The real breakthrough wasn’t learning tools.
It was designing capability.
Yes, we explored:
• Airtable – structured intelligence systems
• Granola – frictionless meeting capture
• Notebook LM – contextual knowledge synthesis
• ChatGPT & Claude – agentic orchestration
• Suno – creative AI
• Jace – AI email execution support
But the most powerful exercise was building five AI clones:
• Automation
• Learning
• Video (Higgsfield + ElevenLabs)
• Meeting
• Communication
My favourite? The Meeting Clone.
Using Granola + Claude/ChatGPT, I now:
• Capture full transcripts
• Analyse themes and decision density
• Identify strategic drift
• Evaluate productivity of discussions
• Surface missed actions and ambiguities
It’s no longer “How did that meeting feel?”
It’s “What did that meeting actually produce?”
That shift alone changes leadership behaviour.
We talk a lot about AI replacing tasks.
The real opportunity is this:
AI enhancing judgement.
AI improving signal-to-noise ratio.
AI increasing executive clarity.
And yes… creating my video clone was ridiculously fun.
But improving meeting intelligence?
That’s leverage.