Screensharing How This Guy Makes Millions with AI Agents

Rowan Chung is the genius behind The

Rundown. Now, the Rundown AI is a media

company for AI that's generating

millions of dollars a year. Now, I

thought that The Rundown had like 50,

100, 150 employees. No, it's a lot less

than that. He just uses AI agents to

actually scale the business. In this

episode, he unveils it all, and I think

it's for the first time ever. How he

created an AI avatar that gets millions

of views. How he writes tweets with AI

that gets millions of views. How he

writes a newsletter with AI that gets

millions of views. How he created an EA

AI agent that answers leads within

seconds. How he's able to learn anything

from a YouTube vid with AI. How he

onboards employees with GPTs. How he

built a partnership AI agent that works

directly with his team. We give away all

the prompts, all the tools, all the

workflows, all in this episode. I hope

it gets your creative juices flowing.

Stick to the end, give us a like,

comment, and I'll see you at the end of

the episode.

>> Long time coming. Rowan Chung on the pod

from the rundown. Uh, my go-to guy when

I need something explained in AI. Thanks

for coming on, Rowan. By the end of this

episode, what are people going to learn?

>> Yeah, thanks for having me. I love the

show. I love your content. Uh, so it's

great to be here. By the end of the

show, I'm going to share seven ways we

use AI internally at the rundown.

They're going to be business operation

and content creation focused. Uh, we use

AI many ways, uh, but these are solid

ones that people can walk away with.

We're going to share some free templates

that people can steal. And then uh I

think we're going to riff on just some

general AI overview for the future.

>> So when you say like operations and

systems, what I think you're probably

talking about is how do you uh how do

you take a team that's maybe 1 2 3 four

people and make it seem like it's 20 30

40 50 people. Is that right?

>> That's exactly right. So uh we have a

team about 15. I think we operate as

like a 50 person team in terms of speed,

but in some cases we might actually

operate faster because like the headache

of having 50 people is like really

burdensome. Uh but yeah, we just use AI

in so many different ways that uh you

know we operate extremely fast and we

can get a lot of work done.

>> Okay, cool. Well, I'm here to learn just

as much as everyone else. I think a lot

of people who listen to that, they've

seen other tutorials or videos and

they're like, "Yeah, right. There's no

way that AI can make a team of five turn

into 50. But if there's anyone who could

prove it, it's you. So, let's get right

into it.

>> Yeah, let's get into it, man. Uh, so we

can start with uh this first one. Um, I

think this is probably the most popular

one. It went pretty viral on Twitter,

even though I mean this is Instagram,

but basically the problem we were

solving was I have no time as a founder

of, you know, the rundown. We're growing

our newsletter. We're growing our edtech

side and I also do content on the side

as well and I'm a writer first. Like I'm

not great in front of the camera. Uh I'm

getting better, trying to get better. Uh

but we realized like we're creating all

this content in the newsletter and we

have all these stories and it's so in

demand right now with AI content and we

needed a way to push that writing into

like some short form video. At the time

I didn't have a setup. I'd had nothing.

So I was like, "Okay, I don't have any

time to do this. not going to like do my

hair and get in front of the camera and

record like this 5minute video, do like

six different takes. Uh it just wasn't

going to happen. So we're like, okay,

what if we run an experiment and we

clone my face, we clone my voice and we

just have an editor who takes my my

original writing and pushes that into

cloud script so we can you know form

formulate that better for like short

form and then run that through the

avatar. And then obviously it takes a

lot of manual editing to make the pieces

right. We got to do a lot of

storytelling. There's a lot of like

B-roll that we have to add. Uh but we

said, "Hey, can we do this?" Like this

is going to be experiment. Uh we're very

open about it. So on Twitter, we're

like, "Hey, we're running this

experiment. We're not trying to fool

anyone. Like this is an AI avatar. Uh

but if anyone were to try this, like

we're going to try this and if it works,

like it's a cool use case because I

don't have any time to create content on

in short form anyways." So, uh, yeah, we

started doing it and it's been under a

year and we've grown to over 150,000

followers. So, it's, uh, I'd say it's

been a success. Yeah, you can like go

through any of these. Some of the recent

ones we've been experimenting with

myself narrating it as well, just

because I now have a studio, as you can

see. Uh, but I didn't have a studio

before, so we just use that avatar and

it's way better than me anyways. So, you

kind of go through these. We had a few

like really viral ones.

>> Sam Alman, the co-founder of OpenAI,

just said that it is the era of the idea

guy and he is not wrong. I think that

right now is an incredible time to be

building a startup and if you listen to

this podcast, chances are you think so,

too. Now, I think that you can look at

trends uh to basically figure out uh

what are the startup ideas you should be

building. So, that's exactly why I built

ideabser.com. Every single day you're

going to get a free startup idea in your

inbox and it's all backed by high

quality data trends. How we do it?

People always ask. We use AI agents to

go and search what are people looking

for and what are they screaming for in

terms of products that you should be

building and then we hand it on a you

know silver platter for you to go check

out. Um we do have a few paid plans that

you know take it to the next level. uh

give you more ideas, give you more AI

agents and more almost like a chatgbt

for ideas with it, but you can start for

free ideabrowser.com. And if you're

listening to this, I highly recommend

it.

>> So 120,000 likes. I actually saw this

one.

>> This is talking about Angilla and the.ai

domains being like the number one

revenue source for them. Is that what

this is?

>> Yeah. And you can see like u if we

reload this,

>> the avatar is only really shown for the

first like 3 4 seconds.

>> Um cuz the avatar portion of it isn't

that great, but if you just show like 3

4 seconds, it looks more real. Uh the

audio on the other hand, like audio is

there. Uh like voice AI is really

advanced. I'd say video is like lagging

behind a little bit. Um, so the voice is

also AI generated, but I would say the

voice is sometimes it's better than me

even like I mispronounce things all the

time. Uh, but yeah, this basically the

way we do it and I have an incredible

editor who, you know, does all the

storytelling. He pushes it all together.

Um, he's taking these stories from like

things I've written in the past and

yeah, it's like a cool workflow that

works really well for us. Um, I can't

say it's going to work well for

everyone. like it does take a lot of

work and you do need like a really

talented editor to be able to do this.

But for like those edge cases where you

have no time as a founder and you really

need to create content, short form

content, and you're already writing,

it's just kind of like a no-brainer,

right? Um, so yeah, that's the that's

the first one.

>> Yeah, I think uh I think the mistake a

lot of people make here, well, there's a

few mistakes. one is they they don't

pick stories that are going to go viral

within short form, right? So they they

they make the mistake of just picking I

don't you know boring boring content and

wrapping it you know you could have the

most boring content but if it even if

it's wrapped in the most beautiful short

form as you know it's not going to go

anywhere.

>> Yeah. Exactly. And the other thing is

like a lot of people think this work

they see this workflow and they think

it's like one click to generate. We do a

lot of work like my editor even says

sometimes it would be faster if I just

came in and I just like quickly narrated

it but I don't even have that like 10

minutes of time and like that break in

the workflow every single day uh takes

takes a lot of like mental capacity. So,

uh, it it really works for us, but I

think a lot of people get that wrong

where they're like, "Hey, we're going to

oneclick generate this. It's going to be

awesome,

>> and they don't spend time training the

avatar and hen." Um, I'd even mentioned

the tools we use. So, we use Hey Genen

for the avatar

>> and we use 11 Labs for the voice. Um,

hen has like 11 Labs integration, but

you actually want to do it separately

because if you do it on 11 Labs, you get

higher quality and you just stitch it

together. Uh, so those are the main two

AI tools we use for this workflow. And

um yeah, like I said, it takes a lot of

editing in between, but it is really

useful for people who do get it right

and get those stories right like you

said.

>> Yeah. And you can also I mean you can

use tools like you know Gum Loop and

Lindy and stuff like that to actually

pull in stories that are getting

traction on places like Reddit and then

so it's easier to kind of pick the

stories. I know you're actually creating

the stories, but most people listening

to this probably aren't writing how many

thousands of words you write a day.

>> Yeah, that's a that's a good workflow.

Um, and the other thing is like just

being active on X X where like things

break break out first and I'm like me

and you are both probably there like 247

so we really on the pulse but yeah like

if you're not on the pulse of things

having something like a gum loop

integration where it's like

>> even pinging you on Slack uh for the

>> top stories that are breaking out right

now that would be really useful. Yeah.

>> Cool. Um before we move on to the to the

next thing you want to show, why

shouldn't someone, you know, people

listening to this are, you know, are

starting companies, they're starting

businesses, they're starting cash

flowing businesses. Why shouldn't they

do this?

>> Well, I think um I actually got asked

this by like a public company. He asked

me how to do this and I went to his

office and I explained the whole thing

and he's really interested. Uh, and in

his case, I actually think it was

somewhat useful because he's actually

from Switzerland and in Switzerland

there's four different languages and he

has to like record these videos in four

different languages every single day and

it's like it takes up hours of his day.

Uh, so for him it's kind of is useful.

But for like the regular everyday CEO,

there is some element to it where there

is like AI hate, right? if using an AI

avatar for creating your videos, people

are going to think, "Oh, it's like not

as authentic." Um, for me, it really

worked because we're very open about it

and I'm like kind of like the AI guy.

So, people accept it. They're like, "Oh,

this is really cool. He's actually

practicing what he's preaching." But for

like a public publicly traded company,

CEO probably shouldn't do this. should

probably be as authentic authentic as

possible and strive for like the human

element and really like um push for like

that human experience because like as we

get into the age of AI generated content

and there's just like seas of a

generated content you want to push for

like that human layer uh because that's

really your moat. Uh but for us again

like it works uh for our specific case

and there's some cases that it will work

but yeah like like you said there's

definitely some areas we don't want to

use this.

>> I mean I think what's so smart and I'm

just took some notes on this. I think so

smart about your approach is the video

avatar piece is like 2% of the video.

You know it's and you're just using

B-roll. So, I think um

even if you are a public company CEO,

like if you're like me or you, by the

way, people think it's funny because

we're we're on video a lot, but people

don't realize we actually don't like

video. Like we're we're actually like

I'm afraid of the camera, you know? Um

I've tried to do short form and I tried

to like dead pan into the camera and I'm

like not good at it and I don't I just

honestly don't I don't feel good after.

That's the best way to describe it. I

don't feel good after. I'm not good with

a camera. So, I think there's a lot of

people like us who know that there's so

much value in short form, who know that

if we actually just looked in the camera

and spoke these stories that we know we

would actually crush it and that, you

know, if you climb cringe mountain, um,

you could get to 151,000 followers and

just like pick up millions of views.

That can absolutely change the

trajectory of your life. That being

said, we don't want to do it. So, I

think that for anyone who's listening to

this, this is an interesting approach at

least to try as an experiment for 30

days and then see how you feel about it.

>> Yeah. And in another case on like the

pros side of things is faceless channels

go viral all the time and they generate

millions of dollars for people, right?

or even you see these animated

characters on YouTube that it's like

this trend now as well and you can build

a following and a community through

animated content. Why can't you do it

through like an avatar? And is this

going to be more popular as time goes

on? Right now like it's you got to

stitch things together, right? Uh it

will get a lot easier and that means

more people will do it. So, we'll see

like what the what the world really

thinks about it as as things get more

popular, but for now, it's definitely

like a huge arbitrage opportunity and

and we grew the account to 150,000. Um,

and you know, it's working for us.

>> Well, thanks for sharing that sauce.

What else? What else you got?

>> Yeah, the next one, um, I mean, this is

a pretty simple one. I'm sure you do

this all the time as a writer, but uh

it's just voice dictated writing and you

push it into a claude like workflow. Um

so there's no like magic secret other

than this prompt.

>> So you I mean people can we can like

drop this in the description.

>> Yeah.

>> Uh but it's basically just a prompt to

train on your writing style, right? So I

grabbed all of my top performing tweets

on X ever, right? Uh I have like 10 to

20 of them. I dropped this prompt into

Claude. Um, and you basically just push

all of your best writing and it's going

to be trained on your tweets. And then

uh I'm This is a pretty popular

workflow, but just like I like going on

walks and talking on my phone. I have my

my best ideas while I'm walking. So, I

just like walk and I just have Whisper

Flow open and I just like jam on

different things and then I have a bunch

of different notes and then when I come

home I just like push into this chat

that's trained on my writing and then

you just get really really good tweets.

Um,

so like for this this example,

they're pretty optimized tweets. You

still have to go in and edit it a little

bit. Like you want to get this. So once

I get this, I'm going to like push it

into like Twitter for example. And I'm

going to add a couple lines that are

more like give more insight, right? The

insight part. AI sucks at giving like

human insight and experience. Comparing

certain things to like other models, for

example, and just like tweaking up

little things that just don't seem

right. Like Claude likes to exaggerate a

lot. Like I say like words like game

changer. Um, but this is like a really

really good starting point where it

takes you from like walking to literally

tweet is 90% ready. Uh, and I what I do

is every single Sunday I just go on this

really long walk and I just jam on my

phone and I have a bunch of different

voice notes and I just like push it into

here and I'll have all my tweets ready

by the end of like Sunday and I'll like

cue them all up and then uh yeah, it's

like a really good workflow that works

for me. uh when you want to push out a

lot of content. Um but yeah, do you use

something similar?

>> Well, I have a question on your walk

piece. So,

>> yeah.

>> Do you just go on a walk and ideas hit

you? Um or do you have like I I know I'm

speaking about myself. I have an Apple

notes called ideas and in my Apple Notes

I have these kind of halfbake ideas that

then I'll use whisper flow to to

actually dictate it in. Um, but are, you

know, I'm just curious like do you do

you start from nothing or do you start

from something?

>> I usually start from nothing. The ideas

really come to me when I'm walking. I

might have like some broader things that

I'm just thinking about

>> and I don't know. I think I work so much

that I don't have thoughts until I start

walking. Like my mind is almost numb

because I'm working so much. So once I

start walking and like I'm not looking

at Slack, these ideas just come to me

and I just just start jamming um from

there and yeah, it's a really good

workflow for me to to just have tweets

like 90% ready when I come home and

start queuing them up. Obviously, I'll

add like an image or some kind of video

because video content does really well

on Twitter. Uh but yeah, this is like a

pretty simple one that I think will be

useful to a lot of people who are trying

to create like LinkedIn content or

Twitter content.

>> On uh my last question on this workflow

is you mentioned this is really good at

getting you know 0 to 90%. Um but the

last 10% is everything. So what are you

know what are the prompts? You you you

kind of mentioned a little bit of this

but what are the prompts that help you

get it from 90 to 100 or is it just you?

A lot of it is me, but you can go back

and forth a little bit. On the next

example, I'm going to share uh it's a

very it's basically the same thing, but

I use it for my newsletter. I'll share

like how we like go back and forth and

use as an editor. Uh but yeah, a lot of

it is like you take the tweet, you add

in your insights, you refine it, and

then you ask again. You're like, "Hey,

how is this? What do you think? Make it

better." And then it's going to give you

like some suggestions. Then again, you

don't use them all, but the one

suggestion that it might suggest that

you didn't think about could be like the

reason why that post goes viral, right?

Uh so it's just like you have to develop

this intuition of knowing when it's a

good suggestion versus when it's not a

good suggestion. It just comes with

reps.

>> But yeah, it Claude is amazing as an

editor.

>> And do you ever have is this Cloud Max?

Uh, that's actually a long story. So, I

actually can't get Claude Max because um

I'm my account was like upgraded by

Anthropic and it's like a whole thing.

We're like trying to figure it out.

>> But yeah, this is just regular pro pro

account.

>> So, and and you never have the issue of

I know we're getting to the

nitty-gritty, but I actually think

people want to know the nitty-gritty.

You never get to the issue of

like the chat is too long, therefore you

have to start chat. Yeah, that's I mean

this is a huge issue that everyone

always has problems with. I'll get to

like the so this is the next example I

was going to share. It's basically this

exact same prompt but we use it this is

a different like use case we use as an

editor. Uh and this is exactly what

you're saying. So you can see like how

long this chat is, right? Like this is

insane. And it's really like when we

write our newsletter, we write it all by

hand, but we like to use Claude as like

an editor-inchief,

right? And it's you're going back and

forth with it. You're asking for

suggestions. You're saying, "Oh, how is

this? What do you think? Like, can we

make this better?" It's going to give

you some ways and you say, "Oh, can we

make this a little bit shorter? Can we

make this two words shorter?" Because

that's a fit in like our email format,

right? And Claw's extremely good at

this, but to your point, when the chat

gets too long, Claw's just going to say,

"Hey, you this chat's too long. You you

can't journ anymore." There's pretty

simple hack. Um, you literally just go

to

You literally just go to another chat

somewhere not too far off. You want to

make sure there's enough contact still

cuz the chat like Claude actually gets

better as it goes. But you want to go to

here for example. You see I have two

edits and you literally just go in here

and you can like exit that out and you

can start from there.

>> Wow.

>> I didn't realize that.

>> Yeah. Yeah. You can literally just start

start again like just a tiny bit up and

it just keeps going. Uh so especially if

you're using as an editor. Uh so for

example, we go to my newsletter here.

and we grab like a main main par.

Obviously, we already published this,

but if we were editing this still, um,

we would write this all by hand and we

say literally like this is literally the

prompt. Make it better.

>> Mhm.

>> It's super simple, but you hit save and

it's just going to start from here. Like

all that bottom part gets erased and

you're going to be able to continue the

chat.

>> So, do you have to look for like a one

two situation? Is that what you have to

look for? Like or could it be

>> No, no, it can be anywhere. I I just

showing that example because

>> it's I guess it's kind of proof that I I

genuinely do this like now it says

three, right? But if you go further up,

you'll see some where it's like

>> 10 or 12 because I just like stay on

this chat. I've trained it. It works

well. You don't want to retrain every

time. It's kind of annoying.

>> Yeah.

>> Um but yeah, this is basically the

workflow. like it's going to give you

some refi a refined version and you're

not going to copy and paste this. That's

the worst thing you can do. But you're

going to read this and you're going to

have, you know, your article open on the

the other page. You're going to compare

it and you say, "Oh, that's a better way

of actually explaining that bullet

point. Let's like grab that and, you

know, refine this word, right?" And it's

really it it actually takes more time to

edit with AI as a co-editor, but your

content gets so good because it's

trained on your best writing and you're

just going to find these small details

that you wouldn't have otherwise seen.

Like even if you hire someone, it's like

it takes so much time for them to go

through it all. And this you're really

in control. Uh so you have like an

editor-in chief that you're in control

of. And yeah, it's just been a game

changer for us, writing content

newsletter, but also just like writing

content on LinkedIn, Twitter. Uh it's a

really good way of doing it.

>> Cool.

>> Yeah. So the next one, this is a more

fun one. Uh but we use Lindy. So I know

you had Flo on the pod. Uh he's great. I

love Flo.

>> But this is just a meeting schedule

agent. So, um,

Lindy actually provides like a template

for this, but I've modified it a little

bit because I wanted like my workspace

email. So, I actually created an agent

and I called it Ava. Um, so Lindy has

this like they give this own template

and they use like their email domain,

but I basically switch it up and I

switch a lot of the AI prompts to

basically um, use my workspace domain.

So basically what this does is whenever

I'm in like a Gmail chat and here I can

actually show you an example. Whenever

I'm in a Gmail chat, I can literally

just CC in Ava. So Ava at ther

rundown.ai AI and then Ava will come in

and like literally look at my Google

calendar and find available times. Uh

and we set that parameter of like where

I actually want available time because

like you don't want your full 40hour

work week available for meetings, right?

You want to have some deep work blocks.

So, we scheduled exact times of like

where I actually want to take calls and

it will actually will look through your

calendar and request uh those exact

times and say, "Hey, did any of these

windows work for you?" Um the other

person can respond, say that time works,

and then it will go ahead and book and

it'll actually book in your calendar. Uh

and then this whole section here is

basically like rescheduling. So it's

let's say this person came back in the

thread and say oh actually this didn't

work this this time didn't work let's

reschedule for I don't know like the

last time here then Ava will literally

go in and cancel the event and then

reschedule another uh meeting and it's

just like a really nice way to I don't

know not send a calendarly link.

>> Okay.

>> Uh so yeah it's it's a cool little use

case. Um, and you can actually take it a

step further. I don't have it in this

workflow. I have it in another one. Um,

but you can take it a step further and

actually enable this across your whole

team.

>> So, uh, your entire team can loop in

that one email. So, Ava at therundown.AI

and Ava will be attached to their

calendar and you can just literally Ava

is the meeting scheduler. It's the go-to

meeting scheduler and you don't need

Calendarly. And I know there's this

weird stigma around Calendarly. I don't

know how many people who watch your

podcast know about this. I don't know

why. I don't agree with it. Uh but like

if you send a Cali link, it's kind of

known I don't it's kind of disrespectful

almost. Um so having an agent that books

the meetings for you uh is just like a

better way to work around that and it's

useful for your whole team. So uh yeah,

it's a cool little agent we built.

>> Go back to your email. Uh so let me let

me explain why I think that this is such

a game changer. So um a lot of people

listening to this

sell a service or product sell you know

but a lot of people listening to sell

services when you're in the services

game time is of the essence. So if you

know uh

who is this person Nicole. So if Nicole

is like a lead basically you want to get

this time booked as quick as possible.

When I'm looking exactly when I'm

looking you know where I'm going with

this. When when I'm looking at the time

stamps, I'm looking, you know, uh

basically you're responding

instantaneously with the Lindy AI agent,

>> it's a minute.

>> It's a minute.

>> Yeah,

>> one minute. And even if you go down, you

scroll down. I even think Yeah. 642.

Nicole goes, "Hi, Ava. Tuesday at 7:30

works for me." Um

6:42 responds, right? Ava responds.

Sounds great. I just sent the invite. So

that the the gap like if you would have

6:42 p.m. your EA your human EA might be

off, you know.

>> It works for you 24/7.

>> It worked for you 24/7. So I think that

piece of it is so valuable.

>> It definitely is. Um

>> I mean and for you too, right? Like even

for like you know you guys sell

sponsorships for example and maybe like

Microsoft you know CMO of Microsoft

comes in right and you want that meeting

>> you know also might be someone

interesting so you want to make sure

that you know the these busy people that

time gets booked.

>> Yeah. Yeah. You can actually use this

for partnerships. So we tried this for

some time. We turned it off recently,

but we tried this for some time where we

have this workflow where we have a form.

We we obviously have big distribution.

So, a lot of our leads come internally

inbound. So, a lot of these people come

inbound, they answer a form, we get all

these questions and we use those

questions we push into Lindy and it

basically validates them. And then based

on that, if they're validated, Lindy

goes aheads and like sends a sponsorship

email right away and then they can

literally go back and forth and if they

want to book a call, then they book a

call with my human salespeople. uh it

worked for a while, but um yeah, we're

getting like the use cases where you

when you do get to like Microsoft and

like Google um I'm just a little a

little weary of using agents right now

because

there are like occasional times where

like it could go wrong and just that

like 1%

knowing that it could go wrong 1% just

worries me for those like really high

tier clients. But when you have so much

inbound, it's it's extremely useful. Um,

but for this meeting use uh meeting

schedule use case, it's it's perfect.

So, we can like drop this template as

well. I'm happy to to share it in the

YouTube comments or something.

>> Yeah, let's do it.

>> But yeah, anyone can just steal it. Like

literally, all you have to do is connect

your own email.

>> Yep.

>> So, um, you probably don't want to use

Ava at theundown.ai. So, you're going to

want to change that. And then, um,

here's where you basically add all the

emails of your team. So this is my So

this is the one with only mine right

now, but you change your email and then

you want to connect your Google calendar

and then um in here the only thing you

really need to change for these two send

replies is at the end it says best Ava.

So if you change your if you change the

name of it, you don't have to call it

Ava obviously, but you can change the

name of it. And um yeah, you can call it

whatever you want. And also here, sorry,

one more. You want to make sure you

change when your uh meeting hours are,

>> right? You don't want to have the the

whole day, otherwise, you know, people

are gonna schedule random times. So, you

for me, I only have three-hour blocks um

four days a week. So, that's like my

meeting times. Um so, yeah, those are

really that's really it what you want to

change. Uh but yeah, we're happy to drop

that in the chat.

>> Appreciate that. All right. So, the next

one,

this one's a kind of research use case

and it's with Perplexity Comet. Uh, so

how did you get access to Perplexity?

>> I did. I did.

>> Yeah. So, it's pretty cool. Um, my

stickiest use case is using it as an AI

tutor for like every video like long.

For example, this video itself, right?

If I don't want to sit through the whole

thing and I just want to see Rowan's

seven use cases, tell me exactly how to

do it, Perplexity can get you that in

like two seconds.

Um, so it's incredible use case for just

summarizing these long videos and it's

really sticky. Like I really like this

use case, but it's also useful for

just going deeper on topics you don't

understand, right? So, for example, I

use chatbt a lot or chatb voice when I'm

uh reading. So, I'll just have it open

next to me and whenever there's a topic

I don't really understand, I'll just ask

it, oh, hey, what does this mean? And

I'll go deeper with it before I move on

to the next page and really helps like

retention.

U but perplexity comment is basically

that for every YouTube video or podcast

that's on YouTube. So, you have this

widget that's on the side of your tab,

uh, your comment tab, and you just go

into like these mini rabbit hole

sessions, and you can understand things

way deeper than if you were just

watching the video. Um, so every video

in essence becomes like an AI tutor.

So, yeah, I think it's pretty pretty

incredible. Uh, I learned so much better

like this. I never did well with school.

Um, so YouTube videos are always my jam

and this is like a huge game changer for

me.

>> I haven't tried I honestly haven't I've

been playing with

assistant like all day every day like

Perplexity Assistant, but I've never

tried it with YouTube videos. So, I'm

definitely going to try it. I'm like you

also like I learn from YouTube. Um, and

like not surprisingly and uh I also I've

got like my m Mount Rushmore of people I

really look up to and like you know DHS

is awesome in this example right I would

love to learn about AI from from Darmsh

right um and I could do that with

assistant or or even like imagine

someone listening to this right like

with the Lindy AI example it's like okay

this is you know

I have a question about you uh you know

what Rowan said about Lindy templates

and then you can just like post it there

and just have a full-on conversation

with basically AI Rowan using perplexity

comment.

>> Exactly. And and the cool thing is the

comment assistant is grounded the entire

context of the video.

>> Yep.

>> So you can really ask it anything about

the entire video and it's going to be

smarter than like a regular perplexity

would because it actually has that

context. So, exactly like you said, me

and you might not not have time to

respond to every single comment like of

this YouTube video, but you can ask

comment and comment will probably have

the answer and might actually answer

better than we would. So, yeah, it's

it's incredibly useful. I've been using

as a tool. Um, so hopefully it's useful

to other people as well.

>> I mean, doesn't Dia have their version

of of an assistant as well? DIA the

browser.

>> Yeah, they have. Uh, I have not used it

as much as I should have.

>> Um, to be honest, Comet came out like

right after and I'm like, "Okay, let's

get on this." I heard Dia also does

this but

>> I don't know. I like Perplexity.

>> Uh, and it's just really sticky. Like, I

don't really want to switch at this

point. It works, right?

>> Yeah. Let us know in the comment section

if people have used Dia and that works

or or if you prefer a comment.

>> Yeah, I'd love to know as well.

>> Yeah. I'm just curious. Uh was there one

more you wanted to share or was that it?

>> Yeah, I got I got two more two quick

ones. Um this one is a GPT for new hire

onboarding.

>> Uh so probleming

new hires is extremely

extremely tedious when you're scaling

your business, right? Everything's

growing really fast, but you need new

people to take over parts of your

business so you can scale higher. Um,

but like teaching them the ins and outs

of your company, teaching them the

processes, teaching them how you use AI,

teaching them the tools that you use,

there's so many questions and it just

slows everything down, right? Uh so we

built this GPT that's trained on SOPs um

literally Loom transcripts, meeting

notes, our policies on AI usage, HR

docs, any like admin related question

and it also knows everyone on the team

and their um their role. So basically

the model then becomes don't ask

questions you haven't asked GPT first

because the GPT literally knows more

about the company than I know. I don't

remember all of these policies even. Um

so you can literally ask it anything

about our company. You can ask it if if

we can take vacation today and it'll

like answer it and then if it doesn't

know it will point you to the right

person on the team to ask. So then you

go and ask your manager. Um but yeah

it's a little little hack we use. uh to

basically scale faster, easier, save

time for the managers. Um and yeah, it's

it's pretty useful. We can go into the

back end here. So for anyone watching

this, if you just want to grab this

prompt, it's a pretty simple prompt. Um,

but really it's just you're making GPT

into a custom onboarding assistant and

then you just want to drop as much

knowledge as uh as you can and you can

always update this which is the cool

thing. So as you get more team members

as you you know create more HR policies

that sort of stuff you just drop it in

and the GPT just gets updated and it's

really useful.

I need to do this. I need to do this. Uh

it's useful. It's also one of those

things where some people are afraid to

ask these questions, so they don't.

>> Yeah. So,

>> um

I think that for a lot of employees,

this will just be

so helpful for them. um that they can

just any time of day, night, they don't

have to, you know, look,

you know, when you're asking a question,

especially if you're first starting out,

you don't want to be, you want to make a

good impression. So, I can totally

understand where people are coming from

there.

>> Yeah. And really like this thing answers

questions immediately. You don't have to

wait for your manager to respond. And

like someone like me, I have so many

other things that I'm trying to remember

that like I don't remember all of our

policies. So, if someone asks me a

question, I'm going to have to go in and

look in our drive and like look through

the points and be like, "Oh, no. Um,

sorry, you can you can't take this day

off, but you can take next week off."

>> Yep.

>> But like this assistant can answer that

immediately.

>> So, it's a pretty useful thing as you're

scaling your business.

And then the last use case I want to

share, um, this is a little bit more a

niche use case, but uh, it actually

probably be useful for you as well, but

for anyone that has a ton of

replies to like their business email

inbox. So, for example, we have two main

inboxes that we use this for. Our

support inbox and then our newsletter

email inboxes. So obviously we get a ton

of people who just reply to our

newsletters and we get a ton of out of

office email responses, a ton of spam,

but like there will be really good

feedback in between some of that junk

and that's gold, right? So we we need

that and we need to respond to those

that feedback because those are like our

our winning readers or winning

customers, right? Um so this agent does

three things. one, it filters out the

real genuine customer support in the

inbox. So, it like filters out all the

spam. And then two, it pings the right

people on my team in Slack if there's

anything important. So, for example, if

there's something um sponsor related, it

will go ping our sponsor team. If it's

something education related, it will go

ping our education team. If it's

something like deliverability or I don't

know someone tried to unsubscribe but

they couldn't then it will ping me. Uh

so it's automatically pinging people on

the team. Um and then the last thing it

does it actually autodraft replies in

the email inbox. So uh when we go in to

respond to some of these people the the

responses are like nearly there. It's

the same thing with the the voice

dictation workflow where it will be like

90% there. We still have to sometimes

add context, but it's quite good at

saving a lot of time. And this is the

only way we found that

we don't miss any of those like really

important emails in between all the spam

and the out of office emails.

>> Yeah, it's I have this issue. I actually

have on my YouTube I have my email and

I'll be honest, I don't even really look

at it. So, I'm getting like tons of

emails

>> that I'm getting time we didn't look at

it either because it's like you're

getting

>> hundreds if not thousands a day. It's

impossible, right? But there is that

really good feedback in the middle. This

just handles all of it. It

>> just runs one time per day as well. So

it's not going to be using up all your

Zapier credits. It just runs once per

day

>> and then it's just going to ping you in

Slack if there's anything important. So

you know Yeah. You know if there's

anything important. And we've actually

landed two sponsors through this.

Like it's really weird that they don't

go through our actual sponsor form, but

these are legit sponsors from like big

companies that went through a support

inbox,

right? There's there's really important

uh messages that that come in there. So,

I'm happy to share this one as well. Um

it's pretty simple to set up. Uh it's

using Zapier agents. So, it's like their

agent feature and we use actually their

their co-pilot. Um, so we just literally

just dropped this prompt in their

co-pilot

and uh it actually builds the zap out

for you. Like you actually don't have to

do anything if you use this prompt. So

we can share this prompt in the chat if

anyone wants to use it. You just got to

drop this in the co-pilot. It'll

automatically generate all the

connections and then you just have to

like uh connect it to your Slack or

email and uh all that stuff. But it's

ready to it will be set up in like 2

minutes if you have this prompt.

>> Beautiful. This is helpful.

Um,

yes, all of the stuff from today will be

in the in the show notes for people uh

to access. And I appreciate you sharing

that, man. A lot of people actually come

on here and they're like, "No, I'm not

sharing that." Um, but Rowan, you're the

type of guy, you know, you're a sauce

factory, so that that's why I have you

on here. And um, thank you for for being

so generous with with with your time and

and and your Yeah. the whole everything

>> of course man and again there's so many

other ways we use AI I tried to stick to

the content creation and kind of unique

business operation ones but yeah we use

it across like coding we have marketing

workflows we have uh stuff we do for

education as well um so yeah happy to to

come on and jam anytime and jam on some

other stuff but uh hopefully this is a

good starting point

>> yeah if you want if you want Rowan to

come back on we we got to scream to come

back come back on. So let us know in the

comment section. I'm going to include

places where you can follow Rowan AI

Rowan noni Rowan in the show notes. X

email newsletter

um Instagram I'll include that. Is there

any anything else Rowan you want to

share before we head out?

>> No, that sounds good. Um I'm mostly

active on X. Yeah. And yeah, if you if

you don't subscribe to the rundown and

you want to keep up with everything in

AI, it's uh the easiest place. So, we'll

we'll put that in the notes as well. But

yeah, it's it's a great it's been great

coming on and I'm a huge fan of the

show. So, yeah, it's been awesome.

>> I want you to come back again, man. I

want you to come back again. I want the

comment section to be roaring so that

you'll you'll know that it's not just

me, right? It's it's it's the people the

people want you want you on. So, um I

have a feeling that that they're going

to like this episode and uh I'll see you

next time.

>> Cool.

>> Yeah, appreciate it.