🎮 The Next Input — Issue #013

Your New AI Onboarding Concierge

Aaron Bost
July 21, 2025

⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec

“GPT-5 Reasoning/Alpha” model spotted ahead of launch. OpenAI keeps cooking—o3 Alpha appears in logs only days after the ChatGPT Agents drop
Zuckerberg personally pitches top OpenAI engineers as Meta boosts AI salaries. The talent war is now founder-to-founder, checkbooks wide open
Firms may under-report job losses; AI’s impact bigger than disclosed. Analysts say “quiet automation” masks the true scale of workforce shake-ups

🛠️ The Playbook — ChatGPT Agent: Instant Client Onboarding Concierge

Mission Deploy a ChatGPT Agent that greets new customers, gathers key info, and auto-builds their workspace before sales even hops on a call.
Difficulty Medium | Build time 45 min
ROI Cuts onboarding from 2 days → 20 min and frees CSMs to focus on upsells.

Step	Action
1	Create Custom GPT – Name: Onboarding Concierge. System prompt: “You are a setup wizard that interviews users, then calls platform APIs to configure accounts.”
2	Define Actions – Add API specs for `/create_workspace`, `/invite_user`, `/provision_template`.
3	Seed Rules – Tools → Knowledge: upload an FAQ PDF + JSON schema of your default workspace.
4	Link Trigger – Generate share-link; embed it on your post-purchase thank-you page.
5	Webhook Capture – On each Action call, pipe payload to a Zapier webhook → run the real API call.
6	Slack Alert – Once `provision_template` completes, have Zap push a DM to #new-clients with account URL.
7	Fail-safe – If the Agent confidence < 0.8, skip API call, open a HubSpot task “manual review”.

Pro tip: Add a second Agent role “Data Migrator” to ingest CSVs right after workspace creation—one seamless flow.

🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Prompts

Asset	What it does	Link
Superflows Playbooks	Pre-built GPT Actions that write & hit your SaaS APIs.	https://superflows.ai/playbooks
AgentOps	Monitoring & rollback for ChatGPT Agents in production.	https://agentops.ai
Wondercraft TTS	Turns blog posts into human-sounding podcasts in minutes.	https://www.wondercraft.ai
Prompt: 3-Line Feature Teaser	One paste → snappy launch blurb.	prompt below ↓

Summarise {feature} in exactly 3 lines: Hook (≤10 words), Benefit (≤12 words), CTA (≤8 words).

💡 Free Office Hours

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🕹️ Game Over

Ship one agent tonight—tomorrow’s users will self-serve with a smile.
Share your win; you could headline Issue #014.

— Aaron
Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.

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