Hey Reader, Welcome to the first issue of In The Room. Every week you'll get the AI news that matters if you are a creative business owner, one thing to try in the next ten minutes, one prompt worth keeping, and one thing worth knowing before everyone else does. No hype and no doom, just what changed and what to do about it. It has been quite a week to start with. Anthropic's CEO published an essay asking the whole industry to slow the pace of AI development, warning about swarms of...
about 9 hours ago • 1 min read
How's it going, Reader? Yesterday I asked you in my survey why you didn't invest in SAGE. I read every answer myself, and I want to tell you what I heard, because it changed what I'm about to offer you. The answer that came up again and again was some version of "it looked bigger than what I actually need." That's fair, and it deserves a real explanation rather than a defense. SAGE started as 7 skills. Then a new student would join and say, "Becky, can you build me an AI agent that does this...
1 day ago • 3 min read
How's it going, Reader? You watched my live workshop on what SAGE: The AI Executive Team can do for your business, but you didn't invest in her. That is useful information, and right now I only have my own guesses about why. I can see the numbers. What I cannot see is the reason behind them, and guessing at that is how business owners end up fixing things that were never broken. So I would rather just ask you. The survey below takes about two minutes. There are no trick questions and no pitch...
2 days ago • 1 min read
How's it going, Reader? This is the last email, and I'll keep it short because everything that needed saying has been said. SAGE closes at midnight CST tonight. All eight departments, the AI COO layer, every done-for-you agent, the guided community. All of it, at your half off workshop price, only until the doors close. What you watched Claude do at Monday's workshop was the doorway. (replay is here) This is the other side of it. An AI team led by SAGE, AI COO, that writes, researches,...
3 days ago • 1 min read
How's it going, Reader? Today is the last day I’m enrolling business owners in SAGE at 50% off, so I can focus on supporting them on calls and in our community group. And when doors close, the workshop price goes with it. And so I want to be transparent about what you're actually deciding today, because it isn't software. I built SAGE because running this business alone was eating hours that belonged to my family. Recently, my sister-in-law went through a hard stretch with her pregnancy and...
3 days ago • 2 min read
How's it going, Reader? SAGE enrollment closes tomorrow, and with all the AI conversations online right now, I want you to decide from a place of great discernment, rather than getting swept up in all the noise. I love working through questions like these, so let's hash out the ones that actually matter before you decide. >>> Is SAGE too big for what I need? This one comes up more than any other, and I understand why, because SAGE reads like a lot. Here’s the truth about how students actually...
4 days ago • 3 min read
How's it going, Reader? Somewhere in your Claude account is a graveyard of AI drafts… They're close, but they're not quite you, so you end up rewriting every one of them yourself. Meanwhile, you're still building the course slides alone on a Friday night, still telling yourself you'll pitch that podcast and apply for that grant you hear you might qualify for…once things calm down (they never do). You've priced out hiring the help, too. A copywriter, a social media manager, a podcast producer,...
4 days ago • 2 min read
How's it going, Reader? I've had a great week. I just got back from a speaking mastermind event. While I was there, I gave a 15-minute speech to 30 people. I think I did a pretty good job since I didn't stutter, and I made sure to use facial expressions and my hands while talking. 🥰 I have autism, so I struggle to do those things automatically without having to think about it. I also have trouble making eye contact, but I make sure to do it so I'm respectful to others. There are lots of...
4 days ago • 1 min read
How's it going, Reader? Here's the truth about the last two months of my business. I'd been rebuilding my workshop pitch. New slides, new order, new close. Then I asked SAGE to run multiple scenarios, and she came back with something I didn't want to hear: the pitch wasn't the problem. 😲 The cost of getting people into the room had gone up four times, and I'd been polishing the thing that already worked while the real leak sat upstream. Nothing humbles you like your own AI COO pointing at...
4 days ago • 2 min read
