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🎮 The Next Input — Issue #008
Strategy-Guide Friday · Building Your Company Brain
Aaron Bost
July 11, 2025
⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec
AWS to launch an AI-agent marketplace next week — Anthropic onboard. The Big 3 in cloud are lining up with the Big 3 in models; battle lines are clear.
xAI unveils Grok 4 alongside a $300/mo “Grok Pro” plan. Musk claims the most powerful LLM yet—until the next salvo lands.
Nature benchmark shows OpenAI’s o3 still tops for technical Q&A. In a blind test of scientific queries, o3 edges out Gemini Ultra and Claude 3.5.
🛠️ The Playbook — Competitor-Intel Slack Digest
Mission Get a daily Slack brief of new articles mentioning your competitors—summarised by GPT.
Difficulty Easy | Build time 30 min
ROI Saves ≈ 20 min/day of manual news scanning for each rep.
Step | Action |
|---|---|
1 | Trigger – Zapier Schedule → Every weekday at 08:00. |
2 | RSS Search – Feedly “OpenAI OR Anthropic OR xAI” saved search. |
3 | AI Action – Prompt: “Summarise each article in ≤35 words; output Markdown bullets.” |
4 | Digest – Combine summaries into one message. |
5 | Post to Slack – Send to #market-watch and @mention sales & execs. |
6 | Fail-safe – On error, DM #ops-alerts. |
Pro tip: Add a second path that writes each summary to a Notion Competitive Intel database for long-term search.
📈 The Strategy Guide — This Week's Deep Dive
Building Your "Company Brain"
Is your company's most valuable knowledge scattered across dozens of Slack channels, buried in Google Drive, and locked in the minds of a few key people?
This week's Strategy Guide is the complete blueprint for solving that. We're moving beyond simple automation to build a private, internal AI that acts as your company's central source of truth.
In the full guide, you’ll learn:
The exact tipping point (by headcount or doc volume) when you truly need a Company Brain.
A build-vs-buy decision framework to save months and 💰.
The #1 mistake that torpedoes these projects—and how to dodge it.
A step-by-step architecture: ingestion → vector DB → user UI.
It’s one of the most powerful projects a modern business can undertake.
🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Prompts
Asset | What it does | Link |
|---|---|---|
LlamaIndex Cloud | Managed vector + toolchain for private RAG apps. | |
AudioPen 3 | Turn messy voice notes into publish-ready prose. | |
Prompt: Resumé-to-Role Fit | One paste → fit score & feedback. | prompt below ↓ |
Assess how well this resumé fits the {job_description}. Output fit score % and three improvement tips.
💡 Free Office Hours
Need help wiring competitive-intel digests or a Company Brain?
Book a free 15-minute Office Hours slot—no sales pitch, just workflows solved.
🕹️ Game Over
Automate one market-watch task tonight—Monday’s stand-up will thank you.
Share your win; you could headline Issue #009.
— Aaron
Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.
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