Wendy's Weekly Edit ~ Aug. 31 - Sept. 4


 

Reader, Welcome to the Weekly Edit of tools I'm testing, trends I'm watching, and events worth attending!

This was a busy week. All the major LLMs rolled out new models. I always find it interesting how many weird oddities show up in the existing models right when a new one drops. I don't spend a lot of time testing new models against each other. I like to have a real use case first, before I burn credits testing just to test.

Claude Gets Fable 5.1

Anthropic launched Fable 5.1 this week. Read the announcement ➞

Lydia Hallie from the Claude Code team posted on X:
"We've just reset weekly limits for everyone on a Claude Max plan. With Fable 5.1 out and a long weekend ahead for many of you, we wanted to keep you building. I'd love to see what you build!"

 

 Have you tried Fable 5.1 yet? What are you thoughts?

ChatGPT Gets GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra this week, calling it their most intelligent model yet. Of course, each new model claims that. See the announcement ➞

Meanwhile ~ Over in GrokBot Land...

I've been OBSESSING OVER my new AI employees in GrokBot.

I gotta be honest: going "all in" on building my own team on an agentic platform has dramatically opened up my capacity and changed the way that I work - in the last two weeks. I feel like the massive weight of minutia and tasks is gone. I feel like the massive weight of minutiae and redundant, boring tasks is gone. I'm getting 50-75% more IPAs (income-producing activities) done each day.

And I don't feel so burnt out like I can't catch up.

GrokBot does all of my agentic "doer" work 24/7 ~ no Claude Code, no scheduled tasks in Cowork needed. And every day I get better at telling it what I want so it's fine-tuned to my work style and goals.

Let me give you few real-life examples...

 

EMMY ~ My Inbox Manager. She checks multiple inboxes every two hours. I trained her on what matters, the different aliases I have, what each one means, and how to manage it all. EMMY knows what I need to see and automatically archives the emails I don't need. (Yes - you can connect as many email accounts as you'd like.)

This is an area I never realized was draining so much of my time and mental energy. And now I feel so light!

BARB ~ My Chief of Staff. I talk to Barb every morning for my brain dump, plus multiple times a day when we need to put something into action. She can route tasks to my other AI employees and updates the team as needed.

ZOE ~ My VA. She handles all the random grunt work and one-off tasks I've been putting off because I didn't want to do it myself or hire someone for it.

Each employee manages their own tasks and updates their own SOPs as they go. I don't have to do it for them. That's one thing I never loved about having a human VA who waited on me for an explainer SOP or a task update.

Honestly, there's so much GrokBot can do. I've only scratched the surface. And already see real growth in my business after just two weeks.

QUESTION: Would you be interested in a step-by-step training on how to build your own Easy AI Employees?

I'm thinking about hosting a 2-week challenge where I walk you through building your team IF I get enough interest!

Reply to this email with:

→ "YES" if you'd love your own Easy AI Employees team. I'll make sure you get first dibs on the October challenge.

 

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That's it for this week. Looking forward to seeing what crazyness we're in for next week!

~ Wendy
Founder, The Solo Expert™️
Simple AI Systems & Strategies that Grow Your Income

 

 

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