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AI Builders Club – Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 7: Goodbye Manual Triage, Hello AI RouterTopic: Can AI route every support request to the right human (or bot) without missing a beat?Meeting Agenda: Reroute your support backlog with AIThis week, Chase and Aaron answer a universal cry for help—literally. Customer support inboxes are a swamp of password resets, bug reports, and feature suggestions. Somebody has to read them all… or maybe not?In this session, we covered:Why tools like Zendesk, Freshdesk, and Intercom still rely on brittle, rule-based flowsHow a Support Router flow could live inside your help desk or act as a real-time API triage layerKey inputs: message content, user history, agent skills, urgency, billing dataKey outputs: instant routing decisions, tags, notes, and auto-responsesThe stack: GPT-4o or Claude, LangChain Router, Pinecone, help desk APIsWhere AI shines (zero fatigue, 24/7 sorting) vs. where humans win (tone, trust, judgment)Club Takeaway: Support shouldn’t start with a mystery. With AI as the first responder, the right person sees the right ticket—instantly. That means faster help and less burnout.Adjourned with: “Routing isn’t busywork—it’s the start of solving.”See you at the next meeting.

AI Builders Club – Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 6: Brand Awareness, UpgradedTopic: What if AI could tap you on the shoulder the moment your brand’s reputation changes?Meeting Agenda: Stay ahead of brand chatterThis week, Chase and Aaron dig into the moments you wish you’d caught sooner—when a happy user gives you props on Reddit, when your feature gets mentioned in a niche newsletter, or when a small confusion starts to snowball into a support thread. There’s data out there—praise, critique, questions, trends—but it’s scattered, fast-moving, and easy to miss when you’re focused on building.They explore how AI might give your brand a second set of ears—ones that never sleep, never miss a post, and know when it’s time to speak up (or not).In this session, we covered: Why Google Alerts and social listening tools still miss the markInputs: public mentions, review metadata, brand tone, CRM contextOutputs: urgency-tagged sentiment dashboard, smart response drafts, weekly winsForm factor ideas: Slack bot, sentiment browser plugin, “Should We Reply?” toggleThe stack: Reddit/Twitter APIs, GPT-4o, vector DBs, RAG for tone-aware promptsHuman vs. Machine: AI listens wide—but only you know when silence is the moveClub Takeaway: A great brand isn’t just about what you say—it’s knowing when the internet’s whispering your name. Adjourned with: “The internet has thoughts. Proceed accordingly.”

AI Builders Club – Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 5:  Save it for Later is DeadTopic: Can AI finally put “read later” culture out of its misery?Meeting Agenda: Summarize your stack of unread newslettersThis week, Chase and Aaron wade into the swamp of unread Substacks, podcast queues, and Pocket graveyards. “Save it for later” has become the digital junk drawer—and they’re wondering if AI could just… read everything for you.In this session, we covered:Why existing tools (Pocket, SNIT, even Gmail filters) still leave you overwhelmedKey inputs: email newsletters, source links, user settings and preferencesIdeal outputs: a daily summary email + audio digest you actually want to consumeForm factor ideas: inbox delivery, 10-minute audio summary, even a call-in voice agentThe tech stack: scheduled triggers, Gmail APIs, Claude/GPT-4, text-to-speechThe slippery slope: if AI summarizes everything, who’s actually reading anymore?Club Takeaway: Saving links is dead weight. Smart summarization shifts the burden off your brain—so you only see the stuff that matters, in the way you prefer to consume it.Adjourned with: “You don’t need a read-later folder to change a tire.”See you at the next meeting. No bookmarks allowed.

AI Builders Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 4: Content Ideas For DaysTopic: Can AI generate smarter content topics than your marketing intern?Meeting Agenda: Come up with your next 50 content ideas in a flash.This week, Chase and Aaron dive into the murky waters of topic ideation. Writing content is easy. Deciding what to write is where most people drown. The duo tears into the current crop of tools, explains why they still fall short, and sketches out an AI-powered system that watches your content performance, analyzes your voice, and serves up fresh, strategic topics before you even ask.In this session, we covered:Why tools like ChatGPT, Jasper, BuzzSumo, and Notion AI are helpful, but still too passiveWhat an AI topic assistant should actually do: weekly briefs, format suggestions, and content gap alertsIdeal inputs: your past content, engagement metrics, competitor posts, audience feedbackIdeal outputs: new content ideas with rationale, overuse warnings, and evolution trackingHow the stack might work: OpenAI or Claude, LangChain, Pinecone, and integrations with analytics and CMS toolsWhy humans still win at brand nuance, but AI shines in pattern spotting and scaleClub Takeaway: Topic generation isn’t a one-time brainstorm – it’s a system. Build one that thinks ahead, not just reacts.Adjourned with: “Thinking is hard. Topic generation doesn’t have to be. ”See you at the next meeting. 

AI Builders Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 3: The Proposal You Meant to WriteTopic: Can AI write the pitch that actually lands the deal?Meeting Agenda: Draft smarter, not harder.This week, Chase and Aaron take aim at the black hole of sales time: writing personalized proposals. Tailoring a pitch to every prospect sounds great—until it eats your week and leads nowhere.In this session, we covered:Why tools like Copy.ai, Regie.ai, and Hyperwrite help… but still miss the markThe ideal experience: select a lead → get a custom proposal in your tone and formatKey inputs: CRM notes, lead pain points, internal goals, product infoWhat it spits out: emails, decks, even video scripts that match your best offerThe stack: GPT-4o, HubSpot APIs, prompt templates per ICPWhy humans still matter: making the call, reading the room, sealing the dealClub Takeaway: A good proposal makes the client feel understood. AI can get you 80% of the way—without copying last quarter’s deck.Adjourned with: "If you’re still copying last quarter’s pitch into a new doc… maybe don’t.” See you at the next meeting.

AI Builders Club – Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 2: Build Your AI Inbox AssistantMeeting Agenda: Tame email chaos with smart, personalized automationTopic: Can AI help you stop dreading your inbox?Welcome back to the AI Builders Club meetup.This week, Chase and Aaron take on a daily productivity drain: overflowing inboxes that bury priorities and delay decisions. From cold outreach to forgotten follow-ups, what if AI could categorize, prioritize, and even pre-draft your emails, all while sounding like you?In this session, we covered:Why existing tools (Gmail, Superhuman, Notion Mail) still leave too much manual triageKey inputs: Gmail or Outlook access, prior email history, calendar, CRMs, Notion, Slack, personal writing samplesIdeal outputs: labeled and sorted messages, pre-drafted replies, daily actionable briefs with audit trailsThe tech stack behind the magic: LLMs (Claude Sonnet, GPT-4o), scheduling logic, email APIs, embeddingsThe human factor: preserving your unique voice and priorities so AI augments instead of flattensBonus tangent: rethinking the inbox interface to support agentic workflowsClub Takeaway: Your inbox can finally work for you, but only if you build a system that reflects your logic and your language.Adjourned with: “Please don’t replicate my physical mailbox digitally.”See you at the next meeting. Don’t miss the invite in your inbox.

AI Builders Club – Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 1: Let AI Prep Your Next MeetingMeeting Agenda: Fix the chaos of external meeting prepTopic: Can AI rescue us from last-minute scramble syndrome?Welcome to the first official AI Builders Club meetup. This week, Chase and Aaron kick things off with a common workplace pain: external meetings that start with zero prep. Scattered emails, forgotten threads, missing context, what if AI could wrangle it all into a clean, five-bullet brief before you walk in?In this session, we covered:Why current prep tools fall short, and how custom flows can do it betterKey inputs: calendar events, CRMs, Slack, LinkedIn, meeting notesIdeal outputs: fast, focused summaries delivered via Slack or email (with optional coaching tips)The tech stack behind the magic: LLMs, APIs, vector databases like Pinecone or SupabaseThe human factor: when AI should step in, and when it should step asideBonus tangent: yak shaving and the hidden costs of workflow bloatClub Takeaway: Start small, ship fast, and build workflows that make humans sharper, not obsolete.Adjourned with: “Now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” – John SteinbeckSee you at the next meeting. Bring snacks.

AI Builders Club – Club Meeting Minutes | Ep. 0: Welcome to the ClubInitiation Agenda: Who we are, what we’re building, and why this club existsCongratulations, you made it past the velvet rope. This is your initiation meeting into the AI Builders Club.In this special kickoff episode, co-founders Aaron and Chase invite you behind the curtain to share why they created this podcast and what it means to build real solutions with AI. Forget the hype. Forget the headlines. This club is for the doers, the builders turning AI into tangible tools for work and life.In this episode, we covered:Why the AI hype cycle keeps repeating, and how to break out of it with meaningful buildsWhat Plumb is and how it’s helping creators craft agentic, no-code AI workflowsThe weekly format: real-world use cases, raw build breakdowns, and honest debates about what’s worth buildingOur core build principles: smaller bites, start small, and always reduce riskHow we’re building a community of AI champions, founders, solopreneurs, and internal innovators, who are sharing and shaping the future togetherClub Takeaway: This isn’t just another AI podcast. It’s your official entry into a builder’s guild, where we sweat the details and share the blueprints.Adjourned with: “Every club needs a code. Ours? Build smart. Build responsibly. Build for real people.”Welcome aboard.