First Principles
Strip a decision down to what is actually true, price the raw inputs, and rebuild from the floor.
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The skills
A skill is a written method an AI agent can run for you. Mine came out of real work, running my company.
Each one is free. Put your email in and it arrives right away, with the updates when a new version drops.
Game Theory
Map the players, their payoffs, and who moves when. Then pick your move, or change the game.
Get the skillFundraising
Run a capital raise like a process: build the list, qualify fast, get an anchor, run a second offer, close on a deadline.
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Decide what to say before you say it: name the moment, pick who speaks, sort every claim, and go direct. Announcements, crises, and everyday content.
Get the skillWrite in Your Voice
Build a working voice for a person from how they actually speak, so the drafts come out in their own sentences, not a model's guess at them.
Get the skillFix the Bottleneck
Find the one constraint that limits a running system, and fix it in the order that moves output.
Get the skillStop the Scroll
AIDA with the ends hardened: a hook and a call to action each built to stand out in a sea of 100 and to stand alone, over a universal, impact-led middle.
Get the skillHow I work now
One employee
I am the only employee at my company. The rest is agents.
Agents do the work
They write code, run tests, and check their own work against rules I set.
Decisions, not drafts
They bring me decisions, not drafts to babysit.
My job is judgment
What to build, what to kill, what is true, and what ships.
That is the system the advisory work installs. Not prompts.
Not a tool list. An operating system for a company that runs on agents, with a human making the calls that matter.
Advisory, in brief
Most companies do not need more AI tools. They need to know three things.
Take over first
Which work agents should take over first.
Delete first
Which work to delete before anyone automates it.
The cost
What it should cost.
The audit
The AI Agent Workflow Audit answers that in one written plan.
The retainer
After the audit, some companies keep me on a monthly retainer to help install it.
Two a quarter
I take two companies a quarter, because Token Metrics is still my day job.
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One list. When a new skill drops, subscribers get it first, with the build notes behind it: what I built, what it cost, what broke, and what I changed.
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Background
Founder and CEO, Token Metrics.
Founder, Diary of a Made Man.
Before Token Metrics: AI Forward Deployed Engineer and AI Sales Executive at IBM, where I turned advanced analytics into business decisions.
General Partner, Token Metrics Ventures.
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