Practical AI for CEOs Who Don’t Have Time for BS
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January 17, 2026
What AI Workflows Are You Sleeping On?
<p>Andrew Warner asked: "Every time I talk to a founder, I hear about some AI workflow I never would have thought to try. What are the non-obvious ones you're seeing?"<br><br>Most people use AI to make stuff. The overlooked category: using AI to mirror things back to you. Scoring. Flagging. Routing. That's where the leverage is hiding.<br><br>Ask your own question at DearBen.ai.<br><br>--<br><br># SHOW NOTES<br><br>- The Make vs Mirror Matrix: you're probably doing Make — but Mirror is where the blind spots live<br>- Jeff Brewer gets rated on clarity, decisiveness, and interruptions after every single meeting<br>- Dan Shipper built a system that flags when he's avoiding confrontation<br>- Wade Foster (Zapier CEO) scores team meetings against Five Dysfunctions and sends individual feedback<br>- Pete Sena's mega prompt analyzed 13 years of my notes and surfaced patterns I'd forgotten<br>- Chris Brownridge routes meeting actions to Linear/calendar automatically via Claude agent<br>- One meeting. One mirror workflow. Ship it. Stack from there.<br><br>--<br><br># TOOLS MENTIONED<br><br>- Motion AI Exec Coach (meeting scoring)<br>- Granola (local-first meeting notes)<br>- Zapier (automation)<br>- Fireflies (meeting transcription)<br>- Claude Desktop / Claude Code (local file analysis)<br>- Linear (task routing)<br><br>--<br><br># ABOUT DEARBEN.AI<br><br>Practical AI for CEOs who don't have time to become AI experts.<br><br>Ben Fisher — 2x CEO, 3x CTO.<br>A founder-to-founder experiment answering real AI questions from operators running real companies.<br><br>Ask yours at https://DearBen.ai<br><br>--<br><br># CONNECT<br><br>Website: https://DearBen.ai<br>LinkedIn: https://fshr.co/profile<br>X: https://x.com/skinnyandbald</p><br/><p>Hosted on Ausha. See <a href="https://ausha.co/privacy-policy">ausha.co/privacy-policy</a> for more information.</p>
December 20, 2025
How Do I Turn Conversations Into Actual Work Artifacts?
<p>Work happens in conversations. The problem is it stays there.<br><br>You hash out a product idea, talk through requirements, make decisions — and then somehow you're supposed to recreate all of that in a document later. That's where everything falls apart.<br><br>I use AI to extract the work that already happened and turn it into artifacts that keep the momentum going. PRDs, user stories, requirements — pulled straight from the conversation.<br><br>Ask your own question at DearBen.ai.<br><br>--<br><br># SHOW NOTES<br><br>• Work happens in conversations — but it stays trapped there<br>• The "missing middle" — decisions made verbally rarely become documents<br>• Extract the work, don't recreate it — AI pulls out what you already figured out<br>• Zero-draft artifacts — PRDs, user stories, requirements from the conversation itself<br>• Pressure-test with clarifying questions — surface gaps before you build<br>• 95% of the work already done — you just need to extract it<br><br>--<br><br># TOOLS MENTIONED<br><br>• Fireflies.ai — Meeting recording and transcription<br>• Claude Desktop — Extraction and synthesis<br>• Claude Code — Workflow automation<br>• claude-code-requirements-builder — Requirements extraction workflow<br><br>--<br><br># ABOUT DEARBEN.AI<br><br>Practical AI for CEOs who don't have time to become AI experts.<br><br>Ben Fisher — 2× CEO, 3× CTO.<br>A founder-to-founder experiment answering real AI questions from operators running real companies.<br><br>Ask yours at https://DearBen.ai<br><br>--<br><br># CONNECT<br><br>Website: https://DearBen.ai<br>LinkedIn: https://fshr.co/profile<br>X: https://x.com/skinnyandbald</p><br/><p>Hosted on Ausha. See <a href="https://ausha.co/privacy-policy">ausha.co/privacy-policy</a> for more information.</p>
December 20, 2025
Behind the Build: How I Prep Dear Ben Episodes with AI (Part 1)
<p>This isn't a Q&A episode — it's for builders who want to see how I actually work.<br><br>I walk through using Claude Code and Every's skill creator to build the system that helps me prepare for Dear Ben episodes. The process: do it manually first, pay attention to what you repeat, then systematize.<br><br>Ask your own question at DearBen.ai.<br><br>--<br><br># SHOW NOTES<br><br>• Do it manually first, then systematize — I did this process by hand several times before building the automation<br>• AI is probabilistic, not deterministic — the agent built the skill but forgot to create the slash command<br>• ChatGPT's Prompt Optimizer genuinely improves prompt efficacy, even for Claude<br>• The LLM asking questions extracts your thinking — it's a brainstorming tool that forces you to articulate what you believe<br>• Four phases: Ideation, Content Development, Proof of Concept, Blind Spots<br><br>--<br><br># TOOLS MENTIONED<br><br>• Claude Code<br>• ChatGPT Prompt Optimizer<br>• Every's Skill Creator Agent<br><br>--<br><br># ABOUT DEARBEN.AI<br><br>Practical AI for CEOs who don't have time to become AI experts.<br><br>Ben Fisher — 2× CEO, 3× CTO.<br>A founder-to-founder experiment answering real AI questions from operators running real companies.<br><br>Ask yours at https://DearBen.ai<br><br>--<br><br># CONNECT<br><br>Website: https://DearBen.ai<br>LinkedIn: https://fshr.co/profile<br>X: https://x.com/skinnyandbald</p><br/><p>Hosted on Ausha. See <a href="https://ausha.co/privacy-policy">ausha.co/privacy-policy</a> for more information.</p>
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