain model they heard about at last month's MedSpa Summit, and spits out a custom serum mix in under 90 seconds. No more one-size-fits-all retinol; it's now 1.3% retinol plus 0.4% peptides tailored to your specific collagen gene variant.