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Sep 3 16 tweets 5 min read Read on X
I've spent the last 2 years in the trenches of AI adoptions building education, development, and consulting businesses.

And have watched this technology go from sci-fi to reality.

Here’s why this space is becoming both terrifying and exciting (depending on what side you’re on):
In the next 10 years:

• Smartphones will fade into the background
• Everyone will have a personal AI assistant
• Work as we know it will cease to exist.

We’re not ready for the speed of this shift. But you can be.
Picture this scenario: It’s 2035 and you're walking your dog.

Your partner texts about spilled wine on the carpet. Instead of pulling out your phone, the text appears in your AR glasses.

Not only that, you will be able to book a carpet cleaner from your glasses.
That scenario today is probably 20+ phone actions but funnily enough, that tech exists RIGHT NOW:

• Voice models that sound human
• Automation tools that book appointments
• APIs that connect everything
• LLMs that read, reason, and act

And companies are sprinting to build with it. Because the prize is huge.
Steve Jobs called computers "bicycles for the mind."

They should multiply our mental power, not drain it.

But we're still operating them like 1800s factory workers. Click, type, swipe, & drag.

AI agents finally deliver on that original promise.
The evolution is obvious in hindsight:

1940s: switches
1960s: keyboards
1980s: mouse
2007: touchscreens
2023: text agents
2024: voice agents
2030s: brain-computer interfaces

Each wave makes computers faster to use.

AI agents obliterate the final bottleneck aka the human input.
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The perfect computer does 3 things:

• Understands what you want
• Plans how to get it
• Does the work

AI agents do all three.

Text and voice-based agents already work today. Brain-based and predictive agents are next.
Now it’s time for you to see the fact that every business WILL have AI agents.

Just like email addresses today. Customer service, sales, & operations - agents will run everything.

And business agents will talk directly to YOUR personal agent. Agent-to-Agent commerce.

No humans needed until the actual work happens.
So how do you prevent getting left behind?

Younger generation: This is your Steve Jobs moment. He was 21 when Apple started during the PC revolution.

Skip traditional education, it's designed for a disappearing world.

Instead, learn AI automation skills and position yourself at the center of this revolution.

Go ALL-IN.
Entrepreneurs: Three massive opportunities:

• AI Automation Agencies - Help businesses implement AI
• AI Education - Teach others (demand exploding)
• AI SaaS - Build specific tools businesses need

I'm running all three.
Existing business owners: Every industry will have AI-first competitors within 10 years.

Someone's looking at YOUR business thinking, "how can I rebuild this with AI?"

Smaller teams, lower costs, and better services.

Become the AI-first version before someone else does.
Office workers: You're in the danger zone.

I can feed data into ChatGPT and get an analysis that takes analysts days. In minutes.

Research, writing, admin tasks, customer support - all getting automated.

Either become your department's AI expert or move into AI-resistant roles.
Manual workers: You have the most runway. Physical jobs are safe until robotics catches up.

But Tesla and Chinese companies are showing serious progress.

Use this time to:

• Become a robot technician
• Lead automation in your industry
• Move into problem-solving roles
We're witnessing the end of 200,000 years of biological evolution.

Those who merge with these technologies become something else entirely.

The rest become modern-day Neanderthals.

When your grandchildren ask what this transformation was like, what will you tell them?
That you saw it coming and took action? Or waited until it was too late?

As Peter Thiel once told Mark Zuckerberg:

"In a world changing this quickly, the biggest risk is not taking any risk."

The AI agent revolution is here.
If you'd like to work 1-on-1 with me & my team to build your AI business, we'd love to help.

Free feel to book an Alignment Call with one of our consultants to see if you’re the right fit: bit.ly/aaaaccelerator…

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$5k AI chatbots → $60k AI audits that lead to $250k+ development deals.

Here's the 3-phase ‘AITP’ model we use at Morningside AI that 12x'd our average deal size:
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Most agencies are purely development shops - they build what clients tell them to build, with no audits or detailed strategy.

We used to do something similar before we developed our current model.

Let me rewind:
2023: We sold $5k chatbots & AI automations (hit revenue ceiling fast)

2024: We hired developers, sold $100k builds (long sales cycles, high risk)

2025: We added consulting upfront (shortened sales cycles, higher close rates)

Adding this layer of consulting created what we now call the AITP model:
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Try looking into 'boring' industries...

Talked to my Aunty this morning who has owned a framing business in Auckland for 30 years.

In 5 minutes we'd identified one clear use case for an AI assistant... (continued👇🏼)
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"The emails we get are bloody painful, these people who say 'hey I have a poster, how much to get it framed?'.

Then someone has to go back and forth to get all the info we need to actually quote them (size, style etc)"
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I told her how straight forward it would be to create an assistant with Agentive that automates the process.
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This is the best AI tool I have found to date that has 10xd my productivity.
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In this thread, i'll show you why you need to look into PrivateGPT and how you can start using it in under 10 minutes.
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