🎮 The Next Input — Issue #016

Your AI Chief of Staff

Aaron Bost
July 24, 2025

⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec

Trump’s draft “AI Action Plan” would strip guardrails to speed U.S. dominance. Critics call it an innovation rocket—and a safety time-bomb.
Sundar Pichai teases a Google Cloud ↔︎ OpenAI partnership. The Big Three mingle while digging competitive moats.
Swedish “vibe-coding” unicorn Lovable hits $100 M ARR in eight months. Low-code front-end generation is officially a cash machine.

🛠️ The Playbook — GPT-Powered Executive Radar

Mission Aggregate news, calendar, and Slack chatter daily, then deliver a 3-bullet “Here’s what matters” brief to the CEO—no chief of staff required.
Difficulty Medium | Build time 60 min
ROI Execs save ≈ 30 min/day and never miss a needle-moving detail.

Step	Action
1	Trigger – Zapier Schedule → Weekdays 05:30.
2	Google News API – Query company + competitor keywords → JSON.
3	Slack Search API – Last 24 h messages in #sales, #product.
4	Google Calendar – Next 36 h events.
5	AI Action – Prompt: “Using news, Slack, calendar, craft 3 bullets: (1) external threat/opportunity, (2) internal blocker, (3) today’s critical meeting prep.”
6	Send Email – Subject “🚨 Exec Radar — {date}”; body = AI bullets.
7	Fail-safe – If any source API fails, DM #ops-alerts with error log.

Pro tip: Append a second AI step that tags each bullet Growth, Risk, or Ops so the email threads auto-label in Gmail.

🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Prompts

Asset	What it does	Link
Glide Gen-2	Converts Airtable bases into polished mobile apps.	https://glideapps.com/gen2
Guardrails Hub	Open-source sandbox for testing AI prompt injections.	https://guardrailshub.ai
Disko	AI video-editor that cuts Zoom calls into social clips.	https://disko.video
Prompt: 12-Word Vision Statement	One paste → crisp mission.	prompt below ↓

Craft a bold, exactly 12-word company vision that inspires engineers and excites investors.

💡 Free Office Hours

Need an Exec Radar by Monday?
Book a free 15-minute Office Hours slot—no sales pitch, just workflows solved.

→ Grab a slot: https://calendly.com/aaron-cylentis/the-next-input-office-hours

🕹️ Game Over

Automate one daily brief tonight—tomorrow’s leadership sync will thank you.
Got a win? Hit reply and you could headline Issue #017.

— Aaron
Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.

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